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Nice guide, awesomely put together. My favorite part is J_B's handy dandy chart!

Bump cus lots of people looking at forum.

bump for best guide ever.

is this in the sticky yet?

Bump

Things that need to be updated

- Buying multiple gear sets section
- Most of the character guides, especially caster ones
- link after formulas doesn't show correctly
- A lot of syntax errors
- rephrase the -25% HM section

Things I want to add

- Melee vs Caster, pros and cons
- Magical defense and how it works
- My opinion of %chance of being hit physical/magical
- EE tanking armors, medium vs heavies
- Using fish for wells and why
- Predicting well monsters difficulty as well as ideal levels based on your equipement
- New caster system
- Bestiary... I'll finish it one day
- My thoughts on the potential usefullness of EE robes

Bumping this so I don't forget changes I'll need to make if I ever get around to a re write. If theres something you disagree with here or something you'd like me to go over let me know. I'll try to get it in if I know how to answer.

This post was edited by arxyn on Dec 20 2009 09:35pm

Bump

Will update this by end of week. J_B and I are also considering selling the intelletual
property of this if anyone is intrested. (You get to post it and claim you wrote it etc).

With the 1.18 update... I have noticed a few things with MONK

I have been testing the ratio between the ideal Strength to Dex ratio

With the gear that I have... I prefer this type of setup for my stats....

Dexterity to reach 100 (more crit chances and the fact that defense does count when you have to solo more at higher levels when no groups are on)
Strength to reach 100 and more... nice damage and crit factor when solo'ing
Intelligence to reach 70... more mana/magic defense etc for those with the concept of melee/healer (note... this is not hard int... my int is hard @ 57 and then I use +13 int on my armor that has 21 Strength)
Vitality... I have excluded this now... I use to add in 5 at the start... but it is not needed if you have the appropriate gear.

As for Items... your stats are calculated to the MQ items and so forth...

I personally think this:

Minimum of 80% Enhanced Effect to your weapon
Minimum of 20 Strength on your Armor
Minimum of 35 Strength on your Main Charm
Minimum of 90% Enhanced Effect to your Acc Healing Charm (Note... this is based on Focus Heal)

This guide and all of it's content now belongs to benell

Ty for information btw izpargonazoni I'll keep your results in mind when updating.

This post was edited by arxyn on Jan 7 2010 05:22pm

ee robes are still "useless" imo ><

Np... I tested this out today...

Level 50 to 52 Monk:

Stats:
Strength: 45 (yes... only 45)
Dexterity: 93 (@lvl50... 95 @lvl52)
Intelligence: 57 (just when I use other armor I have 70 Int)
Vitality: 40

Gear:
Staff: 104% EE
Robe: 33% Heal Mastery / 1-19 MPK
Charm: 41% Heal Mastery / 2% Power Shot / 339 Max Life
Acc: 84% Enhanced Effect Focus Heal (Note... only level 45... not a 50)

Arena MCC ranges from 5 to 11 with the above setup... this is more than my strength items... which is very strange... other gear:

Weapon: 104% EE
Robe: 21 Str / 13 Int other mods
Charm: 34 Str
Acc: 84 EE focus (level 45)

Stats:
Strength: 80
Dexterity: 93 (@lvl50... 95 @lvl52)
Intelligence: 70 (just when I use other armor I have 70 Int)
Vitality: 40

I was getting around 4-9 MCC in total... which was funny... yes I know... less Healing capacity and faster killing... I am just thinking about the drops for better chains...

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Jan 7 2010 10:06pm