Final Fantasy XI: Monk Guide
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2018
- #MakeMNKGreatAgain
Now this one's been coming for a while and here it is. It's also my first video with a new USB microphone so it might take me another video to get it nailed down. I might even re-upload this if the audio is off.
Monk's a very fast-paced DD job which has become one of my favorites as of late. It's also got a lot of mystique about it with precious few knowing what it can actually do and contribute in today's game. Here I am, like Ninja and Puppetmaster before it to shed some light on a job seldom-seen.
If you have specific questions you can bring them up in the comments section below or ask the good folks on the FFXIAH forum (www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/36....
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Timestamps
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0:28 - Overview
1:08 - Strengths and Weaknesses
5:37 - Merits
6:12 - Guard and Counter
7:21 - Kick Attacks
7:58 - Abilities
18:29 - Weapon Selection
22:19 - TP Sets
24:33 - Weapon Skills and Skillchains
26:14 - Weapon Skill Sets
27:57 - Concluding Thoughts (Meta)
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Soundtrack (In order)
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Hiatus - Becoming
Hiatus - Dawn
Yair Albeg - Chasing Inspiration
Zack Hemsey - Waiting Between Worlds
Antti Martikainen - To Valhalla
M83 - Outro
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I'll be making a short video on this but the December Version update has changed a few things about Monk.
Hand-to-Hand weapons now cap at 99% accuracy, which is a major indirect buff to Impetus.
The accuracy cap going up has also indirectly increased Counter rates, since they need to pass an accuracy check.
Victory Smite's damage now spikes even higher with a critical hit since STR now affects damage dealt more than it did. Impetus being able to stack well over 20 stacks before missing has also buffed Victory Smite considerably.
Physical Damage Limit III being given to Monk was a godsend. Combined with the Monk's Nodawa +1/+2 you will see some very powerful auto-attacks going off when you're fully buffed to the PDIF cap.
You think that monk got something to work for ? Cause I have been seeing some insane dmg but not sure if I'm the only one
As of the October Version Update all Hand-to-Hand Weapon Skills have been adjusted and now deal a lot more damage. That stated weakness is now moot.
This Legit made me want to gear and Jp monk! Thanks for all the tips and keep up the great work!
Thanks for the guide! Recently completed my Spharai, but I need to upgrade my gear beyond the Hizamaru +1 set. Time to get to work!
I am just starting out my 99 119 journey, and off to try and get the first weapon you suggested...
After playing monk for so lonng back in the 75 Era... I thought I knew enough but wow it changed a bit. I thought Raging was essentially a lost WS but clearly that is novice thinking. I gotta say man thank you so much for this guide and I look forward to your next one
Another amazing guide thank you !!!
as always, great job
Nice video!
Hey everyone, I’ve put the next guide up for a vote. Look in the community tab of my channel and you’ll find it.
Still working on this new mic too, see how it goes.
Your audio sounds good. Very soothing and matter of fact voice haha
Never played post 75, but this makes me want to come back to play MNK again. It was the only job I truly enjoyed playing. I hope it can become more useful in the future!
post 75 is more like a typical MMO, lv99 gear score up and end game.
All those early MNK days before the H2H update doing things we couldn't believe. I miss this If I'm reborn in another life,
Oh, how I hope, that I could meet you there once again.
I have Spharai myself and have been using it the times I'm on MNK. It's a pretty good solo/tanky weapon with the Enhance Counter V stat when fully upgraded (which gives Counter +14 and can free up other slots). My Windurst mask isn't done yet, but when upgraded through Divergence, it boasts Counter Damage +30%. The other upside is its Aftermath. While it gives Subtle Blow +10 (which is kinda meh, since MNK hits cap easily without it though it could free up other pieces when active), but it also gives Kick Attacks +15, which is pretty noticeable when up. However, that also means using Final Heaven, which kind of like using Scourge...you only use it to put AM up, but also gives another SC option for Light/Fusion. It doesn't beat Godhands for raw damage, however.
thank you!
