IiPunch - Monk Guide

it's retroactive

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/98420-Final-Magian-Empyreon-Armor.?p=4331283&viewfull=1#post4331283

Just a common knowledge for me, but I play monk for a long time and I was testing this body when it came out. I'm happy Austar provided a source of test and I dont need to find it myself :P

Picked the Ask sash over the earring first. I really like the 60-second meditate for 1000-1200 TP to start fights. Also makes reaching AM3 on Empyrean much much faster at the start of fights.

FYI - with Xoanon and no haste buffs, you get 1000-1200 (tick depending) TP for Boost, so easy access to Shell Crusher start

Same, just picked up the sash for my first item and it's pretty nifty. Probably the most unique piece from the new items.

Something that also occurs to me is that it's a way to even further reduce your tp feed on certain fights, since you'll get all your damage and tp from an attack round in one boosted punch, plus the regain means you can WS at high tp right after you land the punch. Not sure that it would actually be worth it to do this, but it's a niche idea.

I'd love more input on the Bhikku Body +1 thing.
Are you guys sure it represents a loss in terms of damage compared to other available options? Mostly I guess we're talking about Kenda+1 or alternatively Ashera and Malignance.

It has low stats but it's not really devoid of anything useful.
Martial Arts +6 can be good or bad according to your weapon and how you decide to gear up.

The good part of course is giving an average (?) of ~35% Crit Damage and ~90 accuracy.


Wouldn't that be pretty nice, especially for a Vere MNK?
It synergyzes particularly well with the other bonuses Impetus give during that period of time, that ~35% Crit Hit (which you would get with other bodies as well, of course).

At a glance it should be a >25% increase in White Damage, which for a Vere MNK with AM up during impetus it represents probably, I dunno, 20% of its total damage? Maybe more?

If your sole concern is dps it's best.

So it's more of a matter of the other pros Kenda, Ashera and Malignance bring. That is DT and Meva.

Atm there is a pretty large Meva/MDB gap between Bhikku+1 and the other 3, but this gap will become much smaller once Empy+3 reforge will be released (fall 2020 lol? They sure are taking their bloody time gdi)

As soon as you start considering: will I get hit, will I get debuffed, acc to low to stack, can I "react" fast enough to swap into meva/dt body while using it, am I too lazy to care, is lag a concern, then you wear malig/kenda

When the +3s come out theres really no telling, it could be full blown ridiculous to the point where it has "enough" meva to use care free. Other gear at the time could influence it too, you might get enough meva/dt without a body. Just gotta wait. and wait. .... and wait.

I think it's more relevant when you're doing stuff lowmen and/or multiboxing.
But of course it's relevant in many other group fights as well.
Albumen and Warder of Courage come to mind.
Lilith too, and so on.
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's relevant in every single situation though, especially if you do large group content with proper (good) players instead of mules/bots.


I dunno.
My impression is that they really gave us an insane boost (for the time) when they released the reforged AF+3, and they tried to contain themselves a bit more when they released Relic+3 (which, save some insanely OP and some other nice pieces, wasn't really stuff that makes your jaw drop).
So what will they do with Reforged empy? Continue on the same wavelenght as Relic? This is what I expect honestly.

But they made us wait so much time and they are likely releasing a new event tied to it, so who knows.

Motenten has a MNK Lua that auto-swaps the Empy body in for Melee after 8 hits of charging. It keeps track of misses too and will go back to normal Melee body automatically as well. Very useful if you want to streamline your DPS.

You cant keep track misses on ws (well you kinda can with tp return but it would still be very imperfect, especially on trash mobs) and counter tho.

8 hits? you may as well just wear it all the time with that low of a count

does anyone have a link to a updated lua

+1 >.>

and +2 >_>;;

Why are people so desperate about updated monk lua. Monk is one of the esiest job to make lua. This job is super simple. Just take any old monk lua and put your equip in it. The only new thing that was added recently is sash for boost. Everything else should be in old (1 year old) monk lua.

Unless you want updated lua to check equip sets? Thats a bad idea. Currrntly monk has very high varierty of tp sets that are super close to each other and you should use the one that is the best for you, not someone else. Bis sets are more static but still has some variety too. Some things are realy close like relic head +3 vs multihit options or kendatsuba and adhemar etc. So again, you should just check a lot of previous pages of this guide and decide by yourself.

Two macros
Victory smite
Malignance/Su3 set

Ok does anyone have a lua then doesn’t have to be updated

because what they really want is something they can just change the file name of and at most change augments.

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I made a mythic weapon so I could win a lockstyle contest !

Sort of important for a proper monk lua because it's sort of hard to swap body impetus on and off manually unless one just full time it.

good thing the same two lua files that 95% of people use has had that feature since gearswap was a thing then

The real endgame.

Please look forward to it.

I don't use lua and have a macro for smite bhikku+1 and one for just kenda. Not hard to simulate at all, just watch your timers.

I like your style but I get higher numbers with tornado and raging fists with godhands. Not sure why

mind sharing your VS set?