Legendary Survivor - the safe, easy and quick way to XP farm the title

maybe im just a noob but has any 55 monk tried using a shield/focus with -x while enchanted? A 55 always uses the -50HP Grim Cesta offhand - there's no other way to get there without it (excluding death penalty) so i'm not sure i understand your question.

Vengeful Weapon (or would the healing from VWK & VW not be enough and is Spirit Bond needed either way?)T
Great find! Thanks Spirit Bond is essential, they'll carve you up without it.
Drop Soothing Memories and replace with Spirit Bond.
VW not needed but keep it in. VWK and smites will more than be enough.

You weren't running Shield of Absorption were you? If so, bad idea

Even at 100AL on a W SB will trigger so unless you were mitigating the damage somehow, the damage they inflict shouldn't decrease.

Low numbers should be taken care of by the +7 to +9 HP pips using the second Mo/R or Mo/Rt bonder. I used starter armor on dervish, did not use any damage mitigation except life barrier. Guess they just had way too many phew attacks or maybe I re-did spiritbond without it turning off first. Either way I was stupid and ended up losing my survivor char.

I used starter armor on dervish, did not use any damage mitigation except life barrier. Guess they just had way too many phew attacks or maybe I re-did spiritbond without it turning off first. Either way I was stupid and ended up losing my survivor char. What skillbar and atts were you running?
Something's amiss - furious axe and triple chop (with the occasional cyclone axe) hit for 65 to 78 damage on a 100AL Warrior in HM. On a 45AL Warrior in NM, about the same with LB up, 75 to 100 with it down.
An E/Mo in AL7 receives around 45 to 65 from furious, triple and cyc with Life Barrier up in NM, about the same in HM in AL60. I've often seen SB fire off on hits as low as 31 with PS, SB and LB active, in NM and HM.

SB should trigger at least once or twice per second (up to 5 times in HM), that's 110 to 550 healing per second with SB, LB and LA up. As long as you're outhealing the damage inflicted, it's dead easy. I can honestly say i've never died on this run and have always taken LB.

If you're concerned about Life Barrier, don't take it or don't run the bonder with more than 10 in Protection. Running at 12 or higher may possibly reduce the damage below the SB trigger threshold, but i'm yet to see it happen.

What skill setup would i use with W/Mo?
Also would i need both bonders or would one suffice? The W/Mo is the most survivable as it ends up with around 1100HP giving you a huge margin of error.

I run Sig of Stamina, Protective Spirit, Spirit Bond, Balthazar's Spirit, Essence Bond, Life Attunement (only if taking second bonder), Shield of Judgment and Defy Pain for good measure. You could drop the smite points into Tactics and take Gladiator's Defense instead.

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Only four skills are required - PS, SB, BS and EB. Taking both BS and EB means better energy regen so you can spam skills as required without worry. The other skills on the bar simply provide a health buffer and optional AoE damage - the smiter will be doing most of the carnage.

Don't take any attack skills, you'll lose the 300HP boost from Signet of Stamina - as long as you don't attack them, it's a perma-boost. They'll attack you plenty and receive a mountain of pain in return due to the smite bonds, so just stand there and recast PS, SB and your elite as required.

Also, don't take any skills that reduce damage like Shield of Absorption or Dolyak's Signet - you want to receive damage to maximise healing by Spirit Bond and to return damage via the smiter. As long as you outheal the damage you take with Spirit Bond, you're safe.

Use starter armor (or shing jea / ascalon / kamadan) until lvl20. You can safely continue to use it in HM or switch to AL 50 (+20 vs physical). Still works fine in AL 80 (+20 vs physical).

The first bonder deals damage, the second provides health and energy regen. For greater survivability take both - the healing bonder cleans up most damage below the Spirit Bond threshold, making for a very safe run. Otherwise you're totally reliant on Spirit Bond for health. Your choice, but always take the smiter

I'd also suggest practicing the run on another character to become comfortable with the build and the timing. It's really easy - cast enchants and Sig of Stamina, flag heroes, use a scroll, run in, cast and keep Protective Spirit up all the time, cast Spirit Bond and recharge only when it drops. It has 1/4 second cast time and 2 sec recharge, so it's easy to hit again if you miss. With 700+ health you can afford to be sloppy with your timing...but practice makes perfect

What is the point of Lifebarrier?
Assuming you have 700 health

Without Lifebarrier
-take 70 damage from all attacks with PS which triggers SpiritBond

With Lifebarrier
-chance to take less then 60 damage from an attack (Doesnt Trigger SB)
-one extra enchantment to cast? I also haven't found out yet. There aren't any elites needed on the Bonder monk imho.

you can also do this with Rit, Ranger or Sin primary, meaning there is more flexibility.

