IiPunch - Monk Guide

I think the sweet spot was effective 2500~2750ish, so GH/moonshade/mpaca helm would drop that to 1500~

2500/2700 for what?
Stuff like Raging Fists, Howling Fist, Tornado Kick sure, but Victory Smite?

Since when they gimped the TP>Crit thing I don't really think shooting Vsmite at values that high has a major impact on the WS avg in the long run, but glad to be proven wrong hey.

I'm working on quantifying the guard boost from dodge

target: ilvl 119 mnk vs Mourioche in the boyhada tree

base guard rate is capped to 25% (checked via Parse)

for Dodge testing:
I've made an addon that only counts Guard procs when the following conditions are met:
I am engaged to a mob, Dodge effect duration remaining is > 2 seconds for fudge factor, and via packets, the attack is an auto attack and is targeted towards the local player

Based on the auto attack information I store a hit/miss/guard (counters are categorized as a miss) into a log file as my sample data. My current data shows the following with scipy parsing the data


So the rate moved from 25%~ to 44~ +/- 2% ish
Not bad, but what I don't know is if this boost is a multiplier or additive to your guard rate yet. Given that the Focus/Dodge changes are all based on your Monk level (main OR sub), i'll be switching to PUP/MNK on the same targets, reverifying 25% base guard rate and repeating the test. Once I get that data we can get a better picture of what's going on

I mean... logically (yes, I know that's wild to think that way for SE).

Focus = 100 acc and 20% crit hit rate

sooo logically

Dodge = 100 eva and 20% guard rate

Speaking of, I did see that 20% crit rate but there was no source and JP wiki thinks it's 10%. Did someone test that (or did SE just tell us)? I tried doing a quick search and there wasn't anything obvious

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Talk:Focus

bit of a dirty test but that's all i could find

Oh, yeah that's not somewhere I'd have thought to check, the numbers do line up however. Maybe I'll retest it just in case