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sunanth

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invincible monks

ok, i was wondering how do you make an "invincible monk"
can someone plz tell me wat skills i need to kno and all that?

01/17/06 10:17

Kanna

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RE: invincible monks

it depends what sub class you have.

Firstly, you need 5 Sup Monk Runes, and the -50hp Grim Cesta offhand (Cities of Ascalon quest Reward).

Depending on what class you are, it really matters on your prefernce. I have two builds that I use, and I'm a Monk/Necro

Here is one build that I've been working on for a few days.

Mending
Watchful Spirit
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond
Protective Spirit
Plague Sending
Shield of Judgment (Elite)
Blessed Signet

That build works pretty good, but it takes more time to kill. The other build I use alot is.

Mending
Watchful Spirit
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond
Protective Spirit
Plague Sending
Spiteful Spirit (Elite)
Blessed Signet

This build kills things alot faster than the other, but SS takes 2 seconds to cast, and can get interupted, if your not careful.

The Attribute Poins setup I have is.

Healing = 13
Smiting = 16
Protection = 7
Divine = 10

And both the 15 AP quests have been completed.

The armor I have is just the Droks Ascetic's and the Zealot's Scalp.

While in the UW though, you have to watch out for Nightmares, as they can break all your enchantments, and if you don't get Prot. Spirit back up fast, your dead in one fast hit.

I hope this helps.

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01/17/06 10:29

NecroRebel

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RE: invincible monks

An invincimonk, as they are called, are monks that have 5 superior runes on their armor and use a certain focus item to reduce their maximum Health (with no death penalty) to 55. Then, they use the Protection Prayers spell Protective Spirit to make it so that they cannot take more than 10% of their maximum Health in a single attack. This amounts to 5.5 damage, which is then constantly recovered using such spells as Mending and Healing Breeze. Then, they have Balthazar's Spirit active so they gain Adrenaline for every enemy attack, then they use that Adrenaline to power Bonetti's Defense, which gives them more Energy again. There is also one more maintained enchantment that most invincimonks use, but I can't remember what it is at the moment.

Other than those 5 skills, the rest are basically optional. Some people bring Spellbreaker and a couple of axe or sword attacks to protect themselves from the enchantment-stripping abilities of some enemies and deal more damage, while others will bring Smiting Prayers spells such as Shield of Judgement and Symbol of Wrath to kill things.

As you can probably guess, if Protective Spirit goes down, the monk dies in an instant, especially in places like the Underworld, where most enemies deal 80-200 damage per physical attack, so the monks absolutely must avoid enemies that strip enchantments. And in groups, the build is all but worthless, since not every enemy will be attacking the monk at all times. And in pvp, opponents can easily spot an invincimonk and either anticipate and interrupt or break the Protective Spirit on the monk, which makes them sitting ducks for even the weakest attacks.

01/17/06 10:30

GodspeedX

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RE: invincible monks

Very easy to find on google : but here it is again...

You need 5 Superior monk runes (one youll have twice)
this will bring your health to 105, use a -50 or -20 health focus item to bring your health to 85 or 55.

Skills :

Mandatory :

Mending
Balthazar spirit
Essence Bond
Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze

Up to you for the rest are they might be offensive skills such as :

Zealot Fire
Shield Of Judgement
Symbol of Wrath
Balth. Aura
and so on.

or use skills from your second profession.

Also depending on your second profession and the place where you want to be invincible, some mandatory skill can be replace but not mending and not protective spirit.

have fun, the rest is setting the attribute to have +4 health regen in mending and enough time in protective spirit...and of course, everything require timing in skill execution....

01/17/06 10:34

Kanna

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RE: invincible monks

Zealot Fire, Balth Aura, and Symbol of Wrath, doesn't work anymore, due to them running away now. xD

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01/17/06 10:43

sunanth

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RE: invincible monks

thx for all the help! so the skills u guyz mentioned make a really good monk right? if not wat makes the best monk in ur opinion

01/18/06 18:23

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RE: invincible monks

what do you use to do dmg?

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02/26/06 21:16

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RE: invincible monks

I use my "invincible monk" a lot. Here is my setup.

Monk/ Warrior
it doesnt really matter what kind of armor you have. i suggest tatoo armor from droks

Hp=55
Energy=48 (will vary depending on armor)

Runes:
Superior Healing
Superior Smite
Superior Protection
Superior Divine favor x2

Weapons:
Axe or Sword with and Enchantments +20% mod
Grim Cesta with -50hp mod

Skills:
Shield of Judgement
Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze
Bottenelli's defense (sp?)
Sprint
Blessed Aura
Mending
Balthasar's Spirit

Attribute points:
Healing: 13
Smite: 15
Divine Favor: 7
Protection: 12
Tactics: 2

Basic way to use:
First cast all of your permanent enchantments on you and wait for your energy to go back up. When you find a group of bad guys to kill cast Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze right after that. Then run into them and attack one to build adrenaline up for bot. def. Then cast bott def to have a better chance to not get interrupted while casting SoJ. Keep up Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze if too many enemies! Sprint is for if you are soloing UW and a nightmare pops up or if you get into a tight situation and need to run away. After SoJ runs out cast botteneli's defense for more energy.

Hope this helps and Good Luck :D

02/26/06 21:35

Kar2uns

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RE: invincible monks

dmg is done with spells like Shield of Judgment

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02/26/06 21:36

Genesis_Dragon

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RE: invincible monks

QUOTE (Necro Rebel)

There is also one more maintained enchantment that most invincimonks use, but I can't remember what it is at the moment.

