Monk Death Squad

[Raev]

https://i.imgur.com/IM0FRRa.jpg

Monk Death Squad
I got tired of zerging down dragons with three times the required numbers and generally stressing out over pixels I didn't need, so I'm going to play pretty casually from now on. Expect to see me on here and there in some dungeons or helping out some of the smaller guilds.

Short Term: Monk for Hire
It is a well known fact that most monks on this server are somewhere between bad and really bad. With the Monk Death Squad, you know you are getting the best! Members of the Monk Death Squad do not allow batphones to interrupt our meditation, so if you are a small guild looking for some pulling help, post here some time in advance and we shall see if our schedule matches yours.

Long Term: Monk only Avatar of War
Once this server cools down a bit and the variance quest competition is over, I'm hoping to put together an all-Monk Avatar of War kill using Whirlwind. Assuming 65 dps per monk and 8 seconds per whirlwind, we can solve rather easily (N * 65 * 8) * N = 1M HP -> N = 45 monks required. If you are interested, post in the thread (will not be limited to Monk Death Squad Members).

Joining The Monk Death Squad
Applicants must be able to:

Split Halls of Testing solo from either the safe hall or the zone out (easy)
Split Priestess Serczema's temple solo (medium)
Pull the myconid spore king to the tube room solo (hard)

In addition we have some mild gearchecks:

4400 HP/1200 AC with full buffs
255 MR/FR/CR with full buffs (potions are allowed)
Primal + 41% haste + NTOV weapon (or Bo Staff post 2H upgrade)


And no douchecannons please. Once again, post here if you think you qualify.

[Swish]

DO YOU HAVE A TABARD?

[Jameus]

I am going to miss killing things with you buddy. I always enjoyed listening to your strat ideas!

[Raev]

dammit, I was going to edit this with more but I forgot about the post lock :( The goal was a kind of monk for hire thing for the smaller guilds and maybe eventually doing the all monk Avatar of War once things calm down here a bit.

p.s.how can you be salty after viewing that gorgeous gif fingerz

[Raev]

Short Term: Monk for Hire
It is a well known fact that most monks on this server are somewhere between bad and really bad. With the Monk Death Squad, you know you are getting the best! Members of the Monk Death Squad do not allow batphones to interrupt our meditation, so if you are a small guild looking for some pulling help, post here some time in advance and we shall see if our schedule matches yours.

Long Term: Monk only Avatar of War
Once this server cools down a bit and the variance quest competition is over, I'm hoping to put together an all-Monk Avatar of War kill using Whirlwind. Assuming 65 dps per monk and 8 seconds per whirlwind, we can solve rather easily (N * 65 * 8) * N = 1M HP -> N = 45 monks required. If you are interested, post in the thread (will not be limited to Monk Death Squad Members).

Joining The Monk Death Squad
Applicants must be able to:

Split Halls of Testing solo from either the safe hall or the zone out (easy)
Split Priestess Serczema's temple solo (medium)
Pull the myconid spore king to the tube room solo (hard)

In addition we have some mild gearchecks:

4400 HP/1200 AC with full buffs
255 MR/FR/CR with full buffs (potions are allowed)
Primal + 41% haste + NTOV weapon (or Bo Staff post 2H upgrade)


And no douchecannons please. Once again, post here if you think you qualify.

Would be massively obliged if a GM could add that to the main post.

[Colgate]

go outside

[Tupakk]

Welcome to the casual side of things. The grass is way greener over here.

[Joyelle]

So wait, you went from "there are too many monks" to "we need more monks"?

[Cecily]

Name kinda sucks. <Martial Arts & Kids Karate> imo.

[Naxi]

Naxi reporting for duty!

[cdawgz28]

Chong Li approves of this guild

[Raev]

Name kinda sucks. <Martial Arts & Kids Karate> imo.
whaaat

Naxi reporting for duty!
it's MONK death squad

Chong Li approves of this guild
great movie

go outside
that is in fact the point

Monk Death Squad may even have a client !

And thanks Llandris for editing the post!

[Expediency]

This is great. Voted five

[Speedi]

Lol Raev!

5 Stars though!

I saw you turn Naxi down, does that mean no for me as well?

Btw, good to see Fingerz and Naxi are still around! Love you guys!

