All About Guard

Guarding is one of the most underestimated defensive skills of monk.
Here I show how often it can activate when you have high enough guard skill (300-330) and stack on AGI (here I have 90+). It's of course dependent on enemny stats too, but that amount is enough for high guard rate for many activities, especially Campaign monsters, and EP-DC monsters in general.

I also show some of the reasons why guard activation is often computed incorrectly and underestimated (if a guard occurs while a monk punches, or during any other activation, the guard animation is skipped), and how to measure it reliably.

I also show that guard can activate while stunned (also while petrified or asleep), and that guard can completely nullify the damage and effect of a TP move or WS on you (showing it as 'evaded').

For more screenshots, info and details see my page linked at the start of the video.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• FFXI
• MNK
• Monk
• 75
• Guard
• Guarding
• Skill

[randomnumbers8009]

You spliced together strings of footage of a few guard streaks and make like it has a good activation rate. One can easily make a video of just strings of guard NOT activating. Neither prove a thing. Sickens me that anyone takes this as proof "guard is teh AWESUM!"

[genomeffxi]

You should pick up a math and probability book. The chance of strings happening is dependent on the chance of individual events.

Take capped hit rate, 95%, you can easily show strings of even 10 hits in a row, but try and get 10 misses in a row.

And guard animations are overwritten by attack animations, count missed blood effects or it'll be wrong. It's not that difficult to see 50% guard activation on easy monsters, it's just how the game is coded, don't play the game if it bothers you.

[L0rdBalmung1]

ever try a guard setup in ballista?

[genomeffxi]

Only a few pieces at most (seiryu's kote, maybe melee gaiters) because I think you don't want to give up too many good stats (byakko haidate etc).

[Metis1337]

Fighting a chicoe.. and using Phalanx, okay... ? =/

[genomeffxi]

That's fine but it stops working at 230ish, and at really low levels other monsters are much better (weaker enemy stats mean you can guard more easily). But yes chigoes are nice over some level ranges because they attack often and for low damage, and mnk/rdm does block about 7 dmg from each hit.

[cantujacob67]

One of the best mnks ever I'm lvl 95 and my mnk is nothing to geo great vid man 5/5

[BankstersR4Communism]

nice vid, i heard of monk tanking 6 years ago and was like O.o? orly? since then I attained MNK75 and love it!

[jorgewonka]

Hey bro been workin in guard i just have 193 base plus 8 for merits a total of 201

now im having a hard time getting skill ups, any idea, where will be good to lv now? ty bro.

[Gruic]

Good job dude. I learned things.

[yosnick00]

One of the great legend !! 5/5 on vid, great vid setup with breathtaking music selection, notice you havent update LJ since 2008/06, still play ffxi? will play ffxiv?

[kageshi90]

Can someone make vid about parrying skillup? :P

Nice vid 5/5*

[searcher3x]

what i have been doing for guard is biddy bugs ... from about 175 up to 205 at about 205-210 it gets longer inbetween skill ups. i removed some of my guard build and kept going. i' m not really sure though where i'm headed after i don't need my build to get the skill ups. and thanks Genome for your hard work i started really getting on guard when i saw your LJ. i've been able to figure out a good system to getting the skill ups i want ... i want to thank you for letting me stand on your work.