The Dark G Star

[Vish]

The Dark G Star

Deep gnome monk20
Lawful neutral
Dark path
Requires a LR+1

Str 6
Dex 17 +3
Con 14
Int 14
Wis 18 +4
Cha 9
+6 tomes

Skills concentration, balance, jump, Umd, hide

1 monk shuriken expertise
Feat point blank shot
2 monk twf
3 rapid shot?*
Monk dark fists
6 monk 10k stars
Feat precise shot
9 ic:thrown
12 dodge
15 imp precise shot
18 icierce

21 oc
24 itwf
26 PTWF
27 blinding speed
28 doubleshot
29 chaos
30 astral
Gtwf

41 ninja
13 henshin
16 Shintao
8 Harper
2 dg

The playstyle.
30 sec 10k stars and 30 sec twf poison attacks

The perilous is the split
Kta is untested by I.
So I don't know how good it is, was going there with the Shintao build...
But,
The eta on u34 is now january,
So I'll save unarmed until then.
So I've decided to go full dark ninja
On a deep gnome. Barely makes the difference
I built this with multi playstyle, like a traditional ranger
It's all untested.
So I'll give up most of December delving into an iconic.
Lots of feedback to give here,
But shuriken and shortswords should do the job.

The trade off is abilities to go deeper into gnome
Or to lose Harper and do the same. For at least blur.
I'll have to switch it up and see.
Plenty of flexibility in the build,?*
Can already see its split hard and won't reach the 76 wis I saw on my henshin...
And the finishers are more crucial.
It'll be a twist to play both ranged and melee,
Like a good ninja, gotta know where to engage
Like a bad ninja, a touch of death.
Well at least heroics will be fun.
For all 5 levels of it...

I imigine this will be a shuricannon, or furyshuri
Never played one gonna see what it's about...

Still 30 as henshin, again.
Farming slavers and seeds for another week
2 epic martials and a monk
This run

[adrian69]

Feels like it is trying to do to much, but that's just my opinion.

My concern for a thrower is not maxing dex. What is your dex and wisdom looking like at cap? It seems this build is made for cap?

Otherwise, I've heard monk DCs are still poo-bar, so I'd toss all level ups into dex for 7% chance of extra projectile with DS% chance for another extra if you find DCs lacking at cap.

Interesting concept otherwise.

[unbongwah]

See my drow ninja thread. Free Shuriken Expertise is nicer than +2 WIS, IMO.

A few specific pointers:

3 rapid shot?*

If your question is "does Rapid Shot affect throwing weapons?" the answer is "yes, it does." But Quick Draw is more important and I don't see it listed anywhere. EDIT: duh, forgot Henshin lvl 6 core provides free Quick Draw - and it's even in my build! So NM...

9 ic:thrown

BAB is too low on a pure monk to take Improved Crit before lvl 12; recommend moving ITWF to lvl 9 and IC:Pierce to lvl 12. IC:Thrown is only +1 crit range on shuriken, so it can be delayed or skipped, IMO.

12 dodge

Drop this: you don't need it and you can't spare the feat if you want TWF+thrower DPS.

[Vish]

Couple notes
For U,
Shuriken expertise taken as monk feat is gravy,
The question mark gets inserted sometimes, no question
Core3 henshin sounding staff gives quick draw
And yes I have to take ic at 12. Thx.
I backloaded gtwf to 30 as kinda capstone

On LR+1
When you reincarnate using +1 or greater on an iconic
You have to choose class at character creation, not iconic
This will change your first level to what you want.
Learned that the hard way.
Thanks to Dionysus for quick response to ticket.

[DrawingGuy]

I've found melee/ranged hybrids to be quite fun, though the ones I've done were THF/Bow with many shot. And there are quite a few mixes out there that you can do that works well. And unbongwah, there is more to Deep Gnome than +2 WIS and INT (INT helps KtA): size. A smaller character makes it much easier to line up Improved Precise Shot... HOWEVER unless they've fixed it, Deep Gnome is throwing at Human height, thus negating this advantage. If this is what you are looking for, Halfling is the way to go (and they work well with throwing builds anyways).