[RedXIII]

id love to see the 45+monks whirlwind rotation work... count me in.

Keep in touch bud. \o/

[khanable]

My monk is level 34 and I am very good at splitting tizmaks in GD

I await my invite

[Raev]

I mean if you and Naxi want invites I can make that happen, but wouldn't you feel a bit strange in a guild called Monk death squad, and not like <Drupower> :D

[Speedi]

I mean if you and Naxi want invites I can make that happen, but wouldn't you feel a bit strange in a guild called Monk death squad, and not like <Drupower> :D


Good point!

Maybe I need to make a monk!

<3

[bktroost]

Good point!

Maybe I need to make a monk!

<3

Or a guild called <Drupower>.

Hey good job here! THIS is what we need more of.

[Erati]

is this a real tag yet?

Flopatani would like to submit his app

[xexbis0]

Jet Li first picture of Monk Death Squad. This guild has taste.

[Spyder73]

In addition we have some mild gearchecks:

4400 HP/1200 AC with full buffs
255 MR/FR/CR with full buffs (potions are allowed)
Primal + 41% haste + NTOV weapon (or Bo Staff post 2H upgrade)


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[arsenalpow]

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Even BDA scum like me meet those gear checks, they have to be mild.

[Joyelle]

I think you should change the name of the guild to Floor Huggers Union... or Warm Bodies or: Death Punch Squad

[khanable]

death punch squad is clearly a superior name

[Daldaen]

Long Term: Monk only Avatar of War
Once this server cools down a bit and the variance quest competition is over, I'm hoping to put together an all-Monk Avatar of War kill using Whirlwind. Assuming 65 dps per monk and 8 seconds per whirlwind, we can solve rather easily (N * 65 * 8) * N = 1M HP -> N = 45 monks required. If you are interested, post in the thread (will not be limited to Monk Death Squad Members).

Your equation works for 45 boxed monks automated by MQ2... But to account for real world factors you need a safety factor. Combat regen, Latency on next monk in chain, missed chain pickup, deaths to ripostes.

I'd say at a minimum you'd want a safety factor of 2.0. Atleast 90 monks would be required I think.

[Spyder73]

Your equation works for 45 boxed monks automated by MQ2... But to account for real world factors you need a safety factor. Combat regen, Latency on next monk in chain, missed chain pickup, deaths to ripostes.

I'd say at a minimum you'd want a safety factor of 2.0. Atleast 90 monks would be required I think.

Even at safety factor 4.0 you would still fail I bet, no one would know who was going to get agro next and AoW would end up one rounding 75% of the raid before they could disc

[bktroost]

Death Punch Squad

This wins.

[Landael]

Wasn't there a cross server monk only Guild back in the day, some kind of Pullers for Hire affair? They were really good at pulling SSRA temple and tov and all that or atleast that was the rumor. Can't remember the name tho.

[Raev]

death punch squad is clearly a superior name

definitely not; we aren't DPS! and the name is a bit of a homage to <Necro Death Squad> from live.

Even at safety factor 4.0 you would still fail I bet, no one would know who was going to get agro next and AoW would end up one rounding 75% of the raid before they could disc
mallets and macros. It's kinda sad to see the constant negativity surrounding anything vaguely creative :(

Even BDA scum like me meet those gear checks, they have to be mild.
Dual Wu's Fist of Mastery is pretty solid but I didn't know you had a primal

My monk is level 34 and I am very good at splitting tizmaks in GD
melee are pretty easy; you'd have to at least be able to handle mistmoore!

I suppose I could put in a good word with the recruitment committee for some OGs like yourself and Speedi and maybe Eratani if he's actually good on his monk.

[cdawgz28]

I always thought a Mage only guild would be cool, I wonder how it would stack against a monk guild

[Naxi]

I mean if you and Naxi want invites I can make that happen, but wouldn't you feel a bit strange in a guild called Monk death squad, and not like <Drupower> :D

The name kinda sucks, ask Cucumbers I have hundreds of awesome mercenary guild names! But, I'll take an invite if we do mercenary type shindigs.

[Lojik]

Do Tecmos and Nordenwatch have monks? Could call it <Raev's Monk Team>

[Shinko]

can IMBA JOIN

[Dimmestsalmon]

You should name it dial a monk this server needs more dial a guilds lol

[Nommis]

MDS needs a camera man and I'm prepared to freelance to document your exploits. I require 10 shralock packs filled with plains pebbles as payment.

