U7 Enhancements

[Darkrok]

I just hopped on at lunch to respec my Enhancements for my human light monk. Things have gotten pretty tight!

I ended up dumping both Wind and Water stances completely and Void other than I and II to fit in all of the goodies from Shintao. As a healing amp build I'm loathe to ever leave fire stance anyways, Void IV + Shintao III is WAY too expensive unless you dump other stuff (like Healing Amp), and I'll have some of the light strikes to use as my extra attack in the EarthIV,EarthIII,FoI,Earthx3 Finisher,??? rotation. Definitely excited to get out there tonight and give it a whirl but just curious what some of the other light monks are sacrificing to fit in Shintao III.

[t0r012]

I just hopped on at lunch to respec my Enhancements for my human light monk. Things have gotten pretty tight!

I ended up dumping both Wind and Water stances completely and Void other than I and II to fit in all of the goodies from Shintao. As a healing amp build I'm loathe to ever leave fire stance anyways, Void IV + Shintao III is WAY too expensive unless you dump other stuff (like Healing Amp), and I'll have some of the light strikes to use as my extra attack in the EarthIV,EarthIII,FoI,Earthx3 Finisher,??? rotation. Definitely excited to get out there tonight and give it a whirl but just curious what some of the other light monks are sacrificing to fit in Shintao III.

seeing as healing amp can be one of the prereqs for shintao I don't see why you would be skipping it.

Shintao I the only waste is the feat (still deciding between luck of heros or the new and improved precision) everything else you would be taking anyway.

ShintaoII Imp recovery III , a no brainer would be taking anyway

Shintao III , any master stance which you were going to take at least one anyway

I don't see the AP crunch myself unless you are trying to squeeze in RotP, everything else looks to be status quo

[Darkrok]

seeing as healing amp can be one of the prereqs for shintao I don't see why you would be skipping it.

Shintao I the only waste is the feat (still deciding between luck of heros or the new and improved precision) everything else you would be taking anyway.

ShintaoII Imp recovery III , a no brainer would be taking anyway

Shintao III , any master stance which you were going to take at least one anyway

I don't see the AP crunch myself unless you are trying to squeeze in RotP, everything else looks to be status quo

Monk Imp Recovery III is a no-brainer, but Human Imp Recovery III is still expensive (12/80 total AP's). Basically if you're going to go all-out on healing amp you're going to be AP-tight to begin with.

8 AP's out of the box just for Shintao (as it wasn't worth taking before). 4 AP's which were honestly optional but I took to max out my Fire Stance (which I only left in ToD when I needed haste and couldn't get my boots off in time/wasn't near the group). I may have picked up something else extra...not sure on that part...but once it was all added up it took away options such as higher tiers of Wind Stance and Void III/IV.

Definitely not complaining though...I always found earthIV,earthIII,FoI,earthx3 finisher to be more effective than hoping for a 20 on Void IV so I won't miss that and I can honestly buy a stack of haste pots for the times I don't have someone casting haste for me. I rarely solo on this toon now anyways so Wind IV really doesn't fit with my play style. And the new stuff from light looks REALLY nice. I was planning on TR'ing to a Dark Monk but honestly now I'd consider just staying light. It fits my play style well, I have stats that make me fairly happy (would love to get my DC's on stuns higher but that's a minor quibble), and light monks will now be in even higher demand.

Really though, just wondering what other light monks that hadn't gone Shintao were giving up to fit it in.

[t0r012]

Monk Imp Recovery III is a no-brainer, but Human Imp Recovery III is still expensive (12/80 total AP's). Basically if you're going to go all-out on healing amp you're going to be AP-tight to begin with.

8 AP's out of the box just for Shintao (as it wasn't worth taking before). 4 AP's which were honestly optional but I took to max out my Fire Stance (which I only left in ToD when I needed haste and couldn't get my boots off in time/wasn't near the group). I may have picked up something else extra...not sure on that part...but once it was all added up it took away options such as higher tiers of Wind Stance and Void III/IV.

Definitely not complaining though...I always found earthIV,earthIII,FoI,earthx3 finisher to be more effective than hoping for a 20 on Void IV so I won't miss that and I can honestly buy a stack of haste pots for the times I don't have someone casting haste for me. I rarely solo on this toon now anyways so Wind IV really doesn't fit with my play style. And the new stuff from light looks REALLY nice. I was planning on TR'ing to a Dark Monk but honestly now I'd consider just staying light. It fits my play style well, I have stats that make me fairly happy (would love to get my DC's on stuns higher but that's a minor quibble), and light monks will now be in even higher demand.

Really though, just wondering what other light monks that hadn't gone Shintao were giving up to fit it in.

Hmm yeah all out on the human healing amp is gonna cost you.

And I hand't added in the cost of the PrE to my mental math either.

At least you will save a point with concentration II going to 1 AP with the changes to skill AP lines. Not like it will help much as you just have to eat a second skill feat to qualify for the next tiers AP spent prereqs.

I should have too many problem with my dex/wis halfer , crane 3 seems more than enough for ki generation , could probably get by with crane 2 so long as I can stun something. when I finally get oremi's can definatly trim that back to tier 2. No problems giving up anything above waterII and till I grab some tomes I don't have much choice with earth and can't even take fireII without catching a +1. Have to find a +3 str before I can even consider getting voidIV.

Will be tight to squeak in the full guile line, hmm... yeah, Now I see what you mean.

[Darkrok]

And like I said...there's nothing wrong with this. It's actually kind of exciting because I think you'll see many different kinds of light monks out there. There's just so much to spend the AP's on and not nearly enough to go around that there really isn't a 'right' answer. Just a right answer for your personal play style.