15K armor worth it?

Ello,

I currently have Ascetic's Dragon design for my monk and wanted to know if the 15K armor (Ascetic's Water design) found at Granite Citadel is worth the upgrade in terms of energy.

1.5k and 15k armor are exactly the same in stats. No difference except in looks.

On that note... I'll be postponing my travels to Granite Citadel.

15k armor for any prof has same stats as droks. just different looks

Instead of saying different looks, lets call it better looks. The only case where a 1.5k armor is better looking than 15k in my opinion is Kurzick Female Monk Armor. Transforms your hot little monk from a hip looking hottie into a prude looking secretary.

this can only be determined by the buyer, for some it is for some it isnt

edit: same goes for fissure armor (looking at my av one can guess my answer)

So would 40 energy for a monk be expected with Ascetic's Dragon design, Brohn's Holy Rod and Byzzr's Benediction?

as has already been mentioned the stats are of course the same, generally with 15k armours they will look better to the buyer than the 1.5k alternative, but considering Tatoos are Tatoos and complicated drawn little patterns anyway there is no large difference in looks either, best stick to the 1.5k and if it is for 55 monking you don't even need droks Tatoos, most go for Lions Arch tatoos

Droks armor is the cheapest best armor you will find. Anything above that (not including factions) will just be looks. 1.5k droks and 1 million+ FOW armor is the same stats just different looks

55 Monking, what is that?

55 monk is a build using superior runes on all of your armour pieces and a focus from an Ascalon Quest reward which reduces your health by 50 to give you 55 Health, you use Prot Spirit which does not let you recieve damage above 10% of you max health (55) so you take very small amounts of damage and use Mending to recover with, and Healing breeze to give a very quick recovery, you use Blessed Aura to increase Enchant Length, Balth Spirit and Essence Bond for energy and Mending for innate regen. Then you use Shield of Judgement to deal damage to anythign that attacks you, i can go a lot more in depth but perhaps we can talk in game and i could teach you

I'd appreciate that, thanks... I have 100K to spend on runes so we can talk in game as it sounds like you have lots of knowledge

Actually it should be 49.

30e defualt
7e Ascetic's Bonus
12e Byzzr's Focus

And as for the 55 farming techinique; it's dying with the growing popularity of the Shirtless build. I recently made the switch and farming with the latter is a lot easier and faster than 55 farming.

This is assuming you have Factions along with Proph, because the skill Spirit Bond is needed for the Shirtless build to work.

I don't have Factions. If I do decide to buy it, can I use the character I have in Prophecies?

Yes. You can use factions characters in prophecies, prophecies characters in factions....etc etc..

I have 3 of each as a matter of fact.

if you add the factions key to your existing account then yes.

Since you don't have factions, your only option for monk farming is the 55 Monk build presently. I would suggest either farming Mountain Trolls in the cave outside of Droknar's Forge or Minotuars at the beginning of the Elona reach mission.

Always farm in moderation aslo, wouldn't want to be mistaken for being a bot and get banned.

I was going to complete Guild Wars Prophecies first then buy Factions, is that a good idea?

Of course, lots to learn and alot of skills you would like to have in prophecies. If this is your first character, which i'll assume is, i would go through prophecies with a couple characters.

agreed..good choice but i got proph. first. non the less dont regret it since factions is still a good game. better farming spots in proph tho .

I have been checking out the monk armor sets for Factions too on the web. Are there any monk armor sets with higher energy than Ascetic's Dragon design?