What does your monk's training look like at cap?

[khorpulent]

I'm curious how others have their monks trained at cap. I'd appreciate it if you could copy and paste your skills and maneuvers. Mine is about to hit cap tomorrow or the next day, so I'll post his training when that happens.

[Stumplicker]

Here's what Flimbo looked like when I sold him. It's got everything listed, and a video of his hunting style, more or less (it's running bigshot so it isn't ambushing the head to finish kills that don't happen instantly) -

http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?116655-Capped-Monk-and-tailored-gear-8-5M-experience&highlight=

What I was working on training-wise if I remember correctly was getting monk circle ranks up to 48 (to max out 1208 TD)

[audioserf]

Not watching the Flimbo hunting video until it gets sync'd to either Jock Jams or Party Up.

[Stumplicker]

Not watching the Flimbo hunting video until it gets sync'd to either Jock Jams or Party Up.

You almost had me with Jock Jams, but the best I'm going to be able to do is Apache by the Sugarhill Gang.

[rolfard]

I'd like to see it but only synced to Weezer with wierd al - Africa

[khorpulent]

I was really asking cause Flimbo's is basically the only capped monk's skills I remember seeing. Maybe the other three or four capped monks out there will post eventually. But just for ease of viewing and comparison, I shall copy Flimbo's training blow:


(~8.5m exp)
Flimbeaux (at level 100), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Two Weapon Combat..................| 201 101
Combat Maneuvers...................| 302 202
Brawling...........................| 302 202
Ambush.............................| 102 24
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 235 135
Physical Fitness...................| 403 303
Dodging............................| 403 303
Harness Power......................| 122 31
Perception.........................| 201 101
Climbing...........................| 150 50
Swimming...........................| 120 30
Trading............................| 102 24

Spell Lists
Minor Spiritual....................| 20

Spell Lists
Minor Mental.......................| 34

Flimbo, your Combat Maneuver training is as follows:

Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Combat Movement cmovement 1
Combat Focus focus 4
Combat Toughness toughness 1
Surge of Strength surge 3
Evade Mastery emastery 3
Burst of Swiftness burst 3
Perfect Self perfectself 5
Punch Mastery punchmastery 3
Kick Mastery kmastery 3
Grapple Mastery gmastery 3
Rolling Krynch Stance krynch 3

[audioserf]

Combat Movement is really confusing there. I feel like that should be Mobility. Ain't no monk need +2 DS for a CM rank.

[Stumplicker]

Combat Movement is really confusing there. I feel like that should be Mobility. Ain't no monk need +2 DS for a CM rank.

Oh, yeah true. If you hunt anywhere you might get knocked down don't take movement over mobility. I just didn't get knocked down where I hunted, and if I did nothing could hit me anyway. I always choose the laziest possible route. If you take out toughness and that movement rank (which was just leftover points with nothing else to do after taking toughness), you can get a rank of mobility. Evade mastery, despite giving you the full 27% in robes, is also pretty overkill. But it's a passive bonus, so I got it.

[Stumplicker]

I was really asking cause Flimbo's is basically the only capped monk's skills I remember seeing. Maybe the other three or four capped monks out there will post eventually. But just for ease of viewing and comparison, I shall copy Flimbo's training blow:


I polled the other two capped monks when writing my guide, and theorycrafted with Meureii a bit when he capped.

Dragsho is built a lot like Flimbo, but he was a bot in a team bigshot script so he's not really a good example.

Githros has a more active build with ki strike and I believe slippery mind over krynch.

Meureii is about halfway between Flimbo and Githros, and he uses flurry over krynch with gloves built for flaring.

I believe that's how it fell out anyway. I talked to most of the active monks to get their take along the way.

Honestly, all of them are very close to equal in terms of power and speed. It's just a matter of how you like to hunt and where you like to hunt that gives one an edge over another. TWC Edged is also very viable, and if you have a bandolier, thrown is cool. I haven't tried hide/ambush, but that's very doable too. I did try ranged. Very strong, but very TP intensive.

[Donquix]

~9m exp
36 MnM / 20 MnS
3x PF / dodge
.5x twc
90 MoC
24 or 30 ambush (i forget)
15 transformation lore
krynch / pself / all the UAC masteries / focus 3 / mobility 1
feint 4 and kifocus 3. Sometimes you just gotta RT lock a motherfucker that spawns turtled and punch it's stupid face in.

kifocus is also great against non-corp (reim) targets. kifocus, smite (so it lasts more than half a second), and mstrike.

current focus is on some secondary stuff (fa, survival, trading, climb/swim from .5x to 100 maybe) then likely going back to go all in on MoC to 202, then lore. I'm still trying to decide on the lore split, will be ~20 trans / ~80 telep or ~25 telep / 75 trans (i need to look at the exact breakpoints again but somerwhere around there), or potentially closer to 50/50 if i'm feeling noncommital. Might pick up 25 mana control at some point there just cause, and a mana spellup a day wouldn't be a totally unwelcome convenience.

edit: also, all those plans may go out the window if the disarm changes is actually implemented in a timely fashion. the original idea for the character was a THW user, obviously rollled when open UAC was still shit. I still have the really fun two handers so, while I really enjoy UAC now, i still want to use those weapons more (even though they do get used every week on other characters still)

[Fortybox]

Here's what Flimbo looked like when I sold him and bought him back

FTFY

[khorpulent]

A bolt of lightning streaks down from the sky and strikes you!
... 50 points of damage!
Powerful blast sends most of you up in smoke!
You return to normal color.

SEND[Lydil] It seems your first post cap goal should be learning to dodge a lightning bolt ;-)

(at level 100), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Two Weapon Combat..................| 150 50
Combat Maneuvers...................| 302 202
Brawling...........................| 302 202
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 200 100
Physical Fitness...................| 302 202
Dodging............................| 403 303
Harness Power......................| 198 98
Spirit Mana Control................| 54 11
Mental Lore - Telepathy............| 120 30
Mental Lore - Transformation.......| 70 15
Perception.........................| 200 100
Climbing...........................| 170 70
Swimming...........................| 150 50

Spell Lists
Minor Spiritual....................| 3

Spell Lists
Minor Mental.......................| 38
Training Points: 4 Phy 0 Mnt (1120 Phy converted to Mnt)
(Use SKILLS BASE to display unmodified ranks and goals)

232 days remain until the annual FIXSKILLS is to be granted, on 05/20/2019.

Your 30 day migration period will begin when you choose to degrade a skill.

Further information can be found in the FAQs.

your Combat Maneuver training is as follows:

Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Combat Focus focus 3
Feint feint 1
Combat Mobility mobility 1
Combat Toughness toughness 1
Surge of Strength surge 3
Evade Mastery emastery 3
Cunning Defense cdefense 5
Burst of Swiftness burst 3
Perfect Self perfectself 5
Punch Mastery punchmastery 3
Kick Mastery kmastery 3
Grapple Mastery gmastery 1
Ki Focus kifocus 2
Flurry of Blows flurry 3

This is where I ended up at cap. I'm about to retrain my cmans to give Krynch a whirl. If I end up going back to flurry, I'd probably drop that gmastery rank and maybe a rank of cdefense or focus so I can get kifocus up to rank 3.

[Androidpk]

Rolling krynch is fun. Also, do GMs get a global notification when someone's character hits level 100?

[Stumplicker]

You forgot to meditate lightning before cap! It took them like 15 bolts to kill me and they had to switch elements before I died! Congrats on 100!

[khorpulent]

They must get a notification, I gained the level and got bolted while I was resting afk. And yeah, I meant to meditate, but they were too quick for me!

[audioserf]

Congrats man.