Theory crafting the celestial monk

[Vish]

Vish interested in collaborating on a monk build? I need a guinea pig with good monk gear. Preferably one with good evocation gear as well for soundburst leveling, or cannith crafting.

Ya I got good monk gear
But I'm running an assassin right now
And next I got a barb,
Then 41 will be here
And I'll prob do a vkf ek gnome
(I have savior)
So that's prob next two months

But I been thinking about heroics
Seems the nerf everything to 2w has happened
So only monk I'm considering,
Is a str henshin
With splash of Druid
So maybe some fvs for divine might and soundburst?
I can craft any cc
But I've had bad experience with soundburst,
So no gimmes there

Let me know

[Vish]

Kil gore v2
Ln aasimar
20 monk
Shintao

Str 8 0
Dex 14 6
Con 16 10
Int 12 4
Wis 20 +7 16
Cha 8 0
+8 tomes
+2 complete

Umd, conc, balance, jump, heal, search

1 monk dodge
Feat stunning fist
2 monk mobility
3 monk twf fist of light
4-6 monk spring attack
Feat CE
7-9 monk whirlwind
10-12 monk itwf
13-15 monk gtwf
16-18 monk ic blunt
19-20 monk

21 oc
24 imp martial arts
26 PTWF
27 completionist
28 mass frog
29 dire charge
30 astral
Feat Pl monk

Ap
41 Shintao core6
27 falconry wis to hit damage wisdom kta 20% helpless core4 +2 wis
3 henshin tortoise
9 (+9) aasimar +2 wis regen loh +10% hp hamp

Running in gmof

Note
Return to the 100 wisdom monk for Sharn

[Kodwraith]

Vish,
I think I'm runnig the exact same thing (once I get back to cap).

What does your current gear setup look like? I assume you're still running the Avenger + Adherent sets?

[Vish]

Ya,
Same setup as on previous page of this thread
And same as I'm running on soulrazor build
Hasn't changed since ravenloft came out
I don't have the trinket from kt,
And I don't have visions of precision,
Even tho I saw that drop today in a r1 DOJ
Was passed to a guildy I think. And that monk had 3300 hp
So that's testament to reaper points

There is slight diff on the soulrazor build
I'm running the qual prr bracers, over the insightful doublestrike
On a ranger running in dc, there are more ways to stack doublestrike
What with thousand cuts and reaper boost, I can keep ds maxxed quite a bit
So I opted for the prr. And the diff there is about +25 over the monk
But on the monk, I have one weapon and go for max base ds

Don't know what Sharn will bring
I don't really expect to change up my gear
The only place I have to play is goggles and trinket
If I got the kt trinket,
I asked Lynn to make up some accuracy doublestrike goggles
But that's a corrupt a wish
And we made pally goggles
So I don't know what will come
I think they're gonna build for medium and heavy armor
But we'll see...

[Vish]

Level 6 holding 7
Rerolled yesterday morn
Ran harbor to 3 did ww stk catacombs to 5, ran misc quests to 6
Haven't been to 3bc yet, that's next. Then 7s then Von
leveling very easy once I got the reaper points
Healing hands very useful
350 hp 50 AC 17 dodge. Using eternal rest for reapers, vorpal otherwise. Dps is good once I got wis damage.
Only thing of note, I pulled some ml1 bracers of expeditious retreat from Sharn chain previous life. Been putting them to use this life. Very nice! Now I have run speed. I never got the quiver from anniversary event, instead I got liturgy. Now its obsolete with ravenloft profane. Oh well. These bracers are very sweet with 5 clickies. Using them in and out of quest. Best qol I could wish for at low level.
Otherwise ran some r2, very easy. Good dps, stunning fist gravy. Loving easy levels.
Will post stats at 8.

[Vish]

Level 8
Reaper
Water stance, CE
Str 22
Dex 26
Con 32
Int 23
Wis 40
Cha 18
Hp 473
Hamp 50
Sp 90
Pos 128
Ki 37/195
AC 73
Dodge 23/27
Fort 27
Reflex 24
Will 31
Bab 6/8
Doublestrike 15
Melee speed 4
Melee power 12
Fort 105
Prr 50
Mrr 15

Gear
Helm executioners
Neck slavers con
Eyes rng wis
Trinket slavers symbol
Body rng robe
Cloak rng int
Bracers slavers str
Belt rng dstrike
Ring1 slavers wis
Ring2 rng cha
Boots rng speed4 ff
Gloves rng dex

Ap
(9) aasimar
12 falconry
20 Shintao

Notes
Zooming it. Did 3bc, tear gwylands pit von1-2 some necro, some misc
8 holding 9
Nothing much to note, got jade strike, will have tomb at 9
Got to 8 put on slavers
Quests too easy, running with vets
Will do some 8s and 9s today
10 is ravenloft gear. Mostly just disciple. Maybe swap out couple other things.
Running a 30% 6 hour pot. So I'm kinda zerging stuff. Easy on r1 r2
Post stats again at 13.

[Vish]

Level 13
Reaper
Water, CE, meditation
Str 22
Dex 30
Con 37
Int 25
Wis 50
Cha 18
Hp 873
Hamp 75
Sp 140
Pos 181
Ki 42/270
AC 109
Dodge 37/38
Fort 36
Reflex 35
Will 47
Bab 9/13
Doublestrike 10
Melee speed 4
Melee power 21
Sr 23
Fort 110
Prr 73
Mrr 35

Ap
(9) aasimar
36 Shintao
16 falconry

Ap
21 dread
14 dire
25 grim

Gear
Helm executioners
Neck cc con
Eyes gs wis hp
Trinket slavers symbol
Body disciple
Cloak rng int
Bracers cc str sheltering heavy fort
Belt cc dodge nat armor
Ring1 slavers wis
Ring2 pinnacle
Boots rng ff speed4
Gloves spectral
Barovian wraps 2w +58 +50 19-20 x3

Notes
Ya super hp after 10. Running mostly r2 r1 for Zerg, r4 with vets
Didn't do wpm or slavers, did all ravenloft. Did sands did von1-6 and tempest, all at level. Trying harder now to get some reaper xp in heroic.
Damage wise doing ok. What with stunning fist and jade strikes, and whirlwind, reaper is pretty easy. Back in the saddle on my monk. Super AC and dodge for low levels, hardly take damage. Tho for amber I wore the curse bane trinket that has mrr for the flame skulls. Seems I can't get around that otherwise. They hurt.
Gear wise I forgot to put on my lvl10 ff boots, they have insightful dodge, so I'd have full dodge in reaper. Will do that tonite. Otherwise pinnacle adds a half die and does cc in water. So I've got great defenses, great cc, and doing pretty good dps. It won't get any better than 2.5 for heroics with improved vorpal, until 18 when I get a +1. But at 20 in epics I should be at 6.5. No further gear until 15 for planar compass, chieftain and ring of prowess. But qp at 15.
Ap wise got my tier5. I don't take kukan do. Now points in falconry to get killer instinct. Thatll be some dps boost but mostly qp boost.
Loving monk. Gonna push for reaper points. 15 to get wings so like 2 mil. But I'm gonna stay at cap and run deep reap if I can. Or like r5 on my own groups. Best pugs can handle unless you got a healer. May keep running with the knights, couple of them are leveling same as me.
But overall easy life, I'm enjoying this monk.
Will post notes for changes and insights. Will post DCs when I get to 15 or so.