If TWF + Throwing is a way that you are looking to play for fun rather than any form of meta gaming, then I really only have a few suggestions (other than considering race if the throw height is broken where you would be better served by Halfling or Drow):

Scion of Ethereal over Astral. Seriously boosting your SA all you can works well with TWF and Shurikens due to their volume attack style, and would give you MUCH more DPS than 8% DS would. Tactics is a non factor here as you're not investing into stunning moves of any type. You should be able to get your hide to 100+ and having it grant you ~35 SA damage before the 150% power scaling. Rogue past life (active) essentially becomes a +25 SA (before scaling) clicky, also making it a worthwhile investment.

You will be better served by Legendary Dreadnought. Without being backed by a Slaying Arrow, Furyshot loses much of its clout, and LD is superior DPS.


If you're considering Meta, honestly TWF would be a DPS loss over a properly set up shuri thrower. You should be getting a higher volume of attacks with a shuricannon than you do with TWF, hit multiple targets unlike TWF, are at the safety of ranged... and if you have proper SA, shuri would actually be superior DPS as well. Essentially you're just putting yourself in danger for no gain. And once you fully commit to ranged, there are a few other considerations:

Going Elf and diving to Arcane Archer to gain imbues (which you can make work with shuri and are very powerful) and a Many Shot bow swap for increased DPS. Though you can't go for a slaying arrow fury combo and capstone Ninja with this.

While the damage is very RNG and will require you to wear universal spellpower items to get proper damage, Shiradi is tree where you can give up a little DPS potential for a good chunk of CC. Especially if you lack imbues, nerve venom could actually push you ahead of LD for trash DPS while making it easier on you. Really, outside of a Slaying Arrow setup on a shuri build, I consider it being between this and LD.

[Vish]

D, thx for your insight
Yes I planned this build to cover several approaches
First it's a shuriken build, with twf thrown in
That's because I wanted a thrower and a deep gnome and a ninja
But the finishers are all melee attack
And building ki is all melee attack
So it's got a dual purpose
And I'm testing kta on this too
So I'm covering a lot of bases in this build
Mostly wanted to see dark path for monk
So it's got to be able to melee
Thus the twf and ic pierce
In addition to thrower build

So far I've tested in Gianthold and it's holding up
Got a tier2 Greensteel shuriken and pair of brushhooks
With 10k stars everything dies pretty fast
And it's all kill before it touches you easy
But the melee and touch of death require to close distance
Or like traditional ranger
Shoot until they close and melee finish them
So same playstyle

Now at epics, I plan to try out 3 Ed
Fury, shiradi and ld
I was thinking of a primal past life tho I could go martial
Because I want to do another epic as a dg Shintao
Almost same build, just ua
I want to see how each plays out,
Ya mostly a test build
So I haven't done any rouge lives yet
So can't take past life
But I maxed out hide on this build
Thinking of sneak attack cap
I'll have to look at numbers but I favor astral
Maybe if I do 2 epic thrower lives I can switch out and see the diff.
But now I'm inclined to go rogue next life...

[DrawingGuy]

Dark Monk is much better than Light Monk when you look at the finishers - tons of CC and debuffs, with some DPS moves, and Touch of Death is solid. Unfortunately Dark Monk is crippled by low DCs. They're fine in Heroic or EN, but outside of that they are trash. Even on a 100 WIS Monk you will not have them work. *IF* they fix Dark Monk DCs, I see it eclipsing Light Monk pretty heavily - not to the point of the early days of Monk as they did buff the finisher and FoL damage slightly so it is now strong enough to sustain you (if albeit a bit painfully) so there's more reason to go Light Monk beyond anti-stun for TOD... though they need to buff Harmonious Path finishers to have it actually compete with a Dark Monk that can reach end-game DCs.

