Pugilist/monk discussion

[Nitsuki]

Ugh, was forced to buy a DL maiming ring to get my acc back up due to me acquiring hero's belt and allagan earring, yay skill speed down to 2.02 gcd, and slightly higher crit! Considering going gryphonskin ring at this point and meld w/es worthwhile.

[Icarian]

I kind of hate Skill Speed, after being 474 SS for 3 weeks, I can honestly say that unless you kill bosses real fast, you're gonna be out of TP, I have huge TP problems during Caduceus and Titan (if it goes slow), not to mention Twintania, I'd rather up my damage/TP ratio than my WS/sec ratio.

[Nitsuki]

Only way i can up my dmg is going the crit/det way and going w/ full ilvl90 str, and it's mostly accessible through allagan at this point, which is fine if my static was a bit more coordinated. I have yet to get allagan gloves sadly. :/ it's the last body part, then it's accessories. Gonna have to start crunching numbers very soon at this point. I pugged a turn 2 and my striking earring dropped and my much needed maiming neck dropped (for both mnk and drg) and i asked if i could lot on it, everyone passed except for this asshole blm who beat me w/ rng. Fucking dumb but w/e.

*edit* question: considering i have allagan striking ring, what would be the ideal gryphonskin ring build i wanna go for?

[Francisco]

With decently melded ImpOp. wrist/neck you can skip DL entirely if you want.

Any thoughts on what would be optimal melds using tier 3 materia for these two pieces? Can't see using tier 4 materia for gear that is just a short-term stop gap to Hero's/Allagan.

[Kiarax]

You can't use T4 in anything but ilvl70 anyway. Just slap in as much acc as you need, then DTR, then crit or skill speed. I'd just cap the DTR and not worry too much beyond that. Striking DL bracelet is better than ImpOp iirc so I'd rather get that than drop too much gil on melds.

[shidobu]

For MNK there the buff effect is increased (greased lightning?)
y; We also made sure the position bonus is increased
y; main point is to increase the close range dps

[Kiarax]

Better trans:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1587182

Monk:
The buff effect of “Greased Lightning” will be increased. In addition, the amount of bonus damage monks will be able to do from behind a target will be increased.

[Elcura]

Haha, no more flank only rotations for you lazy motherfuckers. Also, longer GL? Thanks SE, I guess MNK damage wasn't amazing before.

[Icarian]

I wonder how they'll increase the damage we de from behind, If they increase TrS damage they better lengthen TwS buff so it doesn't fall off mid combo

GL buff is nice, didn't expect it.

[Virg]

Fuck yeah exactly what I´ve asked for since the game launched.

[Nitsuki]

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! gogo bootshines for 1k! (I wish)

[Virg]

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! gogo bootshines for 1k! (I wish)

Well if the buff applies to all directional attacks, 1k Snap Punch would probably be possible. My highest so far is like 780ish on Twintania and thats with "only" 489str in full pt.

[Kiarax]

Bad shot of new MNK gear from the new Eorzea collection video:


@25 seconds.

[Kachiko]

Where's the stuff they posted last time? It looked like Sabin gear, iirc.

[Rocl]

You mean Yang gear? Fairly certain that was labelled "AF2" and slated to be released in 2.2 (it was shown off with new 'Allagan gear')

[Lokus]

That's most likely the CT gear that we can use with the non-existent vanity system.

[Lucavi]

Well, they got the vanity part correct, at least. It LOOKS nice.

[Siya]

3 months for the vanity system! Please look forward to it

[tol]

I love GL being extended but do you feel like the bump up to damage on from behind target was necessary? Our monk already pulls some really insane numbers :3

[Francisco]

Haha, no more flank only rotations for you lazy motherfuckers. Also, longer GL? Thanks SE, I guess MNK damage wasn't amazing before.

"Hate management" will be my excuse.