Madstone Monk
A durable Wrestling build built around a Madness weapon, Earth armor, and Chivalry for sustained PvM.
Overview
This build is an extremely tanky wrestler that is primarily used to farm PvM. You will get quite a bit of survivability from intial PK attacks and may even be able to take down some foes. If you choose to equip Madness on your weapon you will also get to enjoy some big procs and great damage.
In group content you will be able to tank a majority of boss attacks and damage with no problem by around tier 12.
The goal with this build is to stack melee special chance and proc this as much as possible.
Aspect Options
- PvM -> Earth Armor & Earth Weapon OR Madness Weapon
Link Options
Thanks to the swing speed from chivalry all of our links will just continue to increase our damage. The build will feel good from the start even with little to no links.
- PvM:
- Melee Special Chance / Special Damage
- Damage Dealt by Player
- Melee Damage / Ignore Armor Chance
Codex Use
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Wrestling
- You will mostly sit in Dragon Stance when farming, this increases your weapon special damage and since we are increasing our weapon special chance, this is a good synergy. Chi-Strike is a good finisher. Brawl and Haymaker are both viable weapon abilities to run. Typicall you will want to run Brawl as even if it puts you over swing speed caps, that will count as additional damage so it is not wasted.
- Use Crab if the pressure from mobs is too much to gain extra DR.
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Parry
- You will sit in Testudo most of the time and run Last Stand as a finisher.
- You can use other stances situationally but Testudo offers the most DR when farming.
Additional Codex info is in the build card
Equipment
This build will run full plate. Mastercrafted gear at whatever ore your budget will allow.
Farming/Gameplay
This build is a great dungeon farmer and does very well in group content in a tank/damage role. It has a ton of survivability and can still do fantastic damage.
Additional Notes
Rocky theme plays
Stats
STR: 100, INT: 25, DEX: 100
Madstone Monk
- Crab 7
- Crane 7
- Dragon 7
- Monkey 7
- Spider 7
- Chi Thrust 1
- Brawl 1
- Remove Curse 1
- Consecrate Weapon 1
- Divine Fury 1
- Combat Medic 3
- Pressure Points 3
- Self Treatment 3
- Triage 3
- Bandolier 3
- Mixed Results 3
- Panacea 3
- Volatile 3