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From LV10-21 Monks are tanks. If a Monk at those levels cannot tank, it means that he either doesn't know how, his equipment is not for defense, or he doesn't eat fish mithkabobs. Monks will not be doing good damage from 10-30 (Thf/Mnk are better at hand to hand WS than you at this stage) so you had better be ready to be the tank.
From 30-49 Monks have paper armor (Whm have better def in some levels) and should only tank to save the PT's life. Your role is mostly to finish Fusion skillchains.
You get Raging Fists at 41 which completely replaces Combo. You had better like this WS, you're going to be using it until LV60. Keep doing those Fusion skillchains.
When most Monks reach 40 or 41, they are true damage dealers, but we usually turn into farmers. When I started FFXI and picked Monk because I thought that the equipment would be cheap (martial arts just need cloth in the real world) I didn't realize how wrong I was. You will have to decide what equipment you will live with, because you cannot get all of them unless you spend 2 months doing nothing but farming 20,000 gil a day.
When Monks reach 50, they should start carrying offensive and defensive equipment with them. Learn to use equipment change macros to switch to your defensive gear whenever you are being hit.
If you have any patience or hard headed determination in you, the 50-59 range is where you will need every ounce of them. A lot of Monks quit at this stage, and everyone that passed this stage thought of quitting when they were at this stage. AF's are a major pain, consider yourself lucky if you don't have trouble with AF's. You might be sick of farming at this point because of all the farming you did in the 40's. Well, touch luck, if you don't farm while seeking parties, you will end up sitting around and achieving nothing. Besides, you'll need a small fortune for the Spartan Cesti, so just farm. The only ones that will get past this stage are those who have great patience and social skills.
At 51-54 you will miss a lot.
At 54-57 almost everyone else will want to do Distortion skillchains as opposed to your Fusion skillchain. It's tough, it's how things are.
At 58-64, if you do not have a Life Belt and 2 Sniper Rings, you will not be able to fight in Valley of Sorrows or Labyrinth of Onzozo unless you have a Bard. Don't try going to those places without snipers or a bard, you will just feel rotten. Farm, farm, farm.
Oh yeah, at 60 you get Howling Fist, and the other melee damage dealers will start feeling insecure because of your intrusion into their precious Distorted world. Thieves will be your best friend.
And the full AF set. Love or hate its looks, Monk AF is probably the best AF in the game. There are only a few things that are better than Monk AF, and even if you have them, you'll still have to carry the AF around with you because of your job abilities.
At 63 you can get the Arhat set for looks. Yeah, be purple instead of orange. Woo! You can get whatever equipment you want at this stage, you can even swear off farming forever (as if) if you already got everything you needed during the long, miserable 50's.
The 60's are great. You will love the 60's. Ask every Monk 60+ if life begins at 60, they will either say "yes!" or cry because they haven't done genkai/limit 3 yet (you can solo this with a Thief SJ. I did. It was fun).
At 65 you get Dragon Kick. By this time you've probably already heard about and seen about Asuran Fists. Asuran Fists is awesome. Dragon Kick is more useful in battles.
Once you get Dragon Kick, you will mostly want to party with Warriors using Axe (Mistral Axe > Dragon Kick = LV3 Light). If you think about this closely, your PT will consist of the tank, a War/Nin, 3 mages of different flavors, and you. Notice something there? Yes, no Thief. Better have a Thief subjob since you will be the best option such a PT would have for hate control. You can have 4 melee and 2 mages, but it's not that common. Remember the other melee jobs that started not liking you at the 60'? Add thieves to their roster if you have a Thief SJ.
At 66/67 things start becoming funny. Why it would be funny is a toss up between you being driven insane by all that farming and waiting for PT in the 50's (yes, it's that traumatic), or it might be because your parties will actually look for 2, or even 3 Monks. Best setup ever: 1 Tank (pld, nin, whatever), 3 Monks (1 with thief SJ of course, more fun if the other two use War and Sam SJ respectively), Whm, Rdm. Go to Gustav Tunnel and exterminate skeletons. Spinning Attack > Howling Fist > Dragon Kick.
You'll want to start doing Zilart Missions at this stage. If you have the opportunity, do them. Sky access is very nice to have because of the levelling places, and the ZM's are cool too.
You might not know who King Ranperre is, you might not care, but you will sure like his Tomb. Or maybe you won't, you won't really have much of a choice.
From 65-75 you'll have a great, fun time as a Monk. While Maat might be a nuisance, it's just a matter of time before you beat him. The Trial Knucles for Asuran Fists are also no biggie, you'll want to train them by helping people out with their coffers. Not only will you be famous, you'll also get a good amount of money. Perfect for purchasing the Rasetsu set at 72. You'll look so good wearing a Tiger Mask, full rasetsu and using Asuran Fists that you might just want to run around all day and hit things knowing that the people that are looking at you are going "oooh, aaah". The many friends you've made will want to help you get Asuran Fists, it really could be the coolest looking WS.
Monks, from experience, are very helpful. It's because we go through tough times and unless we're bitter, we can easily sympathize with other players, especially lower levelled Monks. When I was doing my AF's, my LV75 Monk friend helped me out a lot. He was (and is) my mentor, so to speak. Now I find myself with my own protege that I encourage through tough times and help whenever I can. People will want you for Avatar fights, people will want you for papyrus drops (you eat Liches for breakfast), people will want you for many things. I'm just happy to help out, more opportunities for using WS are good.
You'll probably want to farm for that scorpion harness, for dynamis entrance fees, for spectacles, for your alternate jobs. Maybe you just want to take screenshots of yourself using Asuran Fists while you farm.
So yeah, Monks farm a lot.
