Monk V. Dark Knight

[Saurian]

Originally posted by TMPikachu


a watched pot never boils, you're just paying more attention than usual to your attack intervals when you use boost.
When I wait for bost to cool down, it takes forever, but when I'm walking around and using boost randomly, it seems to fill in mere seconds, but it doesn't change, just our preception.

No not at all....
By paying close attention when using boost, i can see i skip attack turns...i assume, therefore, that if i kept using boost and didnt pay attention to my attack intervals, i would continue losing them...they would not magically appear out of nowhere because "im not looking"

[Lone Dragon]

Boost DOES FRIGGIN NOT take the place of your attack.
I know it for a fact.
No disputes, no retorts, nothing.
If you watch your intervals without using boost, then use boost any time between your attacks, you will see there is no difference.
H2H will always be relatively slow.
Deal with it.

This is so annoying, everyone shits on this job.
It's just seen as Warrior's best sub (if that.)

. . .

Casting spells, on the other hand, DOES slow your attacks.
I have seen this happen to others and myself.
Casting time sometimes exceeds your delay, so it will at least hold it until you finish casting.

In damage overall, I can't really tell you.
Even at equal lvls, a Samurai's Tachi:Enpi only does slightly less than my Raging Fists
(though on a good hit, I definitely outshine him and get about the same TP return.)
This may have been caused by the higher TP gain of the Samurai
and the fact that I usually used my RF between 100-130%, but still...

DRKs don't really have any heavy WSs at my lvl range.
Not a DRK person, so I can't really tell you how good their WSs are
except that Guillo is their best (besides any 250s I don't know about,
heard the 2H sword 250 is good.)

If Guillo and Penta are as ungodly as I hear they are,
then Raging Fists can't really stack up,
but Dragon Kick and ASURAN FISTS might
(guess which one I think is more likely to out damage them...go ahead.)

In straight damage, it's obvious who wins.
In DPM, I can't tell you without putting more effort into it than it's really worth. ;x
I can tell you Monks are slightly faster to the point where even with the lower damage,
they COULD do more damage throughout the fight in auto-attacks than the DRK (with the miss rate of the big weapons and that, with H2Hs, you'll usually hit at least once per turn.)

Personally, I don't think it matters, they each do damage in their own way.
Most of the Monk's problems seem to be a PR thing (though it's hard to get excited when your biggest selling point is your consistency.)

[TMPikachu]

don't forget, monks have better dexterity than warriors too.