55 monk!!! Dr. Knickk Shcool of Hell

Short Bus · 55 monk!!! Dr. Knickk Shcool of Hell

I use this when i 55. It Might not be the best, but it works well. It is not for the begginer,but when done right, is VERRY fun.

The 55 monk is a build that involves a monk as primary and really anything secondary depending on what you want to do with it. You will need some secondary skills though to kill monsters quicker. The reason they call it the 55 hp monk is because it has 55 health points. You can?t get any lower health. I know what you?re thinking. ?HUH?!?! Why would you only want 55 health?!?!?!? This monk is not a healer, nor is it a bonder. It uses a combination of healing and protection spells. The build is also known as the ?invinci-monk? for if you are a very experienced 55 hper, barely anything can stop you in PvE. If you are new, I suggest you don?t read the next part of this guide but learn a monk first. Don?t try the 55 hp if you have never tried a monk before!

BTW: You will need some money in order to do this. Altogether I probably spent around 30-40k (runs, power-leveling, runes, armor, weapon).

GUIDE

I won?t tell you how to do the beginning because it really does not matter when it comes to becoming a 55 hp monk. I usually go through searing around level five just by doing quests and killing things. After you go through searing, there are a few things you need to do. (You don?t need to get the -50hp focus first but if you want to): you need to go to Simon the Scribe located near Tydus in Ascalon and do one quest and get to the Northern Wall mission. Once you do those two, get the quest from Simon which will give you the -50 health cesta. You will have to do the following:

Find the historical monument in Surmia.
Find the historical monument in Nolani
Find the historical monument in King's Watch.
You can do the main missions if you want. I recommend doing the following before the Shiverpeaks: ?The Great Northern Wall?, ?Noloni Academy?. That should get you around level 8. Once you get to Yak?s Bend, you can either get a runner straight to Beacons, or find a cheaper runner by getting henchman and running to Borlis Pass and then get a runner (the runner should cost no less than 1-2k). Once there, get a runner to Droknar?s Forge (it saves a lot of time to get a runner to Droks and Lion?s Arch and I will mention why below). If you choose not to get a runner to Droks, get a runner to run you to ?LA? (Lion?s Arch).

Once at Lions, get a runner to ?Sanctum Kay? and get a group to do the mission. Once you have completed the mission, you should be around level 10 or so. DO NOT ACSEND AT THIS POINT! This is key if you want to save money because power-levelers cost more the higher level you are. At this time, go to Augory Rock (get a runner for like 300 gold). Search for a power-leveler and get up to level 16 (about 1k per level). Once you're 16, do the missions and ascend. You will be level 20 at this point and you will be able to go to ?Dragons Lair? (as I mentioned above). Beat ?Dragon?s? and it will take you to Droknar?s Forge. Buy a set of the +energy armor (the tattoos) and put 5 superior runes on them (make four of them the four superior monk runes) and one rune of your secondary profession of your choice. Just to make it look cool, I dyed my tattoos all black so that cost me like another 30k but you don?t need to do that.

I said it would be easier getting the runner to Droks because there is a place you stop called ?Camp Rankor? where you will get some elite skills and more runs. You will need a run to ?Granite Citadel? which can be costly depending on the runner. Once there, get someone to help you get the elite skill ?Shield of Judgment?. This could take time depending on how good the runner is at the game. Once you get the skill from one of the bosses, you will need the required skills:

Skill1- Shield of Judgment (Elite) (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill2- Protective Spirit (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill3- Healing Breeze (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill4- Mending (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill5- Balthazar's Spirit (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill6- 2ndary profession smiting skill (Farming griffons/other high-level monster
Skill7- Blessed Aura (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill8- Blessed Signet (Farming griffons/other high-level monsters)
Skill9- Spell Breaker (Underworld)

As for the weapon, you?ll be looking for one with a longer enchanting mod. If you can afford it, a HoD +5 energy long sword with a 20% enchanting mod will be great, but if you can?t, don?t worry, it?s not that big of a deal anyways. I personally use an Icy Dragon Sword of Enchanting with a perfect 20% enchanting mod, because I think it looks great, but really, 15% enchanting and up will do fine.

For Griffon Farming:

Your attribute points can be as follow:

Healing Prayers: 9
Smiting Prayers: 15
Protection Prayers: 9
Divine Favor: 10
Earth Magic: 8
For the Underworld:

Your attributes can look like this:

Healing Prayers: 13
Smiting Prayers: 10
Protection Prayers: 13
Divine Favor: 13

This is just what I use, but you can change around the attributes for you liking.

