Monk SOLO Guide

[Spacebar]

Here's what I did with my monk. He had some decent gear and a Wu's Quivering from about lvl 10. So, comparable gear could likely do the same thing solo.

1-9: Field of Bone - slowly move towards the big skeleton in the middle and even the burnyai (sp?) at the end closer to Kurn's.
12-19: Kurn's Tower - Solo random DB's and Whites, stay away from yellows unless you are buffed. Move to upper floors as needed. Might want to stay away from basement without a group due to the casters.
20-29: Warlsiks Wood giant fort just outside of cab west. Great for xp (much better than LOIO imo). Also, you can make some decent cash as a monk there cause a vendor is close.
29-33: Warslik Wood Skulking Brutes just outside of Dalnir entrance. Amazing xp and they go down super easy.
33-38/39: Frontier Mountain giant fort.
38/39-40?: Overthere. Lots of ppl in The Overthere. Easy to find a group. Good xp and a chance at a Sarnak Earring of Station from the sarnaks there. And you can build up some faction with overthere for the hammer if you have some weight reduc bags. (oh yeah, and you can solo stuff pretty easily there).
40?-50?: CoM. Nice monk gear, always groups. Easy pulls at front areas, and can likely solo front area i think. Outside zone so jboots will work if you got em.

Might be a better route. But that will pretty much keep you in Kunark the whole time and pretty close to cab if you need to bank.

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by Spacebar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's what I did with my monk. He had some decent gear and a Wu's Quivering from about lvl 10. So, comparable gear could likely do the same thing solo.

1-9: Field of Bone - slowly move towards the big skeleton in the middle and even the burnyai (sp?) at the end closer to Kurn's.
12-19: Kurn's Tower - Solo random DB's and Whites, stay away from yellows unless you are buffed. Move to upper floors as needed. Might want to stay away from basement without a group due to the casters.
20-29: Warlsiks Wood giant fort just outside of cab west. Great for xp (much better than LOIO imo). Also, you can make some decent cash as a monk there cause a vendor is close.
29-33: Warslik Wood Skulking Brutes just outside of Dalnir entrance. Amazing xp and they go down super easy.
33-38/39: Frontier Mountain giant fort.
38/39-40?: Overthere. Lots of ppl in The Overthere. Easy to find a group. Good xp and a chance at a Sarnak Earring of Station from the sarnaks there. And you can build up some faction with overthere for the hammer if you have some weight reduc bags. (oh yeah, and you can solo stuff pretty easily there).
40?-50?: CoM. Nice monk gear, always groups. Easy pulls at front areas, and can likely solo front area i think. Outside zone so jboots will work if you got em.

Might be a better route. But that will pretty much keep you in Kunark the whole time and pretty close to cab if you need to bank.

This is helpful - I appreciate it. On live, there's a huge blank in my memory of where I leveled between 30-45.

But Lower Guk/Sol B are excellent solo spots mid-late 40s through 60. But yeah, as Spacebar mentioned, stay away from most casters. Shaman mobs slow/poison or heal themselves, and wizard mobs usually have a DS (pumice = your friend) or nuke really hard, and you have no reliable interruption...and I think the original developers placed very few magician/necro mobs in game because they are so freaking annoying to deal with, esp as a melee...

[touchtonedialing]

After 50, monks cant really solo efficiently anymore right?

[Holey]

Originally Posted by touchtonedialing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

After 50, monks cant really solo efficiently anymore right?

they can, if they have good gear [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[touchtonedialing]

Originally Posted by Holey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

they can, if they have good gear [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What would you call good gear? Fungi/Tstaff and drops or VP/Epic/Dragons sort of gear?

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by touchtonedialing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

After 50, monks cant really solo efficiently anymore right?

Originally Posted by Holey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

they can, if they have good gear [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On live, I had pretty average gear for a 50+ monk and soloed fine (I didn't get a Tstaff or Fungi till 60). It's more a matter of location.

Sol B and Lower Guk are probably your main choices; the 40+ mobs there have far less hp and don't hit nearly as hard as kunark mobs. There are some scattered 40+ mobs in other old world zones which are actually decent soloing for a monk, but you'll have to find those yourself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kevlar]

Can iksar monks do the halas turn in while FD?

[Raavak]

Originally Posted by Messianic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sol B and Lower Guk are probably your main choices; the 40+ mobs there have far less hp and don't hit nearly as hard as kunark mobs. There are some scattered 40+ mobs in other old world zones which are actually decent soloing for a monk, but you'll have to find those yourself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I read this and tried some LGuk live side solo. Minotaurs and frogs, with the intent on making my way to the Raster camp as I learned how to do it. Big mistake. When the mob got low it ran, and did so as fast as I could also run, which lead to trains galore. Tried it like 3 times before giving up.

Maybe this was viable before they fixed/nerfed mobs running at low health, but I would say not anymore.

Maybe I got used to the yeti caves being so easy, but this was near impossible at lvl 47.

[RahlaeRuffian]

Soloing Raster is pretty tough even at 50 for me. I have and IFS, FBSS, and just some random monk gear but it's still pretty hard.

I also got to level 25 in Oasis just poor man power leveling some friends and strangers. After that I did Mistmoore for 2 or 3 levels and then hit the giant fort in FM. I stayed there til 38 and then went to the north side of the castle to KC til 50.

[neem]

Where do I go at level 50? My brother gave me his 50 monk, I don't feel comfortable playing in a group because they make me pull and i'm not familiar with the dungeons/class

he's using 2x Whitened treant fist and haste belt, RoLC etc

anyone to solo easily for 50 monk?