Dark Monk - recommendations?

[Tangleweed]

I've done the light path now trying the dark path.

I saw touch of death I love the look of that and the idea of being able to run on water (esp with Update 6 on-route) intrigues me and I am sure would be more fun than hopping everywhere.

So what would people recommend for a 32 point halfling dark path monk ?

How do you make it worth while and what is the pros and cons?

[Sithias]

Tangle, you can look up my halfling monk if you would like on myddo.....name is Sithias on Sarlona Server. I don't think he's too awfully terrible :P Might give you a good base to start with, but he is a TR 34pt build.


The worst thing I found about trying to fit every little thing onto a halfling monk is the AP spending. I haven't decided yet if I am gonna respec to Ninja Spy or not :P

[Arel]

The PrC for dark is really good: 3d6 extra sneak attack damage and a re-usable ability that gives invisibility/25% incorporeal miss chance for 1 minute. Only costs 15 ki too! Unfortunately, I've only been able to get the waterwalk ability to work once, so don't rely on that one too much.

I think it's been theorized that a STR-based, Dark path, Halfling Monk would pump out the most DPS overall (compared to other monks) thanks to the extra SA damage. As an alternative, I can recommend Wisdom based; Having a Stunning Fist DC in the high 30s by level 16 means that anything that can be stunned, will be stunned.

[edaciousx]

myddo fistscrits on sarlona. solid dark halfling monk.

[TheIvanovFamily]

i'm a fan of a Wisdom based halfling monk with the newly useful Stunning Fist, but it's hard to pull that off and still have good Strength and Constitution (for gm earth) without TR'ing a few times (which i did :v).

Strength based Robomonks can be nice too with high Strength and Wisdom to be able to rock both Stunning Fist and Stunning Blow, but i find that with only 6 seconds cooldown for Stunning Fist it is up whenever needed for most mobs tough enough to warrant using Stunning wraps over DPS wraps.

The sneak attack from Ninja Spy is pretty darn nice too with Halfling Guile and Tharnes to pop a mob with a stun and see 20-30 damage a hit from Sneak Attacks with all the other pretty monk number spam.

Also: yelling HADOOOOOOOKEN as you Death Touch a mob you know your Arcane friend was about to Finger of Death or CC and watch it instantly explode from the 500-1500 damage spike ^.^ oh the hate my Wizard friends have for me sniping their targets.... so worth getting ToD belt revenge-danced during raids afterwards.

[SINIBYTE]

So what would people recommend for a 32 point halfling dark path monk ?

Here's what I've been playing with. It's fun as hell. I saw a quad TOD go off the other night, it was awesome.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=262010