Hey guys, I just made my first monk in any mmorpg ever and I am really enjoying it but I had a few questions.

Do any of our stats increase the chance of getting a crit? I have noticed I crit quite a bit, and it seems to be a signature aspect of monks, so I was wanting to know if I could get gear, or ability increases that boost that advantage even more.

Also I am looking to meet some other monks in game, I don't see very many! Im Lokii on the new Xeth server (recently merged one), also looking for crafters to help me out with gear.

this is my first post on this website, and I just wanted to say this is an awesome place for info, a lot of posts and info from diff sections have helped a lot, I just hope I will be able to contribute as well in the near future..

oh, and did you know vanguard has its own podcast? well it does and the guys on it are hilarious!! Me and my pal Malachii have been talking with em via email, and hopefully we might get an interview on it, so listen in!

again thx for everything

Lokii - Xeth

Few tips for ya!

Dex increases Crits. but there is a cap of +18% crit rate from dex. (i think the actual number may be different)
Also player made armor with "pain" crystals will make Jagged armor which all adds + crit rate.  I would recomend Jagged (Pariah/Cavalers) Breastplate with assassins mark, and jagged legs with a mightly proc.
Also, hand to hand weapons all have a bonus to crit rate.

If all you are interested in is Crits, then i would go harmonious.  However I am bias and i prefer over all high dmg and ass such i went dragon.  We dont get as high a crit rate, but all of our attacks do an addition 25% (i think) dmg at 50.  As is i crit enough that i can burn all 5 offensive chains before they refresh.  Besides flying kick, I can consistantly keep them all used up even with our level 50 aum that decreases refresh time.

Also, do yourself a favor, and focus  str over dex.  You can put 4 into each, each lvl so they will both get pretty high.  Str adds perm. damage to each attack and the dmg added doesnt decrease when you lvl.  AKA 400 str at 30 adds the same dmg as 400 str at 50.   However, dex does decrease.  400 dex at 30 may cap your crit percent, but at 50 you need 900 to get the same crit percent.

At 50 i have 600 str 550 dex.  I could easily have 750 str, but i chose a more balanced set of gear at 50 due to the fact that i reach the stat cap for str in most groups so id rather reach the str AND dex cap instead of just one.

Fujitsu ----Xeth server...

Just a heads up.   The pain crystal armor is going to be rare and expensive, and i think you can only get t4 and t5 versions of it. 

Just look for armor that says +melee critical hit chance

Although until 30ish chances are you will be like me and just end up wearing random trash, and then get the celestial ward armor.  That armor will last till 40+ and you can slowly replace it with + crit armor.

You COULD do gorgalok swamp armor as it adds nice crit, however i feel atm the armor is just as hard to get as player made (aka not that hard) and as such neither is that good

Hey Xeth monks! I'm a level 31 drunken monk myself. Looking forward to soaring leap.

Where can I find some more information about Celestial Ward armor? Is it better oriented for monks than gear from The Arena or is it just personal preference?

Great information Fujitsu, thanks!

Is there a reason why you can't do both the Celestial ward and the Cragwind weapon quest? Stormslam looks very nice.

Hey Fujitsu, I'm a lvl 50 monk on Xeth too and would like to get my CW stars. if you want a partner in slaughter look me up - Rielle.

Celestial ward was REALLY boring, i hate faction more then anything, but i was doing it solo at 50.  However i think for a monk, most (if not all) the armor there will last you till 50 when you can either get swamp armor or player madded jagged armor. 

The short answer is yes.

The reason being is there is an overall cap on crit %, meaning no matter what you cant crit more then a certain %.

At the moment log parsing is incredibly sloppy due to bad code, but my parses indicate that its roughly 66% is the crit cap.


Dex is caped at 20% crit at 900 dex
Dual wielding nets 5% crit main hand + 2.5% off hand
Harmonious monks get +30% from their offensive stance
Then its buffs/gear to get the remaining 10%, which was usualy a breastplate and a ranger buff.

On harmonious i noticed after about 60% i stoped seeing returns from additional buffs and gear, and could even go 2 handed and have about the same crit rate.

Its considerably harder for non harmonious monks to reach the cap, and as such they will most likely be using a full suit of + crit, and even then with full buffs will only hit maybe 50% crit. 

Dragon
20% - Dex
7.5% - dual wield
5% - stance
~12% from gear (give or take a few % depending on how you get it made)
5-15% from buffs - about 50-55% crit rate.


Thus the long answer is no, since you would need 5-6% crit on every piece of armor to get to the cap, and thats just not an option.