Edit
Forgot scraps of enlightenment
Pulled them, 3w
Also put on my ml10 ff speed boots with +1 insightful dodge

[Vish]

Ok level 16
Put on the planar compass, has ghostly, so switched to my cc dex gloves
Also at 16 swapped slavers wis for chieftain
At 17 I get prowess, not sure if I'll swap, I have 2 rings chieftain and pinnacle
Maybe swap pinnacle, since I don't have an accuracy item. Not sure if needed
The gs goggles are +6 wis and hp, may be fine.
With chieftain I think I saw 54 wisdom in reaper

DCs
Stunning fist is 59
So is jade strikes, tomb, and dismissing strike
Basically no fail in heroics
For qp, I saw 43? 54 with killer instinct

Now for a major patch
I have Updater problems downloading new patches
So I usually wait a day or so to try it
Seems server loads drop me and I have to retry multiple multiple times
It's such a pain
If anything it will be what gets me to quit
But it eventually works,
I just days
So maybe by the weekend I'll be back in
Will be behind the groups I was leveling with
Oh well, I'm going to epics,
And waiting for Sharn to drop
Will be pushing dailys for reaper points
And I've got a few items I want to farm
A belt from wrath and another scimi from toxic
Prob bad timing
As all the vets will be tr into tie fling to get back racial completionist
I should have done my last two dwarf lives
But I kinda wanted to get back in the saddle again
Heroic monks are just fine with good gear
That was what I was looking at

[Vish]

Level 18
Reaper
Water, CE, meditation
Str 23
Dex 34
Con 40
Int 26
Wis 55
Cha 19
Hp 1186
Hamp 162
Sp 140
Pos 190
Ki 50/330
AC 118
Dodge 40/40
Fort 51
Reflex 53
Will 57
Bab 13/18
Doublestrike 10
Melee speed 6
Melee power 19
Sr 28
Fort 110
Prr 95
Mrr 49

Ap
9 (9) aasimar
38 Shintao
25 falconry

Gear
Ring1 prowess
Ring2 pinnacle
Trinket planar compass

Notes
Got the update downloaded next day. Usually I lose a few days due to Updater issues, but I got lucky. Now however I've got another issue with launcher. When I press play after I sign in and autos selects Sarlona, I get get a message says ddo is already running and close to continue. Never seen that before. But if I close the launcher it stills loads up the game and gets me into the world. Otherwise it stays open until I close it. Idk a bug or new feature? Never had it happen before. Bugged launcher? I hope not, but now I'm kinda worried. I guess well see.
As to play. Still not using my qp enough, I forget it. I'm used to hitting stunning fist and then dps. So now I need to open with qp, switch and use stunning fist. There is some ki usage issue tho, as I need to build ki more to run full out. Regular dps doesn't always sustain it, especially running in groups where's there's added dps. Just a mental switch mostly, I usually have the ki. And mostly go for high value tgts like champs. Also I use jade strike and tomb, mostly against reapers, but they eat ki too. So mostly working on the balancing act.
Ap wise got aasimar filled, so 10% hp and bookoo heal amp. Ya I'm surprised I have 162 hamp. That's nice for heals, tho I don't take much damage. What with 120 AC 40 dodge and 95 prr I'm standing pretty solid. Also almost 1200 hp. So really a reaper beast. Again been running like r2 and r1 just to max xp, but can easily handle higher. But like I said, don't like to go over 3. So I need 3 more for Shintao. 3 for henshin, and I guess 2 for falconry for helpless. So I've gained a total of 4 points over the last build, all from racial. I don't plan on getting that universal ap tome, not at 3500. Can't really justify 35 bucks for one point.
Gear wise all that's changed is I swapped chieftain for prowess. I lose 3 wisdom, but that's a wash with max stats anyhow. Much better served by the accuracy deadly and little mp. And I keep pinnacle for the cc. Planar is decent but I'm hoping for some new level 15 trinkets in Sharn. Don't know what tho, the ghostly is needed for this build.
Reconfigured reaper ap a bit. Mostly took out the first and put in two and three. Little bit more hp. I figure Sharn out by may1, so I'll have prob 3 weeks at cap. Maybe make 3-4 more reaper points.
Didn't include wraps stats, forgot, but got +1w at 18, and still using scraps since they're base 2.5. So now I have 4w. Don't really see a dps increase. At 20 will get grave wrapping, sentient and put in prowess. And have dance and be around 6.5, or maybe 7. 2+2+1+1.5+.5
But really, with stunning fist this is pretty top dps build. Also wwa every 6 seconds so it keeps up aoe. Plus a instakill. So I just need some more practice getting down my timing and landing my routines. Got all of epics to work on it.
Saw my first tiefling today. A 18 fighter. Nice horns, tail worked good behind the cloak. Surprised at fighter, but it was a vet known for running ranger at cap. Thf with SOS and stunning blow. I was keeping up with his dps. I will prob run my tieflings as fire lock and sorc. Haven't ran a sorc in a long time. But I prefer melee. Maybe do an ek too. But they look cool very demonic, will suit warlock just fine.
Otherwise, I'm going hunting for a new mouse next week. Been having issue of having to click twice on some things. So the clicker has lost some sensitivity I guess. For as much melee as I've used it over the past four years, it's prob due to retire. It works fine for melee attacking on the screen, but sometimes won't click on buttons the first time. So I'll get a new one.
So buddy bonus this weekend. Only have like high road or devil battlefield to hit 20. That will be tomorrow. Then some 20 quest and hit 21 and put on new cc. Also edf, so my hit points should increase another 300-400. Plus 100 from reaper. So I'll be huge. Already usually always highest hp in the groups I run. And I'm still short wings. It's coming.
Ok next post at 21.

[Vish]

Level 21
Water, CE, meditation
Edf, ascendant bond
Str 27
Dex 40
Con 45
Int 33
Wis 75
Hp 1711
Hamp 185
Sp 140
Pos 247
Ki /460
AC 152
Dodge 40/40
Fort 65
Reflex 64
Will 73
Bab 16/21
Doublestrike 24
Melee speed 15
Melee power 110
Sr 42
Fort 125
Prr 138
Mrr 50

Ap
9 (9) aasimar
3 henshin
41 Shintao
27 falconry

8 dread
16 dire
36 grim

Gear
Helm executioners
Neck cc con falselife30
Eyes cc wis melee alacrity
Trinket planar
Body disciple
Cloak cc int dodge resist6
Bracers cc str sheltering25 prot6
Belt cc doublestrike nat armor ins dodge good luck
Ring1 prowess
Ring2 pinnacle
Boots rng speed6 ff
Gloves cc dex hamp
Grave wrappings 7w 18-20 x3 +89 +70 5pc prowess

Twists
3 haste
2 melee power
2 imp CE
1 extra action boosts


Notes
Did a few misc quests to get to 20. Then did some orchard slayer and dailys to get to 21. Will aim to do reaper chains this life, but all I didn't do was slavers, disciples and grim, and no storm horns and a couple wheloon. So not as much first time xp. But aleady flagged for shroud and DOJ.
Really 21 is a sweet spot. Edf at 20%, reaper grim for 100, and max cc gear. 1700 hp is pretty massive. And 150ac and 40 dodge. To hit numbers are good, and seeing double damage with stunning fist make the 10k mobs go down pretty fast. Running eh, palm was working. Ya 10% from aasimar and 5% from falconry.
75 wis is pretty max. I could slot a festive wisdom in the goggles. I don't know if I have an extra one? I think I may have one on a set of mentaus I don't use anymore. Will look. Also melee alacrity on goggles is super sweet, don't have to rely on the boots.
Prr is good, mrr is maxed. Saves are good. I don't change out gear til 28 and 29.
Yep, so pretty much a round of chains and a daily each day. Will put on prob a level each day. Got about 30k to my next reaper point. I will be farming until Sharn comes out. Another month or so. Need a scimi and a belt. May tr once for a divine life. I'll see if there's any deep reap going when I get to 30. Maybe vets be doing tiefling. Will prob take most of the month? Idk or 3 days each at speed some of them go.
Didn't post DCs, I always forget to look them. But fist works fine, and qp is fine in eh without killer instinct. Still having ki build issues, but I rarely switch to fire. May practice with it a bit. Just depends how hard I'm rolling.
Will post again with DCs or any further comments

