Monk DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Dawntrail 7.55
On this page, you will find the best gear and best-in-slot items for your Monk DPS in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (Patch 7.55).
Monk Gear Sets (BiS)
This section covers the endgame best-in-slot gear options for Monk in various different endgame encounters.
Monk has three ideal GCD tiers it can play at; 2.00, 1.94 and 1.93. 955 Skill
Speed is required to reach 1.94 GCD, with 1083 being the number for a 1.93 GCD.
The reason we aim for these is so that our rotation can flow as cleanly as possible
with minimal 
Riddle of Fire or 
Brotherhood drift.
Having a 2.00 GCD is only attainable if a given raid tier offers us the correct
gear choices - which is to say 0 skillspeed on any of our pieces. Where this is
not attainable, we are aiming for 1.94/1.93 instead. Keep in mind that when
playing a 2.00 GCD, it is considerably harder to hit 11 GCDs in Riddle of Fire.
It is also important to know that because 2.00 is reliant on the gear available
in a given patch, there will not always be a 2.00 BiS set.
If you are currently gearing up your Monk, you can find more information about the stat priorities and effects in our guide's melding section.
It is possible that the BiS sets for past Ultimate encounters will have changed slightly in Dawntrail - these sets will be updated as and when we find the new optimal gearsets.
Best in Slot by Encounter
1.94 GCD — Relic
1.94 GCD — UMAD Weapon
1.94 GCD — Savage Weapon
1.93 GCD — Relic
1.93 GCD — UMAD Weapon
1.93 GCD — Savage Weapon
Ultimate Weapon
If you do not possess the i735 Ultimate Edenmorn weapon, you can either equip the i745+ relic and replace 1x Det and 1x DH meld with Sks, or the i735 raid weapon and meld with 2x Sks.
i645+ Relic Weapon
The substats on the relic weapon are capped in this fight, so you can use either the version of the Manderville weapon listed or any further upgraded iterations and achieve the same results.
Relic Weapon
Relic
Non—Relic
Minimal Investment
Relic — 20 - 23 Str Races
Relic — 19 Str Races
Non—Relic
Minimal Investment
Relic — 23 Str Races
Relic — 19 — 22 Str Races
Non—Relic
Minimal Investment
Changelog
- 05 Aug. 2026: Update for new 7.55 Relic BiS.
- 02 May 2026: Reviewed for 7.5.
- 29 Dec. 2025: Fixed incorrectly placed ultimate links/updated all embeds to XIVGear.
- 17 Dec. 2025: Updated for 7.4 Savage.
- 16 Aug. 2025: Updated for 7.3 dungeon gear.
- 31 Mar. 2025: Updated for 7.2 Savage.
- 07 Jan. 2025: Updated for patch 7.15 Chaotic.
- 31 Jul. 2024: Updated for patch 7.05 Savage.
- 12 Jul. 2024: Updated BiS for 7.0 launch.
- 30 Jan. 2024: Updated BIS for 6.5 Relic.
- 19 Jul. 2023: Updated TOP and DSR for 6.45 Relic.
- 24 May 2023: Updated for 6.4 BiS.
- 13 Jan. 2023: Updated for all Ultimate Encounter BiSes.
- 07 Jun. 2022: Updated for Dragonsong War (Ultimate) weapons.
- 20 Apr. 2022: Updated for Patch 6.1
- 08 Jan. 2022: Added a Samurai Compatible 1.94 GCD option.
- 07 Jan. 2022: Added a 1.93 GCD option.
- 05 Jan. 2022: Gear updated for Patch 6.05.
- 31 Dec. 2021: Guide added.
Guides from Other Classes
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