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This build is not favored by the
GuildWiki community.
The general consensus among users of GuildWiki is that this
build is not viable.
This build was voted unfavored for the following reasons:
- Insufficient damage
- Poor durability
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The Sword Spike Monk is a Monk melee build
that utilizes the extra Energy Regeneration and Smiting Prayers
skills to provide a higher DPS than most normal Warrior builds.
This build is able to deal damage while healing through the use of
Divine Boon, as
well as remove conditions.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Use staff to attack approaching enemies doing so to gain
adrenaline
- Switch to Sword once they are near and cycle through Pure Strike, Jaizhenju
Strike, and Quivering Blade
- You may cast Judge's Insight either before you use your
staff, or when they begin attacking you to take benefit from Divine Boon, but
have it on as often as possible. Use on ally warriors if you
can.
- Use heal and and remove condition on yourself and allies when
needed, but watch your energy.
- You are a damage dealer, but not a tank, and you will
die if you try to face multiple damage dealers. Kite when under too much pressure,
your preferred role is to seek out weak, unsuspecting targets for
quick kills.
[edit] Variations
[edit] Counters
- Anti-Warrior skills can hinder the build, although it is less
susceptable crippling and blinding.
- Simple damage. This build is much more squishy than regular warriors.
- Build's function is dependent on energy, output would be
greatly hampered if faced with E-denial.
- Although the build provides a good continuous stream of damage,
it lacks interrupt for stopping last-second-heals and key spells,
unless you use Savage Slash or Distracting Blow.
- Enchantment
removal can decrease output by up to 30%, but due to the relatively
short recharge of the spells, it is not as dangerous.
This build focuses uses Judge's Insight to increase the damage output
while continuously cycling through Pure Strike, Jaizhenju
Strike, and Quivering Blade to provide an impressive
amount of damage. This build also allows the Sword Monk to heal
herself using divine boon with Judge's Insight, Mend Ailment, and Reversal of Fortune, which have short
activation times, especially in comparison to Healing Signet.
The fast recahrging condition removal means that the build is less
prone to blinding than most warriors.
For the output, damage bonus of Swordsmanshp after level 12
rapidly declines, with only 8 damage and 4% critical hit difference
between level 12 and 16, whereas Judge's Insight adds a far larger
amount of damage than that. A monk can keep up the energy level for
Judge's Insight, Pure Strike and Jaihzehnju Strike, as well as
heals and condition removals, something a warrior cannot do. This
character is not meant to be a healer, and simply cannot last long
as one, but if treated as a melee character with proper support, it
can do an amount of damage comparable with warriors.
See Build:Mo/W Zealot.
Monk / Warrior 