Other notes
Had a major snafu this morning. I was like 3k from max heroic, and I was gonna farm devil assault in market. Go to step into quest and get a loading screen hang. So I alt f4, and wait 5 mins, and start launcher up again. However, it gave me opening movie cut scene. Ya I've been having some issues. So I hit enter to exit that and I get back into game, but now graphics have been reset, and they are all at max. So I been running directx9, and having a few problems with game crash, and I can't alt tab to windows. Been having that problem for a while. It used to work. So I'm in game by da in market, and I goto options and set my graphics to medium. It crashes the game saying it won't initialize directx. So now I'm stuck running high graphics. I run medium to keep the steps off the gpu, since I'm using a now 4 almost 5 year old laptop. But it runs ddo just fine. Still I know there's a workaround, I saw it on the forums. Basically gotta install old directx libraries and it should fix it. So I ran da anyways, got to 20. Leveled up, pulled my grave wrappings and pulled the gem and prowess from my ml29 barovian longsword I used last build, and fitted it. So then I logged off. Looked on boards for the fix, found it, waited til noon, 4 hours later, and fired up the computer. Basically I had to download and install directx. Did that. And also updated my radeon settings. There was an update, so I did that as well. I had been holding off, since everything was working just fine. So I updated that and installed directx, and fired up the launcher. Got to play, pressed enter, and then during the startup got a message that it detected I can run directx11. So basically I thought this was a fix for directx9, and said no. So it launched, and I get into the game. Settings still on high, I'm in options, says its running directx9, and I try to change settings to medium. Crashes the game. Can't initialize errors. Well so much for that. So it boots back out to windows, and I wait a few minutes and launch it again. This time when directx11 message comes up I select yes. Get into game, it's running directx11, and I switch my graphics to medium. It flashes black, changes to medium and presto it's working. I also did an alt tab out, and it minimized, and when I clicked on the icon, loaded back ddo. So that's working.
So long story short, I'm now running directx11. I played for a while, and noticed the laptop heating up. Normally I run it and it never gets hot. I also alt tab out and checked the task manager, and gpu was running about 50% while ddo was idle. While playing I also noticed that the game seemed more choppy, like a little bit of lag. But it played fine.
So tonight I played some more after another 4 hour break. Mostly to check on the heat issue and the gameplay of the choppiness. I played about an hour and half, the computer warmed up but didn't get hot. But I still noticed it wasn't as smooth as previuosly.
So everything's running, I haven't tested a raid, but doing dailys it did just fine. Seems like some micro lag, but I'm guessing directx11 is more gpu cycles? Idk, I'll have to keep testing.
So good news is I'm playing, but I don't know what the future holds. This update really messed up some stuff. When I press play from the select world menu, it seems to launch another copy, and I get the message in the launcher that says another copy of ddo is running, and close to continue. So far I close it, and it continues to load game and work, but something tells me things are not right.
Man, I need a new computer.
But for now, the journey continues.

[Vish]

Disclaimer,
Theory crafting ahead

New setup for Shintao

Ring1
Radiant Ring of Taer Valaestas Ring Minor Artifact
Minimum Level:29
Maximum Filigree Slots: 3
Wisdom +22
Quality Accuracy +8
Insightful Deadly +8
Chaos Absorption +31%

part of the family
Artifact Set Bonus: +10/15% Doublestrike, +10/25 Melee Power, +5/15% Helpless Dmg, +2/5 All Saves

Soldier's Outfit Outfit
Minimum Level: 15/29
Fortification +94%/+214%
Physical Sheltering +19/+54
Healing Amplification +30/+85
False Life +29/+81

Hammerfist Gloves
Minimum Level: 15/29
Doublestrike +9/+23
Threat Reduction +25/+62
Seeker +8/+21
Insightful Deadly ???/??? 8?

Family Recruit Sigil Necklace
Minimum Level: 15/29
True Seeing
Armor Piercing +12/+33
Deadly ???/??? 17?
Relentless Fury


The Cornerstone Champion Raid Belt
Minimum Level: 29
(QUALITY STR, DEX, WIS +5) wis5
Reinforced Fists
Melee Alacrity +15%
Accuracy +34

Wildwood Wrists Goggles
Minimum Level: 29
(INSIGHT INT, DEX, WIS +10) wis10
Insightful Doubleshot +6%
Insightful Accuracy +17
Insightful Deadly +8

Ring2
Celestial Amethyst Ring Ring
Minimum Level: 15/29
(INT, DEX, CON +8/21) con21
Improved Deception
Dodge (or Insightful Dodge if you guys would like that more)
Profane Attributes +1/+2

Missing
Helm
Trinket
Cloak
Boots
Bracers

Legendary Bracers of the Fallen Hero Bracers Strength +19, Insightful Constitution +9, Stunning +22, Quality Physical Sheltering +12, Empty Green Augment Slot , Adherent of the Mists Set (Legendary)

Legendary Flightfoot Greaves Boots Freedom of Movement, Speed +30, Natural Armor +19, Reflex Save +16, Empty Yellow Augment Slot , Adherent of the Mists Set

Legendary Mask of the Vulkoorim: Dexterity +19, Dodge +19%, Reflex Saves +16, Armor Piercing +31, Empty Green Augment Slot , Trace of Madness

Silver Dragonscale Capelet Cloak
Minimum Level: 29
(INSIGHT STR, DEX, INT +10) dex10
Dodge +21%
Insightful Sheltering +28
Cold Absorption +51%

Trinket
Slave lords
Wiz371 resist14 concentration22 qcon4


Notes
Ok converting from silent avenger and adherents to part of the family
Adherents
+20 profane prr
+10 profane melee power

Silent avenger
+15 artifact doublestrike
+3 sneak die
+25 artifact fort bypass
+10 artifact helpless dmg

Part of the family
+15 artifact doublestrike
+25 artifact melee power
+15 artifact helpless dmg
+5 artifact all saves

Wisdom
22 minor artifact ring1
10 insightful goggles
5 qual belt
2 profane ring2
Over previous 20+7+4+2, gain 6

Dexterity
19 helm
10 insightful cloak
2 profane ring2
Over previous 19+9+4+2, loss 3

Constitution
21 ring2
9 insightful bracers
4 qual trinket
2 profane ring2
Over previous 17+9+2, gain 8

Melee power
25 artifact set bonus part of the family
Over 10 profane adherents, gain 15

Physical sheltering
54 outfit part of the family
28 insightful sheltering cloak
12 quality physical bracers
Over 50+24+12+20, loss 12

Magical sheltering
28 insightful sheltering cloak
Over 52 cloak of Strahd +16 sheltering augment, loss 30
However, mrr cap is 50. Can still slot augment for 44, near max

Accuracy
34 belt
17 insightful goggles
8 quality ring1
Over 23, 36 gain
This is huge