Thanks for the guide, very informative. But is there a reason you didnt include a sample WS set for Shijin spiral? I realise its not an amazing skill for damage, but I;d still like to see an example or two to maximise it for when I do use it (such as setting up radiance)
yay christmas!
This is about powerful guide thank you for taking the time to make it!
I'm just curious what is your experience with thief? I'm returning after 6 years. And it's been very difficult figuring out the progression process and how thief properly solos things nowadays.
Thf doesnt solo thing differently than other dds now. You call for trusts including tank, whm, rdm, cor, brd and just kill the mob. One difference would be trick attacking tank to help him hold hate, ideally with Rudra's Storm + Darkness.
I watched this whole video for one reason. I restarted the game today, June 13, 2019, and am raising Monk and wanted to know the best Subjob for it in today’s FFXI. I still need that question answered lol! But your video was awesome. Thumbs up for you sir.
4 years late but WAR, DRG or RUN dependng on your needs
@@99splashing77 Thanks lol!
I played Monk as my main from 2005 to around 2012. I'm amazed that the Counterstance penalty is only 50% of Defence, now. Back in the day the Counterstance penalty was that your DEF was only whatever your VIT bonus was (VIT/2). Which made for some pretty fun screenshots due to how boost stacked. 999Att and 32DEF!
Hey RUA, can you make an updated MONK guide? Thank you
Ruaumoko, does the double damage from Sagitta proc on Weapon skills by chance?
Oh so thats how you use boost. Been thinking it was like sneak attack.
Have you used the karambit for mnk yet? They look pretty decent for an ambu weapon.
Amazing guide ! What that body glamour ? I want it !
Francis Gagnon Jyudogi, lv80 on the AH
Anyone know of a good gear progression guide for newcomer MNKs like myself? I recently came back to the game to wait for FFXIV 4.5 and Its nice to go back to my old roots. But, having reached 99, Im somewhat overwhelmed by the standards of the present end game. My LS was kind enough to help me get a decent starting weapon; Oatixur. But I can tell my Sheddenick +1 set aint gonna cut it in Ambuscade.
How is MNK post 2018 December update with the new Damage Limit+ trait?
How is mnk for farming alexandrite and content like that?
And how is monk for endgame after the buff?
I (Gyokoro) was talking with my friend about fun party makeups we could do for Kyou, and so I wanted to calculate what White Wind would do if I had had my current White Wind set when we went rather than what I had back then. I'm still maxing a few more pieces for it, but if I were in it with your mantra back then it would have turned my party cures into 1591 and self cures into 2052 from Whtie Wind. Makes me (as a BLU) want a MNK with me in every bigger fight lol.
I know we had SCH regens with us in the Kyou fight, but I'd be interested to see if my BLU would have been sufficient healing with White Wind and MG's regen after your Mantra activation (of course, using Tizona to be able to keep up with MP demands). So many fun combos possible.
This is the White Wind set I'm still filling out some parts on, but I'm pretty sure it's BiS if you're looking to max self cures on top of party cures: www.ffxiah.com/members/item-sets?id=366477 (new name in game in Nagarremono now. Trying to get old one back lol). It differs from what others largely assume is BiS for White Wind since they tend to focus primarily/exclusively on party cures and so ignore cure received potency (and therefore ignore Despair helm/pants).
Is your monk comparable in job points and everything to your warrior?
Nice guide, I enjoy the Monk positivity. Though even as a past Monk main and 119 III Verethragna owner I have a hard time buying in.
I haven't been able to play since the December buff, but I expect I'll still favor WAR and even RUN for most things over MNK. It's just so hard for MNK's white damage and other benefits to overcome other jobs' higher WS and SC damage. That's not even mentioning that WAR's white damage is damn impressive too.
I suspect you have more fun and success with it for a couple reasons. First and most importantly being the caliber of players I expect you regularly play with. Having easier access to good buffers and players that can appreciate MNKs Subtle Blow play style goes a long way. It'd be great if this guide positively effected the meta, but for most players selling their group on Monk will be an uphill battle.