Unfortunately all of this means that the only reason to go Dark path is for Touch of Death. Touch of Death used to proc on off-hand strikes (part of the reason everyone went Dark), but as the game scaled and this move did not. Now it finally does, and Melee Power actually takes it beyond what it used to do, but IMO, not enough to build around. However if you're already invested into Ninja Spy and plan on doing a solid amount of Melee, it is worth it as Cocoon is enough for self-sustain anyways.


Now for DPS comparison it really depends on how hard you hit vs your hide and melee/ranged power values. A quick and dirty way to see is before you take the level throw your shuri (throwing it multiple times and averaging the damage would be more accurate) and multiply that damage by .08 and you'll get about the DPS increase of Astral. Compare that to your hide value divided by 3 and then multiply it by your Melee Power (converted to decimal, so 150 MP would be 2.5 as you would need add +1 to include the base) followed by multiplying by 1.5 to cover the improved scaling Sneak Attack has. You then have to multiply this number by the number of shurikens. A quick example being extremely generous in favor of Astral:

1000 damage per shuriken * .08 = 80 average damage per throw

100 hide / 3 * 2.5 (150 MP/RP) * 1.5 = 125 damage per shuriken. This means that if you're throwing 3 shuris, that is 125 * 3 for 375 damage per throw. Depending on how high you can get your DEX, you can get yourself safely into a 3-4 throw with 10K stars adding a shuri and a chunk of RP which scales better with SA.

As you can see, though, Ethereal is significantly more damage. The problem, of course, is that Astral works on everything while Ethereal only helps on targets that you can get SA on. That's where Deception items, CCs like pin, imbues, and venom matter, etc. The more reliably you can make sure your SA lands, the more unquestionably Ethereal is the winner. If you're looking for DPS, many cases Arborea or Ethereal will beat out Astral. Astral, however, comes with 4 dodge cap, 4 Reflex, and 4 DCs. On tactics heavy builds or a Rogue Assassin, that can make a big difference if you are borderline (such as with Quivering Palm), and dodge cap is nice too. Essentially you're giving up DPS in favor of utility. I do that, but I also have 9 tactics-based moves I use.

[Vish]

Level 15
Ok jumped into ninja at 15
Brush hooks and a Greensteel star
And it's a thrower build
So I'm ranging and kiting backwards
Even tho I seem to have pretty good defenses
But I generate no ki throwing stars
Gotta go melee
So I find myself switching stances and weapons a lot
Generating ki for 10k stars has been the issue
Normal, I would melee n fire a bit
Then back up and throw for a few mobs
Or I can run just throw or just melee
The hooks do pretty good in fire
But I'm surprised at the damage of the Greensteel
Averaging 30 per star
And seeing some sneak damage too

So overall this beast is not pure fighter
And gets dps from 10k
But needs melee to generate ki
And about finishers
Not used them much
Used touch of death
But gotta melee for special attacks
Could only sustain that versus dragons in mired
Will be picking up envenomed blades at 16
And prob a couple melee attacks
So will melee then 10k to death
In groups just easy to hang back and provide ranged dps
Easy enough so far
Just so different from pure henshin with all it's special attacks
I am liking the deep gnome
And at 18 ic pierce so decent melee damage
I think this build will be fun and challenging

Already thinking of epic
Need cocoon and a couple tier1s
Enlightenment and dance of flowers
One of the secrets of the monk is its ki
Idle ki and passive regen
It's calculated at concentration times passive ki regen
So if you have 50 concentration and +2 regen, idle is 100
So enlightenment pays off because you end up with a higher ki pool
Because I was thinking of running gmof, but I think I can get around it by twists, and running ld.
Don't take the sneak regen that's worthless

Because the breakdown is 20 ki for 10k
At +2 regen you only get 10/30 sec, so 20 every minute
Just enough to fire it off, but you have no room for any melee
So it's a trade off working in ki regen to work 10k
And touch is 50. So you got to melee a lot before it
And cycle in some dark fists, so you charge a finisher.
That's what I'll work the most on is melee
Cause ranged is just too easy.

