Alright well I want to play my monk more and soloing on monk as full melée doesn't work to well and with the lack of catas lately not very fun
so was thinking about going hybrid


I know that you need heals obviously and stat intel to about 55-70 and try and find the numbers that work best for you


But wanted to know a bit more about hybrid

can I use my dex armor, str charms or do I need to use HM gear?
Should I get a hm robe,charm incase in a cata there's no healer and I need to heal 100% of the time
I'll have about 2k to spend on heal Atm (will upgrade as I make more fg) so how much ee should I look to get on my heals and I should get a new heal every 10lvls right?


Plz post up whatever you think will help me out
I like advice

This post was edited by tyler225 on May 8 2010 09:57pm

I'm thinking of trying to just put nothing into dexterity, and not use any dexterity gear, and go pure strength.
I haven't done it yet, but I plan on trying this build soon.

Well, if your group isn't able to get by with just one hybrid, either you need better heals or a better group
But in the case you need a full time healer, yes heal mastery gear would be good.

Around 120 at mq is basically the most important. (more if you can afford it of course)

If you plan on getting gear to improve your heals in arena, get intelligence, so you have the defense of the intelligence.

PM me if you have any more questions

Ok so I'm using my dex armor str charm ee staffs and my heals
and ill stat my intel to around 55-70?

Iso more advice plz

Climb with 50int climb with 60int and climb with 70int and see what works best.

yes you still need to stat intel to between 55 and 70 to increase your mana pool.

you should be fine though to get a few chains.

Alright thx guys
just need to get the rest of my fg and buy some heal charms

I've done it some weeks back. I was going with 50 int, but that was wayyy to low. I was using a 194ee heal charm, but I often needed to heal, because I sometimes received the same dmg which I was actual healing, so I needed to cast 2-3 heals just to not die. Besides this, the mana pool with 50 base int is pretty low. You're going fine until lvl20 or 25 but you're getting problems soon. I would go with at least 60 int, if not even 70 int.

My other items were: 54 dex charm (so you've got 119dex without statting any), 36 str robe (Didn't get better, yet. Lack of offers.) and a 177ee lvl 55 staff. I statted int until I got 50 (so my next try would be 70, and hopefully I get a better mq robe until then, so I won't lose the 20 strength points which are going into int.)

Hmm alright thx
maybe I'll wait to play hybrid untill I upgrade my mq staff

For lvls 55-71 I'd be using

41str charm
46dex robe
136ee staff

would that gear be alright or should I upgrade it? Then save up more fg to buy heals?

That's basically what I use, if not a big better.
Heal charms are important, get a nice heal charm.

i'd save the fg for a nice heal charm. the heal charm is what makes a hybrid character good