Once you have the armor, weapon, runes and skills and the -50hp offhand, go out to augury rock and try farming some griffons. Here are some tips on farming griffons:

Protective Spirit should always be on. If it isn?t, you?ll probably die from one or two hits.
If Healing Breeze wears off during a big fight, don?t panic, just recast it. If you get interrupted, you can recast Protective Spirit for the divine favor health bonus until you can successfully cast Healing Breeze.
Some monsters (like Aatxes from the Underworld) have only one interrupting attack. To prevent interruption, you can wait until they use it, then cast your skills freely until their skill is recharged. If there are too many enemies, you can also watch them graphically; as soon as they hit, quickly cast your skill.
Place your most important skills in first slots for easy access, and the enchantments you are maintaining in the last ones. This way, you can quickly react using your keyboard when you have to.
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Here are some important tips for farming the Underworld:

If you?ve got Aatxes or Grasping Darknesses hitting you, try to stand still and not to move towards unexplored grounds too much. It might trigger the apparition of a Dying Nightmare, and the chances you will succeed casting Spellbreaker against those beasts is very low (unless they?re out of energy).
You do not have to cast Spellbreaker before aggroing a mob of Smite Crawlers. They cannot interrupt you, therefore if a Dying Nightmare was to pop up, it would be safe to use your elite skill, before finishing it off with your rod.
For your first runs, do not aggro too many Smite Crawlers; 8+ can easily kill you even if you have Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze on.
Communication between the players is the key to successful/fast runs. You can use a voice-chatting program like Ventrilo or Teamspeak, normal chat or even the in-game radar, but you?ll have to communicate with your partner. Explaining your aggroing patterns is very important too.

Much Love
Short Bus

Maitresse Maia Steeleater · Spellbreaker??

I thought spellbreaker was also an elite?? How do you have SOJ and Spellbreaker on your skillbar?~~Maia

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http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10031183

Dont forget nowadays alot of monks are using spirit bond for farming, hell i use spirit bond on my Necro.

Spirit bond takes the place of Healing breeze, is a quicker cast and heals way way better. Monks have the advantage of using a Mes secondary and lowerer their AL with ele resistance, and other such spells necromancers do not have the luxury of.

Spirit bond heals your for say 76 hp @ 8 healing prayers for every 60dmg u take. So to get anything to hit you for 60dmg you use very low armour, I use ascalon stuff, only 15al and also monks can use skills which are talked about in the thread i linked there.

Since its hard to get things to hit for exactly 60dmg you still need to migate the dmg with Protective Spirit for instance getting hit by an aaxte in the underworld with only 15al will result in massive dmg 300+ and spirit bond cant cover that alone...but...Spirit bond is calculated before prot spirit for some reason and as such pretty much goes off on anything, even if you have 55hp and only take 5dmg from any sources it still calculates dmg before prot spirit the cheeky thing! so, for every 5dmg you take your gaining 71hp! as long as the initial dmg is over 60dmg so wand dmg from a char will never trigger spirit bond.

anyway its totally awesome on my solo necro for underworld im doing smite runs in about 15-20mins. Duo Monks are pwning UW faster than Monk/necro duos used to and you have pretty much unlimited tanking ability...as long as you keep your enchantments up.

Maitresse Maia Steeleater

This is good stuff. I was wondering what Shawn was talking about re: armor. Now, however, I understand the logic behind his claims. This is good stuff to know seeing as my monk just ascended and is not ready to dual UW. Have to get some skills now, and I guess get very low armor for her in order to do this...However, there is a quandry: where does one get the lowest armor for the highest amount of energy add??? Please let me know...as this will now worry me to the point of not sleeping at night LOL. JK~~Maia

Xxxploit Me

Well afew things -

Spirit Bond is factions and Protective Bond is Prophecies...so youll need both.

for low armour, but with energy benefits, i do believe monks go to Lions Arch and buy their "tattoo" armour...but dont quote me on that...never used a spiit bond monk, i just use ascalon stuff with 2 energy offhands for necro, as you dont need the blood knife from the cities of ascalon quest as HP really doesnt matter with spirit bond, its unlimited healing.

But keep searching guru, their are spirit bond monk builds to solo heaps of stuff and its pretty insane..i mean you can tank as many smites as you can muster...im surprised it hasnt be nerfed to hell...but then again they left prot spirit and Spiteful Spirit alone. Must be a spirit thing Wink

55 monk!!! Dr. Knickk Shcool of Hell

Spellbreaker??