55 monks broke?

I recently converted my old monk into a 55 monk and it works like a charm as far as survival goes, i can stay alive with a slew of trolls or minotaurs attacking me.

However when they get to about 50% hp they tend to run out of range and regen their health and come back at me.

Can anyone tell me if perhaps they changed monster AI so that people couldnt 55 smite, or if maybe im just doing something wrong?

Im using prot spirit, breeze, mending, balthazars spirit, blessed signet, shield of judgement, zealots fire, and mantra of resolve as a Mo/Me

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

You haven't heard about the update of the AI it is all over this thread and in the Riverside Inn forum.

yay for reading!
double yay for ignorance!

They should have elected 7 new mods, because I'd live for closing threads like this and have the right to say "Use search /close"

wow friendly bunch, pardon me for just registering and being a forum noob.

when i win the lottery ill be sure to come right back here and share the money with all the friendly people that were so helpful on the forums.

LoL?

Can you please talk about something relevant to GW.

/close please

excuse the other posters here, they're just frustrated because this has been discussed quite a bit lately.

To answer your question, the 55 monk isn't really broken but it isn't half as easy as it used to be. Any melee mob is now basically unfarmable because of scatter, as your experience with the trolls show. The way to get around this is to farm groups of 3 or 4 melee, because melee monsters don't run in you aggro small amounts ( don't ask me why ), OR farm ranged enemies (rangers/casters) because their AI didn't get changed too much, the shouldn't scatter. Also, look farther down this page for an about 11 page topic called 'The New Age Solo Monk' it has alot of information about a new post-ai nerf build (and it still uses your 5 superior runes), and alot of information about where/how to use it.

Hope that helps some,
--JoJ

Quote: Originally Posted by TehTpyoKing

^wants the money ;P

VS Warriors not good.. Casters / rangers / paragons still 55able as long as they dont strip enchants or steal hp.. necros are the worst..
Theres a guy that came up with a build which i personaly prefer over my 55 coz u can farm up to a huge number of mobs since the dmg is reduced to 0.. while while healing breeze if u get a huge mob u might not keep up and die even if u spam spells for divine healing.. http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10071188

i tried it too and its a hassle but it is possible. you need to run towards the things that are running away and they usually attack. it works for me.

thanks a ton to the more recent posters, especially JoJ, i dont feel like the money on all those sup runes was such a waste now.

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