The Dark Monk

This is my experimental character for soloing purposes. I had been working on this since before Dark power tier 4 came out, and those skills have really given another boost.
What's the basis?

• A character that can solo bosses
• We need VIT as one stat, obviously for added survivability in Solo mode, and the other can only be STR because Critical Damage is the most broken mechanic in the game.
• The Pisteus Staff and Shield make a nice pair of Resistance for survivability and also Physical pierce.
• Also, Master Roshi - The Turtle Hermit.

Skills

• Magic Mastery - 10
• Impact - 5 - 5 - 5 - 10 - 1
  • For 100 % tumble chance
• Shield Cannon - 5 - 5 - 10
• Physical and Magical Shield - 10 - 10
• Quick Aura - 10
  • For reducing the time between auto attacks
• MP charge - 10
  • Faster than WCOS for non Halberd users without Half HP condition
• Backstep - 5 - 1
• Soul Hunt - 5 - 10 - 5 - 10
• Eterenal Nightmare - 5 - 5 - 5 - 10
• Bless - 10 - 5 - 10
  • To counter Eternal Nightmare
• Perfect Defense - 5 - 5 - 1
• Battle skills - 10 - 5 - 10 - 10
• Shukuchi - 5 - 1
• Holy fist - 1

Combos

• Gloria -> Bless (cons)
  • Rebuff bless and increase DEF
• Impact -> Death Reaper (smite) - Bloody Bite (bloodsucker)
  • DPS skill, physical proration + Heal
• Backstep - Dark Stinger(smite) - Finale (smite)
  • Semi DPS in between attacks.
• Holy Fist - Bloosy Bite (bloodsucker)
  • More physical Proration and Heal.

Gear

• Stats : STR > VIT
• Ghoulfish war hammer
• Ghoulfish Buckler
• ???
• Oni Horns + Handmade cookie
• ???

The experiment works sort of well. MP recovery is not a problem as Soul Hunt collects enough souls. Bless keeps me alive while Eternal Nightmare is active. Bloody Bite heals any HP taken. I could solo Cereberus Ulti when entire PT died and revived them back. The DPS is not crazy because I don't have the good equipment yet.
If I add in Royal heal I would be the Healer that can Solo the boss.

What Gear and/or skills do you suggest?

 

lv1 finale ender to cancel the combo midway won't stay forever.
'combo adjustment part 2' is currently suspended, but it's not unlikely that smite will get changed again.

and what gear would you use before you reach lv200 to get the fish hammer?
and in which priority would you learn the skills and assign stats while climbing all the way to lv200?

i'm just curioust to know whether people still consider character creation at all.
it seems that the trend nowadays is to skip the entire game and rush straight to the non-existent "end-game".

besides that, i like the idea of a muscle wizard, because this is pretty much how mace/hammer weapons work in other games.

 

I didn't make this guide keeping a newbie in mind. This is certainly a niche build, and mostly like an experiment.

Aside from that, Dark power skills are expensive, so even if we begin by having Dark stinger as a starting DPS, it would be near impossible for a newbie to get.

Yeah, it took me quite some time to gather the Equipment required for this build. Character creation is more about where you can get this Character, planning out all skills so that you don't have to waste orbs on reset. I got this guy to 144 already.

Aside from that, almost everyone suggests to do the MQ till level 150, and you get 200 points anyways, so it's not wrong to start from 200 points itself, because they are essentially guaranteed.

 

Book of Darkness can be found in chapter 5, so a lv100 player may find one.
i guess Scrader Mace is good starter weapon at that stage.

not possible without some high-level friends. assuming the player's own power is minimal, it's quite a struggle just to survive. some bosses can kill any merc even on easy mode and event battles can't be set to easy mode.
i did that many times, but never got far enough to reach 150, the highest was 147 with some extra effort.

btw, since your only matk comes from weapon atk, how much does Bless heal?
(i'm curious if it could be used on physical builds as well, since Triel uses priest skills with 1h/shield)

 

Don't forget the maze, you can get the book of darkness there as well.

Equipping both staff & shield alone, matk 350 to a level 1 and matk 526+ to a level 220. Adding heal amount and matk multiplier, clearly can negate eternal nightmare. ^_^

 

The formula is
Simplified formula for both Bless and Advanced Bless at Lvl10 with staff = 120 + INT*(10/100) + MATK*(8/100)

That's about 200 for me, every 5 seconds. Doesn't make a huge difference, but does slow down the HP drain from EN. Bloody Bite keeps my HP afloat.

 

Matk*(8/10) ^_^

 

i have similar project but mine is Dark Mage (STR INT) it consist Priest , Magic , Dark Skill , Shield Skills

 

It's not that.
If it was MATK*8/10 then heal would be 800 for me. That's way too much