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Yea so im not just imagining it, so i spent the skill point on long strides instead to let me kite and split pull, or just run away lol

That is true but hes asking how i would improve on his set up, the first thing i would do is replace all teh garbage stats.

I would really advise you dump the defalt characters, they almost all have terrible stats, and in PoTD you really wanna optimise as much as possible

How are you finding priest? surely you are having to rest too often?

very easy to test this just next time you level up check your exp afterwards. I dont think it does penalise banking but i could be wrong

There are plenty of games out there that have level caps, its all about endgame content. IMO the devs obviously wanted the end boss to always be difficult, a lot of players are completonists so will have done most if not all of the side quests, without a cap the end boss would become too easy for a significant portion of the player base

In past runs ive been able to kite most things pretty well, i guess I can see this strat beating most fights, the reason i suggest chanter over monk is because with chanter you can make use of summons as well, I mean with monk you will survive being hit more but this strat relies on never getting hit ( i assume you wear light armour to fire faster) This strat is very micro heavy though

This would work really will with a chanter actually, just run the speed buff 24/7

If the ranged tactic is focused on avoiding damage entirely then life leech is less important, i mean if he never hits me

that sounds like a good idea, i mean you dont even really have to spec for it other than the 2 speed, with a fast reload bow it should be easily possible. still much slower than melee monk, but a decent tactic I might try

hmmm cool Ive sunk a talent into bull's will, all my defences are so high almost every attack/spell only grazes me

Did you test if the life leach worked with flagellants path? you said you were gonna do some more testing id be interested to know what you found. I for one am still working towards the perfect monk set up, ive now found that if you put constitution at 8 and max per and res you get hit for like 0.5 per hit for most fights. Also you interupt people often enough that you avoid damage that way too. In fact the rate i lose health with this build is a fraction of my previous con heavy builds

Dont forget the monk, they are almost designed for solo play.

You mean like this? Also its a bit cheesy but if you kill your compainions in the prologue before you get to the cave you hit 3 much more easily (400 extra exp for your main character)

Can't see the video?

What are people's experience with crown control in PoTD, i mention this because my monk in PoTD normally hits ok through deflection but his knock back which targets fortitude misses 2 in 3 attempts, its so bad that Im considering skipping it as a skill even though in lower difficulties its a great CC spell. Is there any way i can boost how often it hits, it would be really useful in boss fights if it actually hit more than one in three tries, my experience so far is that the drop in dps and opportunity cost (of not using the level one attack) is not worth the pretty low chance that they will get prone. I mean i think reliable dps beats a low chance of cc, especially since my monk has terrible intel so it doesnt last that long anyway

just force attack them , they die and you can remake them

But... the loot... ... is their death sentence!! I dont make a habit of killing backers but i was curious if anyone knows any particular backers that drop good items?

as long as you have a main tank and a healer this should be viable, youa re gonna need to look after him though as if he gets focused he will drop, not as fast as a rogue but still pretty fragile (depending what difficulty you play)

Thanks a lot for this break down, Ive been trying to min max my solo monk and i think you are right, especially bosses hit him like a train, my early reasoning was that this meant more wounds which meant more damage but the fact is that he gets 4-7 wounds when he gets hit that hard and there is no way i can spend all of that. One thing ive also found si the his 2 wound knock back misses about half the time. I think that its funny because monks play best when you play them exactly opposite of how they are recommended to be played, as a hard core tank. I mean maybe in lower difficulties getting wounds is a problem but in my game any fight that is in any way difficult he gains wounds faster than i can unload them, its why ive decided lesser wound is not a good talent to get, sure it helps speed up easier fights but it means when i get hit hard i get like 5 wounds which i have no chance of unloading. The big issue is that im not sure what would be better to chose over lesser wounds, perhaps a defensive talent?

yea but linger length should defs be affected, as it is you can tank a chanters intel to 3 and play an offtank summoner (the issue with this being that you really dont lose much for dumping intel)

Having now played around some more I think that lesser wounds is entirely unneeded on PoTD solo and I think it would be better using that point getting will so i spend less of my time stunlocked, i mean on any fight that is hard i always have more wounds than i need

The big mistake i think a lot of people who are complaining that monks suck is building them too flimsy, and i think this is because people think more damage taken=more wounds=more damage given. This is actually not very good in practice because the rate you gain wounds is often faster than you can spend them, if it takes 8 damage to get a wound with lesser wounds that means that at 100 endurance you will have 10 wounds to spend assuming no heals or anything, until you get acess to the high level monk spells IE more than halfway through the game you only have only two ways to spend wounds, use either one or two wounds. The problem is that if you are being attacked by pretty much anything you will be gaining wounds faster than you can spend them, this is why its actually very advantageous to get high DR and deflaction so that you ensure that each wound gets used to power a spell. Using the 100 hp example- Get hit twice for 40 gives you 10 wounds to spend in about 5 seconds, even spamming the hell out of your spells this is hard to do, also one more hit and you are dead. Now put some heavy armour on that same guy and your DR jumps up to 12 lets say up from 2 DR, this should mean the same two attacks hit you for 30 each, giving you 6 wounds to spend in about 5 seconds, it is now easier to spend it and therefore get the most out of the HP that you lost, you also have the added bonus that the next hit will not kill you. The way the numbers are set up right now tanky monks are clearly superior to dps monks because the loss in dps is so minimal compared to the gain in survivability. The second point is in team management, if you are building 2 tanks 1 priest and 3 others or any standard build it makes more sense toput your monk to the front, after all he is the only class that actually benefits from being hit, and if you dont think he is gaining wounds fast enough just downgrade his armor but seriously if you put him on the front line there wont be any shortage of wounds and as a monk he has more utility and damage than a fighter and from my experience more dps than a barbarian

I am reading through this to try and get an idea about the best way to do things (I like trying to min/max over RP), and I was interested by your ranking of the Fire Godlike, as it is so different to what others have put. What is your reasoning for this? EDIT: also, how does the Orlan crit chance influence AoE spells, and CC spells? Would it increase the duration of CC spells? Some people dont like any abilities that rely on you being half dead to activate, im just gonna say though that a paladin with upgraded faith and conviction, a big ass shield and fire godlike (with the heaviest armour you can find) can basically walk through a room full of mobs and barely flinch, not only does he barely take any damage but if by some miracle he does get down to 50% the mobs attacking him will probably kill themselves before they get him to 0, especially if you tactically heal him so that he is constantly in the 10-50 range

I would argue that that there are several builds out there that dont suffer at all from droping int to 3, for example a summon based chanter gains very very little from int and can use to points gained to become an offtank. It depends, look at the skills available to each class, if you want to dump a particular stat avoid skill paths that make use of that stat