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Mar 6th, 2017 at 11:35pm
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How are people finding monks in R4 or higher?
  
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Re: Reaper and Monks
Reply #1 - Mar 6th, 2017 at 11:54pm
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Reply #2 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 3:45am
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Thrower monks are he best builds atm for r4+ in epic content.
Melee monks have v nice cc options that makes em one of the better picks for mid and lowbie levels high tier reaper.
In epic they are okish but you kinda need a tank.
Unarmed tho, staff is giberish.
Can see wolf monks being good as well as defense doesnt matter on on tanks as you die from 1 hit or 2 max anyways.
Tree monks are still strong preferably a lock monk atm due to temp hp.

Havent tried a wis based deep gnome focusing on tacticals in gmaster.
Damage might be garbage but the cc options are massive and we know that its more about cc then anything atm ( and instas).
i tested tree and thrower and friend was playing as unarmed.
Didnt test wolf but assume its good
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Reply #3 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 7:45am
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I find them by looking for their soul stone
  

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Reply #4 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 8:48am
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If you go full retard on DCs your EIN is actually quite nice.
Haven't taken it higher than R6 in slavers but it wipes out Vermin (i.e., spiders, oozes) which is great since they can't be intimidated.

I didn't realize the DC got changed from half wisdom modifier to full wisdom modifier.

Am sitting at a low 80's DC but can get it up to ~86 I think if I do the pots and crap.

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Reply #5 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 8:27pm
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Thrower or go home far as I can tell.
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Reply #6 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 9:15pm
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harharharhar wrote on Mar 7th, 2017 at 8:27pm:
Thrower or go home far as I can tell.


So jak, elf or helf?
I like elf slightly better because its shorter.

(sigh those racial plifes are op, il never consider to roll a halfling after 3 lifes are done again)

I tried to ask coco in devchat on lama to give a boost to halflings /based on your post/ and other races but they mostly think its "fine" as it is
  
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Reply #7 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 11:09pm
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Lelouch wrote on Mar 7th, 2017 at 9:15pm:
So jak, elf or helf?
I like elf slightly better because its shorter.

(sigh those racial plifes are op, il never consider to roll a halfling after 3 lifes are done again)

I tried to ask coco in devchat on lama to give a boost to halflings /based on your post/ and other races but they mostly think its "fine" as it is

Not dickhead, but I think some serious theorycrafting is going to have to be done over the next couple days before an optimal build will come out from someone.

10 racial AP changes everything
  
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Reply #8 - Mar 7th, 2017 at 11:35pm
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hydra wrote on Mar 7th, 2017 at 11:09pm:
Not dickhead, but I think some serious theorycrafting is going to have to be done over the next couple days before an optimal build will come out from someone.

10 racial AP changes everything


I agree.
Rather gamebreaking
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Reply #9 - Mar 8th, 2017 at 12:02pm
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Lelouch wrote on Mar 7th, 2017 at 9:15pm:
So jak, elf or helf?
I like elf slightly better because its shorter.

(sigh those racial plifes are op, il never consider to roll a halfling after 3 lifes are done again)

I tried to ask coco in devchat on lama to give a boost to halflings /based on your post/ and other races but they mostly think its "fine" as it is


I mean the most obvious that comes to mind is my dream (with 90AP to spend):

8/6/6 Thrower (elf or Helf) with Racial AA for Capstone AND Kensei +1 Crit Multi AND Sniper Shot

41 AP AA
14 AP Racial
11 Kensei
11 DWS
6 Ninja Spy
7 Harper KTA

rowr

The Abundant Steppers won't like it but that's ok, they can do what they want.

Full disclosure my playtime has been severely hampered by work, starting a company on the side, and moving apartments in Feb. I've averaged like 2-4 hours a week of playtime for the last 2 months. Most of my reaper time has been in 5 Skull stuff like Slavers and a raid or two. So I'll be the first to admit I'm not the most knowledgeable on 10 Skull reaper builds, tho I imagine it's pretty similar to 5 skull with more deaths, and slower progression through quests.

Every 5 Skull I've done with channel/guild people my thrower has demolished kill count against everything except another thrower that was 8/6/6 (LOL), and she is a very talented player to boot. Though she was in Kensei T5 mode which means she was actually probably killing mobs faster than me and letting me do the heavy lift on red names.

I still believe theres a good Max Dex/Wisdom instakill build with decent red named DPS to create with Shadowdancer Executioners Shot combined with PK Arrows, but it's just theorycraft for now.

And I still want to create a less than max DPS but extremely survivable thrower build, but I just haven't had the time. Now that dwarf enhancements work with a shield and throwing weapon, maybe an uncentered dwarf.
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Reply #10 - Mar 8th, 2017 at 7:01pm
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Will post some melee monk footage when we world first the silly new raid.

Jesus christ that dragon has some hp.
  

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Reply #11 - Mar 11th, 2017 at 6:30am
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