20 monk light, superior ardor 1 potions.

Gunga wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2012 at 6:25pm:


if you can't figure out how to do one of the obvious splits

20 monk light, spamming fists of light with ardor pots.
17/3 cleric monk
17/2/1 cleric monk arti
18/2 cleric monk
18/2 fvs monk

atleast provide some more information like

- TR life
- preferred race
- needs to be endgame viable

That way you might get some real help, though a pure light monk can make an amazing healer.  blurs, ki healing, + helf cleric dily to wand and scroll as needed too.

Oh, is that what you were asking in the op?

Why didn't you just fucking say so?

well since you can build it yourself

for cleric TR's i've found during TR's  9 monk straight away to get shadowfade / tod then 11 cleric is fastest.

FVS i've only done 3 times,
first i did my cleric method and felt i was lacking.
second time i did 2/18 went ok
third i did 1 monk, 13fvs (heal / blade barrier) 1 monk - rest fvs.

For FVS I found the third method was the fastest and easiest and will be how i do more on other toons.

fvs str con - every time, enough sp that constantly healing when needed isn't an issue, and running with devils is the only quest i notice my BB being useless.

cleric i'm still undecided between dex/wis and str wis.

the first time i did str/wis, mostly because i didnt have the same array of ice festival wraps i've got now, and the questing on normal meant i didn't need AC gear til vale anyway, by which time i had enough self healing for it to not matter.

now though with bravery streaks it's depended on am i soloing or grouping mostly.

When soloing
I go dex/wis cause even on elite you notice there is scaling and mobs have lower hp so between stonedust, holy/stunning/icy, icy/banishing/puregood they die fast enough. Also I like sound bursting mobs in water stance along with shadowfade/ac it's very low incoming damage

In groups
I'll concede I'm lucky and normally solo or run with competant players so I haven't had to "heal stupid" generally though, with the increased hp i go str/wisdom.  The scaling seems to really work against the dex/wis.  I'll normally roll round in water stance spamming soundburst, switching to fire when i need to generate ki before boss fights.

I'll concede i've also got a tier 3 haste / sp item, and roll with a LGA slotted with 80sp. I find the sp abysmal on the build, but i max heal amp, so clw / wand whipping does wonders.

I really enjoyed the 2 Monk/18 Cleric incarnation on my main.  I went STR/WIS with a focus on Stunning Fist.  The melee DPS was kind of light.  (This had more to do with my “rules” for TRing my main character.)  But at that point I could just focus on Divine Punishment and Blade Barrier to do my dirty work.

I know you can come up with your own build.  But, this is the hypothetical “If I were to do it again it would look like this”:

Lawful Neutral Half-Orc (Standard +3 tomes across the board.)
18 STR
14 DEX (If a keeper, otherwise 15 DEX so I could pick up iTWF immediately at level 9)
14 CON
9 INT (Only cause of a +3 tome.  Otherwise this point would go to a starting 15 DEX.)
16 WIS <- Level ups go here.
7 CHA (Same deal as INT.)

With +3 tomes and standard powergamer buffs you could run around with a 40 STR or 40 WIS and up to a 50 Stunning Fist DC. (10 Base, +10 Levels, +10 Wraps, +15 WIS, +5 Epic Spare Hand.)

Level 1 (Monk 1): Toughness, Stunning Fist
Level 3: TWF
Level 6: Empower Healing (To qualify for radiant servant)
Level 9: Maximize Spell or iTWF
Level 12 (Monk 2): With a little help from Fred. Move Toughness or TWF into the bonus monk feat slot and/or pick up the Monk PL feat, Power Attack or IC: Bludgeon
Level 15: Empower Spell
Level 18: GTWF

My Clonk has (will have once done TRing) 17 Cleric and 3 Monk.

With 3 monk and the light path, you can make the "Aligning the Heavens" finishing move. This will reduce all sp costs by 25% for the next 60 secs.

She goes with more CHA, since it is important for your turns (number of bursts and aura). You want to stay in close combat to fill your ki anyways... bursts and aura work great when you're in there.

Helf with pally dilly: get the CHA bonus to your saves -> better evasion.

Either go with high DEX and finess or go for STR. Don't mix those too much, you want to hit the high level bosses for your ki.

Feats:

• Empower Healing, Empower and Maximize -> you can make all "Always On" on your burst for super healing bursts.
• Quicken (you don't want to fail your heals when in close combat).
• Extra Turning -> 4 extra bursts? Hell yeah!
• Toughness (as monk bonus feat)
• Mental Tougness: you want to get all sp possible and the splash doesn't help (except for the 25% sp cost reduction)
• Stunning Fist, Lightning Reflexes, Finess (as 2nd monk bonus feat): pick one of those, depending on how you plan your build

Ehh No I didn't take Extend, it was PL Monk: Disciple of Fist or w/e

Gunga hates the word Clonk for some reason.

So of course, I sent him a 500 word PM with just Clonk in it

I've got an 18/2 cleric/monk. He has 1 cleric PL and 1 wizzy PL. He will be my druid. He focused on wisdom.

http://my.ddo.com/character/sarlona/schadenfreud/

He is poorly geared, and I almost never play him. The biggest limiting factor is his SP. I hate only having 1850 SP when my pure FvS has almost 2800. He's quite survivable though, and fun. His reflex could use a bump, but meh. I don't play him enough these days to worry about gearing him up correctly.

With the changes to the way stunning fist works, that might entice me to dust him off and get some sweet handwraps on him. But his tohit sucks so bad, he'd probably never hit anything 

stainer wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 4:55pm:



No, I am very biblical and believe it is better to give than receive

Gunga wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 5:43pm:


You would not believe how often it goes unrecognized.

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