[Vish]

18 almost 20
Been meleeing
In fire stance
Using reed shadow double touch of death
Trying to work in finishers
But this is another point of contention
The three second cycle on a fist attack
Makes it 10 seconds to get a finisher off
Nothing lasts that long
And melee (I've got brush hooks, enveloped blades and dream edges)
Just is piddling average damage, even with 30 mp
So I've been charging into combat,?*
And this little monk is pretty tough
Can hang melee easy enough
But is really a thrower build
So the 10k comes either before or after some ki charge
It's really pretty versatile
Seeing touch of death hitting for 800
So melee a bit build ki and tod it
But that's for single trash mob
Got no aoe, no cleaves, no whirling anything
But it's hanging in there
I really wanted to see an effect of finishers, but
Using the neg level one, I see no difference
Haven't even tried the others
Haven't done any poison exploits,
The mark of the ninja
Guess I got more testing to try and figure out if it's worth it
As is, I'm gonna reallocate those 6 ap

But overall I'm not impressed,
It's ok, its versatile, it can hold its ground
But I liked the henshin better
But this is per epic, and maybe going epic Ed is what's needed

I could buy more melee attacks,?*
The mp/rp add is very noticed when used
Never use shadow veil, got good enough defenses without it
Well, it's just another ability I got to cycle in
But it's pretty lazy play just being a star chucker
Just left click or auto attack
Trying to line up monsters for ips
Sometimes it works
Getting better at it, kiting them in lines back and forth

Went to the monastery of the scorpion
Have to say that is a cool map and architecture
Had a three man group doing it
Was challenging, but in a good way
Mobs had about right amount of hp for a tod finish
And really tested my melee there
Got a chance to kite boss and rescue the group once
Even tho I can't Rez,
That's a serious downer on monks
Wont have the Umd until mid epics

Oh ya, poisoned darts
Try to use it, never seems to do damage
Low damage dot, everything dies too fast in group
I guess I would have different experience solo
But with no aoe I'd be slow going,
Definitely not really a Zerg build
And as always right around 18
Warlocks are owing everything
So it's easy to just take a back seat and add dps
I'll do more testing as I level up
But so far this will probably be a one and done
And never think of ninja again

Because I think they really missed the rework on ninja
In my monkey write up
I gave ninjas neg energy spellpower
And finishers that did neg energy damage
Would have completely complimented Shintao positive
And been awesome for mc palemasters
But as it is I see ninja taking the least award
Because I look funny running around in armor using green short swords.
I never sneak or hide, even tho I got the skillz
And I do see sneak attack damage on the shurikens
Just gotta be behind the mobs
So I'll probably take ethereal
Since its 30 anyways and I won't be there long
Just to see if it makes a difference in slavers
Won't need the d, will be ranged

So my assessment is at this point is
They could buff the hell out of this pre
And I'd still not play it
Ninjas should be able to use daggers and kukris too
Maybe then...

[Vish]

Level 20/21
Did some dailys got to 21
I have 330 crafting skill, and made a 21 set

Bracers str 10 fort 115 prr 25 green
Cloak int 10 dodge 10 green
Belt doubleshot 6 nat armor 10 colorless
Gloves dex 10 heal amp 40 ins dex 4 green
Cowl wizardry 203 stunning 10 yellow
Goggles wisdom 10 ins wis 4 yellow
Necklace con 10 devotion 115 ins con 4 green
Boots rng speed seeker
Ring1 prowess
Ring2 open
Trinket litany
Body garments of equilibrium
22 spider spun caprison

