Any good Monk builds?

[psionyx]

So I was looking online for some Unarmed Monk builds, but most of them are from a few years ago, and they all tend to have an addendum to them of "This info is out of date, due to a balancing patch". I've tried building a Monk in what I think is a good way to go, but I keep getting stomped. And yet I see people talking about being able to Monk it through POTD solo. And I'm getting stomped in normal mode with a team.

Anyone got tips on how to spread out my various points? I'm not as worried about gear, though that would be nice. I'm mostly hitting a wall with what skills/attributes and talents I should be buying. The meta from players, seems to contradict the game systems suggestions based on skills and such.

Help? Thanks.

[fauxpas]

I'm not sure if its PotD ready since I play on normal, but dodge/unarmed/aoe cone spells does really well for me.

[Curiousfellow]

Okay so, one big benefit to an unarmed build is that you don't have weapons. Your attack power comes from gloves, which are a piece of armor. All your recovery time comes from armor, so if you use iron light as air, you will you have a recovery time of 1 second, which is the absolute minimum. This is very powerful when you combine it with skills that deal damage when you hit or crit.

A couple useful things for this build are:
The lightning sigil of material force
The easter egg armor misstep
Eb's fear ability
The 'mighty' stance

I also suggest you don't start with both of the unarmed talents. Palm strike is good, but flurry of blows isn't and neither is the agility tree for an unarmed build. I suggest you take a different weapon training and get sunder or cleave instead.

You may have already read about it but when you use unarmed you replace parry with dodge, so you don't have to train parry at all. Stat wise I'd say you want plenty of might and finesse so you hit and crit often and hard.

[psionyx]

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

Okay so, one big benefit to an unarmed build is that you don't have weapons. Your attack power comes from gloves, which are a piece of armor. All your recovery time comes from armor, so if you use iron light as air, you will you have a recovery time of 1 second, which is the absolute minimum. This is very powerful when you combine it with skills that deal damage when you hit or crit.

A couple useful things for this build are:
The lightning sigil of material force
The easter egg armor misstep
Eb's fear ability
The 'mighty' stance

I also suggest you don't start with both of the unarmed talents. Palm strike is good, but flurry of blows isn't and neither is the agility tree for an unarmed build. I suggest you take a different weapon training and get sunder or cleave instead.

You may have already read about it but when you use unarmed you replace parry with dodge, so you don't have to train parry at all. Stat wise I'd say you want plenty of might and finesse so you hit and crit often and hard.

I've seen people talk about the main thing is to just use the autoattack, since it triggers so quickly, and build for lots of crits. And then couple it with some kind of magical damage type to your weapon (fists). The impression I got was this is where the most of your damage comes from? That you really aren't using talent abilities and spells all that much.

Also why is that lightning sigil of specific use for the monk build? I went pretty heavy lightning already but I don't recall that one offhand to know why it's so important.

[Curiousfellow]

It's not the lightning sigil itself, it's when you use it with the sigil of material force to turn it into a buff. Any character on your team can be used to put it on your main character. Most weapon buffs just boost your damage by a percentage, but the lightning one does that and then gives you a bunch of extra lightning damage on top of that when you score crits.

[Dzymbdzol]

bro.
hol, up.
wear light armor and hevy gloves yo.

[Curiousfellow]

Misstep, which is a heavy armor, actually works quite well if you're using iron light as air. Heavy (iron) gloves I agree with but I assume this person is already using whatever gloves that have the highest damage numbers.