IiPunch - Monk Guide

Anyone have a newer monk lua they can share.

I don’t know about NIN being worst class is all about so not gonna comment on that. But MNK is definitely strong again. I haven’t had any opportunities to test it’s performance against WARs or anything but I can’t see any glaring weaknesses while playing it either.

I will say I’m disappointed that the sweet spot for WSs is so high up BUT MNK is undisputed in Melee Damage other than very specific exceptions so it’s still good.

I won't say nin is terrible, but it definitely feels weak af compared to my other melee jobs. I mean it has it's advantages in some fights, but it's pretty bad dps wise.

Monk on the other hand is pretty damn strong now. I've been taking it to Dynamis Divergence to finish my +2 neck and it's been a lot of fun. Definitely not the glue eater in the family.

nin thread?

Why do you guys always Fall for Frod’s trolling. Every time.

The trolling looked like tasty, delicious glue.

I hadn't noticed, I blocked him ages ago for shitting up some other job guide thread.

i think howling fist are to ..

STR or DEX for a WSD Segomo's?

Only WS that really benefits from a lot of DEX is Shijin, which you shouldn't be using WSD for, so STR.

So for WS(VS in particular), I'm looking at WSD, STR, ACC/ATK?

victory smite crit hit rate +10 str acc/atk

The only WS that still uses a WSD cape at this point is Final Heaven.

So for a regular TP set, not high acc or anything, also no impetus set, which piece would win for a TP set?

AF feet +3 or Herc feet?
My herc feet are augmented as follows:

Same as most low acc tp sets. Roughly 1190 without food.

last i recall, assuming no footwork it was a bit of a wash with the ma boots edging out ahead slightly, with FW the kick boots were the better way to go due to the white dmg increase

So people from my linkshells probably sick of hearing this lol, but I'm happy.

Since trust campaign was active, I decided to try solo Kyou in Omen. Using a weird, finiky strategy in order to survive Bravado. I managed to take Kyou to 25% before taking a Bravado to the face while cursed.
I want to try beat this to get a video, but it's luck based a bit depending if curse is used before Bravado.

My strat was this:
Yoran, Selh'teus, Koru, Ulmia, Joachim in that order.

I sat in an impetus set when it was up, used Counterstance to avoid the aids from melee attacks. No threat was from melee damage tbh.

I kept a regular 3 step skillchain up: Shijin -> Victory -> Victory. Even when impetus was down, same skillchain. It was more damage than using Footwork/Tornado and Howling.

When it came to surviving Bravado I kept Kyou at 1% above his Bravado interval, 76%, 51%, etc... Then when he was mid tp/spell animation, I took him down with a WS and then instantly disengaged.
Disengaging made all trusts gather together and the conal move actually hits all trusts and we all survive it.

This has been my most successful Kyou solo attempt ever, so gonna try a few more while trust campaign is active. I do believe this is only possible during this trust campaign however.

Good stuff man, the only thing that worries me when it comes to trust Survival is past 25% mark when he starts using meteor, i'm sure trusts get slapped by meteor compared to real players from what I remember when I fought Kyou with my 4 man crew. I'm sure you can pull it off, in fact it sounds like an interesting challenge lol.
Edit: Unless trusts get some defensive bonuses during campaign then I'm sure it can be pulled off.

I try avoid that tbh.
I always get sick of people making excuses for saying you're using gearswap, do it on equipsets.

So I do it like this. Saves the white knights complaining.
When solo Anchor doesn't mean anything except holding W so it doesn't matter.

The angle of the cone isn't as tight as people think tbh. It's smaller than most conals, but not by much.

I have actually tried PoS hacking it to test it, but I probably messed up cos I still died. I definitely wouldn't count PoS hacking a Kyou a solo cos I would get ***for it lol, but I was also curious so I tried.

I think this is because person with hate is too close to Kyou and then every inch to right or left moves cone side lines a lot. Tank should probably stay at max melee range. Also cone getting much wider further from Kyou and some people run in as close to Kyou as possible like they are worried its 2 yalms range while its 30(?). If he(Shiraj) was fighting with trusts behind him, then they would probably group better than players :P

I think Kyou's special move is not conal at all but it's a straight line in front of him.
Quite unique? Can't remember any other NM with a conic frontal AoE that's not a "cone" shape at all.

So looking at counter. Using all the sets we have such as body/legs/feet and including spharai we can push well above the 80% counter cap but sadly that's not the case. But since it's easy to hit that cap with just those piece mention, will it be viable to actually counter the defense down 50?