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Why not 33f?


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besides the crit buff from straight jab, why not 33f?

 

dunno what made me think about it, but i tried it instead of 3rf to see what it would do since its not really a thing people ever do.  

 

strangely, its wicked fast.  hard to tell if its more dps than 3rf since it lacks the crit buff cycle, but 2 shinkick hits pretty hard.  

 

any thoughts on this?  

was it ever reasoned out why 3rf is our go to?  

is there a timing or duration issue that im not seeing?

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1 : Focus recovery

2 : Animation-cancel. If you execute your 3rf properly it's faster than 33f will ever be. Cyclone Kick cancels Straight Jab very VERY quickly and Straight Jab cancels Shin Kick, while Shin Kick doesn't cancel itself and isn't cancelled by Cyclone Kick (and if it is, it's much slower), thus leading into less damage in the same amount of time. The entire purpose of 3rf is to deal as much damage as possible in the shortest possible amount of time. It's one of the reasons why KFM is one of the most ping-reliant classes in the game.

 

If you have bad ping tho, 33f might be an option since you can't really cancel 3rf fast enough. But in that case 3f3f is even better (but recovers less focus, but you shouldn't play KFM with bad ping anyway), or playing with PvE Searing Palm and doing a 3X rotation instead of 3rf when you get your enemy in a stun-lock situation. Both of these solutions are playable but will always be inferior to 3rf with good ping.

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1 hour ago, Kanwu said:

3: at lvl 50 path 1 stage 5 gives the ability for R to ready cyclone kick and searing blow

 

This doesn't change anything for 3rf since Shin Kick (3) already procs Cyclone Kick 100% of the time. This HM skill is incredible for PvE especially with the wind build tho.

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