My warrior monk - please share your opinions

[dymi]

My warrior monk - please share your opinions

Hello

Last season i had very successfull Uber Hunter - zealot.
This season i would like to try sth different. Warrior monk.

At the beggining i would like to mention that i am poor. No uber runewords no 24/7 playing. I gather some gear and i would like to know your opinions.

Weapon - fleshripper (one open socket suggestions are welcome)
Helm - Guilemae Face (one open socket suggestions are welcome)
Armor - Duress
boots - Upped Gores
Shield - Stormshield
Belt - Nosferatu Coil
Amu - 30 res all
Ring - ??
Ring - ??
Gloves - need draculs

Skills
20 Venom
20 Fade
20 Dragon Talon
20 Shadow Master
1 Blade Fury
1 preqs

Good ??
Bad ??
So So ??

Any suggestions ??

 

[brokensvt]

The big things I see are that your IAS and your resists are going to be horrid. Slow kicks = no life tap, low resists = Meph kills you hard.

 

[Arbedark]

The big things I see are that your IAS and your resists are going to be horrid. Slow kicks = no life tap, low resists = Meph kills you hard.

How are his res going to be horrible?

30 All res amu, Fade, Storm - PDia it, Res jewel / UM in Helm, Duress. Along with some res charms and anya quests he should be set.

As for being slow, Fleshripper = -20 base, a Shael or IAS jewel in it should get him 8/3 Kicks with fade (going off the top of my head with this) which is plenty fast enough for a budget build.

Edit: Also put loads of points in MB for crowd control IMO.

 

[dymi]

Ok so sheal into fleshripper. (Belt has also IAS)
No um for helm though - maybe ort or IAS jevel

MB ?? Is it worth it ??
I will have some spare points

What about ring choice ?

 

[Arbedark]

Ok so sheal into fleshripper. (Belt has also IAS)
No um for helm though - maybe ort or IAS jevel

MB ?? Is it worth it ??
I will have some spare points

What about ring choice ?

MB will save your *** (no pun intended). The stun, combined with conversion is a real life saver in sticky PvM situations. :thumbsup:

Check how much ias you need for 8/3 kicks with fade and fleshripper (going for 7/3 will be a waste), then get the required ias. fill sockets with what you ned then. Ort in helm isn't a bad idea

 

[PrkChopXpress]

I just ran the numbers for you, and in order to hit 8/3/3/... kick speed, you're going to need 32 IAS from your gear. The 10 from the Nos Coil and a shael in the fleshripper only gets you to 30 IAS. So unless you're ok with a 9 frame initial kick, you're going to have to ias jewel your Guilli's.

45 EIAS = 8 frame initial kick
45-20WSM = 25 EIAS

IAS = (120*25)/(120-25) = 31.58 IAS needed to reach 8 frame initial kick.

And just so you know, you need 13 ias hit the 9 frame initial kick, so if you wanted to ias jewel the Guilli's that would leave your fleshripper socket open, or vise verse (if you're ok with 9/3/3/...).

 

[Zigot_HD]

If you're on ladder, then I strongly suggest lawbringer rw. Cheap tp make and it's a kicker's wonder weapon.
Sanctuary aura will help keep those undead from swamming you in trist.
Mine use it permanent for Ubers and everything else.

Ring one: Raven: getting frozen during kicking is a b****
Ring two: dual leech, resist would be good.
Um the Guil face.

Or 2x dual leech rings/resist/stats and Cham the Guil face.

 

[PrkChopXpress]

If you want to use Lawbringer, unless you make it in a phase blade it'll be even slower than the fleshripper (-10 WSM is the next fastest and you'd need 50 ias to hit 8 frame initial kick). And even using a PB, you'll need 18 ias to hit an 8 frame initial kick. So you'll still want to ias jewel the Guilli's unless you're ok with just a 9 frame initial kick.

A better idea may be to use a lawbringer on switch and just use it for the ctc decrep. Once it procs, switch back to the fleshripper.

 

[Zigot_HD]

Indeed it's in a phase. And i use BOS instead of fade, I have lvl 4 and lvl 5 with BC.

here's my cheap setup: the most expensive item here is the COH

Guillaume ( going to socket this soon )
COH gothic for the sexy-ness red pant.
TGod
Dracs
Up-gores
Lawbringer in phase
Stormshield
Saracen 25 resist
Raven/dual-resist-stats
Anni and no torch ( she supposes to pick up torch when ubering... )
Ton of resist charms

She's fun to play. I use mindblast sometimes so at least one point in it.
Sure she cannot go head to head with the three at the same time so strategy is all it's about.

 

[PrkChopXpress]

If you're building a warrior-monk specifically for uber hunting, using a maxed Fade is practically a necessity (particularly against Meph). You seem to have had success with your set-up, so I'm in no way bashing it. But your life will be much easier with a gear set-up designed around the use of Fade rather than BoS.

 

[Zigot_HD]

Agreed.

If you lack of resists then go with fade.

I build this assy way before the Ubers even existed. I always favor BoS over Fade as this is a hybrid PvM build ( Her main mass killer skill is from traps ). With minor gear modification, she's perfect for Ubering.
I don't have any problem with Meph's aura.
I have tried LW, Death and finally chose Lawbringer for style/effectiveness.

To be able to tele is another safety in trist in case you get swammed.