Dear Monks ...

[nadym]

Hello, Although i despise you all because you are all so good (im a really evil necro) my dear wife is a monk, and sadly she does not speak very good english nor read it So im ashamed to ask you what would be the best AAs for her. She soloes 99% of the time. Many evil thanks

[Chenzir]

personally I did well solo with 448 str 448 int and 448 agi or wis...

[Etchii]

<p>Her best bet is to betray to a bruiser.</p><p>No AA set up in the world can help what I have come to call Monkitis.  Symptoms are weakness in the joints, attacks lacking power, and of course...pansiness.</p>

[Foretold]

<cite>Etchii wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Her best bet is to betray to a bruiser.</p><p>No AA set up in the world can help what I have come to call Monkitis.  Symptoms are weakness in the joints, attacks lacking power, and of course...pansiness.</p></blockquote><p>Why must there be animosity between bruisers and monks?  We both suck... LOL...</p><p>In all seriousness, I went with the WIS line to the final ability, the INT line 4-4-8, and split the remaining measly 9 points between STR and STA just to get a little boost in both.  Really, Monks solo well with almost any standard AA build, including the str/int/wis 4-4-8.  I solo'ed mine successfully to 55 before I ever bought KoS/EoF and started earning AAs, so the AAs are not really defining one way or another for soloing.  (not defining being the pc way of saying our AAs are somewhat lackluster)</p>

[Wildfury77]

I chain kill silly bruisers.... If she mainly solos and wants to solo nameds.... I would suggest INT 4/4/8/6/1  - gives mini root, criticals, defensive boost and last skill is awesome for soloers e.g. tier 3 +500 mitigation and +75% criticals if health <30%. I then went Sta 4/4/8.....for throwing CA and proc dmg. By this stage she should have enough of an idea about the class to pick her own AA <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> This combo is great for a named soloer, Get Mastercrafted imbued and adorned fist weapons and your DPS will be sweet, especially when u are heavily damaged. Don't use your heal until heal is very low, i.e. to keep that +75% going as long as possible. Other tip is to get the stamina(?) hex doll - if thats the one that debuffs mitigation - then she can clear adds, pull the named with a hex and go nuts......

[PantherXX]

If she isn't raiding and getting Fabled weapons, then STR line and INT line are the best bets.  Going unarmed in the STR line will give you better damage than virtually all non-Fabled weapons across all levels, and the last ability in the INT line is great for soloing.  Let your HP drop below 30% then hit Tsunami and Ward and rip the mob apart.  Save the Heal for when Tsunami drops and you can pop back to 60-70% health.

[Etchii]

Oephelia@Najena wrote: <blockquote><cite>Etchii wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Her best bet is to betray to a bruiser.</p><p>No AA set up in the world can help what I have come to call Monkitis.  Symptoms are weakness in the joints, attacks lacking power, and of course...pansiness.</p></blockquote><p>Why must there be animosity between bruisers and monks?  We both suck... LOL...</p><p>-snip0-</p></blockquote><p>humm...you make a good point there....</p><p> You DO bring haste to the table....which i enjoy.... but.... but...</p><p>....well if a bruiser isn't supposed to hate on a monk...then who am i supposed to hate on??  </p>

[Etchii]

<p>It has to be monks!  </p><p>Look at our icons, there is the monk one.... clearly there next to most of your names, then the bruiser icon(see mine) is DESTROYING the monk one.  </p><p> Im obviously supposed to fight monks like it's my job....they designed it that way...infact it must be my job!</p><p> We are obvously the most powerful class type in the game, it just wouldn't be fair to hate on anyone else.... i mean.... what am i supposed to go fight bards or something?  </p><p> wait a second!</p><p>nope... its clearly monks.   you pansy monks will never win!  I am impressed with your psychological attack.... it does make up for your lack of ability to attack me physically.....bravo...</p><p> *close mind*</p><p>hah! i am invincible!  /flex!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

[Foretold]

