How I Play My Level 130 Monk

• Role: Pure melee DPS plus group ADPS via Wheel of Fists XII synergy. Top three melee ADPS class.
• Gear: Mostly Outer Brood with Uprising bits. 51 DPS two-hander. Holding for tier 3 Soulforge XXX of Unraveling Order rather than buying tier 2.
• Hit points: ~800k. AC ~10,300 with Violet Conch of the Tempest. Surprisingly close to a warrior in survivability.
• Multibind: Everything on the 5 button. Push once, the whole rotation fires.

• /xtar 19: Auto-targets whatever the tank has targeted. No /assist needed, no pause needed.
• Attack on, merc assist on, stand: Repairs anything that fell off the previous round. Stand handles feign death and AoE knockdowns automatically.
• Group slots: 1-6 are group, 7+ are mobs being attacked.

• Wheel of Fists XII (level 130): Synergy ability. 100% chance to trigger Master Synergy via the focus AA.
• Master Synergy: +36% base weapon damage to the entire group (including pets and swarm pets) for 18 seconds or 120 attacks.
• Cooldown: 30 seconds between Wheel of Fists XII activations. With gear-side reductions you get nearly 100% uptime.
• Tiger Claw component: Wheel of Fists XII itself is a 1,037 base damage Tiger Claw on top of the buff.

Group impact: Every melee in the group gets 36% extra damage on near-permanent uptime. The monk pays for itself just by pressing 5.

• Wheel of Fists XII: Synergy proc, on cooldown.
• Uncia's Fang (level 124, Timer 17): Hand-to-hand attack for 1,689 plus a 22,901 magical attack. 1 minute reuse. Not upgraded in the current expansion so still using the 124 version.
• Drunken Monkey Style: Random damage buff. Activate and hope for something useful.
• Lifewalker's Synergy: Three flying kicks for 1,800 each, applies a debuff causing the target to take +125% damage from flying kicks.
• Fatewalker's Precision Strike: 1,581 throwing attack with bonus throwing follow-ups.
• Vera's Searing Shuriken: The only other throwing attack on the bar. Low damage but free.
• Curse of Seventeen Facets: +20,000 damage from damage shields on the target. If struck 112 times, triggers a 462,000 doom on curse-lift. 30 second reuse, fire on cooldown.
• Swift Reflexes: Blocks the next 3 melee hits and deals 395 damage back. 5 minute reuse, 1 hour buff. Endurance regenerates fast enough to ignore the cost. Quietly overpowered.
• Reciprocal Form (rank 4): +1,800 1H, +3,191 2H, +2,281 special attack damage. 5 minute reuse, 10k endurance. ~3% of the bar.
• Swift Tail's Chant: Group restores 1,400 endurance and absorbs 3% melee damage as endurance for the duration. 10 minute reuse.
• Zan Fi's Whistle: Passive +24% melee damage, +530 1H blunt, +1,075 2H blunt, +800 flying kick. Procs Zan Fi's Echo for 280,000 damage.
• Two-Finger Wasp: +180% Tiger Claw / Eagle Strike / Dragon Punch damage for 1 minute. 3 minute reuse.
• Five-Point Palm: Consumes 2% HP for 470,000 damage plus a 1,100 tail rake. Free with 14k HP regen.
• Improved Intimidation: +65% Tiger Claw / Eagle Strike / Dragon Punch damage for 30 seconds plus a 3 second stun.
• Disarm: On the multibind for the situations that need it.
• Aureate's Bane: Outer Brood curse cleanse. Costs nothing if there's no curse, free to leave on the bind.

• Eagle Strike: Triggers Divine Surge of Battle for 950 endurance back. Use when endurance is tight.
• Tiger Claw: Pure damage, no resource refund.
• Round Kick: Stun option.
• Flying Kick: Highest sustained damage option for the special slot.
• Default: Tiger Claw on the bar, swap to Eagle Strike when the endurance bar starts dipping.

• Master's Aura: Level 70 monk aura, still relevant.
• Familiar: Current expansion familiar.
• Violet Conch of the Tempest: +78 AC, 13 damage shield click.

• Silent Strikes: Aggro reduction. Open with this.
• Focus of Destructive Force: Single-target damage focus.
• Infusion of Lightning: Proc trigger for 5,000-10,000 per hit.
• Spire of the Sensei: Damage and crit scaling.
• Breastplate click (Seven Chakra's Healing Technique): Next 20 flying kicks proc Demon Crusher for 131,000 each. Soulforge XXX of Unraveling Order upgrade hits harder.
• Heel of Zagali: 30 second flying-kick damage boost, 15 minute reuse.
• Heron's Stance: Burn slot.
• Eagle's Symmetry: Triggers extra Tiger Claw attacks.
• Speed Focus: Attack speed boost. Shares the discipline timer.
• Terror Palm: Damage discipline. Same timer slot, fires when Speed Focus rolls off.
• Iron Fist Discipline / Bahamut's Rage / Two Pose Stance: Lower-level disciplines for the 90+ second mark. Some don't stack.
• Glyph of Ultimate Power: Slot zero when max AA. Not yet on this character.

Burn 8 timing: Spam button 7 then button 8 in sequence. Heel of Zagali fires off 7, Eagle's Symmetry off 8. As Heel falls off after 30s, hitting 8 again triggers Speed Focus. 30s later it triggers Terror Palm. The discipline slot does the cycling for you.

• Improved Mend: 25 second reuse, restores nearly full HP. Bound to numpad 2, not on the multibind.
• Earth Force Stance: 24 second duration, 3 minute reuse. Better than warrior Final Stand for the duration. Pop after a battle res while the tank gets back up.
• Delayed Death: 1 minute duration, 10 minute reuse, no discipline slot cost.
• Counterforce Discipline: Absorbs 15% incoming damage and procs an attack-slow on the target. ~72 second duration, 10 minute reuse.
• Swift Reflexes: Already on the multibind, blocks 3 hits.

Solo capability: Monk + shaman + bard cleared level 125 named in Outer Brood without a warrior. Mend plus Earth Force keeps the monk standing as a backup tank.

• Two-hander: Bo Staff of Unraveling Order.
• Armor: Soulforge XXX of Unraveling Order.
• Ring: Rings of the Harbinger (The Outer Brood).
• Neck: Collars of Legacies Lost (Laurion's Song).
• Mask: Mask of the Vortex (Shattering of Ro).
• Power source: Riven Arcana Slayer Source.