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I have a 50/38 Acolyte on iRO Valkyrie that I'm trying to get to Monk. (I want to change at job 50) It's getting to the point where Wolves aren't giving her that much EXP anymore (0.2%) so does anyone have suggestions on where I could take her? I don't have anyone to party with and I've already tried Soldier Skeletons and Orc Warriors and decided those were no good. (Because they do too much damage for the amount of EXP they give out)

HP: 1113
SP: 325

STR: 33
AGI: 22
VIT: 40
INT: 25
DEX: 32
LUK: 5

Skills:
Blessing 10
Demon Bane 2
Divine Protection 5
Heal 10
Holy Light 1
Increase AGI 10

Equips:
Moon Rabbit Hat
Mr. Smile
Stunner
Muffler
Mantle
Guard
Sandals

As an aside, I'm pretty poor, so I can't afford to get her high-level upgraded and/or carded gears.
 
     
 
Hm....
Have you tried getting a mercenary and going to wolves?
It does opt for faster kills.
I would suggest Louyang but I'm not sure which server you're on and.... Louyang can be quite annoying.
     


Time to finish this baby up.
>_O
Lady Mira of Azure Sky
I have a 49/38 Acolyte on iRO Valkyrie that I'm trying to get to Monk. (I want to change at job 50) It's getting to the point where Wolves aren't giving her that much EXP anymore (.2%) so does anyone have suggestions on where I could take her? I don't have anyone to party with and I've already tried Soldier Skeletons and Orc Warriors and decided those were no good. (Because they do too much damage for the amount of EXP they give out)

HP: 1062
SP: 318

STR: 33
AGI: 22
VIT: 38
INT: 25
DEX: 32
LUK: 5

Skills:
Blessing 10
Demon Bane 2
Divine Protection 5
Heal 10
Holy Light 1
Increase AGI 10

Equips:
Moon Rabbit Hat
Mr. Smile
Stunner
Muffler
Mantle
Guard
Sandals

As an aside, I'm pretty poor, so I can't afford to get her high-level upgraded and/or carded gears.


Umm no offense but your stats and skills are pretty bad... Monks don't usually get luk and your stats are too even rounded. I'm gonna assume this is your first character. I'd recommend restarting but if you don't want to you can wear it out and go for a better build when you trans though it'll be harder for you.

Lvl 49 means you can do the gators exp quest. Go to Prontera and take the kafra warp to Comodo for 3k then go east then south and then you'll be at the bot infested gators map. The repeatable exp quest guarentees good exp. I did that for my priest while did dokebis for my knight. Your stats are pretty bad though so you might have trouble with the monk test. Also what type of monk do you plan on becoming? Asura, combo, MS, occult, spirit? (Though I think spirit and asura are almost the same thing) (Also no monk experience so sorry if it's not too good)
 
     
 
LexaeusV
Lady Mira of Azure Sky
I have a 49/38 Acolyte on iRO Valkyrie that I'm trying to get to Monk. (I want to change at job 50) It's getting to the point where Wolves aren't giving her that much EXP anymore (.2%) so does anyone have suggestions on where I could take her? I don't have anyone to party with and I've already tried Soldier Skeletons and Orc Warriors and decided those were no good. (Because they do too much damage for the amount of EXP they give out)

HP: 1062
SP: 318

STR: 33
AGI: 22
VIT: 38
INT: 25
DEX: 32
LUK: 5

Skills:
Blessing 10
Demon Bane 2
Divine Protection 5
Heal 10
Holy Light 1
Increase AGI 10

Equips:
Moon Rabbit Hat
Mr. Smile
Stunner
Muffler
Mantle
Guard
Sandals

As an aside, I'm pretty poor, so I can't afford to get her high-level upgraded and/or carded gears.


Umm no offense but your stats and skills are pretty bad... Monks don't usually get luk and your stats are too even rounded. I'm gonna assume this is your first character. I'd recommend restarting but if you don't want to you can wear it out and go for a better build when you trans though it'll be harder for you.

