Lesser Reincarnation

[ExTC]

Hit level 20 on my Dark Monk (Godstrike) a few days back, ran a few epics and raids and I do quite well. The only problem I seem to have is that, compared to other monks (even non-TR'd ones) I seem to lack something. I think my feat choices were off, my beginning stats were off (especially since I can't grab grandmaster stances with a +3 tome which just isn't going to happen anytime soon). So I was hoping I could grab a heart of lesser reincarnation and change everything to just how I like it .

So a few things:

Base stats:
16 Str
15 Dex
15 Con
14 Wis
+2 tomes on str, dex, con and wis.

The rest were left at base.

My feats are decent, I just don't think they're optimized. (Didn't grab improved sunder for example)

I'm hoping to farm some gear on this toon, then TR it later. (once I get bored of grinding which won't be for a few months).

I was hoping to leave it as a dark monk since I enjoy TOD, but I can be convinced to try out Light Monk.

So if someone could draft me up something really quick for an endgame monk that'd be great thank you very much. Any other info can be given.

Thanks again!

[Tenchi]

Listing your feats chosen, your gear or even your enhancements may allow us to give you more direction. :-)

[ExTC]

Silly me lol, I figured something was missing. Here we go :3

Feats:
Dodge
IC: Bludgeoning
ITWF
TWF
PA
Stunning Fist
Toughness
WP: Bludgeoning


Gear: (I'm in the process of farming, I know more or less what I need, but for this case the other monks were geared similarly to me)

Spare Hand (ML 4 one)
Torn Chitin Bracers (Upgrading)
Fabricators Guantlets
Minos
DT (10% Healing, 20% Healing, Disenigration Guard)
Blindess Imm Goggles +2 hit
Dusk Heart Trinket
+6 Charm Ring (just got flagged for ToD)
+6 Dex boots
Storm Singer Cloak
+6 Wis Necklace

And I have a variety of wraps, for trash I use Thaaraks Handwarps, and on boss sometimes depending on situation.

Enchanments:
Improved Cleric Dilly III
Human Adapt Str I
Human Greater Adapt Con
Human Improved Recov II
Static Charge
Way of Patient Tortoise II
Touch Of Death
Porous Soul
All consuming flame
Monk improved recovery II
Monk Ninja Spy II
Void Strike III (i'd like to fit IV in here maybe)
Winters touch
Master of Thunder
Master of Stone
Adept of flame
Adept of rain
Racial touchness III
Improved Jump II
Improved Tumb II



that should be everything

[Daitengu]

You want Greater Two Weapon Fighting. And Rogue Dilletante would give you additional sneak attacks.

[smithj_2020]

well here a couple quick changes for LR:

str:14
dex:16
con:16
int:8
wis: 14
cha:8

Get GTWF, maybe swap out Human Adapt ste and con for human adapt wisdom or get Monk Wis I and II, since you 20, change cleric dilly to rogue, get rogue dilly II, for damage, and get the monk capstone...

That should make your dps and monk dcs good.

As for gear: since you don't have alchemical wraps try to get vampiric stone dust wraps from eyes of stone.
DT robes, icy raiments
Stunning handwraps +10 also are nice to have, GS HP item (min II) most monks go. Then get your ToD ring w/holy and epic ring of stalker and your set to TR

[ExTC]

as a dark monk i don't worry about saves much, don't really want to sacrifice to-hit for DC since my TOD does damage either way

[Kinerd]

Four things you can do to massively increase your DPS output:

1. GTWF (you only have 8 feats listed when you should have 10 slots as a helf monk, not sure what's going on there)
2. Human Versatility (one of the best features of helf/human, +25% to damage)
3. Grandmaster stance (put one level-up into Dex instead of Str, grandmaster wind)
4. DR-bypassing handwraps (silver AND good, cold iron AND good, adamantine AND good)

4 is the toughest part for a Ninja, but it's more a question of grinding than actual difficulty.

[cohiba007]

Would you put your level ups in str with this build?

[smithj_2020]

Yes put levels into str, unless you are doing dex/wis AC build

[Munkenmo]

4. DR-bypassing handwraps (silver AND good, cold iron AND good, adamantine AND good)

4 is the toughest part for a Ninja, but it's more a question of grinding than actual difficulty.

he's a pure monk, he gets Adamantine fists auto granted at level 16.

[Kinerd]

he's a pure monk, he gets Adamantine fists auto granted at level 16.

Good call.