Energy Projectile?

[Sir_Spork]

I never see anyone talk about this, or use it. I'm guessing it's not very useful, but it sounds cool. Can anyone report average damage of it, as well as the cooldown on it. Pics would be nice to. ^^

[tomc1988t]

spork u fatty XD...err...sir spork


its a black ball..ive seen it do 500-700 damage on sumthing outside sandoria lol.......

[Redlimit]

Its a useful way to start a battle. As a MNK you will rarely be a puller so you can sit and stack Boosts while you wait for the puller to arrive with some prey. As soon as the enemy is in range, let the Chi Blast loose and you will do some fairly decent damage (usually about 2x or 3x the damage of a normal hit).

Depending on how long your battles are you can do this at the start of every fight (it has a 3 minute cooldown).

[Shirow]

Reds right, I had a blast using Chi. At the time when I first got it, I boosted 10 times, and once landed a hit for 200. Other than that, I average about 130+ It's very useful. You'll be the first the first to land the most and get hate towards you.

Edit: The only bad thing about boost, is that if you dont boost alot then you'll mostly land a hit in the 60's maybe 80's.

[TMPikachu]

It's one of those moves that boost was meant to boost though

I think of it as the 'Dragonball' effect.

when someone launches a fireball off the bat, it gets brushed off or swallowed or shot back, etc.

but when someone spends half and episode charging, yelling, with rocks flying in the air, you get something useful.

when I get chi-blast, the macros will either be /p "kamehameha!" or "hadoken!"

[Mithrael]

In my experience, Chi Blast:

Does 30~40 damage when unboosted.

When boosted, the difference between your attack and your base attack is added to damage. Maximum number of times you can boost in a row is 11. Since boost increases your attack by a percentage (about 10%) of your current attack, each boost accumulates greater attack power.

say you start at 100 attack.
boost -> 110
boost -> 121
boost -> 133
boost -> 146
etc.
boost ~~> 285

total chi blast damage ~315dmg.

As far as I could tell, chi blast never misses, and disregards monster defense. At lv.45 my friends and I decided to take a trip to ro meauve... there are a type of dancing weapon there (don't remember thier name) that are pretty high level. I boosted 11 times, and unleashed Chi Blast for 400-some damge... i then two houred and proceeded to hit the thing for 0 damage for the next minute before dying when the rdm ran out of mp :sweat:

Unfortunatley, it's usefulness is somewhat limited... hopefully you don't have 2 minutes and 45 seconds of downtime between fights to charge it up. Even if you do... you're gonna get owned if you use in the first 10 seconds of the battle... i liken it to a blm starting an ancient magic spell the moment a mob comes into range... sure, it takes a noticable chunk off of the mobs life... but you're gonna take a lot of hits.

[TMPikachu]

well, it puts counterstance and dodge to use then!