I'm really stoked. This is exactly what I wanted to craft. Items that are bis and generally usable to many classes. This setup will work for my monk builds, even tho a couple items may be more suited such as the helm and cloak.
But it should level me through 28, and take away all the Tetris I do in between. I mean I have 4 chests on the ship full of good rng I use for leveling, maybe make some shards off them now.
It was easy enough, to get my crafting skill to 330 in two leaps. One to 220 and a second to 320. Used about 1500 TP. I think thats pretty fair for the little time involved, and that I got an account crafter.
I used all augmented items, what I could gather on my own and what I find on the auction houses. And I had all the ingredients to make everything. I am getting low on some but I farm collectibles through epics so I should replenish. Used the +2 tomes from 1750 favor for purified. And it all took me about 30 minutes to craft everything.
After I worked it all out on paper
Oh the trick was getting house c favor for the marks. Ran the three quests on leet and presto, marks for free instead of 200 TP each!

Now, at 22 will be thunder forged and Greensteel at 26. And whatever else I may have stashed.?*
So that covers me to 28, and works for all three monk types plus melee in general.

Notes in general
Star chucking is easy mode. If you want a fight, you can melee.
But they're both about the same, shuriken pulling ahead with 10k.
Running in shiradi for now, seeing some procs. If I do primal, I'll grab another colors. Otherwise I'll test ld and fury as I do dailys.

Haven't slotted augments. Will look next in Vishs goodie bag.
Just so happy I completed a tr set.

[Vish]

Level 25
What is the assessment
Took improved martial arts at 24. For the .5 on shuriken
Thought combat archery but I don't think that works
Been taking the easy route
Spear chucker. Just Rp boosting 10k stars.
It does the trick,
Using tier1 tf shuriken, doin avg 100 dam shot
And there is a high rate of fire
Dex around 46, wis at 60
And good doubleshot with 10k
But it's only single target mostly
I line em up but ips is a tricky thing
And the other is to stand close, point blank
Running in shiradi
Sometimes seeing procs, running prism
Maybe I should switch to stay frosty?
Will start testing other eds, but I'm committed to a primal
Ki idle is fine enough, I run in water mostly
For the regen and saves

I guess my impression is shuri builds are supposed to be awesome
Haven't crafted a Greensteel yet, but maybe that'll make the difference. Don't know what it'll be yet. Tier2
But I'm not super dps or anything
I can generally take down a mob before it gets to me
And always stealing kills with high rof
But it's not really a ninja
That's the secret though
It's a full monk build
And it's got hella defenses
Enough to tank
I was tanking the golem end of von5 the other night
Got a laugh out of it
Just stood there and fired away
No damage to me
High saves, 120 AC, 40% dodge, blur, no real prr/ mrr
But mostly I don't get hit. Got a 70% defense rating
Highest I've had on anything I played
So it's suited to go full ninja
Going twf with short swords
But I dont go there,
I have tried it out, but I'd have to gear up
And this is a test run to 30
Mostly I'm finding the twf is too slow using finishers
Most fights are over in 10 seconds
So even though I've got some cool abilities
They don't see the light of day
Maybe I'll melee it from 25 to 30
I can make some base Greensteel to get an idea
But what I was thinking was a tf tier2 shuriken with paralyzing
That would be worth crafting
Usable on all monks

Now my proponency wasnt for ninja it was henshin
But I've seen ninja
I think touch of death should scale 400%
Just massively, and be an instakiller,?*
Or at least a 3/4 finisher
And I think the fists should be on a 1 sec cooldown
Then you'd have 4 sec finishers
This game is much faster than 10 years ago
Needs to be updated
But that's not going to happen, is it?

