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Armour for a monk to go through game with and farm with? what should i buy?
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The simple answer is that you should get a helm for each attribute. But if you can't afford that right now, get the one that corresponds to your highest attribute. Probably either DF or Healing, in PvE. A smiting helm might be good for solo farming, but if you're not planning on using it too much it doesn't really matter.
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for farming with a monk, i assume your gonna go 55 monk, in which case ascetics tattoos are the way to go for +energy since armour wont matter. obviously you cant use this to play normally since youd have around 105 hp so you'd need to buy another set
For general purpose monk through the game, i'd have to say either ascetics again for the extra energy or censors/judges (same effect not sure what the one at droks is called) for +10 vs physical. cause you tend to have alot of angry things running up to you as a monk and try to get you aqquantied with something painful
For general purpose monk through the game, i'd have to say either ascetics again for the extra energy or censors/judges (same effect not sure what the one at droks is called) for +10 vs physical. cause you tend to have alot of angry things running up to you as a monk and try to get you aqquantied with something painful
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Originally Posted by Tsai
for farming with a monk, i assume your gonna go 55 monk, in which case ascetics tattoos are the way to go for +energy since armour wont matter. obviously you cant use this to play normally since youd have around 105 hp so you'd need to buy another set
For general purpose monk through the game, i'd have to say either ascetics again for the extra energy or censors/judges (same effect not sure what the one at droks is called) for +10 vs physical. cause you tend to have alot of angry things running up to you as a monk and try to get you aqquantied with something painful so your saying buy a ascetics tattoos set, and throw superior runes in all peices. then buy another armour to go threw the game with, and you say i should get the +10vs physical one?
also since u seam to know what ur talking about, for a 55monk then for a monk to just game with what skill should i have for my helms.
For general purpose monk through the game, i'd have to say either ascetics again for the extra energy or censors/judges (same effect not sure what the one at droks is called) for +10 vs physical. cause you tend to have alot of angry things running up to you as a monk and try to get you aqquantied with something painful so your saying buy a ascetics tattoos set, and throw superior runes in all peices. then buy another armour to go threw the game with, and you say i should get the +10vs physical one?
also since u seam to know what ur talking about, for a 55monk then for a monk to just game with what skill should i have for my helms.
55 monk is a solo or small-group farming build. It's very effective for making money, but it doesn't work for doing quests/missions with a regular group. All monks should have a "normal" suit of armor for PvE, which would probably be either Aescetic's (energy) or Censor's/Judge's (armor vs physical). Then you can buy another suit of Aescetic's and put the superior runes on it if you want to do the 55 build as well; also note that you want to have Drok's armor as your main set, but you can buy cheaper tatoos from Lion's Arch or wherever for the 55 build, since your armor rating doesn't matter there.
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Originally Posted by Effigy
55 monk is a solo or small-group farming build. It's very effective for making money, but it doesn't work for doing quests/missions with a regular group. All monks should have a "normal" suit of armor for PvE, which would probably be either Aescetic's (energy) or Censor's/Judge's (armor vs physical). Then you can buy another suit of Aescetic's and put the superior runes on it if you want to do the 55 build as well; also note that you want to have Drok's armor as your main set, but you can buy cheaper tatoos from Lion's Arch or wherever for the 55 build, since your armor rating doesn't matter there.
so but witch is better for going threw the game? Tats from droks or the armor vs physical or the armor vs elemental? And what runes do i put inot my main armour? I know what goes into 55 one, just not sure what ones go into my main one.
i mean no offence by this but ur obviously a bit newb (not noob). So i would reccomend a WoH healing build for starters since its a fairly effective healing build for PVE and doesnt require alot of e management skill. So for that your going to want a helm that gives +1 to healing. personally i prefer to put a major rune on my helm, because
A) its only 1 point less for healing but drains 40 less health
B) due to 55 farming, superior runes are expensive
For armour, id say its between ascetics if you find urself often running out of energy, or judges/censors if you find yourself beign attacked and losing health alot. Either way, you'll want the armour from droks for this as its the max armour lvl
Now for your 55 set, the tats from anywhere, u just want the extra energy. Although i reccomend buying the helm with +1 smiting rather than the +1 energy (i beleive lions arch is the cheapest) then, to bring your health down to 55 you will need a a superior rune on every piece. just use the search function and youll find tonnes on the 55 monk and set up
BUT I STRESS please please please never wear ur 55 set while monking normalling in groups. its really not that usefull in a group situation
*EDIT* oh also forgot to add, rune set up on your normal set. major on the helm as i said, then i like to add a major vigor, and minor healing prot and divine to the body pieces. This just gives you more health and means i can swap helms about when i change build and not have to wear a totally different set of armour. Also minor runes are like free points so always handy to have some for ur stats ^^
A) its only 1 point less for healing but drains 40 less health
B) due to 55 farming, superior runes are expensive
For armour, id say its between ascetics if you find urself often running out of energy, or judges/censors if you find yourself beign attacked and losing health alot. Either way, you'll want the armour from droks for this as its the max armour lvl
Now for your 55 set, the tats from anywhere, u just want the extra energy. Although i reccomend buying the helm with +1 smiting rather than the +1 energy (i beleive lions arch is the cheapest) then, to bring your health down to 55 you will need a a superior rune on every piece. just use the search function and youll find tonnes on the 55 monk and set up
BUT I STRESS please please please never wear ur 55 set while monking normalling in groups. its really not that usefull in a group situation
*EDIT* oh also forgot to add, rune set up on your normal set. major on the helm as i said, then i like to add a major vigor, and minor healing prot and divine to the body pieces. This just gives you more health and means i can swap helms about when i change build and not have to wear a totally different set of armour. Also minor runes are like free points so always handy to have some for ur stats ^^
As Tsai said, you want to use the biggest Vigor rune you can afford, plus minor runes for all attributes on your armor. Since you have 4 primary attributes but only 5 pieces of armor, you may have to be a little strategic in how you organize them if you want to have a major/superior rune on the helm. If necessary, you can leave out the minor Smiting on the armor and just put it on a Smiting scalp, since it won't be used on normal monk builds.
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Originally Posted by stoop14
k so put one of each into all my armour? And use all minor but for a major that i should put into my helm?
You don't need to get a scalp ascetic piece for all your attribute only the one you want to use the most or just plain Devine Favour will do and don't use Majors as Minors are good enough unless you want to.