Damn, looks like we got the low end of the stick.  Harmony and Tranquility were made for discs   I was really hoping for a staff too.

Damn it, I never did the Graystone line with my monk because I went with the cragwind staff straight to a PBSoD.

I wouldn't mind having Gi style armor like in Eq2

Unless SoE somehow mangaes to vastly increase the population I highly doubt we'll ever ger a new server of anykind.  Vanguard was never meant to be a PvP game and as such PvP is and will probably always be a low priority to the dev team.  Especially since WAR and AoC is right around the corner I doubt they'll bother trying to pull in the pvp fanbase.

Other than Xanadu Community for raid gear, Curse is pretty much the best.

I suppose one method to test this out for a lvl 50 monk is to roll a new monk and take it to the trainer, from the trainer look up the values of the secret of ice/fire damage range.  From there switch back to your lvl 50 monk and alter your int till you match the numbers from the trainer. 

I want to say normalization occurs at 275.

Last month I Learned RitW I off the 4/5 dot spiders inside the walls I never got updates from mobs outside.

If your objective is to get the shuiken orb and armor then then it's impossible to solo it all at the normal level range for that region..

Here's a pic I took awhile back on my first trip down in the gnome city. Atonement of Val Anari  Assuming it truly is handwarps instead of a mace, it seems to me to be more of a disc weapon than a monk weapon.

 I I got extremely lucky and got a chance to run this quest with Fujitu's rogue alt a few weeks back.  Thankfully a 50 bard provided all the dull shards so I didn't have to do any farming(Though I had previously farmed 2 dull shards).  Had a bit of trouble with Shrine of the Tempest but lucked out and a GM responded in miraculously less than a minute.  All and all that was a pretty good day since  I upgraded my shuriken orb to legendary right before I joined up with that group.

   So far all the way to lvl 45, Stormslam has served my lillte drunkard well as a dps weapon while I was grouping.  I've actually gotten quite a few positive comments about my dps from groupmates.  Only 3 more levels to go till it goes into semiretirement and I swap it out for the fancy new flawess pariah's powered bstaff of devastation a guildie made for me.

Btw Kivik,(Or another monks with the claws) has your guildmate done much testion on how much jin, life, and strength is tapped when Senate Enforcer procs?

   Hate to be ungrateful for the knuckles, shuiken pouch, and those jaw dropping claws, but seems there's no decent staff or monk friendly handwraps outta apw that the general public knows about.  I  personally wouldn't use shadowsoul's heroic martialstaff over a powered bstaff of devasation.  Hopefully the basement wing coughs something nice up.

Btw, do you guys suggest Pariah(Dex/Con/Str)  or Cavalier(Str/Dex/Vit)  My little boozer is about to hit 44 so I suppose it's time to start hitting up guildies to get my T5 things crafted.

Anyone know if frost procs will stack with Secret of Ice?  I'm thinking of asking a guildie to make me on of these Flawless Pariah's Martial Sword of Scorching  Untill GU4 when melee haste matters, I don't see a reason to put Speed on it. Also unless the +parry stats really adds up I don't think Parrying will be more useful than the +hp.

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