Originally Posted by
khorpulent
Yeah, a bunch of enhancives aren't really necessary, but a few stamina recovery enhancives will make a BIG difference. Being able to mstrike over and over without having stamina problems makes a huge difference to a monk, since mstrike times are so low (especially with a halfling). At least put stamina recovery on your badge.
I do kind of wish I could bless my own stuff with Voln powers now that I'm close to cap and have to hung in mixed undead/living hunting areas. The annoying thing about hunting undead with UAC is that you use up a bless pretty quickly with all those jabs and stuff.
As far as soloing warcamps with UAC, I found that my monk has been about my only character who could effectively solo all the way from level 5 on up. I find that flurry of blows makes a big difference, especially if you're using fire flares against trolls (though I cheat with greater fire flares). When my monk was under 20 I could just sit there and jab every 2 seconds and could basically clear out a warcamp without a scratch that way. Even if you want to go with Krynch in the long run, I still like using flurry under 20 cause everything has so little HP.
And I think you people are crazy for learning so many spells so soon. Monks are squares, man. And considering how minimally useful everything between 108-119 is, it seems like shitton of points just for 20 TD. If you stop at 103, you'd save 646 MTP from skipping those 17 ranks. If my math is right, that works out to 71 dodging ranks. Essentially, you're trading a lot of DS for a little TD. Alternatively, you could put those 17 ranks into minor mental and still pick up some extra TD and DS, plus you're boosting your CS with 1219/1210.
It's also worth keeping in mind that every four MnM ranks over the 8th rank gives you +1 generic TD from 1208 (well, and you also get +1 MTD for every 2 ranks, for what that's worth). You also gain 1 DS for every rank above 1220 and beef up your 1207 with MnM ranks.
Monks are squares in name only. To this day any problems the class has are a direct result of the bullshit cop out to not make a monk list.
That said, i'm not sure i'd go as magical as i was to get 120 now that MoC is a thing (i still advocate getting 1220 ASAP. All of those buffs, 1207 being more reliable, etc.). Didn't need dodging ranks. If things can't hit me in offensive I think i'm good defense wise. Its kinda fuzzy now but I may have fixskilled into 120. 1220 + 107 asap, then went all physical, and then the yearly fixskill was coming up anyway so i fixskilled to 120 when I had the points to have minimal compromise before the fixskill date. I was hunting in RR or zul or something so the convenience of having self-cast 100's was nice.
DS is a lot easier to get. TD isn't.
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