From LV10-21 Monks are tanks. If a Monk at those levels cannot tank, it means that he either doesn't know how, his equipment is not for defense, or he doesn't eat fish mithkabobs. Monks will not be doing good damage from 10-30 (Thf/Mnk are better at hand to hand WS than you at this stage) so you had better be ready to be the tank.
From 30-49 Monks have paper armor (Whm have better def in some levels) and should only tank to save the PT's life. Your role is mostly to finish Fusion skillchains.
You get Raging Fists at 41 which completely replaces Combo. You had better like this WS, you're going to be using it until LV60. Keep doing those Fusion skillchains.
When most Monks reach 40 or 41, they are true damage dealers, but we usually turn into farmers. When I started FFXI and picked Monk because I thought that the equipment would be cheap (martial arts just need cloth in the real world) I didn't realize how wrong I was. You will have to decide what equipment you will live with, because you cannot get all of them unless you spend 2 months doing nothing but farming 20,000 gil a day.
When Monks reach 50, they should start carrying offensive and defensive equipment with them. Learn to use equipment change macros to switch to your defensive gear whenever you are being hit.
If you have any patience or hard headed determination in you, the 50-59 range is where you will need every ounce of them. A lot of Monks quit at this stage, and everyone that passed this stage thought of quitting when they were at this stage. AF's are a major pain, consider yourself lucky if you don't have trouble with AF's. You might be sick of farming at this point because of all the farming you did in the 40's. Well, touch luck, if you don't farm while seeking parties, you will end up sitting around and achieving nothing. Besides, you'll need a small fortune for the Spartan Cesti, so just farm. The only ones that will get past this stage are those who have great patience and social skills.
At 51-54 you will miss a lot.
At 54-57 almost everyone else will want to do Distortion skillchains as opposed to your Fusion skillchain. It's tough, it's how things are.
At 58-64, if you do not have a Life Belt and 2 Sniper Rings, you will not be able to fight in Valley of Sorrows or Labyrinth of Onzozo unless you have a Bard. Don't try going to those places without snipers or a bard, you will just feel rotten. Farm, farm, farm.
Oh yeah, at 60 you get Howling Fist, and the other melee damage dealers will start feeling insecure because of your intrusion into their precious Distorted world. Thieves will be your best friend.
And the full AF set. Love or hate its looks, Monk AF is probably the best AF in the game. There are only a few things that are better than Monk AF, and even if you have them, you'll still have to carry the AF around with you because of your job abilities.
At 63 you can get the Arhat set for looks. Yeah, be purple instead of orange. Woo! You can get whatever equipment you want at this stage, you can even swear off farming forever (as if) if you already got everything you needed during the long, miserable 50's.
The 60's are great. You will love the 60's. Ask every Monk 60+ if life begins at 60, they will either say "yes!" or cry because they haven't done genkai/limit 3 yet (you can solo this with a Thief SJ. I did. It was fun).
At 65 you get Dragon Kick. By this time you've probably already heard about and seen about Asuran Fists. Asuran Fists is awesome. Dragon Kick is more useful in battles.
Once you get Dragon Kick, you will mostly want to party with Warriors using Axe (Mistral Axe > Dragon Kick = LV3 Light). If you think about this closely, your PT will consist of the tank, a War/Nin, 3 mages of different flavors, and you. Notice something there? Yes, no Thief. Better have a Thief subjob since you will be the best option such a PT would have for hate control. You can have 4 melee and 2 mages, but it's not that common. Remember the other melee jobs that started not liking you at the 60'? Add thieves to their roster if you have a Thief SJ.
At 66/67 things start becoming funny. Why it would be funny is a toss up between you being driven insane by all that farming and waiting for PT in the 50's (yes, it's that traumatic), or it might be because your parties will actually look for 2, or even 3 Monks. Best setup ever: 1 Tank (pld, nin, whatever), 3 Monks (1 with thief SJ of course, more fun if the other two use War and Sam SJ respectively), Whm, Rdm. Go to Gustav Tunnel and exterminate skeletons. Spinning Attack > Howling Fist > Dragon Kick.
You'll want to start doing Zilart Missions at this stage. If you have the opportunity, do them. Sky access is very nice to have because of the levelling places, and the ZM's are cool too.
You might not know who King Ranperre is, you might not care, but you will sure like his Tomb. Or maybe you won't, you won't really have much of a choice.
From 65-75 you'll have a great, fun time as a Monk. While Maat might be a nuisance, it's just a matter of time before you beat him. The Trial Knucles for Asuran Fists are also no biggie, you'll want to train them by helping people out with their coffers. Not only will you be famous, you'll also get a good amount of money. Perfect for purchasing the Rasetsu set at 72. You'll look so good wearing a Tiger Mask, full rasetsu and using Asuran Fists that you might just want to run around all day and hit things knowing that the people that are looking at you are going "oooh, aaah". The many friends you've made will want to help you get Asuran Fists, it really could be the coolest looking WS.
Monks, from experience, are very helpful. It's because we go through tough times and unless we're bitter, we can easily sympathize with other players, especially lower levelled Monks. When I was doing my AF's, my LV75 Monk friend helped me out a lot. He was (and is) my mentor, so to speak. Now I find myself with my own protege that I encourage through tough times and help whenever I can. People will want you for Avatar fights, people will want you for papyrus drops (you eat Liches for breakfast), people will want you for many things. I'm just happy to help out, more opportunities for using WS are good.
You'll probably want to farm for that scorpion harness, for dynamis entrance fees, for spectacles, for your alternate jobs. Maybe you just want to take screenshots of yourself using Asuran Fists while you farm.
So yeah, Monks farm a lot.
