New? Got too many skills? Made the mistake of using a level skip and have no idea what anything does? Just hate reading? Try this guide out!
This guide seeks to teach new Monks how to Monk properly, without getting too deep into optimization. I’ll be showing off and explaining some openers but not delving too much deeper beyond that and general skill usage. Endgame is a long way away and there’s lots to learn along the way. Start slow and work your way up one skill at a time! Then, graduate to more advanced guides.
Melee Role Actions Guide: https://youtu.be/t6cm4i-quzs
Guide to my HUD: https://youtu.be/GgXOHas9GyY
Dictionary of Terms (if you need): https://youtu.be/Oi8-myAY-Uc
Opener images: https://imgur.com/a/Kp5CK4F
Timestamps:
Video Outline: 0:00
Playstyle Summary 2:04
L1. Greased Lightning: 3:11
L1. Bootshine: 3:58
L4. True Strike: 4:20
L6. Snap Punch: 4:57
Role Actions: Second Wind, Leg Sweep, and Bloodbath: 6:40
L15. Meditation and Steel Peak: 7:07
L18. Twin Snakes: 9:28
L20. Enhanced Greased Lightning: 10:43
Role Action: Feint: 11:03
L26. Arm of the Destroyer: 11:07
L30. Demolish: 12:03
L30. Rotation: 13:28
Job Requirements: 14:52
L30. Rockbreaker: 15:06
Role Action: Arm’s Length: 16:14
L35. Thunderclap: 16:18
L38. Deep Meditation: 17:31
L40. Enhanced Greased Lightning II: 18:34
L40. Howling Fist: 19:14
L42. Mantra: 20:02
L45. Four-point Fury: 21:14
Role Action: True North: 21:48
L50. Dragon Kick: 21:53
The 2:2:3 Ratio: 22:53
L50. Perfect Balance: 24:19
L50. Opener: 26:00
L52. Form Shift: 30:50
L54. The Forbidden Chakra: 31:36
L60. Enhanced Perfect Balance: 31:55
L60. Masterful Blitz: 33:17
L60. Opener: 39:41
L64. Riddle of Earth: 43:36
L68. Riddle of Fire: 45:00
L70. Brotherhood: 46:00
L70. Opener: 47:27
L72. Riddle of Wind: 49:13
L72. Opener: 49:49
L74. Deep Meditation II: 51:24
L74. Howling Fist Mastery and Enlightenment: 51:49
L76. Enhanced Greased Lightning III: 52:07
L78. Anatman: 52:43
L80. Six-sided Star: 53:40
L82. Shadow of the Destroyer: 55:11
L84. Enhanced Thunderclap: 56:09
L84. Melee Mastery: 56:30
L86. Rising Phoenix: 57:00
L88. Enhanced Brotherhood: 57:29
L90. Phantom Rush: 58:09
Outro: 58:48
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been waiting for this one 🙌
bro i love u keep it up man legit 🙂
I'll be watching this when I do my monk leveling from 80-90 hopefully it's better compared to 1-80
Me who is already level 90 Monk with endgame gear: "Hmm yes interesting"
Love your channel Wes. Keep it up
Ngl, I did not realize just now little Monk gets from 52-60. Which is fair given the rework and just how much is going on during level 60.
Also, I am loving the new Monk. It’s a lot more fun and Blitzes are just a really cool mechanic.
Edit: Ok using Twin snake immediately during the second perfect balance is something so simple, but would have fixed so many of my problems where I felt like I kept dropping the buff.
Only part i don't get is why there is no double weaving for the buffs. Or is that because of the 2sec gcd and the chakra ocds that might happen?
I just started leveling monk so this is perfect
So glad this video dropped! I've been running the "Double Solar" opener tactic so far, and jumped straight to your opener images to see how what I've been doing compares.
I do find your Solar/Lunar opener much more manageable than what I've been doing; I push TK/PR to the 20 minute mark using my current opener. Regardless, I can't wait to watch the video fully to hear your thoughts.
Great video .
