Mo/E Armor Monk Soloer

Before I go on: I posted a screenie of this build in a previous thread and hid most of it because i wasnt done testing it but now im through with it, sorry if posting it with skills covered offended you.

I got bored one day and was kinda bored of farming with 55, so I created a non 55 variation just for fun. This build became more effective then I though, i could survive different situations that the average 55 monk couldn't but this build still has its disadvantages when compared to the 55

Attributes:
8+1(Minor) Protection
11+3(Superior) Smite *Major will do fine since Monk runes are expensive*
8+1(Minor)Divine Favor
9 Earth

Skills:
Crystal Wave or *edit* Aftershock
Shield of Judgement
Zealot's Fire
Reversal of Fortune or Guardian
Armor of Earth
Kinetic Armor
Essense Bond
Balthazar Spirit

Armor:
At least 60 AL which is at least droknars

Items/Weapons:
Any will do, Perferbly something that will just add energy, Enchantment bonus would be nice though.

Useage:
Basicly you throw up Essense bond, and Balthazar's spirit, then you Cast Kinetic Armor, you agro a group and throw up SoJ and Zealot's Fire, I put armor of earth one afterwards, the way this works is, every time you use reversal of fortune, you heal, deal damage, and renew Kinetic Armor, infact with +2 energy regen, you can keep up Kinetic armor for ever by just walking around, and casting reversal of fortune before the 8 second time before it delays

You use SoJ to deal damage and reduce attack rate of all the enemies surrounding you by knocking them down, occasionly spike with crystalwave, and keep using reversal every 3 seconds, if you do it more often they will run away from the zealot's fire, but if you start taking more damage spam it more often to heal more and make them run a way a bit, This build basicly reduces the damage to so very little that you can tank up to a bunch of critters at once.

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P.S. Please dont flame me about 55 being better, it probaly is, but this is just my concept

Thx for share

Maybe using AfterShock instead to Crystal Wave should be better,
since SOJ can knock down foes.

yea taht would be nice also but figured SOJ + Aftershock right after each other would cause bad energy downpour, but then again, I get endless amounts of energy most of the time with the +2 Energy Regen + the 2 enchantments, so aftershock might be a good alternation to crystal wave

nice idea, no 55hp monking and still this looks like a good working build that could easily take out mobs

nice build

i do that with my e/mo, actually ^_^. its quite fun.

Well I wouldn't take out breeze but I guess this is a new build someone will like to use

Just tried it out on the Droks trolls. It made me smile knowing that my little monk can solo those without being 55 hp. On the otherhand, using just RoF to heal made me come to the conclusion that it was just a slow downward spiral of death, which tended to speed up as the groups got larger. With that in mind, I took out Zealots and RoF and put in +3 Mending and +7 Healing Breeze (sorta moving back to the 55 setup). Worked well with a group of ~8-10 trolls (the first group inside the cave), but still got me worried when SoJ wore off. Perhaps I might take out Aftershock and put back RoF to make it more durable against even larger groups.

Anyways thanks for the post, as this would be a great way for a new monk to earn money for superior runes.

I have used a very similar build as E/mo also...good post

Just a thought, but you might not need both balth's and essence...have you tried it with just one? If you could get by with just balth's, maybe you could toss in blessed aura to help out with duration on zealot's and SoJ.

Also I would suggest that you really do NEED a +20% enchant weapon (and the greens with +20% mod are really not bad priced). It makes the whole thing run much smoother...


Again, good build

Pretty nice build I might do this with my Mo/E as well.I do need that sup smiting rune ouch.

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Nice build. Being somewhat new to GW and only having two level 20 characters, I don't have much of a bank roll. I just tried out this build on the Hydras in Skyreach. I could only take on at most 4 at a time, but that might change if I try putting in Healing Breeze and maybe Mending. I am going to try taking out one of the energy renewal enchantments too. Against the Hydras you have to be careful of getting knocked down by Meteor Storm is all. Getting interrupted and losing Kinetic armor can be deadly.

This build is going to go a long way in getting me the cash to get a +20% enchantment mod. I only have a +10% now. Plus, I bet I'll be able to afford some Superior runes soon so I can try out the 55hp build.

Thanks, Xaeor.

i used to use this on a mo/e but the build i used to use is now obsolete due to aoe changes. great to see a good working idea to try out.

This build = awesome.

I've been using it on the trolls recently and it's very easy to learn/use. I could take down the mob of Avicara outside the cave and up to ten trolls at once. Any more than that, things would get ugly. Aftershock seemed to work better than Crystal Wave...if it didn't get interrupted.

The biggest problem (said already) is when RoF gets disrupted, something that happened to me quite frequently. I'm thinking about playing around with it so that I can drop either Essence Bond or Balthazar's Spirit and take another quick-casting self-heal in case RoF goes down...

Really nice work :)

lol heh, tahts the only time i have ever died with this build, but strangly enough the only time i did get interupted was outside teh cave, im thinking it has something to do with the birds, but if your wandering about fixing that, may i suggest magnetic aura or guardian?

Thanks for build post.

I'm just starting my first char and im gonna try this build.

all feedback is goodso im off to try and make it work for me

nice build!

good alternative to 55hp farming

good job

I'll test that out later

Brother Gilburt

going to try this once my internet is back up at home, but monk runes are no longer as expensive. Like superior absorbtion, monk runes have decreased in value due to the sudden demand for ritualist and assassin runes. When I outfitted my newly made monk the other day I was able to buy all my runes for 3k (exception being 3.1k for healing).

nice build i copied and paste everything into my notpad and printed them out already.

glyph of concentration perhaps?

Bet you cant wait for Stoneflesh Aura. -0 ftw?

why do u need divine favor ?no skills including reversal of fortune needs divine favor.

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If you're taking lots of small hits, RoF will hardly be enough to make up for all of the incomming damage, so the DF heal is needed.

Wouldn't Aftershock work better than Crystal Wave?

U can use reversal of fortune to heal urself and probably use glyph of renewal
to kill range attackers by renewing the SOJ immediatly.

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I really like this build alot and it works great. Im glad to see the even after all these changes for nightfall you can still farm with this build, its just a bit harder since the minios are stupid now.

I have a Mo/E that used a similar build, but at the time I applied it to a 55 build. I was new to 55ing at the time, and everyone told me that my secondary should be warrior to be a 55.

The Build was;

Smiting 15(12+3),Healing and Protection 8(5+3),Div Fav 10, the rest went to Earth and Air(I think I squeezed 6 or 7 out of both, but the exact numbers escape me at the moment)

[skill=card]Protective Spirit[/skill][skill=card]Healing Breeze[/skill][skill=card]Mending[/skill][skill=card]Essence Bond[/skill][skill=card]Zealot's Fire[/skill][skill=card]Whirlwind[/skill][skill=card]Aftershock[/skill][wiki]"Shield Of Judgement"[/wiki]

It was a slight hybrid for the time, but as i got better, i killed a maximum of 20 Griffons and minotaurs at once, that was before the Queen Farming began.

Those were good times. monks all over the desert, none ever doing a mission, just farming...all alone

Kind of a Earth ele/Monk hybrid

i think this is time for the TOO LATE! not to be mean or anything, but the aoe nerfs are anets fault, not mine.