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Grom
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Re: weapon of choice
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Reply #15 on:
February 20, 2007, 12:12:25 PM »
I've found that fists are better unless you can find yellow or better knuckles or wraps that are about 5-10 lvls higher than you are. That way the stats plus the dps will be a significant increase over going bare hands.
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Teno
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Posts: 25
Re: weapon of choice
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Reply #16 on:
February 20, 2007, 03:19:55 PM »
I have been useing bare fisted in primary but useing redcap claws in the secondary (+6str) and i tend to get a little more dps that way at 22.
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Dalrock
Desciple
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Re: weapon of choice
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Reply #17 on:
February 25, 2007, 10:20:00 AM »
I'm a level 29 monk and I have always kept my skills maxed on hand-to-hand, ulak/claws, bladed staff, knuckles, and shuriken skills. So far, I have found that my bladed staff does the best dps and the weapon graphic is alot better than unarmed in my opinion. The reward for the Infineum questline are claws and the reward for the next questline that requires you to kill Kronus is a very nice bladed staff. Even the monk default emblem on the UI has a picture of the bladed staff instead of fist wraps or something else.
Anyway, I can usually beat my unarmed dps by about 6 - 10 by using bladed staff and my knuckles, ulak/claws are typically just barely under my unarmed dps by 2 - 4 dps approx. Ofcourse, keeping your bladed staff and 2-hand slashing skills maxed are a must for this to work.
Also, I noticed that by putting a wep in your offhand ONLY will slightly increase your dps rather than just going fully unarmed.
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Kapitein
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Re: weapon of choice
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Reply #18 on:
March 08, 2007, 06:06:30 AM »
I am a lvl 17 monk (drunken style), and I got one nice handwrap (
18dps
), and one decent knuckles (
12.5dps
).
Unarmed:
38.50 main hand, 19.25
extra
dps off hand.
18dps hand wrap:
58.00 main hand, 12.00
extra
dps off hand.
both handwrap and knuckles:
53.78dps main hand, 18.84
extra
dps off hand.
11.67dps windblade:
51.75dps two handed.
A few things which I noticed:
- With a good handwrap/knuckles/ulak/claw you can get significantly more damage. From 38ish dps to 58 is a lot!
- When you have a better weapon on your main hand, your off hand dps drops. When I am only using my main handwrap, I get lower dps on my off hand! This is probably because of the difference between your main hand weapon, and your off hand weapon. When I used two identical claws, I also had a DPS drop, but when I equiped both of them, the dps loss compared to both unarmed was gone, I actually gained a little! Both claws were weaker than my knuckle which I use on my off hand. My main hand had a lot less dps, but my off hand was better!
So the best is to have two identical, or similar weapons in both hands. I can't imagine the dps boost I would get when I would have two 18dps handwraps!
- My windblade, which has far less dps than my main handwrap, or my off hand knuckle still has some good dps! The difference is not really minor, but with a 15dps windblade I would be better off than now! I used to have a 16dps staff which I gave to a guildmate because I bought the 18dps handwrap, but I would probably be better with the staff. (It also had +25dex). This shows that for tanking (windblades are better for tanking as they have some % parry), you do not have to lose a lot of DPS.
Just my two cents, hope it's useful to some of you.
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Kapitein Archibald
Kojani Human Drunken Monk
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