Monks: Weapons

Sephiroth781 · #1 05-25-2012, 02:34 AM

How viable is it for a monk to stick with bare fists until 50?

Tverian · #2 05-25-2012, 12:34 PM

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Anyone who has dual KD's is a fail monk.

I disagree. KDs are great weapons and they look awesome. A Kunark era <50 monk dual wielding KDs is so very much far from fail.

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It's speed for mainhand, ratio for off

Keeping a viable ratio on your mainhand is important as well: at lower levels, before quads are regular, two KDs (14:28) beat a Master Wu's Trance Stick (7:18) & a KD.

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How viable is it for a monk to stick with bare fists until 50?

I would very much recommend against it. There are great weapons available for monks that far beat fists and they are going cheap.

Sephiroth781 · #3 05-25-2012, 02:06 PM

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I would very much recommend against it. There are great weapons available for monks that far beat fists and they are going cheap.

Just starting out in the world here on the server, no real money to speak of. It's taken me 4 levels of my career just to scrape up 4 plat. When should I get weapons, what should I get and how much will it cost me?

Tverian · #4 05-26-2012, 06:42 PM

Depends where you are for what would work best, but:

In a few levels start to kill grizzly bears (NK is best) for High Quality Bear Skins and Grizzly Bear Skins (not thick) and sell them to tailors. Save up what you can for some magic gloves (mesh, wu's, or lupine) or weapons (see below) so you can hunt wisps, then vendor the lightstones for almost 1p each and save up the greater lightstones to turn in here or here, vendoring the reward for almost 10p/ea.

Buy whatever weapons are available in EC: Essence of Dol; Fighting Baton; Master Wu's Trance Stick; Journeyman's Walking Stick; Cane of Tranquil; all of which go for 50-300p/ea. Check here and here.