<cite>Etchii wrote:</cite><blockquote>Oephelia@Najena wrote: <blockquote><cite>Etchii wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Her best bet is to betray to a bruiser.</p><p>No AA set up in the world can help what I have come to call Monkitis.  Symptoms are weakness in the joints, attacks lacking power, and of course...pansiness.</p></blockquote><p>Why must there be animosity between bruisers and monks?  We both suck... LOL...</p><p>-snip0-</p></blockquote><p>humm...you make a good point there....</p><p> You DO bring haste to the table....which i enjoy.... but.... but...</p><p>....well if a bruiser isn't supposed to hate on a monk...then who am i supposed to hate on??  </p></blockquote><p>Hate on the scouts <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> everyone else (who isn't a scout...) does <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>I LOVE grouping with bruisers.  Your +22 DPS buff and my +22 Haste buff makes for a happy situation...  especially since getting in the group with the dirge is right out of the question for monks any more <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> </p>

[airgrazor]

<p>I would recommend the Intelligence and Stamina lines, I just respeced Mitsukai my monk to these, mainly cause I've been gone a year and you get forced to, lol.</p><p>I recommend getting the final abilities from both lines and putting additional points into Stamina, pretty much everything else was spread between critical hits, and any defensive boost, I'd write the stats down but I don't keep everything on the top of my head, just on paper.</p><p> I was originally speced Int/Wis and while it was nice, it could be problamatic when tanking with certain types of groups.</p><p>As for the monk tree I'm looking at Body as my primary focus.</p>

[Zabjade]

<p>Miss-post</p>

[Zabjade]

<cite>Etchii wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>It has to be monks!  </p><p>Look at our icons, there is the monk one.... clearly there next to most of your names, then the bruiser icon(see mine) is DESTROYING the monk one.  </p><p> Im obviously supposed to fight monks like it's my job....they designed it that way...infact it must be my job!</p><p> We are obvously the most powerful class type in the game, it just wouldn't be fair to hate on anyone else.... i mean.... what am i supposed to go fight bards or something?  </p><p> wait a second!</p><p>nope... its clearly monks.   you pansy monks will never win!  I am impressed with your psychological attack.... it does make up for your lack of ability to attack me physically.....bravo...</p><p> *close mind*</p><p>hah! i am invincible!  /flex!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><span style="color: #009900">Gahhh I just had a Mental Image of those two leaders of the Motor Club in Ah! My Goddess as the template for Bruisers.  </span></blockquote>

[nadym]

Many thanks all, I respecced her to to sta/int as she has fabled weapons, also body line in monk tree (she has 75 aas at this moment). One question, is Heal (level 48 spell) the last healing spell you get? couldnt find anything better. Thanks again for your answers.

[nadym]

also adorned all equipment focusing on +agi and +str hope she does better now against some nameds <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />)

[Zabjade]

Yeah Heal it the last one because they do it percentage wise, also it goes grey on you near 65 or 66 still it is a useful ability. Maybe they will make it white again with the new level cap. perhaps they will make the downtime a lot less between Heal's.

[Ganeden]

Oephelia@Najena wrote: <blockquote><p>Etchii wrote:</p><p>Why must there be animosity between bruisers and monks?  We both suck... LOL...</p></blockquote><p> ROFL, thats true, but it's still every bruisers right to pick on his goody-two-shoes cousin <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p> As to the original topic.</p><p>Even if she's going to be tanking a pure DPS build is the way to go. Defensive AAs are limited anyway in the brawler tree. Go 448 STA STR INT and use bare fists. This will give you the best DPS set up. Once she hits 70 it's a different story, come back when that happens and ask again.</p><p><b>"it just wouldn't be fair to hate on anyone else.... i mean.... what am i supposed to go fight bards or something?  </b></p><p><b> wait a second!</b></p><p><b>nope... its clearly monks.   you pansy monks will never win!  I am impressed with your psychological attack.... it does make up for your lack of ability to attack me physically.....bravo..."</b></p><p>I think you might be on to something there but it's the dirges who need to be picked on, they're emo.</p>