U73 Monk Handwraps Build and Reference Guide

[Hireling]

I've moved off monk so don't have any motivation to come up with a Lamordia gearset. I'll come back to Monk eventually. The gearsets in the guide remain servicable.

Whatya playing now?
I am planning on finishing Monk and Dragonlord lives for the +1 damage(s).
Doing a DL/MNK/Sacred Fist combo atm, only level 9 atm.
Hits pretty hard, but I miss the movement speed and mobility of MNK.

 

[Spoon of Khyber]

I am using this build on my monk, but it is unclear to me how to get arcane warrior to proc melee power rather than spell power. I get the spell power all day long but no MP?

 

[Terranigma]

Arcane Warrior works such that:

• Melee Attacks bolster Spell Power
• Spell Attacks bolster Melee Power

The Monk build in the Google Docs has 2 innate spell-like attacks with Ki Bolt and Cauldron of Flame. Cauldron of Flame is the easiest one to build up stacks of the Melee Power boost as it will generate 1 stack every 2 seconds as long as a foe is in the Cauldron of Flame.

 

[Spoon of Khyber]

Arcane Warrior works such that:

• Melee Attacks bolster Spell Power
• Spell Attacks bolster Melee Power

The Monk build in the Google Docs has 2 innate spell-like attacks with Ki Bold and Cauldron of Flame. Cauldron of Flame is the easiest one to build up stacks of the Melee Power boost as it will generate 1 stack every 2 seconds as long as a foe is in the Cauldron of Flame.

Thank you so much!

 

[AtaraxTheSlayer]

Hey there! I'll start with:
This is a great guide! It helped me understand a lot of things!
But i have a issue with Quick Strike from the Shintao tree, I can't get it to activate with handwraps ...
From what I managed to find it dosen't work with handwraps, did this change after you wrote up this guide ? or am I doing something wrong ?

 

[Aaumini]

Hey there! I'll start with:
This is a great guide! It helped me understand a lot of things!
But i have a issue with Quick Strike from the Shintao tree, I can't get it to activate with handwraps ...
From what I managed to find it dosen't work with handwraps, did this change after you wrote up this guide ? or am I doing something wrong ?

Works for me. What are you doing to activate it? You need to attack and hit something with it.

 

[Duneseeker]

Hey there! I'll start with:
This is a great guide! It helped me understand a lot of things!
But i have a issue with Quick Strike from the Shintao tree, I can't get it to activate with handwraps ...
From what I managed to find it dosen't work with handwraps, did this change after you wrote up this guide ? or am I doing something wrong ?

Its an Attack. It may not show up if you are checking your Doublestrike, but I assure you it works. Im running a Stick Monk at cap right now.

 

[AtaraxTheSlayer]

Works for me. What are you doing to activate it? You need to attack and hit something with it.

Sorry, I feel silly now. Reset my Shintao tree and took it again ... it works just fine now ... even with no target and in town. I have no idea what I did last time I tried it and it just turned grey and instantly refreshed it's "cooldown" with no animation like it didn't work when I tried using it... I don't think I was uncentered 'coz 'Hand of Healing' and 'Fists of light' both worked just fine then ...
Really sorry for the misleading post

Its an Attack. It may not show up if you are checking your Doublestrike, but I assure you it works. Im running a Stick Monk at cap right now.

I didn't even get that far ... I just couldn't get it to activate... and I remember reading something about it needing a weapon and handwraps no being counted as weapons by some skills (look through all the wiki and recent forum posts I read and find that again for the life of me )
If it wasn't for this forum thread and your 2 answers I wouldn't even have tried using it again on the monk .

Thank you for both your answers and sorry again for the misleading post just because of my mistake

 

[Arlyana]

What if you only have 32 pt build option?

 

[peng]

What if you only have 32 pt build option?

I'd lower str and con by 1 each (max wis + lvl ups, 16 con, 14 dex), but only if you have a +3 dex tome.

 

[unbongwah]

What if you only have 32 pt build option?

You need DEX 15/17 for the Two Weapon Fighting feats, so how many points you put into it depends on what if any DEX tome you have or plan to acquire later. E.g. start DEX 15 to take TWF initially, drop a +2 tome later to qualify for ITWF+GTWF. From there, max WIS then CON.

For a tome-free life, WIS 19 DEX 17 CON 14 works.

 

[kzkzkz]

What is the argument of shintao over henshin capstone/ t5?

 

[peng]

shintao: +10 mp over henshin, +2[w], more crits when missed, ranged stun, more dmg/defenses with meditation of war, and self-raise for when everything goes pear-shaped
henshin: aoe neg lvls or heals, +5 mrr/cap, void strike, while in cauldron +5 atk/dmg, +1 crit mult

while questing in a group, it's hard to consistently be in your cauldron. if you can, henshin *might* be more dps. outside of cauldron, shintao will always be more dps

 

[unbongwah]

What is the argument of shintao over henshin capstone/ t5?

Someone in another thread said that 41 Henshin 31 Shintao was +5% DPS in Cauldron -5% DPS out of Cauldron vs 41 Shintao 31 Henshin. (Remaining APs are for Haste Boost, of course.) I can neither confirm nor refute those estimates, but let's presume it is a good baseline. Which configuration to use will depend on content and play style. I.e. how often do you get to park inside Cauldron to fight mobs / bosses vs zerging from one fight to the next.