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Inf Scuderia

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how the heck do I rune her?

I recently decided to spend some time again with my monk after 6 months. But when I took a closer look at her armor I burst out in laughter. She's my first char and when I runed her I didn't understand "stacking" yet ^^

So I'm runing her overnew, but I still don't know what rune combination I should use.
I would mainly like to play as a smiter (heroes don't complain about a monk who's smiting instead of healing). And sometimes as a healer when I'm in the mood ^^

I started with this:
*headpiece - healing prayers +1 and rune of healing prayers +2
**a 2nd headpiece for the smiting build - smiting prayers +1 and rune of smiting prayers +2
*chest - rune of health +41
*gloves - rune of divine favor +1
(I haven't got money to spend on superior runes and I don't intend to use it either when I would have money.)
But then I got stuck. What runes should I put in legs and what kind of insignia's should I use?

I'd think about two runes of energy +2 and Survivor insignia's. But do I still have enough energy then?
Or should I otherwise use Radaint insignia's for the energy? But what with the health then? :D

Please give me some advice about monks and their runes :)

edit: oh yeah, for the moment I haven't got a decent staff yet. Any tips about those too please? ^^

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08/11/07 06:03

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

well if your going to go for the smiting setup i would suggest:

Head - max AL headpiece of smiting with a minor smiting rune

Chest - max AL chest piece with surviour insig,major vigor and if you want a major smite rune

Arms - max AL arm piece with rune of attunement (energy +2)

Legs - max AL leg piece with surviour insig and whatever minor rune you want

Feet - max AL foot piece again with whatever minor rune you require.

I only play smiter when farming so therefore this is just basically the same as what I run on my healer except changed to smiting.The health loss from major smiting/healing or w.e is made up with the surviour insig and major vigor so once your runed and weaponed up your health should be at a decent level and you shouldnt really have any problems :) hope this helped

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08/11/07 06:11

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

I think you talking about PvE monk :P?

Mine has these runes:
All Riadent for the energy,
headpeace +1 Sup +3 for every attribute I use
Chest Minor Divine Favor
Gloves Major Vigor
Legs Attument
Feet Vittea

For weapons I use Kephets Refure for Prot
Soulstone + (Sword/Axe/Spear) +5e + Fortitude for Healing Prayers and Divine Favor

08/11/07 06:16

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

yeah i agree, but for my personal advise, i would only go smiter for pvp, it can be incredibly effective in pve, but if you want a monk in your party for pve, u automatically asume that it's either a prot or healing monk of some kind.

obviously it is your own personal choice in what you do with your monk, but im just sharing my opinions ^.^

08/11/07 06:18

Inf Scuderia

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

thanks, I might try those things out :)
and yes it's a pve monk

I'm trying to reach an average health of 500 and an average energy of 45-50.
My ranger's Tahlkora has about 600hp and uses glyph of lesser energy, maybe i should try that build too^^ and it works, she heals, her energy stays up and she stays alive...

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yes I know, but that's why I said that heroes don't complain about a smiting monk ^^ I only plan to use the smiting build when I'm playing with heroes n hench. And I gave up on PUG's.

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08/11/07 06:22

Senbonzakura

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

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yes I know, but that's why I said that heroes don't complain about a smiting monk ^^ I only plan to use the smiting build when I'm playing with heroes n hench. And I gave up on PUG's.

off topic but i used max healing rune and then all the other att. with minor runes and it's easier on yourself to make a party with 1 monk hero 1 ele hero 1 MM 2 monk henches 1 fighter and 1 holy hench in NF (the holy hench can be substituted with something else in another campaign)

PvE monks ALWAYS bring Signet of Rejuvination!!!!! lol

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08/14/07 10:48

Inf Scuderia

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

why? energy management?

08/14/07 12:13

Senbonzakura

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

lol yea!!

can heal up to 126 during fights and has short casting time and a short recharge time

08/14/07 12:53

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

I always go Smite when I am alone with heroes/hench, it's much easier than trying to get them targeted and attacking if you're trying to Heal/Prot or constantly switching targets.

This how I am geared:

Smite headpiece with Sup Smite Rune
Survivor Insignias on Chest and Legs
Radiant Signias on all other pieces
Superior Vigor Rune, Attunements/Vitaes

Weapon of Choice: Scourgewind's Branch- love the +1/20% and Health. My second monk has a Tyrian shield with +1 Smite/20% which is also ideal, albeit extremely rare.

That puts me at 510 health even with the Sup Rune and around 45+ energy. My build of choice doesn't require a lot of energy so it works for me.

I don't use high DF while using my hero/hench Smiting build as I don't use targetable enchantments while doing this- again, easier to get heroes/hench targeted on mobs that you are attacking without switching targets. I usually will go /Me and max out Inspiration for Mantra of Incriptions, so all my Smite/Interrupt Signets recharge much faster.

I do have a friend who also makes his monk a pure attacker when he is with heroes/hench, although- because he is /E- he goes fire nuker (I gave his monk an Exuro's once, hehe) :-P

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08/14/07 13:42

Inf Scuderia

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RE: how the heck do I rune her?

thanks a lot for all the tips everyone :)
the armor and weapons are starting to sort themselves out now. For weps I use the Factions endgame Wayward wand (smiting ofcourse) en the Straw Effigy (also smiting, good guess ^^). It works well enough, I'm not going to spend more money on weapons.

and my build is also getting in shape ^^
For the moment I use this
*Signet of Judgement
*Bane Signet
*Spear of Light
*Judge's Insight (to cast on the party melee fighters and rangers) OR Signet of Rage (if I would encounter lots of adren based enemies or don't care about buffing my teammates and just wanna do dmg myself :p)
*Mantra of Inions (for faster signet recharge)
*Smite Hex
*Ether Feast (for self-heal)
*Res

I'm not sure yet about the self heal skill. And this is only one build. I still want to make other and totally different ones.

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08/15/07 03:30

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