Deadly
17 necklace
8 insightful gloves, ring1, goggles
Over 16, gain 9

Doublestrike
23 gloves
15 artifact set bonus
Over 17+15, gain 6

Armor piercing
33 necklace
Over 25 silent avenger set bonus, gain 8
Don't use molten gauntlets

Seeker
21 gloves
Over 17, gain 4

Dodge
21 cloak, ring
Over 15+4, gain 2

Saves
14 trinket
5 artifact set bonus part of the family
Over 14+9parry from disciple, loss 4
Reflex stays same at +16

Natural armor
19 boots
Over 20 Fleetfoot, loss 1

Fortification
214 outfit
Over 202 disciple, gain 12

False life
81 outfit
Over 40 augment, gain 41

Heal amp
85 outfit
Over 0, gain 85

Stunning
22 bracers
Over 22+8+4, loss 12

Helpless
15 artifact set bonus
Over 10 set bonus, gain 5

What stays the same
Relentless fury, from helm to necklace
Freedom of movement/speed 30, boots both cases
Concentration 22, from goggles to trinket
Strength 19, both cases bracers

What is gained
Wiz371 trinket, for frog
Cold absorption 51, cloak
Improved deception, ring2
Melee alacrity 15, belt
True seeing, necklace
Threat reduction 62, gloves
Chaos absorption 31, ring1

What is lost
Reinforced fists vs superior rf, loss 1w, this is kinda huge
Ghostly
Insightful deception 7, from exec helm
Wind thru the trees, from Fleetfoot
Invisibility guard
Nightmare guard
Soul of the elements, from pinnacle
Blurry, from braided cutcord

Notes
So the new Sharn stuff in almost all ways are gains over the ravenloft setup. The major difference is in accuracy, which I couldn't improve on the old set. Also 6 wis and 8 con is a pretty big boost. Prr/mrr stay relatively the same. Melee power is a gain at 15.
So basically this is an even meaner version of monk. Needs 2 raid items. The gain of 85 hamp is pretty welcome. Lose the ghostly, but I can slot an augment for that. Gain melee alacrity, which I didn't have, and gain wiz371 for frog. Along with a 250 augment, should be good for more casts. Lose soul of the elements, which is pretty useful cc. Gain threat reduction 62, which is pretty nice. And the magical sheltering won't be a problem with past lives. Lose some stunning, but those are op numbers anyhow with killer instinct. The loss of 1w from superior fists is upsetting. Unless that is changed on the raid belt. I have petitioned for it.
So overall I am impressed at the changes. Mostly for the better. Now to have to farm everything.

[Vish]

Level 26
26 holding 27
Reaper
Wis 77 hp 2000 AC 155 dodge 40 prr 138
Stunning fist 73/89
Quivering palm 58/74
Jade/tomb/dismissing 80/96
Grave wrappings 8w 18-20 x3 +87 +71

Notes
Ok got a request to update the build. Like I've said I don't really post updates unless there's a gear change. Will get slavers at 28, ravenloft at 29, couple last pieces at 30. But here's a mid epic snapshot.
Mostly running a series of dailys in the morning, and chains in the evenings. Really not making big xp like on the iconic life, since I ran mostly everything in heroic. But running all reaper for the chains, and finding I can pretty much solo at level. Tho of course I run with others. I just prefer company. Soloing is so boring.
Not much to note. Didn't really run the lower epic quests, like I haven't done red fens at all, and I rarely do the big top chain, I just don't really like it. Did the Von's was in Gianthold at 24, tho I haven't finished it.
Running with the knights sometimes, running pugs, not really leading stuff much, since I'm trying to group up more. A few things of note, I jumped into a LH tethymar at 24. Found it to be pretty easy. There was like 3 first lifers in the group, and a couple 30s. I don't know if they were looking for loot, you'll never find it on LH. But I did tethy in heroic so I wasn't getting any bonus, it was the only lfm up and I wanted to see how I would do. Had a first life monk in there, he was 24 too, and had 450 hp. I had like over 1200. He didn't even have edf turned on.so I helped him a bit. He was at leat using stunning fist, but was complaining of needing a good build. Ya there is quite a difference between newbs and vets. But I've really seen a lot of first lifers in epics on Sarlona lately. Seems they are coming back or are new, but I'm surprised at the number.
Other note. Last night got into arguably a group of all stars. People I know and have deep reaped with. They were around 26-27 and we were doing the challenges. I was expecting them to do mid reapers, but they were fast tracking to 30. Ya 600k in an hour. Best xp in the game pretty much, even tho I get pretty close to that doing dailys. But it felt good to be included with the best on the server. I am well known, and known for bringing the dps, and I'm on my best build, my aasimar monk. So when I get to 30 I'll hope to be running with them some more. Only thing is, they talk on discord and I don't use discord. I just prefer to use the in game voice, it's one less program my laptop has to run, and I don't like to tax it.
Likewise, since I switched to dx11, the computer has been running hotter. I'm not sure why? It must be processing the gpu more. But I've been monitoring it and the heat isn't too bad. That's why I only run for a couple hours at a time. Also, it doesn't crash to desktop anymore. Occasionally had problems with that with dx9, and it would close and I'd be disco and have to get back into the game. So no more problems. Other than some stuttering. Seems the video is more choppy than dx9, like micro lag. But running yesterday it seemed to smooth out. So maybe it will get better over time.
But the numbers at 26 are good. Picked up improved arts at 24 for 1w, and at 26 got PTWF and have full 25% with edf. 2000 hp at 26, I can easy hang reaper 30 at this point, and will be looking to play up. Stunning fist almost always works, as do the jades, but quivering palm usually needs killer instinct to land. Pretty much got my timing back, but still I sit on killer instinct for mostly longer fights or boss fights.
I should be 28/29 this weekend. I'll try and get in a slavers run, and a shroud, and whatever chains are being run at 30. Most of Sarlona knows me and I get accepted even when under level. It's feels good to be well thought of. But I've worked for it.
Ok, next post at 28.

[Vish]

Level 28/29
Ok level 28
Was holding 27. Took 27, completionist. The ran some dailys early and then a r2 slavers last nite. Since I didn't do slavers in heroics, it was all first time and it was worth over 400k.
Took 28. Replaced executioners helm with legendary, put on the symbol, since I get ghostly from gmof. Put on slavers con necklace, that brought me from 1400 to about 1750. Also, swapped out pinnacle for slavers wis ring. That was about a 11 pt increase, and I think I saw about 88 wis. couldn't replace the bracers, since my cc had sheltering 25 on it. Also, at 28 took mass frog.
So this morning I was 28, and ran the last 3 of gh I needed on r1. Trial, maze and tor, and took the 92k gem. Then I got into a r4 dailys run, and did lost at sea, memoirs, and c1 of ravenloft. That got me to 29, and 61 reaper points.
So at 29 I took dire charge and put on gear. Put on legendary disciple, cloak of Strahd, and braided belt for silent avenger set. Put on Fleetfoot necklace, Fleetfoot boots, bracers of fallen hero, and crumbling gloves. Also swapped the wis ring for a slavers con qwis ring. Keeping lprowess on until 30 when it gets replaced by pinnacle, giving me the adherents set. Also at 30 goggle and trinket.
So I saw 93 wis 207 AC and 187 prr. I will get 3 more +2 festive wisdom from the goggles, and I saw 39 doublestrike, will get 17 more from trinket. Also put on duality. Saw 14w. Ya I had been using triple pos LGS wraps since that slavers run last nite, since it's overall higher dps and gives me 1000 hp. Nice having 3k hp.
I did fine in the r2 slavers, had a couple deaths at end of assault in boss room, but we kinda struggled there a bit, had 4 30s a 23 Druid and me at 27. But we handled it. In the r4 dailys this morn had pretty much a vet team and cakewalked. But really I was saving asses with my healing hands. Since we didn't really have a healer.
So another 600-700k to 30. A shroud a chain, maybe some dailys. Maybe by tomorrow.
Will post stats at 30.

