monk skills tweaking?

[Brad]

One thing I would suggest is 30 ranks of MOC as soon as you can. That made a huge difference for my monk when I got that around 20ish. Depending on where you hunt and all, that is pretty close if not a one shot kill for your 20s.

Also on a related and fun note, once Reim is open again, Flurry of Blows is pretty awesome there if visiting it a lot turns out to be an option. That was a lot of my monk's 20s, with all the mstriking and free jabs.

Punch punch punch.

[Enuch]

Curious from fellow monks, I am forecasting getting close to 5k BS and was wondering if I should spend 4k for the 5x realm flaringn gloves or hold out the BS for the next DR.

I got the 6x robes and currently have the 4x unbalance/knockdown flares. Is it really worth the 4k BS for those realm flares and 5 UAC boost or are there items I am overlooking besides gloves and robes I should get?

Should I invrst in a helm with head and neck protection with flares or is that silly? Or maybe some magical trinkets or just get bags and other nonsense. To me the 5k BS for the 5 UAC bump from te other grapple flares is not worth it but the realm flares are intriguing given how they change based on the hunting ground.


Also unrelated should I stick with voln or is GoS a good route to go? I love warcamps but I had a ranger who once he hit 20 warcamps were not possible solo even just for my tasks and with spells. But man GOS with Moc has got to be sick. But undead hunting and UAC opens slot of areas

[Maerit]

The UAF increase will show minimal improvement. The realm flares are not as amazing as they might seem unless you're hunting very specific areas (they're nice in Icemule, but then so is normal fire flaring). If you can farm the BS, you'd be better served getting the 6x disruption flaring equipment or switch to the 4x disintegration flaring stuff for 250 BS each.

What really helps is getting your gloves ensorcelled. They will give you a lot of extra stamina!


GOS is probably pretty nice for a Monk, but I would not expect warcamps to be amazing. My experience has shown that monks are not great in swarms (at least early on), and you have a TON of CS casting grim to deal with. I'm usually more interested in Voln for my Monk because of the undead advantages. Having to deal with non-corp undead as a monk tends to be a pain since they're immune to stun, crits, and tend to have an arsenal of annoying spells.

If you do go GOS, get the 24k BS double fire-flaring gloves in the high-end shop. Then go do troll warcamps...

[Enuch]

yeah pretty torn, the big thing will be the TD issues, I love the flexibility and kai for undead as I would never need a bless, but with all the stam perks of monks using GoS wouldn't be too big a hassle, and the unique tasks albeit tough would be nice. May ditch voln and go GoS even though I know money won't be good going that route.

Ill probably just hoard my remaining BS and hope something good comes in next years DR, maybe pick up some warpaint and a cloak but stockpile for next time. Got the robes that was really what I wanted and 24k BS is out of my league or else I would get that in a heartbeat!

[Brad]

There should also be new stuff available next time at DR from what it sounds like. For Voln, it seems it might be good to go with blessable gloves, best with the holy water flares from clerics, for your punching concerns if I am understanding correctly and you don 't get the attack bonus otherwise. Ensorcelled gloves are definitely awesome though, as mentioned, especially considering the extra first jab with an mstrike, etc.

[Enuch]

Ill start saving for ensorcelling gloves. Decided to go the GOS route. We'll see down the road if that was the right choice

[Dintarl]

So - if you're still doing your warcamps, I cannot overstate the usefulness of Flurry.

Double up that MOC, drop Krynch and use Flurry, then just watch the waves of camp critters melt when you mstrike - especially if you have some nice flaring gear.

My halfling, with non-flaring gloves/boots and a drake yierka-spur, would kill 2-3 trolls and 1-2 orcs on approximately 80% of her mstrikes - I did over a dozen camps with her between 8 and 15 and used Flurry the whole way. She got significantly deadlier once she got her flaring gloves and boots at 10th level, too.