IiPunch - Monk Guide

How about solving a series of trigonometric equations and intense logarithms that change with every boost and if you can solve in the correct amount of time, you do increased weaponskill damage. Otherwise no effect.

Or what if you press boost once then spam the X button and your boost increase is determined by how many times you pressed X.

+

Let's stage a funny protest across servers. How about making Monday the 14th MNKday? Everyone interested, between events or whatever, change to MNK/RDM. Get your MP as low as possible, Convert and use a poison potion in order to die in Lower Jeuno between the AH and the server feed/invisible Moogle.

We'll need some help with poison potions. They are easy to make from ingredients available right in Lower Jeuno, I think. If anyone has a mule to bazaar them to the side...

The bigger the body pile, the bigger the fun! Come back once an hour to restage yourself, unless you actually need to play. But, by and large, we all AFK in a town somewhere anyway...

To help save on costs, you can farm Verboshrooms in Cirdas Caverns. When you eat them, they give you poison!

thinking too far out, it's probably similar to the button inputs for Sabin in FF6

It depends on the weapon you use. But, universally, there are better pieces to wear if you have them. That hasn't changed.

Laid out pretty well on BGWiki "Attack Speed" page


The basics:
If you are at capped delay reduction, additional MA works like excess DW in that it provides no additional attack speed benefit, but the theoretical value (even beyond the 80% total delay reduction cap) is still used for the purpose of calculating TP/hit... As in, using more MA when you're already at delay cap just means you get less TP per swing. Now, it's still generally better to have max magical haste and deal with the slightly less TP/hit return than it is to not have enough haste and be considerably slower than max delay reduction. But that doesn't make it less annoying.

If you are at capped magical haste (448/1024):
As a general rule, if you're getting capped magical haste you will already be below delay reduction cap without any additional MA gear. So try not to use additional MA gear if you can help it.

More specifically:
* For any delay+60 or less H2H, you're already under cap even with zero gifts.
* For Delay+96 weapons, 100 gift (MA-5, on top of MNK's base -200 Martial Arts VII trait) puts you right at cap. 1200 gift (adding another MA-5 for -210 total) puts you under delay cap.
* Delay+130 weapon (just Ohrmazd, which you shouldn't really be using anyway) is actually still just slightly over delay cap even with both MA gifts. But you should use a different weapon.

If you aren't at capped magical haste:
However... MA isn't always bad! If you're only getting Haste II or less, you will NOT be reaching delay cap and more Martial Arts does provide a significant benefit. Good MA pieces like Hizamaru Somen+1 and Mache Earrings are actually quite good in this scenario.

The key point:
Quite simply, it's beneficial to have a haste capped TP set with no MA gear, and a non-haste capped TP set including the good MA pieces.

Of course, you can play with the formula too, to account for stuff JA haste from a DNC main or /DNC. It's basically the same decision though: use MA gear if you're not also getting capped magical haste, don't use MA gear if you are getting capped magical haste.

Explains MNK quite well...

I doubt the entire job was meant to be reduced to the status of a red herring. :p So best case scenario, there's a Combinatoric Marginal Mechanic at work here? If so, someone please hurry and solve it!

On the topic of MA gear, how much would be needed to achieve minimum boost delay (presumably you would only need to keep it on during ja activation since at that point the timer is set). Nyralko's testing in BG forums showed that using two 150 delay daggers as THF/MNK with (I assume) capped haste/DW could not get below a boost duration of 5.1 sec, so that is presumably set as the absolute minimum delay possible, yet a NIN/MNK with two 227 delay daggers and way overcapped gear and magical haste and DW reduction couldn't get below 7 seconds. That might imply that certain things like weapon delay factor more heavily in the delay calculation than haste, yet can MNK main with Vere get anywhere near 5 or 7 second boost delays with just capped haste alone? How much can MA gear help with that?

The 2nd one can be solved with a raise in base damage and tweaking the JA for Monk.