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=== Sphere Management === | |||
While other classes may have consumables like arrows or gemstones, Monk class uses a sphere-system that needs to be managed like a resource in order to be able to use certain skills or at least to use them at their full strength. | |||
This used to be a limiting factor during Monk-era with skills like {{#skill:266}}, {{#skill:267}} and most notoriously {{#skill:271}}, but it also carried on into Sura-era with skills like {{#skill:2330}} and {{#skill:2343}}. | |||
Those skills could only be used as long as you still have the needed amount of spheres (varies by skill). With insufficient spheres, they can be re-called using either {{#skill:261}}, or more likely its successor {{#skill:401}} which will refill the maximum amount of spheres instantly. | |||
Another important skill to mention here is the bread and butter {{#skill:264}} which normally also consumes spheres, unless you're in "Explosion Spirits"-state (usually by using {{#skill:2338}}, or if it's currently in cooldown, alternatively {{#skill:270}}). | |||
For that reason alone, the "Explosion Spirit"-state should be kept up at all times. | |||
The original maximum spheres used to be '''5 spheres''', at least until you're Sura and have access to Lv10 {{#skill:2338}} which will bump the limit to '''15 Spheres'''. | |||
One very useful trick to maintain your SP is by occasionally using {{#skill:2340}} to consume all 15 spheres, and in return grant an immediate 15% SP back. | |||
With these things out of the way, sphere-management has been simplified a lot as Inquisitor. Neither of the main damage skill consume spheres at all, however Third Flame Bomb will scale its damage based on the amount of spheres currently active. So it's highly recommended to use {{#skill:401}} or {{#skill:2338}} whenever spheres might have been consumed (as Inquisitor that's usually just by Gentle-Touch buffs or Power Absorb). | |||
On top of that, the Inquisitor-specific AP-consuming buffs even remove sphere consumption on most Sura skills (that we tend to not use anymore at this point though). | |||
== Intermediate Chapter: {{#skill:5244}} == | == Intermediate Chapter: {{#skill:5244}} == | ||