monk ratios, primary and offhand choices

[Ripqozko]

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

Yea I’m a walking hypocrisy. I still think most two-handers shine these days but if people are actively parsing and trying to push the envelope so be it. My annoyance is people just going with dogma over a span of a few years of patches or using an excel spreadsheet to determine what’s best.

Get your good buffs. Parse. Compare fights. Evolve.

I’ve seen people top parses with an IFS and the “punch trick” and suck with the best gear. Just get in there and get it done [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Theres few mobs with enough ac to justify 1h, but 2h wins on most mobs. like aary for instance 2h will parse higher, KT itll parse lower. Pretty known for most what has ac at this point.

[Solist]

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

Epic/sos was good like 8 years ago. The answer is always tstaff until Bo staff or better raid weps.

This sadly is true.
Peacebringer if no Tstaff.
Tstaff till Strongman. Facesmasher more or less interchangable with bo staff.
Strongman until tunare fist+priceless or better.

Abashi more dps than bo staff but less than tunare fist+15/20 or better.
Weird combos like wurmscale and essence and shit are generally all around the same or less than bo staff on 90% of mobs.

Cycling out any of the 2h's for offhand 9dmg hits is worth about 3-5dps. Hardly worth not being alt tabbed watching youtube for. You can afk for 2.5mins of most fights and collect dkp for watching squirrels figure mazes out. Or be ultra dpsmonk flykicking for a further 5.5 top 7.8dps depending on the mob., and not watch squirrels.

TLDR buy a 3k plat peacebringer until you join vanq or riot, sow people outside ToV on a level 40 druid and pick the highest dkp/hr race to mostly AFK like dain/sev/KT until you have DKP to buy a tunare fist and gharns+primal+abashi.

[Toxigen]

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

TLDR buy a 3k plat peacebringer until you join vanq or riot, sow people outside ToV on a level 40 druid and pick the highest dkp/hr race to mostly AFK like dain/sev/KT until you have DKP to buy a tunare fist and gharns+primal+abashi.

Or get Primal + Sap Encrusted Branch + Wurmscale Fistwraps and move on to your next character.

[Keebz]

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

Or get Primal + Sap Encrusted Branch + Wurmscale Fistwraps and move on to your next character.

Or just 2 primal fist wraps. 15 dmg is the cutoff for a higher min hit. This and the stats offset the ratio more or less.

[Ripqozko]

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

Or just 2 primal fist wraps. 15 dmg is the cutoff for a higher min hit. This and the stats offset the ratio more or less.

Or just get a bo staff and pretend 1h doesn’t exist

[Sizar]

1-29 = Wu's Quivering Staff
30+ = Imbued Fighter's Staff (Until you can afford Tstaff)

Level up your hand to hand and 1hb whenever you can, buy something cheap like a Jade mace.

Use Tstaff till you raid and get an upgrade. Also it is nice to have a SoS on hand for that buff when soloing. Don't bother spending time getting a Blam stick, shit's terrible

[Pint]

What's a strongman

[Spaerhawk]

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

Don't bother spending time getting a Blam stick, shit's terrible

But it's so fun!

[Crede]

Blam stick is hard/annoying to get. And the chest is pretty much permacamped so you rarely will find the halflings up more than 5 minutes at a time. Definitely go with the IFS > TStaff route instead.

[Snaggles]

The blam was better before the triple attack for monks and scaling 2h damage bonus. These days the annoying reality is a Peacebringer or IFS is tough to beat for the effort.