hi,
I Don’t found information on this, since last patch.
What is better, the Strength or the dexterity for a monk.
Go mostly STR. People will rush here and say go full strength but no just dont go full STR. Get about 40-50 DEX just so you are able to hit mobs without missing, gloves will cover the rest for accuracy. Depending on equips and headgear i’d go with about 70-90 pts into CON. The rest of your points and bonus points from quests go into STR.
Glove and accuracy from level is enough to not miss on mobs. The only exception is when they use Evasion. DEX for pve is strictly for getting evasion.
Otherwise, DEX accuracy will only be for pvp.
there is not much difference… you generally want 80-100dex and rest in str + critical gear to get maximum dps but if you go full dex you lose just like 10% of your dps but gain a really good dodge
Depends, at pvp enoug for acurracy (STR:DEX 2:1) you can’t evade magic or full Dex chars
On Pvm for crit (STR:DEX 1:1) and crit gear.
PVP = High Dex.
for PvE, idk i’d still go for High Dex for my monk.
I think investing in STR and DEX, instead of pure STR or pure DEX, is best. I went full STR with 50 CON until level 170 and then rerolled. Now I have 300+ STR, 50 CON, and 200 DEX with gear and my Monk feels a lot stronger.
have you thought abt the SPR monk?
I’m pretty sure it’s a possibility after iTOS implemented the blessing’s buff (that scales with SPR) from kTOS, but now what’s in it (SPR) for monk?
nope im talking abt zalcai, monstrance and deprotected zone
ktos blessing is just a bonus
you can go spr con dex
Currently have 215 STR and 190 Dex
A lot of high lv players (200+) I have talked to claimed that a good mix of STR and DEX gives the best damage output than going full STR
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Made two Monks before, the first being 3:1 STR:DEX and the second being 1:1 STR:DEX, and the difference really feels more negligible than not as long as you put in a good mix of STR and DEX and make up what you lack with equipment.
I guess it’s more of the Red Pill VS Blue Pill question.
More base damage for higher critical damage and Bleed damage tick
VS
More evasion, accuracy and hit rate
This is the most popular Monk build on tosbase and it says to go full DEX, 0 points into STR.
So, there’s that.
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The damage increase from DEX/STR is higher than the gain you get from putting in SPR for Deprotected Zone and Monstrance (mainly because they are annoying to use).
So without the Blessing update, SPR is bad on Monk. After the update it gets more viable.
That build assumes anything against that stat build has none or paper-thin critical resistance and uses a weapon with 500+ weapon damage, which is mainly Illizia with a durability of 2 or a fully upgraded late-game weapon. The writer also mentions that “in a real situation, STR and DEX are quite equal” even though STR and DEX have their respective uses. Go full DEX if you are willing to do that.
I wrote a comment there asking more specifics: http://www.tosbase.com/tools/skill-simulator/build/6e40aqx89s/#comment_13270
#PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS OUTDATED
It says:
I played around more with Weapon dmg and crit resist. Even with 100 weapon dmg instead of 500 the spreadsheet still says to have 231 DEX max.
While playing around, I noticed that if your DMG is not high enough and/or enemy has low crit resist, STR is more important.
If your DMG exceeds a certain point and/or enemy crit resist is high, DEX is more important.
BUT if enemy crit resist is TOO HIGH, then there’s a point where DEX becomes useless and STR is the way to go.
So basically, going almost full DEX for PvE is better for Monks. Putting around 10-15 points into STR is ok if you have end-game gear that provides enough STR, which is about 40. For PvP, full DEX is worthless against full/high CON players.
Remember that as a Monk you spam skills a lot, and base skill DMG is relatively high. So for a skill spammer, DEX boosts DMG more.
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For those who want to PVP, take note that STR will be buffed to also give Block Penetration, so a no-str build will literally not be able to hit anyone with shield+high-con/stone skin.
I just realized that my previous post is based on an outdated assumption.
It is not accurate, nevermind what I wrote.
The old spreadsheet doesn’t use the crit chance formula that was confirmed at least on kToS, which is (crit rate - crit resist) * 42 / [your LVL].
It used a system where 2.33 points of crit rate equal 1% of actual crit chance.
Meaning a crit rate of 233 + enemy crit resist = 100% crit. This is not true.
I changed the formula of the original spreadsheet, I THINK this should be correct now:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EYMznbT8HhEQ_gF8hit_RTWP4n-CgDby6VsG601qyO4/edit?usp=sharing
According to that, STR is much better than DEX because crit chance decreases as your LVL gets higher.
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Can you send link the new doc please.
if you quote my post you can see the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EYMznbT8HhEQ_gF8hit_RTWP4n-CgDby6VsG601qyO4/edit?usp=sharing
To edit it, download and open with Spreadsheet software or make a copy on your Google drive.