Dread doing TR

[brian14]

Wow. That's some of the worst advice I've read in a while. Did you stone your way to completionist?

1. fists of light
2. fists of iron
3. quivering palm
4. stunning fist
5. earth strikes

Seriously if you're not making good use of atleast 3 of those abilities often, you're playing a monk badly.

If he hates the class, he probably DOES play it badly. So what? He is only playing it in order to get a PL, and is making it as simple for himself as possible.

If I ever want a monk past life badly enough to suffer through leveling a monk, I probably will do same thing.

[Merlin-ator]

If your laptop has a numpad, try this setup. It works excellently.

USB mouse
plus key (numpad) as modifier

mod+keyrow 1-9 is hotbars 1-9
mod+0 is hotbar 10

mod+numpad 1-9 is hotbars 11-19
mod+numpad 0 is hotbar 20

For starters, never have all your hotbars on your screen at once and click things. You WILL hit the wrong button at a crucial moment and die, I don't care how the EE soloers say you should do it. Next, use mouselook. T key. Easily react to new threats, better circle strafing/kiting, etc.

Dump your main abilities on keys 1-6, according to use. Potions on 7 and 8 (I use Cure items on 7, Haste on 8.). 9 and 0 are Toggles/rarely used/long cooldown, like Power Attack or Abundant Step. In other words, out-of-battle abilities, because you'll never hit these in combat. Be prepared to accidentally press ability number 2 by accident when going for W. Your main bar is 1, go to 2, 3, etc as you need space. All your buffs go on 20, going to 11, 12, etc as you need room

I've never gone past hotbar 14 for buffs or 5 for attacks. The only reason I went to 14 was that I was playing a druid, which has an obscene amount of buffs. Only class I got to 5 on was a monk, and that was because for each bar, I only changed 2 or 3 abilities. My finisher would stay 4, my Fists of Darkness stays 5, my Stunning Fist would stay 2. All I would change is my elemental strikes and whether Quivering Palm, Sap, or Touch of Death goes on 6.

The great thing about using + as the mod key is that, with a little dexterity, you can change hotbars while holding the left mouse button down.

[Stoner81]

I used to find Monks a nightmare but now I generally use the following keyboard set up for hotbar 1:

1 = Stunning Fist.
2 = Unbalancing Strike.
3 = Cleave.
4 = Great Cleave.
5 = Quivering Palm.
6 = Dismissing Strike.
7 = Tomb of Jade.
8 = Fists of Light.
9 = Smite Tainted Creature.
0 = Generic Finisher.

Most of the time I use the first 4, the rest are situational only.

Stoner81.

[Uska]

Yes you can. The poster meant 6/6/8.

Umm i should have put a comma I was making 2 statements and the one you can't do is monk and barb

[Uska]

Uska's post could have been clearer, but the "can't do that" was referring to mixing barbarian and monk, which is impossible due to alignment restrictions.

Yah I should have used a comma or something to make myself clearer.