Reaper Endgame Centered Dragon Lord

[Dragxon]

KoTC has the light imbue in core 1. You lose movement bonus, deflect arrows and some ki generation but it could open up some options in other trees for less squishiness, like sacred defender. But you also gain long swords as favored weapons in KoTC tier 2 and Knight Training for free in t4.

My first iteration of the build was pally instead of sacred fist with kotc but sacred fist has just been much better. The feat really dont matter too much because the next best feat would be 2 more melee power from weapon focus and I get 5 more imbue plus the hugely important movement speed. I would also have to move enhancements around to put some points in vistani if I did not get the deflect arrows from sacred fist.

This build is squishy yes but I dont want to give up DPS or even pick up something like threat generation from the sacred defender tree. That would make this build useless in raids if it was in sacred defense.

As an aside you should never be in a fighter or pally defensive combat stance as a melee dps. You will turn a raid boss around and you will kill people.

 

[Oliphant]

Been farming IoD runes to get the two attuned longswords but wondering if I should hold off for new gear sets with MD stuff.

 

[Oliphant]

Been doing longswords Divine Crusader version for months now for guild raids. Doing some minor variations, getting crusader damage buff from the consecration epic strike, which ends up being less direct dps but keeps more crusader uptime for group dps and does group heals which are otherwise lacking on the build for the most part. Long cool down applied to the Fatesinger epic strike when you use consecration epic strike cuts into dps even more but haste auto attack while spamming group healing exalted smites still does a lot. Consecration plus exalted smite group healing adds up to too. I'm often the only Divine Crusader so the consecration and Divine Beckon mass true rez are the ultimate insurance package. The boss debuffs to max out dps are very quickly applied and stack up pretty extreme and the party never seems to lack dps over many compositions.

 

[deem of many]

whats your crit range / crit multiplier?
also, while trying to emulate this build on ddo builder, holy sword seems NOT TO STACK with DRL t5. Any idea if that's accurate?

 

[Pinecone]

That is accurate, but Holy Sword gives the Critical threat range the DL t5 doesn't get

 

[deem of many]

That is accurate, but Holy Sword gives the Critical threat range the DL t5 doesn't get

so with both, +1 range and +2 multiplier

 

[zandoe]

Everyone should read twice the disclaimer in this build.

"This not a new player friendly build and very skill intensive because you need to play very well to survive situations as it is a squishy build."

Max melee dps is nice but can argue is this build the best one to bring in to something like the Den of Vipers raid on high difficulty. In FoM ranged doesn't work, in DeV some melee builds are in trouble I think thats fun variance raid build wise.

 

[intravenous]

If you are going quarterstaff in heroics you should be taking at least 1 lvl of rogue for the 15% attack speed with quarterstaff. This is not a great build for heroics but if you want a 1-20 build with quarterstaff that gets sacred fist past life I would probably go 3 rogue 8 dragon lord 9 sacred fist or something like that. There's not really a point to early sacred fist levels because most of the power of sacred fist comes from holy sword at level 14.

if this hasnt been answered already, not anymore. monk hensxhin t1 has 15% qstaff speed as well now

edit: i see that when you made your comment, the monk revamp had not happened yet, so nvm

 

[Morrikkan]

If you are going quarterstaff in heroics you should be taking at least 1 lvl of rogue for the 15% attack speed with quarterstaff. This is not a great build for heroics but if you want a 1-20 build with quarterstaff that gets sacred fist past life I would probably go 3 rogue 8 dragon lord 9 sacred fist or something like that. There's not really a point to early sacred fist levels because most of the power of sacred fist comes from holy sword at level 14.

for sacred fist pl. i have played: Aasimar sacred fist 12 monk 3 and fighter 5. with follower of vol, knives and vistani tree its great fun, and deadly.

max out in the sacred fist tree and go for the centered option in vistani and depending on your past-lives the full Aasimar tree. with the wirlwind attacks in the sacredfist tree youll run trough reaper levels like a hot knive trough butter its actually one of the strongest heroic builds ive played in a long while

 

[Mini-One]

I did not find or see what types of weapons you were using while leveling in heroics. Since you cant stay being centered until you have grand master of flowers.

 

[Bobbryan2]

I did not find or see what types of weapons you were using while leveling in heroics. Since you cant stay being centered until you have grand master of flowers.

Not my build, but kamas or handwraps will work perfectly fine. Kamas suck, but they're slashing, handwraps are great, but they won't match your crit profile.
Neither are debilitating, though.
But, when I do it... I usually do short swords and a few points in ninja spy through heroics. And daggers will work if you do VKF, now.

 

[1024kid]

Hi, really like the build. I just hit 20 and im looking to TR my current long sword monk into something like this. Stupid question though, do you have any recommendations for starting stats? I was checking out the picture of the final numbers just curious if you have any recommendations on how to allocate starting stats points. Thanks.

 

[Willsave20]

Quick Cutter epic strike from FOTW is criminally underrated. You use your Dragon's Roar from afar, flight of Kings to get into the center of the group, and quick cutter usually instantly kills the group on r10s for me. There is usually about 15s between each fight so you'll be back 100% by the next fight. Definitely prioritize AOE, but utilize it in epics, not heroics.
The heroic cleaves are pretty good for leveling, but once I got quick cutter, I never used my smite or other attacks, especially with all of the % bonus to helpless in DL.

My mentality when I'm building is actually far more defense focused than offensive. Heavy Armor, Shields, etc. Unfortunately... and obviously... its hard to do that with a handwrap monk, but thats the trade off.