[Quikster]

Kil gore v2
Ln aasimar
20 monk
Shintao

Str 8 0
Dex 14 6
Con 16 10
Int 12 4
Wis 20 +7 16
Cha 8 0
+8 tomes
+2 complete

Umd, conc, balance, jump, heal, search

1 monk dodge
Feat stunning fist
2 monk mobility
3 monk twf fist of light
4-6 monk spring attack
Feat CE
7-9 monk whirlwind
10-12 monk itwf
13-15 monk gtwf
16-18 monk ic blunt
19-20 monk

21 oc
24 imp martial arts
26 PTWF
27 completionist
28 mass frog
29 dire charge
30 astral
Feat Pl monk

Ap
41 Shintao core6
27 falconry wis to hit damage wisdom kta 20% helpless core4 +2 wis
3 henshin tortoise
9 (+9) aasimar +2 wis regen loh +10% hp hamp

Running in gmof

Note
Return to the 100 wisdom monk for Sharn

Yo man, was looking at doing something similar here. I am taking a short break from farming racials and going to monk it up with my Aasimar lives. Curious how you're liking it. I am torn between choosing two of the following three feats: Completionist, past life monk, and precision. I noticed you left precision out. Any thoughts to sway me one way or the other (will likely try it a few ways or swap the feat before a TR to see how it differs.) Thanks!

[Vish]

Yo man, was looking at doing something similar here. I am taking a short break from farming racials and going to monk it up with my Aasimar lives. Curious how you're liking it. I am torn between choosing two of the following three feats: Completionist, past life monk, and precision. I noticed you left precision out. Any thoughts to sway me one way or the other (will likely try it a few ways or swap the feat before a TR to see how it differs.) Thanks!

Ya, , many swear by precision
For the to hit and fort bypass
Truth is I've not noticed much difference
I go for the .5w which brings duality to 14.5
But then I don't reaper raid as much as I'd like,
And I see you're roving guns, I run with guys sometimes,
But I'd prob drop the pl monk for precision
I usually always take completionist on all my builds,
I like the +2 stats

As a matter of fact I may take precision this life and further test it
But like I've said I run like r5 dailys,
And I kill just fine

Edit,
Oh I know what I was going to say
I have like 125? To hit, that's with a 23 accuracy on the goggles
But with Sharn, the above gear set comes out +36 over this current gear set
That's like phenomenal diff in to hit
Should really drop out the grazing damage
So precision may not be needed
But I'll take it this run and see where my grazing hits are

[Quikster]

Ya, , many swear by precision
For the to hit and fort bypass
Truth is I've not noticed much difference
I go for the .5w which brings duality to 14.5
But then I don't reaper raid as much as I'd like,
And I see you're roving guns, I run with guys sometimes,
But I'd prob drop the pl monk for precision
I usually always take completionist on all my builds,
I like the +2 stats

As a matter of fact I may take precision this life and further test it
But like I've said I run like r5 dailys,
And I kill just fine

Edit,
Oh I know what I was going to say
I have like 125? To hit, that's with a 23 accuracy on the goggles
But with Sharn, the above gear set comes out +36 over this current gear set
That's like phenomenal diff in to hit
Should really drop out the grazing damage
So precision may not be needed
But I'll take it this run and see where my grazing hits are

We had quite a discussion in guild on this, some have also taken deflect arrows. I have three lives to try it out so will probably try a few combinations.

[Vish]