Secondly, using Godhands pushes towards a more fluid (and interesting) WS selection as you suggest. With the Impetus buff I suspect that every weapon will favor mostly Victory Smite spam 3/5ths of the time while Impetus is up. As a Vere user it was hard to justify much else beside kick WSs during Footwork.
Enough with my negativity, thank you. I'm looking forward to trying a couple things from this, namely giving Boost another chance for SCing.
Any Sagitta updates :D ??
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Incoming ws changes!!!
Could be very good... let’s see
Goodjob
Only one change is needed for monk to make him better at what he does without making him broken
Hear me out
Just give monk the double kick attack trait or allow kick attacks to prock double attack , and that is it then kick attacks sets would be a lot more important and you could get some crazy good numbers on white dmg base on your KA set up giving monk the ability to make up for the lack of potent ws
That would not be enough at all. That would barely improve white damage by what 10-20%? You would need to improve mnk's white damage by like 100% to counter lower ws damage. Currently mnk doesnt even have best white damage (well it probably has at base level but not if you count in empyrean AM3 and gear)
@@SageAtoreis so you are telling me that 8 round attacks with KAs that can hit 2k+ crits each, more TP and faster WSs would not make monk playable ?
Come on bro , monk is not that far behind and if you really think it is you must be doing something wrong with the job
@@xxHB311xx its not about how far monk is but how insignificant would be double kick instead of single kick. I will give you hard numbers later. Im only on phone atm.
@@xxHB311xx Ok I calculated this for bis kick attack tp set (including augmented spharai) and current bis war white damage tp set. If you want to know the details let me know.
Mnk current white dps: 2827
Mnk white dps with 2 kicks instead of 1: 3356
War white dps with Ukonvasara am1: 3368
War white dps with Ukon am2: 3789
War white dps with Ukon am3: 4210
Like you see even with your suggested 2 kicks MNK would only match white damage of Ukonvasara war with lv1 Aftermath and would still be far behind Ukonvasara War with lv3 aftermath.
Now Ukonvasara with that white damage is not even suggested as best dd weapon for War.
Now DRK with AM3 Caladbolg has 3080 white DPS while having massive ws damage. Im not familiar with bis SAM masamune tp set now and calculating in zanshin would be new for me too, so i wont do it now, but Sam white dps with am3 is quite big too and obviously it trashes mnk with ws damage/frequency.
Edit: I checked THF too. With Twashtar main hand and Taming offhand. White dps:
Am1: 3013
Am2: 3294
Am3: 3574
So another job who beats mnk in white damage.
@@SageAtoreis did you use footwork ? Cause the numbers should sky rocket and do you have 96% kick attacks rate set ? I don't know I feel it would be easy to balance monk from that point , just start giving him KA attack gear from that point on and you should be seen some great numbers
When will there be a Blu guide?
Gaz Latham poll up in the community tab
I honestly doubt that Blu guide is even possible to do with same amount of details as in previous guides. Blu has tons of uses and tons of sets. Probably at least 20 spells worth to talk about in details and twice more worth to mention. The video would need to be 90 mins long.
@@SageAtoreis NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@SageAtoreis No it wouldn't, blu is roughly the same as rdm in terms of gearsets needed. The only reason either of them would need to go over 30 minutes is in the event you start talking about spell formulas
Lol, don’t need one. It’s the most over used job lol
What's the easiest, most noob friendly to play?
What about subs?
Hey, nice guide as always, but not without errors..
Obvious ones:
1. afaik Physical Damage Limit +10% let you break pdif cap but it doesn't profit you in any way when you are not at attack cap in the first place. So you should only use it for WS when you are sure you are overcapping attack.
2. Empyrean body +1 during Impetus is still by far the best body piece for Victory Smite with enough stacks of Impetus. It gives up to +100accuracy and +50% critical hit damage. The problem here is that you would need to be aware of how many stacks you have to know when you should use it and when you shouldn't.
