My TR

[lhidda]

Hi everybody!

Soon i will TR my monk, which i build without much knowledge of the class.
What it looks like now:
~30 str
~32 dex
~24 con
~27 wis
halfling pure dark monk
~60ac
It worked really well, but I came to the point, where i wish to specialize it.

I will change it with TR to become halfling pure dark monk finesse build
- str
+ dex
+ con
++ wisdom
+ ac

I will change healing mark feats to finesse, power attack, stunning fist.
Rest remains the same, toughness, gtwf, ...

Any comments or hints?
I want it to become reasonable high ac, good stunning and tod DC and some more hitpoints

[~herbstlich]

High enough Ac = 70+ w\o buffs + self blurs... and that's all about gear farming. probably more dodge bonuses will help (like +4 from Icy, +2 from Cloak of night, +1 from ritual, and +3 from chattering ring or something like that)

Are you going for void 4? If not you can dump str and max wisdom fluently and spend ap on cunning\guile and amplification.
And... Do you want to tank or you want to play solid secondary dps with cc abilities?

[lhidda]

High enough Ac = 70+ w\o buffs + self blurs... and that's all about gear farming. probably more dodge bonuses will help (like +4 from Icy, +2 from Cloak of night, +1 from ritual, and +3 from chattering ring or something like that)

Are you going for void 4? If not you can dump str and max wisdom fluently and spend ap on cunning\guile and amplification.
And... Do you want to tank or you want to play solid secondary dps with cc abilities?

Have all dodge boni up to +4. I will dump str for sure and max wisdom. cunning/guile ok. How to raise amplification?
... I think I want to be both tank and solid secondary dps with focus to the second.

[~herbstlich]

Monk improved recovery enhancement line gives 10%, 20% and 30% bonus. It's helpful in epics if there is no primiry solid dps in group and with monk abilities you'll occasionaly find you are tanking... But more useful when you lvling solo...

Minimum str is 11 str at creating and then eating +2 tome (ok, 10 str with +3 tome and so on), cause 13 str is prerequisite to power attack.

On my monk (couple of month before u9 came to Lam) I went for +5 shock of stunning +10 wraps with Icy burst and force crit rituals. and i should say all those additional damages still work great (even if i missed 5 numbers after auto-crit nerf).
And i switched from tortoise path for crane cause oremi and capstone are just not enough for me. I really like to use all those monk's debuffs and stunning and palm and tod ofc...
I often use yugu wisdom pot cause it's another +1 dc, +1 ac and +4 natural ac.

If you want more hp Essence of Desire will give you +40 hp but will cost -5% melee speed.