And I've seen others play ninja,
Better than me
But they weren't all that either
And complained about it
So I don't know what to bring it up to speed
I don't think the poison is effective
Never use the darts
But do have on sting of the ninja
I think it does little damage
Flavorful damage
So I think what's best about ninja is its allure
Not necessarily its uberness

But I can't really say until 30
Which will be a few more quests
I want to try out ethereal, since I'm practiced at
Sneak attacking

[Vish]

Level 30
Running in shiradi, water stance
Str 34
Dex 54
Con 52
Int 23
Wis 76
Cha 18
Hp 1045
Sp 300
AC 162
Fort 68
Reflex 81
Will 85
Spell res 40
Fort 268
Prr 79
Mrr 50
Heal amp 81
Pos 334
Doublestrike 31
Doubleshot 29
Melee speed 15
Ranged speed 22
Mp 69
Rp 63
Dodge 36%

Concentration 91
Hide 71
Jump 53
Umd 36

Gear
Head hardened hide
Neck slavers con +17 +4 resist +14
Goggles mentau
Trinket slavers symbol w true blood festive wis
body outfit of celestial avenger
Cloak rng ins wis +6
Braver slavers str +17 +4 stunning +20
Belt rng doubleshot 6
Ring1 prowess
Ring2 slavers wis +17 +4 devotion 185
Boots rng dodge +10 ins dodge +4
Gloves cannith dex +15 +7 heal amp 61 topaz of power 200

Twists
Sense weakness tier4
Lithe tier2
Dance of flowers tier1
Cocoon tier1

Ok made it to 30 pretty fast
+25% xp weekend
Will run here until next patch
Then I'll switch to deep gnome Shintao

Gear notes, couple items need upgrade
Such as cloak and belt
Cloak could be int ins wis
And belt could be highest doubleshot
And slavers str could be int

Because I ran know the angles,
But it seemed to make no difference
Even with a 36 int which I had using the cannith gear
But I feel kta is useful only on int builds
But I wanted to look at it, it figures into the Shintao build too
But seeing what I have I may drop it and take more henshin,
Or more Shintao, or more deep gnome
Since deep gnome racial seems pretty good

On the playstyle,
Just a ranged toon. Easy button autoattack
Line things up, stand behind things
Run away when mobbed, or kite backwards until dead
Or just stand there and tank it, lolz
This is a full wisdom shuri build, and it does fine
Awesome defenses, enough to melee, but mostly just a support toon
Because I've seen what the elf monkchers do, damage wise
And it's much better than pure monk
Must have to do with going ranger and getting special attacks
Because they out damage me big time,
And as far as I can tell this build can't get any tighter
So I'm not that impressed with shuri build
I feel for one monk feat I can take 10k stars and get just about as much mileage out of it, on any wis monk build, which all your monks should be.

At 30 I took ethereal, for the sneak adds,
Not really seeing improvement in damage, just on soft targets
But only got 70 hide. Could add 20 with a slavers item, maybe int hide bracers. But definitely better on a rogue build.
Well this was a test run anyhow,
And it performed pretty well
I wish I had went more ninja at times, but I didn't invest into the weapons needed. Didn't have a shard for a epic envenomed blade, so I thought I won't go there...
Still haven't ran a shroud, may save that first time xp for next LE, and upgrade the shuriken then.
Oh ya, something else I tried. Since I have a triple pos staff I used it. Hits just fine, procs, and then can switch back to shuri. I found it funny. It didn't do as much damage or have extra blows, but it worked fine for affirmation. Never used it much tho, just wanted to see.
Will probably make a double pos shuri, short comps for the tier3.
But I've definitely noticed shroud getting easier, what with the slavers creep. Will be putting it back on the schedule.

Really my issue is with ranged though.
It's just too easy. No defense needed and pure offense. And everything dies before it even reaches you.
No challenge,
I can see why the game has gravitated to warlocks and monkchers.
Easy button builds that remove any challenge.

They need to make warlocks blast and burst cost spell points
And ranged needs a big nerf. Or they need to increase ranged on monsters damage to be similar. Everybody rushing to kill the archers while melee beat on them.
Because I get this is fantasy, but ranged toons are way overboard.

I'm thinking next life will be a mechanic.