A tale of two raids
Omg what a day
So last nite I was 29, pushing to 30
Did r1 mines, then hopped group to do some memoirs and grim r4. Then they wanted to do a wpm, but I already did it earlier, on like r3 for first time, so I bailed. Then a r4 rage came up, but I hadn't done the first one, I thought I had done it in heroics, but no. And the leader didn't want to run the first again because he already had. So then I saw a r1 shroud come up. Got to Meridia and no one was there. That's when I realized it was a Strahd misspelling, so I went to first tavern. I had flagged in heroics, so I was good to go. This was being hosted by the roving guns, I sometimes run with them, and they were being led by a first life bard, but I think it was their guild leader. I have confidence in the guns, they a good bunch of players, and leader was using voice.
So we get into quest, rahadin and hates go down pretty easy. The hates cast a curse on you that lowers your hp, and I had my curse dispel with fists of light going on, and I was cycling it, but it didn't seem to work. So I got killed in the first fight. Sigh. But they cleared the room, and carried my soulstone. Then we got to the stairs. This turned out to be a challenge, we were halfway up when we got hit from behind, and lost like half the group. Leader said regroup at the bottom, and we did, and they drug the hates down there and we killed them. Then we worked our way back up. Got to the crystal, I got gripped along the way, so second death. I always have the luck of getting gripped. Never seems to fail. So then we rezzed and went into the crystal. I was doing fine, but was trying to dodge circles, and I guess I got killed. Not sure how that one happened. But I think I was the only death. So they carried me back, and we shrines, and I got back my death penalties. So now the real challenge, the card room. As usual we took up columns and opened when it was time. I found a card on b row. But ppl started dying, and we found all the cards, and they called out mine, but I had gotten swarmed by skulls and got killed. However, they were quick to recover, and got ppl up, and by the hair got all the cards in order. So that happened pretty good. So then we went to Strahd. It was a first time kill fight, I stuck on Strahd, they had very good aggro management. They had a tank for Strahd and a tank for the brides. They were very well separated. So we prepped the brides, and took down Strahd, and finished the quest. It went pretty smoothly overall. I got lucky and pulled sanctity. I offered it up, but there was only one taker. Llint, a player who only plays barbarian, and is known for his llint no do puzzles, got the sword. I was happy to pass it to him, so now he has a raid thf. You're welcome llint! So overall the raid was a relatively easy success, and I thank the roving guns.
So that got me to within a sliver of 30, and I realized I hadn't taken my heroic saga reward from ravenloft. So I grabbed that and capped out. Put on the trinket and goggles, and put last 2 points I had saved into grim, for the mdb and cap.
So then this morning I was going to do stats, but a raid came up. LH baba and Strahd. So I figured I give it a shot. Baba is always easy enough, but I'm always leary of Strahd pug groups. So we have a few of the knights running it, and some players i wasn't too familiar with. But baba is pretty easy, mostly a dps test. So it goes pretty smoothly, I helped dps totems and saved the frogs for the scarecrows. We had a couple fvs and a cleric, but the fvs on my side wasn't frogging totems so we just dps them. The puzzles went smoothly, had dedicated puzzle solvers, and got through just fine. Dps baba down and did it again. On the second run there were no wisps. This is second time now I've seen that, not sure if it's bugged or not, but made it pretty easy. Again though the puzzles, we were taking turns frogging. I have enough for like 10 casts? And you have wait the timer cool down. But it went well, and we were out to baba again. As it happens I get hut aggro right off the bat and have to kite around. Monks are fast, and I got sprint boost too, so no problem. We take out the wisps, take out the scarecrows, and just dps baba. Usually you take out the mounds too, but somebody was kiting them, and we just dps real hard and got her. So smooth run of baba. I didn't get any loot.
So then we moved onto Strahd. Had a few drops and a few pick ups, but I thought we had a decent party. But leader wasn't using voice, so I had my concerns. Usually the knights are talkers, but we were running silent mode. Just commands in the type. Also had a couple Chinese players with us. So we get in and get buffed and goto rahadin. Get him in the corner, take him down, and take down the hates. This time my curse fists were working. So I cycled that as we fought. Then we cleared the room and went for the stairs. Had a couple trappers, and they were leapfrogging. I am always dps. So I take the lead sometimes and take out the skulls or the skeles, and the hates. So we work our way up to the top pretty good. Had a few deaths but we kept everybody. So then it was crystal time. This time I did better and was able to dps and take everything out, but we lost like half the group. That's was an omen. So then we get the sunsword and go and use the shrine, and then prep positions for the card room. Seemed everybody knew what was going on. I took c column. Well as usual it's go time and we opened doors and I found a card and reported it. Was hanging out waiting to pull it as the others were found, but ppl started dying. Then I got some aggro, I can kill the skulls pretty fast, but the hates I can't handle one on one. So I ran to the SE, but we had swarms and I got killed. Ya it's a ***** waiting a 2 min timer. So we had 3 of 5 cards pulled, but when pulled the fourth, it seemed to be wrong one. So we had to reset, and then more ppl started dying. We had all the locs of the cards, and a couple ppl were working them to get it finished, but ppl kept dying. So then we wiped. Well we waited it a bit and got ppl off timers, and then started to Rez in the SE. But we had greater gates around and I was at 5 deaths, so that lowers your hp quite a bit. And we wiped again. Couldn't keep the area clear. So we reset and I took a turn to jibber, and raised a couple ppl, but still was having problems with the respawns. So others were raising and we kept at it, and someone got the cards in order, and we finally succeeded, but it was pretty rough cost. Most of the healers were half hit points, and we had to wait over 5 min to get everyone off death timers. Usually the raid ends in the card room on a bad pug, but this was a tenacious group and we kept at it. So then it was time for Strahd. Kilolal on his fvs had the sunsword and was tanking Strahd, but we couldn't keep aggro on the brides, so it was kinda a cluster. A few ppl were dying. And we got the brides prepped, and we got Strahd down to a sliver, then killed him, but I guess one of the brides respawned and we had to do it again. So there were some dead ppl, and we were prepping strahd, and prepping the brides, and it took some time, and finally got to kill Strahd, and then kill the brides, but we got the sword in too late, and they respawned again. So third times the charm right? So we went at it again, ppl were dying, ppl were rezzing, I stayed alive and stayed out of the mists, and just kept on Strahd, since I'm mainly dps. I would aggro the brides, but ki shout is broken, and I'm probably best use as main dps. So we go at it a third time. With about 3/4 of the group up. So again we prep the brides prep Strahd, and kilo goes down. So the guy with sunsword goes down, and all you can do is kite until he gets raised. Everybody is out of mana, working on lower hp due to death penalties, and I'm out of action boosts. So kilo gets rezzed, and we go at for the third try. Kill Strahd, but somehow one of the brides was killed to early and respawns. So at this point we been in the quest like 2 hours, and I'm thinking of just quitting. Because you know if you got it or not. But leader says one more try. We get most of the people up, we get to work on Strahd, and someone, one of the monks, kites the brides around. But kilo goes down again, and I have strahds aggro, so I kite in circles waiting for Rezzes. Most of the ppl are up, and kilo Rezzes and we take our final turn at Strahd. The brides are prepped, we take down Strahd we take down the brides, the sunsword gets plunged into place, and we get a victory!
I guess forth time is the charm. Everybody is elated, for a monstrous undertaking, and testement to the tenacity of players to finish. It really was a team effort to make this happen. So then we goto chest. I didn't get any loot. But a calamity dropped for kilo, but he put it up for roll. I wanted it since I wanted to a khopesh build in the future, likely a ranger build. So there were a couple of us on it for the roll. Inezt rolled a 95. I typed in my random die generator, and omg, a 100! So I got lucky and got passed the calamity. That more than made up for the time it took.
So I want to thank the knights for hosting, it's always a pleasure to run with you guys and gals, and in the end you finish, and get the loot!

[Quikster]

