New Monk Guide!

[mev]

Hi all,

I wrote a new monk guide on the wiki. Check it out if you're interested, and let me know if you have any feedback.

[Seteris]

Humans don't level 20% faster, Iksars level 20% slower which means human level 25% faster (100/80=1.25) compared to Iksar.

[Jimjam]

You say it is hard to bandage in combat, but it is actually very easy.

Set up a key so you can swap target between yourself and the previous target. I use 'tab' for this. Make a hotkey with the command /stand in it. Make a hotkey for bind wound.

Now you just have to hit tab, bind wound key, stand key, tab again and attack.

 

By using the /stand command instead of the sit/stand button you can ensure you don't accidently sit down and don't risk taking a round of max damage hits.

Note, casting spells interrupts bind wounds, but procs do not.

As such, this technique is useful for any class that regularly melees at low health without casting spells (e.g. a monk, warrior, or even hybrid that has ran out of mana).

You can even use this to heal nearby group mates too. A good social macro would be

/target (tank)
/pause 110, /doability n
/stand
/assist (MA)

(n is the number of the abilities window where the bind wound key is set to). Precede any commands with a /pause as appropriate if you are suffering lag.

[maskedmelon]

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

You say it is hard to bandage in combat, but it is actually very easy.

Set up a key so you can swap target between yourself and the previous target. I use 'tab' for this. Make a hotkey with the command /stand in it. Make a hotkey for bind wound.

Now you just have to hit tab, bind wound key, stand key, tab again and attack.

 

By using the /stand command instead of the sit/stand button you can ensure you don't accidently sit down and don't risk taking a round of max damage hits.

Note, casting spells interrupts bind wounds, but procs do not.

As such, this technique is useful for any class that regularly melees at low health without casting spells (e.g. a monk, warrior, or even hybrid that has ran out of mana).

You can even use this to heal nearby group mates too. A good social macro would be

/target (tank)
/pause 110, /doability n
/stand
/assist (MA)

(n is the number of the abilities window where the bind wound key is set to). Precede any commands with a /pause as appropriate if you are suffering lag.

As of a few days ago, the bind would not succeed unless you retargeted yourself before/as the skill refreshed. Have to go back and double check if I just wasn't receiving the completion message or if I was in fact not receiving the bind. Meant to make a post about this, but here it is.

[Baler]

@Mev Good work!
I've spent a ridiculous number of hours reading on the wiki. So it really brings me joy to see another person share their experience and knowledge about a class they enjoy.
I like how you linked important things! Keep up the good work!

[mev]

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

Humans don't level 20% faster, Iksars level 20% slower which means human level 25% faster (100/80=1.25) compared to Iksar.

It makes sense to think of "percent faster" and "percent slower" as ratios rather than additive or subtractive quantities. Multiplication and division are inverses of each other, so x * 1.2 / 1.2 = x. 20% faster means multiplying by 1.2. 20% slower means dividing by 1.2. So, using either term is correct.

To be specific, the experience required per level is 20% more for Iksar (eg, 1200 XP to get to level 2) or 20% less for humans (eg, 1000 XP to get to level 2). 1000 * 1.2 = 1200. 1200 / 1.2 = 1000.

The reason that you're getting a weird result is that you're doing it half as a ratio and half as additive / subtractive. That is, you wouldn't get 100 and 80 because that's subtracting 20, not dividing by 1.2.

If you want to see the numbers and play with them yourself, you can check out this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...usE/edit#gid=0

[mev]

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

You say it is hard to bandage in combat, but it is actually very easy.

Set up a key so you can swap target between yourself and the previous target. I use 'tab' for this. Make a hotkey with the command /stand in it. Make a hotkey for bind wound.

Now you just have to hit tab, bind wound key, stand key, tab again and attack.

 

By using the /stand command instead of the sit/stand button you can ensure you don't accidently sit down and don't risk taking a round of max damage hits.

Note, casting spells interrupts bind wounds, but procs do not.

As such, this technique is useful for any class that regularly melees at low health without casting spells (e.g. a monk, warrior, or even hybrid that has ran out of mana).

You can even use this to heal nearby group mates too. A good social macro would be

/target (tank)
/pause 110, /doability n
/stand
/assist (MA)

(n is the number of the abilities window where the bind wound key is set to). Precede any commands with a /pause as appropriate if you are suffering lag.

Yeah, fair enough. I didn't discover bind wound in combat until I had almost gotten my Robe of the Whistling Fists, and the normal practice is to bind the clicky to the same key as kick, so it would be annoying to actually do. But it is probably doable. I changed "hard" to "annoying" in my guide [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[mev]

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

@Mev Good work!
I've spent a ridiculous number of hours reading on the wiki. So it really brings me joy to see another person share their experience and knowledge about a class they enjoy.
I like how you linked important things! Keep up the good work!

Thanks!

[jolanar]

Great guide. Probably the best one for monks by far. If I remember correctly the rest of the monk guides on the wiki should frankly just be deleted because of the amount of misinformation or lack of relevant info.

[Nixtar]

Great guide but disagree on the TBoots.

Why is it better to buy SoW pots? Gets extremely pricey in the end and all you need to do to keep TBoots up is cast it every once in awhile. Its not like you're going to be active so much as a monk you can't stop for 1.5 seconds.

TBoots is the budget alternative or for those who do not want to wait for someone to finally sell a MQ or to camp one yourself. Personally, I fall into this group of people. :P