Monk Weapon DPS Chart

[Kutsumo]

For leveling monks, I parsed my whole journey from 1-50 so figured I'd throw in a little anecdotal input. As poster above said, it changes as you level. Weapons I had on hand were Peacebringer, IFS, AC, SoS, and a couple of jade maces. I swapped weapons each level to keep skills capped

1-10 Can't beat dual jade mace.
10-20 I used AC/SoS from here on out, clearly beat maces once dmg cap raised to 28.
20-35ish, couldn't beat peacebringer with 1hers. It was just better. IFS was just as good as peacebringer after level 30.
Around 35, AC/SoS caught back up and pulled ahead through the late 30s and on into the 40s.

Thus far, 2h hasn't overtaken DW for me up to 52. I am epic'd now, so mostly using fist/AC and fist/SoS.

[Yaolin]

DPS is the rating for the weapon and has nothing to do with DA/DW, if you want to figure out how your weapons rank against one another for each hand you can compare their mainhand/offhand stats. If you would like to compare dual wield DPS to two hand DPS you can take the dps rating of the two hand blunt and compare it to the rating of the dps rating of your dual wield weapons which =(Mainhand dps rating +(Offhand dps rating*Dual wield %).

[Elements]

Originally Posted by Yaolin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DPS is the rating for the weapon and has nothing to do with DA/DW, if you want to figure out how your weapons rank against one another for each hand you can compare their mainhand/offhand stats. If you would like to compare dual wield DPS to two hand DPS you can take the dps rating of the two hand blunt and compare it to the rating of the dps rating of your dual wield weapons which =(Mainhand dps rating +(Offhand dps rating*Dual wield %).

If you are going to leave it like this then your "total dps" chart at the bottom right comparing best 2h to best dw is wrong and misleading.

[August]

So, can someone explain to me the carats ( > ) in the offhand calculations? They only show values at level 60.

I am a level 20 monk at the moment, trying to figure out if I should be staying w/ 2 1 handers or swap over to my peacebringer.

[Quanchi]

Staff of Battle is missing from the chart : ) 31/37 2HB WAR MNK

[mcappy]

Originally Posted by Quanchi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Staff of Battle is missing from the chart : ) 31/37 2HB WAR MNK

It fits in between Rod Mourning and Wu's Quivering Staff after level 40 or so (very slightly worse than Wu's at 40, gap grows with each damage bonus gain). Considering the prices on each, no reason to use a Staff of Battle over Wu's unless you already have one laying around.

[Yaolin]

The "DPS Rating" for the offhand never changes after lvl 30 because all damage caps are removed and there is no damage bonus for the offhand. Damage caps are the weapon damage*2 + some attack modifier (which grows as you level.) LvL 1-9 = 10 Damage Weapon, LvL 10-19 = 14 damage weapon, LvL 20-29 = 30 Damage Weapon. I.E. if you are using a Wu's Quivering staff(23/28 2HB) at lvl 19 the weapon will act like a 14/28 until LvL 20 when it will act as a 23/28.

[Juhstin]

Bumping for new Monks and people like me who are lazy to search and scroll back pages.

[drktmplr12]

bump

[Penish]

This thread is missing a comparison for the offhand Mosscovered Twig. Cause that thing rocks.