[derpcake]

Even at safety factor 4.0 you would still fail I bet, no one would know who was going to get agro next and AoW would end up one rounding 75% of the raid before they could disc

90 man MT rotation, everyone else FD's every 7 seconds

ez

[virulentthemonstaire]

not impressed, i've seen better monks with lesser gear like my friend of mine... aka Ginix <Taken> (Jsin's monk)

it's usually the incompetent ones like this Raev guy who try to "overachieve" and "gloat" about how "good" they are by posting nonsense threads like this that screams "I want attention!" like a facebook hoe. tisk, tisk.

[Joyelle]

not impressed, i've seen better monks with lesser gear like my friend of mine... aka Ginix <Taken> (Jsin's monk)

it's usually the incompetent ones like this Raev guy who try to "overachieve" and "gloat" about how "good" they are by posting nonsense threads like this that screams "I want attention!" like a facebook hoe. tisk, tisk.

Raev isn't a bad monk at all. He's just very... opinionated.

[zanderklocke]

Is Raev a better monk or a better enchanter?

[Erati]

a monk with the mind of an enchanter and the strength of a warrior

[Speedi]

Thanks for the help today on Trakanon

Monk Death Squad doing big things!

[Raev]

Nothing against Awakened, but it's nice to help a few of the smaller guilds here and there! Was pretty remarkable timing though.

[Sorn]

Can the monk death squad be summoned to fight Faydedar? Will pay in frost giant steaks or other stat food/drinks ;)

[Raev]

sure as long as you ping me in advance. I can't solo Faydedar though, as I think he has the non-classic 4% per tick dragon regen.

[Raev]

Monk Death Squad was called in by Eabon the Warlord for his open TOV west raids. Despite somehow being the only Monk there, we walked away with 4,750 beetle bakes. Next up: bladders of lizard milk!

[Erati]

good job pulling for Eabon's raid Raev - I would have logged in my monk to help but I actually needed Giant faction on druid im sorrry !

[Joyelle]

Monk Death Squad was called in by Eabon the Warlord for his open TOV west raids. Despite somehow being the only Monk there, we walked away with 4,750 beetle bakes. Next up: bladders of lizard milk!
you can milk lizards?!

[Nommis]

you can milk lizards?!

I think it's an euphemism...gross.

[gildor]

you can milk anything with nipples...

[Raev]

Obviously lizards, being reptiles, don't produce milk. But tell that to Klok Wyga! And hey, if the shoe fits . . .

[Fael]

I tried to get a all the TMO alt monks to form a 12 man crew to take down rotation guild mobs back in Kunark.

im very casual but would love to see if the whirl wind rotation strat could work.

[Sorn]

Obviously lizards, being reptiles, don't produce milk. But tell that to Klok Wyga! And hey, if the shoe fits . . .

I think lizard milk must be like almond milk, you have to put it in a blender with water and then strain the juice out afterwards.

*takes a sip of lizard milk* Hmm, no wonder I thought it tasted so meaty...

[Getsmurfed]

Raev couldn't practice FTE targets. Now he's a proclaimed monk guildmaster. lulz.

[Raev]

it's a kind of 'emperor's new clothes' moment for Lofted

[Getsmurfed]

It's ok, those clothes sucked anyway. Nowadays I'm pretty sure I'd be in jail for exposing myself.

[Waedawen]

"No Douchecannons"

Laughed

[Raev]

<Monk Death Squad> is back and causing trouble. Teaming up with some random new guild full of P99 celebrities called <Rustle>, we managed to fight our way (between CRs and drowning deaths) from the temple through the watery tunnel up into the castle/shrine/whatever you call that big place (see Fountree! It can be done!). I think Siren's Grotto might be the single most fun zone in the game; I just wish it was itemized a bit better!

P.S. I see that the massive anal injury you suffered when you were denied entry to Rampage for being exactly that flavor of douchecannon has yet to heal, Petros. It would be nice if you could start a few RNF threads though rather than venting here.

[Speedi]

Grats MDS on ring war! Thanks for coming out and leading this one Raev! Always a pleasure friend.