A tale of two raids
Omg what a day
So last nite I was 29, pushing to 30
Did r1 mines, then hopped group to do some memoirs and grim r4. Then they wanted to do a wpm, but I already did it earlier, on like r3 for first time, so I bailed. Then a r4 rage came up, but I hadn't done the first one, I thought I had done it in heroics, but no. And the leader didn't want to run the first again because he already had. So then I saw a r1 shroud come up. Got to Meridia and no one was there. That's when I realized it was a Strahd misspelling, so I went to first tavern. I had flagged in heroics, so I was good to go. This was being hosted by the roving guns, I sometimes run with them, and they were being led by a first life bard, but I think it was their guild leader. I have confidence in the guns, they a good bunch of players, and leader was using voice.
So we get into quest, rahadin and hates go down pretty easy. The hates cast a curse on you that lowers your hp, and I had my curse dispel with fists of light going on, and I was cycling it, but it didn't seem to work. So I got killed in the first fight. Sigh. But they cleared the room, and carried my soulstone. Then we got to the stairs. This turned out to be a challenge, we were halfway up when we got hit from behind, and lost like half the group. Leader said regroup at the bottom, and we did, and they drug the hates down there and we killed them. Then we worked our way back up. Got to the crystal, I got gripped along the way, so second death. I always have the luck of getting gripped. Never seems to fail. So then we rezzed and went into the crystal. I was doing fine, but was trying to dodge circles, and I guess I got killed. Not sure how that one happened. But I think I was the only death. So they carried me back, and we shrines, and I got back my death penalties. So now the real challenge, the card room. As usual we took up columns and opened when it was time. I found a card on b row. But ppl started dying, and we found all the cards, and they called out mine, but I had gotten swarmed by skulls and got killed. However, they were quick to recover, and got ppl up, and by the hair got all the cards in order. So that happened pretty good. So then we went to Strahd. It was a first time kill fight, I stuck on Strahd, they had very good aggro management. They had a tank for Strahd and a tank for the brides. They were very well separated. So we prepped the brides, and took down Strahd, and finished the quest. It went pretty smoothly overall. I got lucky and pulled sanctity. I offered it up, but there was only one taker. Llint, a player who only plays barbarian, and is known for his llint no do puzzles, got the sword. I was happy to pass it to him, so now he has a raid thf. You're welcome llint! So overall the raid was a relatively easy success, and I thank the roving guns.
So that got me to within a sliver of 30, and I realized I hadn't taken my heroic saga reward from ravenloft. So I grabbed that and capped out. Put on the trinket and goggles, and put last 2 points I had saved into grim, for the mdb and cap.
So then this morning I was going to do stats, but a raid came up. LH baba and Strahd. So I figured I give it a shot. Baba is always easy enough, but I'm always leary of Strahd pug groups. So we have a few of the knights running it, and some players i wasn't too familiar with. But baba is pretty easy, mostly a dps test. So it goes pretty smoothly, I helped dps totems and saved the frogs for the scarecrows. We had a couple fvs and a cleric, but the fvs on my side wasn't frogging totems so we just dps them. The puzzles went smoothly, had dedicated puzzle solvers, and got through just fine. Dps baba down and did it again. On the second run there were no wisps. This is second time now I've seen that, not sure if it's bugged or not, but made it pretty easy. Again though the puzzles, we were taking turns frogging. I have enough for like 10 casts? And you have wait the timer cool down. But it went well, and we were out to baba again. As it happens I get hut aggro right off the bat and have to kite around. Monks are fast, and I got sprint boost too, so no problem. We take out the wisps, take out the scarecrows, and just dps baba. Usually you take out the mounds too, but somebody was kiting them, and we just dps real hard and got her. So smooth run of baba. I didn't get any loot.
So then we moved onto Strahd. Had a few drops and a few pick ups, but I thought we had a decent party. But leader wasn't using voice, so I had my concerns. Usually the knights are talkers, but we were running silent mode. Just commands in the type. Also had a couple Chinese players with us. So we get in and get buffed and goto rahadin. Get him in the corner, take him down, and take down the hates. This time my curse fists were working. So I cycled that as we fought. Then we cleared the room and went for the stairs. Had a couple trappers, and they were leapfrogging. I am always dps. So I take the lead sometimes and take out the skulls or the skeles, and the hates. So we work our way up to the top pretty good. Had a few deaths but we kept everybody. So then it was crystal time. This time I did better and was able to dps and take everything out, but we lost like half the group. That's was an omen. So then we get the sunsword and go and use the shrine, and then prep positions for the card room. Seemed everybody knew what was going on. I took c column. Well as usual it's go time and we opened doors and I found a card and reported it. Was hanging out waiting to pull it as the others were found, but ppl started dying. Then I got some aggro, I can kill the skulls pretty fast, but the hates I can't handle one on one. So I ran to the SE, but we had swarms and I got killed. Ya it's a ***** waiting a 2 min timer. So we had 3 of 5 cards pulled, but when pulled the fourth, it seemed to be wrong one. So we had to reset, and then more ppl started dying. We had all the locs of the cards, and a couple ppl were working them to get it finished, but ppl kept dying. So then we wiped. Well we waited it a bit and got ppl off timers, and then started to Rez in the SE. But we had greater gates around and I was at 5 deaths, so that lowers your hp quite a bit. And we wiped again. Couldn't keep the area clear. So we reset and I took a turn to jibber, and raised a couple ppl, but still was having problems with the respawns. So others were raising and we kept at it, and someone got the cards in order, and we finally succeeded, but it was pretty rough cost. Most of the healers were half hit points, and we had to wait over 5 min to get everyone off death timers. Usually the raid ends in the card room on a bad pug, but this was a tenacious group and we kept at it. So then it was time for Strahd. Kilolal on his fvs had the sunsword and was tanking Strahd, but we couldn't keep aggro on the brides, so it was kinda a cluster. A few ppl were dying. And we got the brides prepped, and we got Strahd down to a sliver, then killed him, but I guess one of the brides respawned and we had to do it again. So there were some dead ppl, and we were prepping strahd, and prepping the brides, and it took some time, and finally got to kill Strahd, and then kill the brides, but we got the sword in too late, and they respawned again. So third times the charm right? So we went at it again, ppl were dying, ppl were rezzing, I stayed alive and stayed out of the mists, and just kept on Strahd, since I'm mainly dps. I would aggro the brides, but ki shout is broken, and I'm probably best use as main dps. So we go at it a third time. With about 3/4 of the group up. So again we prep the brides prep Strahd, and kilo goes down. So the guy with sunsword goes down, and all you can do is kite until he gets raised. Everybody is out of mana, working on lower hp due to death penalties, and I'm out of action boosts. So kilo gets rezzed, and we go at for the third try. Kill Strahd, but somehow one of the brides was killed to early and respawns. So at this point we been in the quest like 2 hours, and I'm thinking of just quitting. Because you know if you got it or not. But leader says one more try. We get most of the people up, we get to work on Strahd, and someone, one of the monks, kites the brides around. But kilo goes down again, and I have strahds aggro, so I kite in circles waiting for Rezzes. Most of the ppl are up, and kilo Rezzes and we take our final turn at Strahd. The brides are prepped, we take down Strahd we take down the brides, the sunsword gets plunged into place, and we get a victory!
I guess forth time is the charm. Everybody is elated, for a monstrous undertaking, and testement to the tenacity of players to finish. It really was a team effort to make this happen. So then we goto chest. I didn't get any loot. But a calamity dropped for kilo, but he put it up for roll. I wanted it since I wanted to a khopesh build in the future, likely a ranger build. So there were a couple of us on it for the roll. Inezt rolled a 95. I typed in my random die generator, and omg, a 100! So I got lucky and got passed the calamity. That more than made up for the time it took.
So I want to thank the knights for hosting, it's always a pleasure to run with you guys and gals, and in the end you finish, and get the loot!

Yeah that Strahd misspelling was due to someone saying Shrahd in chat multiple times so it was as joke more than anything. Was a good run other than the lag :/ frustrating trying to solo heal (the other two fvs were melee and did help with spot heals) through that lag with my cleric tank lol. Thanks for coming and sharing the lewtz!

[Vish]

Level 30
Reaper
Gmof
Water, CE, meditation, edf
Bond of the protector, ascendant bond
Astral, silent avenger, adherents
Str 41
Dex 63
Con 63
Int 32
Wis 102
Cha 32
Hp 2580
Hamp 165
Sp 390
Pos 230
Ki /530
AC 222
Dodge 47/47
Fort 94
Reflex 101
Will 107
Bab 20/25
Doublestrike 58
Melee speed 15
Melee power 149
Sr 42
Fort 218
Prr 219
Mrr 50

Balance 67
Concentration 95
Heal 81
Jump 57
Search 43
Spot 87
Umd 43

Ap
9 (9) aasimar
3 henshin
41 Shintao
27 falconry

4 dread
16 dire
41 grim

Stunning fist 115/138
Dire charge 120/143
Quivering palm 74/97
Jade/tomb/dismissing 120/143

Twists
3 haste
2 melee power
2 improved CE
1 extra action boosts
1 open (took tactics again)

Gear
Helm executioners mythic1 prot8
Neck Fleetfoot draconic power250
Eyes cc acc23 conc22 inswis7 festwis2
Trinket cc dodge15 doublestrike17 insstun8
Body disciple mythic2 def16
Cloak of Strahd
Bracer of the fallen hero good luck mythic1
Belt cutcord mythic1
Ring1 slavers mythic1 con17 resist14 qualwis4 reaper prr
Ring2 pinnacle true blood
Feet flightfoot cha7
Gloves crumbling mythic1 falselife40
Duality 14w 18-20 x3 +120 +109
Ruby good, ruby vampire slayer
Prowess 5pc oam 2pc vigilance wisdom