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
Just leveled monk to 50 and really needed this, thank you!
I was eagerly waiting for this. NIN’s rotation changed a bit but not drastic. This is damn near a whole new lineup
At max level, I find double weaving really unreliable and just clip way too much. 20% is really, really fast.
Wesk "Further" Alber
Oh my god, I can believe I didnt notice that elixir field was a higher potency than celestial revolution. Id been useing the latter for lunar nadi in single target.
For controllers: the main role actions you should use are second wind, blood letter and feint. Maybe consider arms length, maybe, but don't put leg sweep on your limited hotbar as stunning peters out fairly quickly.
I'm probably in the minority, but I wish you got Meditation at level 30 or 35. You know, when you learn what chakra means in this game.
Eh, it's more like Zell than Sabine.
I’m level 31 Monk (first character) and this has made me realise my entire rotation is COMPLETELY wrong!! Thank you for explaining so clearly how everything works together. I did not understand that from the tooltips! Subbed!
I am loving the little bits of humor in the beginning of the EW videos!
They’re about to change potencies tomorrow tho
Thank you!!
Sir, I am in need of a warrior video. I hope it's one of the upcoming vids. Good work as always!
You are banging these out, brother. This is amazing. Thank you.
Just curious, how much does YouTube take from that $2.99?
So materia wise, you should focus on critical hit and determination?
Duuude I was waiting for this. I've been playing as Monk from level 1 and leveling it (nearly lvl 70 now). This explained a lot in the way a moron like me can understand – like WHY bootshine/dragon-kick and WHY this rotation I keep seeing. This is gonna help a lot. To the training dummies!
(My goal isn't to become some super awesome poggers Monk. I just enjoy it way more now than I did with earlier versions of the Monk. It's super fun even if I'm not optimal, but I wanna improve and not be a burden on the party at the very least.)
OH SHIT LETS GO!!!! Your guides are the best because I still dont have all of the abilities yet as a noob LMAO.
this is such a complicated job compared to ever other one lol
Phantom rush is a true Wesker move
Nice guide! do Ninja next plz
Really needed this just got blitz at 60 and I'm scared
Nice! I was waiting for this. I played some monk in ShB, got some extremes cleared with it. I really enjoyed the hecticness of the positionals. I was thinking on perhaps moving to it as my main melee DPS instead of SAM but I don't quite get the job. My P2S dummy tries leave me at 14% at the end when with SAM I either get it killed or at worst at 0.4%. Granted, my monk weapon is slightly worse than my SAM weapon and I'm bound to have less damage as MNK, but that is way too much for the stage in my search for the rotation to be anywhere close to the solution.
Here's something I've found very helpful for Thunderclap. I have it on my bars twice – once as the skill itself, and once as a mouseover macro. This makes it much easier, at least for me, to reliably gap close to the boss while also being able to rush to wherever without having to futz with this game's fussy targeting. Here's the mouseover macro, in case whoever reading this doesn't have one already.
/merror off
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/ac Thunderclap <mo>
/micon Thunderclap
Can't wait to get used to this before they Change it again im the next expansion.
thanks for vid 👍
17:35 -> WeskAlber to Four-point Fury: "No, go away, not yet" 😀
Haven't even started watching and thumbed up.
Not gonna lie when Endwalker finally launched I was looking forward to trying out Monk, but I took 1 look at the new skills and said "You know what, I think I'll wait for WeskAlber to elaborate cause I'm drawing blanks here." 😂
I like that monk is still a "weird" job. Like, it does all the same types of things that other jobs do. It just does it all in a unique monk way.
What amazing timing! My friend and I recently started FFXIV and have been using your old guides extensively as we start new classes. Just this morning we were talking about monk, and how sad I was that EW changed monk enough that your old monk leveling guide wasn't as useful as the others have been. Then an hour later my friend sends me this! Very much appreciate these videos you do, they are so very helpful to beginners.
Man, I'm struggling so hard to unlearn positionals, even though I only played for a few month, and MNK is an alt job.