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Originally Posted by Lurid
I've recenty obtained my second set of Ascetic's with my runes for invicimonk. Aswell as the -50HP and -20HP offhands. I'm curious what the general consensus on the main wand would be. Perhaps one that had 20% recharge / casting of smiting spells, 10% global recharge / casting of spells or something else. Thanks!
Well, if you want the absolute best, then you'll want 20% recharge for protection spells (for prot spirit, since it has a quick cast and long recharge) and 20% fast cast for healing (for healing breeze, since it has a long cast time and short recharge.) You'll also want it to be a holy rod (divine req) so you don't have to spend points in smiting.
The hypothetical best rod for 55hp monks would be this one
Beyond that rod (which if you can find another one will be insanely expensive,) anything with +energy while ENCHANTED is nice to have, you don't want +5^50 since as a 55hp monk you'll likely be below 50% hp fairly often, and don't want to lose 5 energy just randomly every once in awhile. As a 55hp monk you'll always be enchanted, so +5(ench) is your best bet for energy. Again though, you shouldn't really need extra energy on your weapon, since you're drowning in energy already with all the energy management you have, it's better to have the fastcast/recharge. If you want something easy to find, gordacs holy rod (10/10) isn't bad, as long as you customize it to yourself. If you want cheap, get wroths holy rod. It forces you to put 9 in smiting, but that's not bad, since that will give you more than 8 smiting (the breakpoint for 1 less hit for bonettis to be charged.)
to clarify: the above information is based on a mo/w setup for 2man UW, not necessarily for solo mo/n or mo/me farming. The same things apply however, as when you're casting your damaging spells (ie. SoJ) you'll want to have your enchanting weapon on anyways, to give it a longer duration. If you're not planning on going in UW, then you won't have to wand anything down, so meeting the req on your wand wont matter, nor will customizing it.