Epic stances
Colorsx3
Doublestrikex3
Bracex3
Aasimar scourgex1

notes
Ok, changes from about four months ago
Got +8 tomes, so a few extra points in some stats, only 1 to wis since I had 7 tome
Did elf and warforge pl for 1dex and 1con
Got +2 racial tome and 2 pl for 4 racial ap
Went from 54 to 61 reaper points
Same gear set, except bracers. Swapped to fallen hero for the qual 12 prr, instead of the insightful 10 doublestrike. However not seeing it on the char sheet. Should be around 230, but it's only 220, from a previous 216 without. Idk everything in this game is buggy, and one of reasons I post these notes are to see where discrepancies lie. And if I swap them out I only go down to like 210, so who knows? It's exact same gear I've been using since ravenloft came out.
Otherwise, gained 1 wis to 102. That's from the 8 tome
Likewise should have gained 3 dex but only shows an increase of 1. 1 from pl and 2 from tome, since I went from 6s to 8s. Again who knows?
Con seems to be right. Gained 4, 1 from pl, 2 from tome and 1 from reaper. Really wanted to do that last dwarf life for +1, would have evened it out.
I gained a couple hundred hp. 4 from con would be 60, even all 8 points into grim would be 64. So that's be 124 with 25+10+5 multiplier, so maybe 50 extra. Ya almost 200. But reaper config is a bit different, so some of those were 4 hp gains. Another buggy thing.
AC went up a dozen points. I can see couple from dex and 1 from wis, but not sure of how it went up over 10. I'll take it though.
Biggest increase was in dodge. Went from 42 to 47. 3 points of that from reaper grim, which I learned mdb when I was running the soulrazor build. But I had 40 on this build before I chose astral, which gives 4 mdb. And 3 from reaper makes 47. So seems somewhere in there I got +2 from my previous build. Another mystery.
Of course these numbers aren't set in stone. But I try to write them down as I'm standing in a r1 quest, without any buffs. When I run with like bards and other players, I see stats and numbers go up due to buff age, but I don't figure that stuff in on base numbers. But it is strange to see discrepancies when it's the same build and same gear, just 4 months apart.
Also, doesn't seem to be adding in the 1 pt doublestrike from aasimar scourge life. Unless that is compounded by the martial 9 doublestrike, from epic lives. Idk I thought they stacked.
Likewise, my saves seem to be higher on this version over the old. I can see 1 from the wis gain, and a couple from the dex and con gain, but it's higher than that by a few. O on second look, will is ok fort is ok, but reflex actually went down, even tho I gained dex. Go figure. Ahh, could be from reconfigure of reaper in grim. Since I took less prr reflex to pick up the con mdb and capstone. So saves look good.
Otherwise DCs are similar? The only one I really care is quivering palm. And I went from a 101 buffed to 97. Not sure why. I do remember having over 100 on the old build. Just to note, the above numbers were taken before I twisted in combat tactics. So should be about 6 pts higher. In any case the fist and charge are like no fail, without buffage.
Melee power came out exactly the same.
So overall, the only real changes were slight AC increase, 200 hp increase, and dodge from 42 to 47. So I'm happy.

Running notes
Ok so just got to 30. As always I can hang r1 raids
This morning, Chinese were running reaper groups. Joined an r8 for archons, but that wasn't filling, so I jumped to a r5 doing c2.
Had a warlock with holds leading, so did raven door and mad tea party. We're pretty easy with holds. Then they broke to sleep.
So a r10 rage came up. This was a chain I hadn't done yet, so yummy first time rxp on r10. The leader was looking for ranged and heals, but I know I can bring it, so I sent him a tell. He asked me how many hp I had. 2600. So he sent me a vite. Ended up having a couple clerics with wings in the group, and serious hp, like 3500 and 4000. But we had no cc. But I think one of them was an earthquake cleric, since they were dropping tgts to the ground. My stunning fist worked fine, I have good dps with prowess boosts, and we did the first three. That's all I had time for. Got like 6-7k rxp each for them. Thing about Chinese, they all seem to have their wings now. Guess amber did them good. But r10 is a different game, you really have to have your tgts cc or not engage. I did fine, stunning fist working overtime, and tombing the reapers. Omg the reapers. On r10 you get spawns of like 4-6 at a time. Definately more than I'm used to. Trick is to use your jade strike and tainted strike. They act as tombs, but just on like crit rolls only. So it's like you have 3 tombs. And jade strike cycles faster so you can use it more. But I didn't have too many deaths, and with two clerics we were keeping hp up, so it really wasn't too hard. That and those first two rage dungeons have lot of soft melee tgts, so you can stun everything. Oh ya dire charge too.
So I need to work on my timing some more. Wasn't really relying on quivering palm, even tough it's there. And running enhanced ki item, it's like I have full ki bar at all times, so no worries of not going full press. Likewise I wasn't paying attention to my ein, and didn't use it. That's the intensity of r10 tho. Every fight is a fight. I just need to get relaxed back into running higher reaper, and pay little more attention to my charges.
Ya, on boosts. So I twist haste, melee power and extra action boosts. Have 10 of each, and 10 sprint boost, which triggers prowess too. Too bad they nerfed prowess, that was a real goto. All the way from 100 to 50. Just shows devs don't know what they're doing. But that's what I twist, so I can keep up sustained dps. Mostly for bosses or champs, but that's what I use them for.
Oh ya, on hp. I guess I did add some from 2 more ap into henshin for turtle. So that makes up the diff.







Notes
old monk stats, from 4? Months ago
The art of mudra ryoto
30 monk
Ln aasimar protector
Gmof, water, meditation, impCE, deffighting
Silent avenger, adherent of mists
Astral, ascendant bond
Reaper
Str 20
Dex 62
Con 59
Int 30
Wis 101
Cha 31
Hp 2384
Hamp 165
Sp 390
Pos 213
Ki /525
AC 210
Dodge 42/42
Fort 91, perfection of body
Reflex 103
Will 106
Bab 20/25
Doublestrike 67.9
Melee speed 15
Melee power 149
Sr 42
Fort 218
Prr 216
Mrr 50

[Vish]

Level 30 update
Turned in favor
Deneith, jorasco, harpers, gatekeepers, PDK
For 5 hp each
2618 hp in reaper
May refigure dire to 14, since that's all you need for 4 wis,
And put into grim, or maybe dread for mp
Not much gains maybe 8 more hp
30k from 62
Been running r5 dailys with pug, some r10 with vets
Did last two of grim chain, subversion and multitude, got like 7k each? Since first time
I think all I have left for first time is archon chain, will get reaper only first time out of it. Will do those today and see.
Feel like I can solo r5. Dire charge is pretty no fail
Got my timing back with stunning fist and quivering palm to charge ein. Mostly depends on type of targets in quest. Can charge pretty fast, and save for a tough spot. Or couple times if quest is long.
Run in the early am, like 4-6, with Chinese. They do a lot of high reaper. Run sometimes in evening with vets 4-6pm. Don't find enough 30s during the rest of the day.
Raiding still isn't happening. Hardly ever see pug raids when I'm on, haven't seen a killing time at all. Maybe hafta post and get times from ppl. Haven't seen some vets on. Seems raiding happens towards weekend mostly. Saving ddo points for raid timers. Have enough for 10 or 15.
Have 6m in martial, but all martial epic lives are done. So that will sit. Have 6m in divine from last ranger build life, will maybe er sometime and roll back to 30. Have about 3 mil in arcane. Sometimes I do EE dailys for tokens, if nothing else is going on and 30s aren't on. Forget to switch destinies and fill it. Will work on that some.
So basically just reaper dailys. Haven't done an amber yet to see changes. Will try and fit that in soon.
Been pulling ml29 loot. Will swap to bank so vish can fill his gem. Too bad for vish, I intended him to be a raid cleric, but I just don't run him at all. He still needs a calamity, I'm getting close to the Strahd points needed. Maybe a few more r1 runs.
Other than that, just waiting for Sharn.

Other notes
This last update patch was a miracle. Was able to download patch with no errors. First time that happened in like a year.
Also, the computer is running smoothly. Had some heating issues when I switched to dx11, but now it seems to be running fine with no overheating. Magically fixed itself. Or it took time to reconfigure. Either way I'm happy.