Monk Tricks

[Aceshot]

<p>Hey, I've been playing my monk for a good while, and I love him to bits. I don't care what people say, cause I enjoy playing him. Anyway, I am no where near the best monk ever, but at the same time I would call myself the worst.</p><p>Anyhoo, I'm trying to up my game a bit, and I was wondering if anybody knew any good monk tricks or CA orders for maximum damage.</p><p>I tend to use Peel and Tsunami togther, and rescue and bob and weave, because it gets me agro most of the time, and protects me till the heals kick in.</p><p>I also use lightning, time my CAs, and hit off my bigger attack spells first.</p><p>Does anybody else have any tricks they find that work?</p>

[Fwedewi]

<p>some other useful tricks people may or may not know:</p><p>-When a mob fears, use body like mountain to root yourself.</p><p>-If you keep finding yourself in the wrong stance because you forgot to change, macro a different outfit for each stance.</p><p>-If you hate group feigning your group only for it to fail on you?  Macro fall of the phoenix, then /stand and then feign death.  Not 100% effective but improves your odds.</p>

[circusgirl]

<p><ul><li>Ever notice how when you group with a shaman, oftentimes when you pull the mobs will hit you once and then run straight for the healer?  Make a macro for intercede, plug in your healer's name each time you join a group, and tap that before each pull.  Interceding a blow gains YOU aggro, so the mob will hit the healer, you'll take the hit for them, and the mob will run straight to you.</li><li>If you've put points into extending the range on Dragonfire, casting it as you're pulling is a great way to secure initial aggro</li><li>Build different armor sets for different situations, and be willing to swap between them depending on the difficulty of the content.</li><li>Don't use your mitigation buffs (body/skin like mountain) and your avoidance buffs (bob & weave, tsunami) at the same time.  Buff one or the other--it's wasteful to be upping your mitigation when you can't be hit.</li><li>Last but not least: Cultivate a reputation.  People won't take you on the strength of the class, so become known as someone good at what you do.</li></ul></p>