IiPunch - Monk Guide

Seriously though just use it on a ranged/magical ws to get concrete numbers

This is like a surgery gone wrong... Too many botched surgery's on MNK.

Just pull the plug guys.. R.I.P.

The Doctor's tried everything... It's just not possible...

Did some testing as well. Apex Jagil - Woh gates
Sample Size for each WS was 20 - i know small sample but who has the time for this after a certain point?
Av. Howling Fist W/Boost: 14213
Av. Howling First W/O Boost: 13832
no real statistical difference when you toss out highs and lows

Av. Raging W/B: 16668
Av Raging W/O: 17089
without averaged higher...

Same results for V.Smite,, Dragon Kick, Tornado kick but did smaller sample sizes cuz i get tired of recast.

As reported, normal Melee hits and crits received decent bump when used with boost.

gear, buffs and TP all constant for each test.

So yeah, its broken if intended to work on WS. Working as intended if only intended to work on melee hits.

Focus and Dodge are nice but too short.
No real reason to use mnk that i can see if other jobs are available. back to warrior!!

Magical WSs do not consume Boost (nor do they get a bonus from it).

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Old or new boost?

New Boost.

Also, Ranged WSs don't consume or benefit from new Boost, either.

fudo test is pretty sufficient, honestly.. a 20% average gain over 10 ws is outside the realm of error

seems like perhaps it's broken on MNK main

Once again, i told u so

Wouldn't it be funny if for Vana'Diel day, they fixed all the problems wrong with Monk and made it a spectacular job, just for that one day? Man, MNK gets trolled so hard. The joke is over.

They Boosted SAM this update. :D

Oh joy so the easiest methods of testing are eliminated

Whelp there goes my dreams of Cataclysm mnk. Funny how they don't mention that stuff in notes

Not to mention it's Omen, the event was designed around bringing multiple jobs that aren't the staple of groups. I let people come whatever as long as we have the proper archetype party setup to beat the bosses (support + damage + healing) and they could contribute to objectives for their cards.

People aren't going to want to play BLU forever in Omen lol.

Epic troll from SE if the new boost works on every job other than mnk...

Super quick test of /MNK boost:

THF/MNK
110 STR, 119 DEX, 30 DMG weapon, attacking Wild Rabbits
SA Heavy Swing (1000 TP): 1534
SA Boost Heavy Swing (1000 TP): 1561

I don't think it's working /MNK either.

You can't do it that way, boost and (ANY?) other JA seem to no longer stack

(I mean like single use ja's, I would assume it should work with focus/berserk etc)

Sure they do.

Sneak Attack melee: 891
Sneak Attack + Boost melee: 1124

What if it's just nerfed for blunt dmg lol

Sorry if it's been covered.

But with footwork up, kicks use the weapons base damage for calculations?

If so does that make Kick weaponskills viable?

Noticed no noticeable change w/ footwork up and tornado kick but didn't do a ton to test, to unimpressed to care.

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After reading all posts I assume make monk great again is halfway to meh or?

Pretty meh until Boost gets fixed is the consensus I take away from this.

Facts

Lol

Pretty sure they gave MNK rush, as in five slaps to the face.

During Footwork the nakedhandsdamage+feetdamage gets used as base damage for Tornado Kick and Dragon Kick, instead of the nakedhandsdamage+weapondamage formula.
Footwork adds some kick damage (with JPs), Ambuscade cape adds some damage too.

In this patch they tweaked Footwork:
So going by those lines, the +damage value of Weapon should get added to the kick damage addition showed above.
Seems a bit too good if you ask me (in the case of Godhands it would be 197 additional damage per kick!) so I suspect there's something wrong either in their description or in the translation.


But SUPPOSING it's true SUPPOSING the JA is not broken and SUPPOSING it works on WSs as well, then YES Tornado Kick could be quite a hot WS to use when Footwork is up.

Maybe Exalted Staff should've had Adds "Volt Strike" effect.