Build:Mo/E SoA Sliver

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This build is a branch of the Mo/any SoA Monk. It utilizes the quick killing power of Sliver Armor along with Shield of Absorption to stay alive. It was particularly useful in farming Bosses and has been known to kill in under 15.5 seconds before the latest game update.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

MonkElementalistMonk / Elementalist Attribute Rank
Protection Prayers 10 + 3 (+ 1)
Divine Favor 11 + 3 (+ 1)
Healing Prayers 0 + 3
Smiting Prayers 0 + 3
Earth Magic 10
Protective Spirit

Protective Spirit

Shield of Absorption

Shield of Absorption

Glyph of Concentration

Glyph of Concentration

Sliver Armor

Sliver Armor

Optional

Optional

Optional

Optional

Balthazar's Spirit

Balthazar's Spirit

Blessed Aura

Blessed Aura


  • The Attributes listed above can be changed to fit your reaction time and/or computer speed. Because you only have about one second to click on SOA, the build above helps extend that time needed to click on it again. If your computer's (or your) reaction speed is not the best go with the current build. On the other side, if you are fast and your computer is as well, you can lower the Divine Favor down a point and add on to Earth Magic.

[edit] Equipment

  • Ascetic's Armor is recommended for a larger energy pool, max armor is not needed.
  • Aquire two scalp designs, one for Protection Prayers with a Superior Protection Prayers and another for Divine Favor. (Note that both headpieces must have a superior rune) This is needed to achieve 15 Divine Favor to strengthen the power of Blessed Aura. This will be described more in the next section (Usage)
  • Any weapon / staff with an "Enchantments last 20% longer" modifier is needed. The Totem Axe and Rajazan's Fervor are common choices but any staff with the "Enchantments last 20% longer" mod will work as well. Kepkhet's Refuge is very useful if you are playing the 105 hp variant, as the halved casting and recharge can be very effective if it affects Sliver Armor or Shield of Absorption.
  • Hukhrah's Staff (or any other staff of Mastery in Divine Favor) is also helpful. This will also be explained in the Usage section.

[edit] Usage

  • Before you cast Blessed Aura, switch out your Protection Prayers scalp for the Divine Favor one bringing your Divine Favor up to 15. Cast Blessed Aura and then switch back to the Protection Prayers scalp, bringing your Protection Prayers back up to 14.
  • If you are using Hukhrah's Staff, equip it at the same time as the Divine Favor headpiece. Cast and re-cast Blessed Aura as many times as needed for the Divine Favor boost to kick in.
  • When all of the enchantments are cast start your run to your target. Before entering battle, cast Protective Spirit and Shield of Absorption. Keep them up at all times.
  • Aggro your enemies. You must continue to maintain Protective Spirit and Shield of Absorption; if the mobs contain interrupters, you will have to use Glyph of Concentration before SoA (which will always match exactly because of the recharge time).
  • To start damaging enemies activate Sliver Armor after Glyph of Concentration and SoA.
  • To avoid breaking aggro, hit the enemy targeted by Sliver Armor from time to time.

[edit] Counters

  • If Glyph of concentration gets interrupted and SoA afterwards gets interrupted, too, you will have to survive by healing with the Divine Favor bonus from spamming Protective Spirit. This can be really hard as you are going to aggro a lot of mobs to deal best possible damage with Sliver Armor.
  • Anything that counters a normal invincible monk will counter this one. These include health degeneration (to a certain point), enchantment removal, and damage that bypasses Protective Spirit.

[edit] Notes

  • Like all 55 hp builds, this build may be difficult at first, but will get easier with practice.
  • Because the damage reduction from SoA is cumulative, 105hp and more is possible. But don't forget you will need to outheal the damage taken only through your Divine Favor bonus until SoA has reduced it to 0.
  • Balthazar's Spirit will provide energy whenever something hits you, even if you are taking 0 damage.

[edit] Variants

  • Switch Balthazar's Spirit for Essence Bond, or put it in the optional slot. You should bring Blessed Signet if you do this to speed up energy regeneration, though when there are plenty of targets around attacking you (such as when farming Ghial the Bone Dancer) this becomes less necessary.
  • Zealot's Fire and Shield of Judgment will both do constant damage; but due to the low smiting prayers, will not do much damage. If you bring Zealot's Fire, you must time when you cast your spells so there is at least a three second gap between them or your opponents will scatter. If you bring Shield of Judgment your energy flow will be slightly slowed, because the enemies will be knocked down and therefore attack you less often. This results in less activation of Balthazar's Spirit (or Essence Bond) and less damage dealing through Sliver Armor.
  • Fill the optional slot with any of the other skills mentioned on the Invincible Monk page. (Those mentioned above are some of the more important and/or useful skills found on that page.)
  • Shielding Hands is an easy way to avoid vulnerabilitiy if SoA can't be recast in time.

[edit] Using Spirit Bond

If you wanted to farm areas with health degeneration or life steal, the following build can be used. With the defensive power of SoA, and the massive healing from Spirit Bond, you can solo more bosses in more areas. This build uses the same attributes as the one listed above.

Protective Spirit

Protective Spirit

Shield of Absorption

Shield of Absorption

Spirit Bond

Spirit Bond

Glyph of Concentration

Glyph of Concentration

Sliver Armor

Sliver Armor

Essence Bond

Essence Bond

Balthazar's Spirit

Balthazar's Spirit

Blessed Aura

Blessed Aura

Armor:

  • Lowest armor, AL 15 or Starter armor will do.
  • 2 head pieces (as listed above) one for Divine Favor, one for Protection. Switch out when casting Blessed Aura.
  • One Vigor rune (the best you can afford) and the rest with Vitae ones (+10 health)

Weapons:

  • It is not needed, but recommended to acquire a -1 energy regeneration +15 energy offhand for either Protection, Divine Favor, or Earth Magic. This will help with the large amount of energy that will be used with this variant build.
  • Any weapon/off-hand can be used, as long as it does not subtract health.
  • Staves may be used as well if you like.

Usage:

  • The usage is the same as above with the following variant:
  • Cast Spirit Bond immediately after SoA to regain the Health lost until SoA has set the damage taken to 0. Also use Spirit Bond to recover from Degen.
  • Depending on degeneration keep Spirit Bond up as well as SoA and Prot. Spirit (which still have higher priority than Spirit Bond), but remember not to recast Spirit Bond before it has ended.

Bosses: (this variant build may also be used to solo all of the bosses listed below these)

[edit] List of soloable bosses

[edit] Prophecies:

2 current mobs

[edit] Factions:

15 current bosses

These four Yeti Bosses can easily be done in one run with 105hp, Glyph of Renewal instead of Glyph of Concentration and Watchful Healing to counter Poison.
  • Maishang Hills
    • Necromancer Sessk, Woe Spreader - (Bring along Watchful Spirit and Mending to counter Degeneration and Spam Protective Spirit for health gain. Oni may appear, but run past them. Interrupts are frequent while soloing him)
  • Archipelagos
    • Ritualist Ssyn Coiled Grasp - Medium/Hard (Dazing will cause you to get interrupted frequently. To avoid this, use Glyph of Concentration for both Sliver Armor and SoA. 105hp is also needed.)

[edit] Nightfall:

10 current bosses

To kill these go with 105hp and bring Regeneration Skills or Condition removal against Burning. Switch out Glyph of Concentration for Glyph of Renewal.

[edit] Videos

Note: All videos have been created BEFORE the latest update when SoA still had a casting time of 1/4 second!

[edit] Templates

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The Skills Template for this build is:
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Spirit Bond Variant

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The Skills Template for this build is:
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[edit] See also

Other SoA builds:

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