War/monk (again) farming setup

This build just lets enchantments totally drain its energy and uses heal sig, adrenaline, and signets.

War/monk

12 Smiting, 10 (+2) Tactics, 8 (+1) Sword
For the best farming anyway.

Protective Bond
Holy Wrath
Signet of Judgement (Elite)
Healing Signet
Bonetti's Defense
Seve Artery
Gash
Final Thrust/Rush

The key to this build is protective bond and holy wrath pus heal sig. The rest is just extra crap and damage. I think if you put on protective bond first, and then holy wrath the attacker will take the full % damage back, but you will still only take 5% damage. SoJ is just extra damage, along with the attack skills. Bonetti's is for emergencies, and healing sig is to make up those 5% damage hits. Basically you can take on as many enemies as you can while constantly healing with healing signet. Might work, it would definantly be interesting to try.

Won't your enchantments end really quickly when you lose all your energy after only a few hits?

yup - enchantments end when you run out of energy cpu, but seeing as you are a melee char it might be worth taking balthazar's spirit to help out with energy and adrenaline powers.

*sigh* just go primary only, Str. wpn Tact, but put more points into sword.

Sword doesnt do full damage if you meet the requirement, it only does full damage at attr. lvl 12. So you're seriously gimping your damage output if you keep your attribute at 8. that's far more important than maintaining bonetti's for two more seconds.

Perhaps you need to learn what a farming setup is in river side.

I suggest getting Balthazar's Spirit and Shield of Judgement. Use a focus if need be your armor is still higher than a monks.

Riverside doesn't need those skills to farm there's far easier ways with War/Mo.

Quote: Originally Posted by Xellos

Yeah, it won't work. I saw holy wrath and protective bond at some site w/o the "ends if you run out of energy" part. Most enchantments wil not stop if you hit 0 energy. They only stop if you hit 0 energy with -energy degen. But then I looked some more and found holy wrath and protective bond with that "ends if you have no energy" clause so it will not work. Doh!

That would have been a real powerful combo. Too bad.