Ps
Notes on Ed's
Ran fury, ld, and shiradi
Fury I didn't like, didn't seem to help much
Maybe moreso for bow users
Dreadnought was good, lots of boosts and easy to keep blitz up
Ran a couple million xp testing it, like it well enough
But I really like shiradi for the +6 wisdom add
And rainbow or stay frosty
So I got a primal life out of it

[Vish]

Post 30
Upgraded the shuriken to tier2 pos pos
Makes it good, I can kill abishai now easy
Fixed my shiradi
Omg I didn't have whirling wrists in there...
Then I switched to wind stance
58 dex 70 wis
After talking to a famous monkchers about his build
I guess dex trumps,
So I'm learning that I could switch the stats
And maybe increase dps
So I'm thinking of switching wis for dex in shiradi and enhancements
Can probably swing +8
Missing quality dex
May put that on a special slavers item, with hide

Because I'm liking the ease of this build
Ranged is so gravy
Just select target rednamed and it stays cemented
The you can move around
So much better than melee engagement
And I slotted a protection +8 in the hardened helm
Make it über defense
Jacked my AC up to 169
199 in mountain

So I'm just farming seeds and running slavers twice a day
The end fights are all I'm there for,
How a pug handles it is always fun
And usually a challenge
Most groups are overperforming
But some struggle,?*
And then you gotta turn it on
I've already felt a 100% increase in dps
Since I made said changes
So I'm gonna further tweak this build and report back

Ki consumption is something else to note
Concentration is 90, so my idle is 180
But I don't melee to increase it,
After shrine I meditate, just to push it
When running gmof, there is wholeness of spirit
Clickie to restore ki
I found that primer for fights
Because I've been using diversion
And it's 50 ki
But it's good aggro magnet when Nerals is on yer ass

Ya I'm gonna tone down wisdom
That will decrease my ranged power on 10k
But it will still be over 100
And maybe higher dex equals higher rof?
Not sure what that formula is...
I didnt think it worth it over higher wisdom
But I dont use finishers
So the DCs aren't needed
It will also lower my AC, but that may be offset by dex

Gonna stay here until Christmas
Then reroll into the dark Phoenix

[Vish]

On the wind stance build
64 dex 64 wis
Shuriken expertise, dex is % extra shuri = 64
10k stars wisx2 rp = 128

So I'm seeing 130% doubleshot, 157 rp during boosted 10k
Avg on dummy is 200+ per hit, 400 on 10k
Avg rof is 2 shuriken, often 3, sometimes 4
Dps is over 10k

Lot of left clicking for mobs
Bosses are easy
Mass dps from behind
Takes big chunks out of hp bars
Crits to 1000, 2000

Don't really know the sneak tho
I line up behind, usually seeing chunk damage for 400-1000
And I saw poison on the dummy, 150

Overall it's a killer
And it's got defenses too
169 AC, 36 dodge, blur, Stoneskin, invis on hit, 87 reflex, 80 will
And he's deep gnome small
So nobody aggros him anyway

Breakdown on ap
41 ninja
9 Shintao
13 henshin
17 deep gnome

In ninja took out the finishers
Maxed helpless damage, goes with sense weakness
And works in slavers meta
Sneak4,agility3,acrobatic3,boost3,sting,+2 dex
Touch, deadly striker, shadow double
All stuffs for melee are no use but flavor
Shintao for best adds
Reed1, deft3,iron skin3, core2
Henshin for best adds
Mystic3,turtle,contemplation3,+1dex, core3 for quick draw
Deep gnome for good stuff up to Stoneskin
Underdark3,hardy3,nimble3,stoneskin2, core4 for +2 wis
Shiradi is
Stay frosty2, prism, rainbow, double rainbow, whirling wrists3, +4 dex, nerve venom3

The next best thing I can do is go slavers set
With 5 pc might
For +2 dex/str. Will break the avg for extra star
But I'm looking long term as henshin, so it works just as well
Then I'll pick up artifact bonuses
Minor gains but might make the difference

I'm running +101 to hit,highest I've ever had
Ya I don't count the extra damage in on the dps avg, just the overall
Overall it's an easy monster build
Go ranged or go home