3. Raging Fists set you completely get it wrong. Raging Fists is not even close to mechanic of Resolution. It's the same mechanic as Upheaval or Insurgency actually. Your fTP on first hit raises drastically with TP and gearing for multihit is only justified when not using Godhands and Wsing exactly at 1000TP. With Godhands, moonshade and overtping you want to prioritize WSD over anything else. In other words you almost always want to prioritize WSD for Raging Fists, because you will use it below 2000TP with Godhands only (With Veret or an other weapon you will spam Smite and with Spharai you will spam Final Heaven at 1000TP). The avg damage increase from multihit proc adds very little to Raging Fists damage especially at high TP.
4. Pretty much the same for Tornado kick. You want WSD, especially when holding TP and/or with Godhands and multihit proc won't boost damage too much too. Especially at high tp and if you prioritize WSD like you should.
5. Tornado Kick fTP on first hit might triple from 1000TP to 3000TP, but if you use Godhands and moonshade the lowest TP value is 1750 and usually more with tp overflow. holding to more has no sense, unless you wait to close SC or something (doubtful on Tornado Kick). Same for Raging Fists.
I can back everything above with numbers if needed, but this comment will already be too long.
Subjective ones:
1. Not even considering Focus recast merits is imo wrong. 5% counter is a noticeable amount but it really depends of your playstyle and what you do on monk. For more offensive oriented monks, especially the ones using Verethragna, Focus might be an option over counter. Counter is good, but its not essential for surviving. You can't counter TP moves and magic and those are the ones doing majority of damage. Also if you are seriously considering counter tanking, Spharai is a must have.
2. Counterstance is really bad. The drop to defense is way too high and it's not worth it. Again, if you plan to do any serious counter tanking, you should go for Spahrai, not counterstance with DT.
3. "Insane numbers" from Tornado Kick with Footwork up.. well I disagree. It can barely do respective damage with those. Still way worse than some hard WS hitters. Unless you want to compare 3000 Footwork Tornado with 1000TP WS on other jobs, then TK might look amazing. I disagree with WSD fix hitting the monk "not too hard" too. It got hit hard, especially at 1000(+750)TP Raging Fists and Tornado Kick. Victory Smite too. Asuran Fists very hard too, even that its not used outside of skillchain link.
4. Ascetic's Fury is super weak WS unless you are severely under attack cap (it has +100% attack bonus). It only has 2 fTP. In theory it can spike high when you crit and proc triple/quadruple attack twice, but it will happen very rarely and even with 2x Quadruple attack, all crits and bis set the damage will only spike to around 25k, while on avg it will rarely break 10k. If you even use this WS for 3 step light with Victory Smite, you should use it as first WS to make light and double light of Vsmite. Dont ever use it like suggested in video with Ascetic in middle.
5. Spharai might be the highest DPS weapon when fully augmented. It's for sure is when solo (for longer than 3 minutes, because otherwise Verethragna with Impetus up for entire fight will probably pull ahead). Final Heaven at 1000TP should be a little stronger than Raging fists with Godhands and FH creates light with itself. It also has 13% chance to triple damage on first hit of attack round which is not much but still adds some DPS. 15% Kick Attack is probably less tp gain than 10 store tp, but not by much. Lastly it adds more counters (+14%) and counters are 30% more damage. For short group fights with TP bonus or crit rate buffs and self SC not being the case, Spharai will fall back a lot behind Veret and Godhands.
monk is basically rock lee in anime
why is your mic so low D:
Taterz might be the bgm being a few notches higher in some parts rather than a mic issue.
That or I’m just softly spoken
Yes brother great guide but you put me to sleep lol too low and soft man and I try to stay awake lol.
Chaos Roll with sub WAR ok ok
MNK has very high Haych Pee
BLUUUU
Anyone else been falling asleep to these guides?
Sir, when you do videos, please have a stable fps. Windoers and bdvoodoo and turning off in game shadows will help!
Great guide but a decade late lol.
MNK guide. step one. Toss out all gear and play a different job
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