Blessed Aura - Enchantments last xx amount longer.

QUOTE (Kanna)

Zealot Fire, Balth Aura, and Symbol of Wrath, doesn't work anymore, due to them running away now. xD

Zealot's still works fine, as long as they don't take the same damage from one skill within 4 seconds... If you use Prot Spirit as the Trigger, 5 seconds recharge, they won't run.

Symbol of Wrath has them scattering like headless chicken though.

QUOTE (im so cool)

it doesnt really matter what kind of armor you have. i suggest tatoo armor from droks

Considering you'll only take 5 damage, no matter what Armor you are wearing - Droknar's would be wasted, you're best buying it from Lion's Arch, as it is the cheapest place for Tattoos, which give extra energy.

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I use:

Protective Spirit
Shield of Judgement (E)
Balthazar's Spirit
Blessed Aura
Mending

Watchful Spirit / Healing Breeze
Zealot's Fire / Balanced Stance
Blessed Signet / Bonnett's Defense / Storm Chaser

I often swap the last three, depending on the enemy and my second profession.

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02/26/06 21:54

CyNn

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RE: invincible monks

Any Suggestions for a Mo/R??

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02/26/06 22:24

Genesis_Dragon

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RE: invincible monks

Storm Chaser - I use it to farm the Titans in the Defend North Kryta Province quest.

Other than that one skill, the skill set is as most of the above....

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Oh and you might want to look at your signature code, it seems to be messing tables up. You may have an incorrect html tag.

EDIT: Welcome to the forums. (My post in in yours o.O)

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02/26/06 22:28

Gladiator Ziff

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RE: invincible monks

Do things in UW run away from balth aura symbol now aswell!?!?!?

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02/27/06 07:45

Genesis_Dragon

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RE: invincible monks

Yup, and usually right into the agro of your support Necro - if you take a SS/SV that is.

02/27/06 07:56

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RE: invincible monks

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Symbol of Wrath has them scattering like headless chicken though.

tho it is good when you have all your targets down to very little hp, you can do 2-3 seconds worth of dmg, and if you have zealots just spamm a spell and you can do major dmg... make sure they will die, because sometimes you can run outta energy before there all dead (1-3 isnt too hard to take care of aslong as you keep PS up)

i use symbol of wrath while fighting trolls outside forges, i'll get them down so there hp is really low (like barely visible) then i cast SoW and it will finish them and then i can just stand there and recharge. really good place to power lvl. i started at lvl 13 and now im 17 in like 20 trips... and i made around 10k

03/02/06 11:16

CyNn

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RE: invincible monks

thnx for all your help guys ill keep itin mind +2 cred too all who posted

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03/12/06 02:28

XMegidoX

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RE: invincible monks

QUOTE

thx for all the help! so the skills u guyz mentioned make a really good monk right?

not really

QUOTE

if not wat makes the best monk in ur opinion

a regular heal/smite/prot monk.

aside note: E/Mo can be invincible too, and has is probably better as a) they have more energy, b)they have access to obsidian flesh and spellbreaker so more likely to have 1 of em c)the runes cost a lot less.

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03/12/06 03:06

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RE: invincible monks

wow. this is a screwed up topic.
Please fix your signature. You didn't close the HTML tags, so everything else on the page is going into your sig. post inside post inside post.
Oh and To those who are starting a 55, but dont have much cash, try a 55mesmer. it works great.

04/17/06 13:40

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RE: invincible monks

and people say my sig is to big...

04/17/06 13:42

Aloha

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RE: invincible monks

If you have a necro as well its much cheaper to make your necro invinsible cause the necro superior runes are not that expensive.
If your 2nd prof is monk you can use the same build as the Mo/Ne.

04/17/06 15:10

aznese guy

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RE: invincible monks

Well actually now that factions is out the monk sups are about 2k each making a 55 only 10k which isnt much compared to how much u can get off it farming.Also armor wise use tatoos and nothing else because they give energy.The ones from lions arch make the most sense because they are the cheapest tats and the armor on the tats dont matter because u will hav prot spirit up anyway so it will always be 5 damage.For a weapon use a FFS(fiery flame spitter) or a HoD sword(Henge of Denravi)because of the energy bonus or spell casting bonus. For the offhand use the Cities of Ascalon one(known as the -50 offhand)because of the -50 hp. Just my 2 cents.

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05/21/06 08:43

Aloha

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RE: invincible monks

Yeah, when i made my 55 monk the runes where about 20k each!

Yes, the sword is not only for the +5 energy but even more for the 20% longer enchantments you can put on it...:P

But in Cantha you can find +5e swords again now...

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05/21/06 09:37

aznese guy

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RE: invincible monks

QUOTE

Good Point so HoD sword is worthless now compared to the new ones u can find.

quit gw for good. end of story.

05/21/06 16:16

Annoy Mous

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RE: invincible monks

QUOTE

Any Suggestions for a Mo/R??

Also, I use Serpent's Quickness when I 55 to speed along the second volley of SoJ. Nice for soloing things that take multiple rounds of SoJ to kill like certain Stone Summit creatures.

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05/21/06 16:40

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RE: invincible monks

Sorry this is off topic but uh...anyone else notice cynn's posts are killing the forumn layout or is it just me?

05/21/06 16:40

Annoy Mous

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RE: invincible monks

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Oh and you might want to look at your signature code, it seems to be messing tables up. You may have an incorrect html tag.

Genesis Dragon has already acknowledged that, in the first of the post's inside Cynn, but nothing has been done about it yet.

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05/21/06 16:48

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