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Old 10-12-2020, 12:33 AM
Trainer34 Trainer34 is offline
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Default Monk - Epic/SoM or SoM/SoS?

So I've previously been told that epic fist mainhand + Scepter of Mastery offhand was pretty optimal for monk DPS until getting into the really good end-tier weapons.

Recently, I've also been told that having Scepter of Mastery mainhand and Stave of Shielding Offhand is better dps.

I've looked at two different damage calculators, and they gave different answers...

so which one is better?
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Old 10-12-2020, 01:55 AM
Croco Croco is offline
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epic/som is going to do more damage
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Old 10-12-2020, 06:10 AM
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It depends on your level and what your fighting.

The answer is generally Tstaff, and ignore a percent either way.
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Old 10-12-2020, 09:05 AM
jolanar jolanar is offline
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It depends on your level and what your fighting.
Assuming you are high enough level to equip the epic, I can't imagine any scenario where the Scepter outdamages epic fist in mainhand.

Epic/SoM is slightly better than Epic/Stave of Shielding.

T-Staff if you can afford it and you tank a lot. The riposte damage is significant with epic fist if you are tanking.
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Old 10-15-2020, 12:29 AM
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Tstaff outparses epic/SoM or SoS usually too.
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Old 10-22-2020, 02:43 AM
dwikt96 dwikt96 is offline
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Tstaff parse wins a large majority of the time (like over 90%) there's just a lot of variance with 2h damage that can make it seem pretty inferior sometimes.
Given a long enough parse with proper conditions it always wins tho.
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Old 10-22-2020, 10:51 AM
remen remen is offline
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Just get an ifs or tstaff depending on budget, they're significantly better
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Old 10-30-2020, 07:56 AM
Stonewallx39 Stonewallx39 is offline
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Can some explain to me how the monk Epic works? It’s gloves, but do some of the benefits not work if you equip a weapon? What do people mean when they epic main hand or epic/SoS? Go slow because apparently I’m dull as I’ve been unable to understand how this works for a while.
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Old 10-30-2020, 08:28 AM
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Can some explain to me how the monk Epic works? It’s gloves, but do some of the benefits not work if you equip a weapon? What do people mean when they epic main hand or epic/SoS? Go slow because apparently I’m dull as I’ve been unable to understand how this works for a while.
It turns your fists into 9/16 ratio. Because of the damage bonus in the primary hand combined with the very fast attack speed it makes your mainhand especially nice. That's why most people equip a weapon in the offhand and use the epic fist in mainhand, at least until you have access to raid weapons.
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