Plus you dont have to spend 15k on a elite necro tome. In fact, you need no elites at all.

Assuming you get r1 survivor by the time you reach HzH you will only need to do 200ish runs to get r3 a. You can do this with any primary. It's the monk's protection skills that makes this dead easy for any class and you need at most 10 in Prot.

b. You don't need elites because the smite bonds will easily do the job. It's just faster with SS/SoJ/Glad's/VWK...whatever

c. You need to get there alive and there's a much higher chance of dying. Die once = title gone.

What is the point of Lifebarrier?
Assuming you have 700 health

Without Lifebarrier
-take 70 damage from all attacks with PS which triggers SpiritBond

With Lifebarrier
-chance to take less then 60 damage from an attack (Doesnt Trigger SB)
-one extra enchantment to cast? You don't need LB, it's just easier with it. SB will trigger on Furious Axe and Triple Chop hits as low as 31 with PS and LB up. It looks like if it was going to do 60+ dmg, it'll trigger SB with LB. Normal axe attacks do less than 60+ and it's easier to mop it up with LB in the mix.

You also don't necessarily want it to trigger SB on all hits. Otherwise it can be a bit more challenging having to spam SB, particularly if you recast too early. Two seconds down could mean 50+% of your health without the second bonder, it's easy to panic and screw the pooch

if you've ever solo'd/ duo'd the uw being able to watch for it to end and recast can easily be done by the time your life goes down to like 3/4th and every hit triggers spirit bond. I agree with you here. If you ever used the 600 Spirit Bond monk in the past farming trolls outside Drok's in starter armour, you'll find this a walk in the park.

Taking the second healing bonder makes life very easy for those unfamiliar with the timing of SB. I find it much easier to have all bonds up from 2 bonders and have never looked like going under 75% health on any run, even with dodgy PS and SB timing.

Things are a little dodgier with just the smite bonder - if you're comfortable with SB timing it's still easy, no matter what your AL. Obviously, don't wear AL60 in NM, only in HM...they rip you a new one no matter what your AL

Can anyone give me advice, I want to use my paragon to get legendary survivor but am afraid at farming it with the spirit bond build.

I am curious, could the same effect be achieved (slower obviously) that using like life barrier, life bond to tank the enemies and then slowly kill them off with spear skills or something work? Or do they still hit too hard even with both of those enchants? Should I just stick with the spirit bond build and hope that nothing happens? It's even possible with a warrior, so it's no problem with a paragon

Can anyone give me advice, I want to use my paragon to get legendary survivor but am afraid at farming it with the spirit bond build. The Spirit Bond build is easy, made even easier when you add a second bonder providing up to +9 pips of health and +1 energy. It really does take the sting out of the Knights' hits.

If you're concerned about the timing of Spirit Bond take Shield of Judgment - the knockdowns give you plenty of time to recast Spirit Bond. And always let SB expire before renewing.

As i've mentioned in previous posts, practice the run with another character first to get used to the timing, then have at it with your survivor title hunter.

I'm currently working a Paragon through Istan and will post a run as soon as i get it to The Marketplace

So what would be some extra tips for survivability. I don't know if I should use life barrier because I have all my heroes runed up so it'd be like lvl 16 life barrier and what not and I am afraid sometimes it'd reduce it too much.

But I am guessing I should use max al armor, 2 bonders and then should I bring like the motivation skills and like reversal of fortune (the motivation ones where like you get healed if you get hit/ heal when you cast a spell) to increase my survivability? Forget Motivation and Reversal of Fortune, they'll do nothing for you here. Just go with the Monk skills in the build in the first post, except Blessed Signet, and take an AoE attack like Shield of Judgment if you have it.
Don't run more than 10 in Protection on your smite bonder, max Smite is fine. 13 Healing and leftovers into Divine on the healing bonder is the way to go.