Lvl 49 means you can do the gators exp quest. Go to Prontera and take the kafra warp to Comodo for 3k then go east then south and then you'll be at the bot infested gators map. The repeatable exp quest guarentees good exp. I did that for my priest while did dokebis for my knight. Your stats are pretty bad though so you might have trouble with the monk test. Also what type of monk do you plan on becoming? Asura, combo, MS, occult, spirit? (Though I think spirit and asura are almost the same thing) (Also no monk experience so sorry if it's not too good)
No offense taken, I was expecting they might be. They're rounded because I wanted her to have a decent attack, SP bank, and movement speed; but I'm pretty much concentrating on VIT now. LUK I haven't touched since the Training Grounds (Base LUK 2) so most of that is actually just bonus stat. She's far from being my first character, she's just my first Acolyte. (To have gotten this far, anyways. The one I had on Loki I didn't care much about so she was only like base 16) Restarting would take too long since I'm a college student. It's been like half a year to get this far. >____> Not really planning a build past the idea I want her to have high VIT, since I don't think she'll ever make it to Transcendent or join a guild or anything. (I get bored with certain character types after a while so I periodically switch between which class I'm playing as...on Loki the highest level any of my characters ever got to was like 67 or something) She's mostly just for fun playing with my best friend.
     

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Lady Mira of Azure Sky
Lady Mira of Azure Sky
I have a 49/38 Acolyte on iRO Valkyrie that I'm trying to get to Monk. (I want to change at job 50) It's getting to the point where Wolves aren't giving her that much EXP anymore (.2%) so does anyone have suggestions on where I could take her? I don't have anyone to party with and I've already tried Soldier Skeletons and Orc Warriors and decided those were no good. (Because they do too much damage for the amount of EXP they give out)

HP: 1062yt56tw
SP: 318

STR: 33
AGI: 22
VIT: 38
INT: 25
DEX: 32
LUK: 5

Skills:
Blessing 10
Demon Bane 2
Divine Protection 5
Heal 10
Holy Light 1
Increase AGI 10

Equips:
Moon Rabbit Hat
Mr. Smile
Stunner
Muffler
Mantle
Guard
Sandals

As an aside, I'm pretty poor, so I can't afford to get her high-level upgraded and/or carded gears.
 
     
hot loo 100_
 
I may be a day late and a dollar short on this, but what the hell? Sorry if this sounds vague, but you really do need to narrow your focus if you want good advice. I'd suggest taking a quick look here; http://irowiki.org/wiki/Monk

Your stats aren't that bad, truth be told, but you're really not going to get far at all if you keep trying to stay well-rounded. RO at the moment heavily favors people who min-max (it won't so much come renewal, but let's not go there.) You really need to do a bit of research, decide what you want out of your Monk and go from there. You mentioned playing with a friend... Maybe considering what that friend is playing and planning to complement him/her can narrow your focus a bit?

You said that you're currently working on your Vit? Honestly, Vit would be the last stat I'd worry about right now (and Luk doesn't count.) You already have more than enough. Besides, from a purely PVM perspective, Vit really doesn't become useful or important as a defensive stat until most character builds are well into their 90s, especially for Monks, since they really aren't expected to do much tanking unless they're Mental Strength builds. And Mental Strength puts your Def at a fixed level anyway, regardless of your Vit.

Personally, I would get Str, Str and more Str. ALL Monk builds need it. You're not going to kill vey much of anything with your Str as low as it is, which means less exp, of course. Most all Monk builds aim for 110-120 with buffs at level 99.

Dex is lovely. I'd recommend no less than 50 with buffs, and probably more depending on your build (since it reduces cast times for G-Fist, Throw Spirit Sphere, etc.) though Dex builds aren't my area of expertise.

Int is nice to have, but remember that YOU ARE NOT A PRIEST. Unless you go for a crazy Int Guillotine Fist build, you're probably always going to have annoyingly slow regen and a fairly small SP reservoir. And Acolyte SP/regen is horrid anyway. My FS Priest went for 99 Int before getting any other stats and he still had to sit constantly when he was an Aco, even when supporting just one other person.

Agi really depends. Agi builds are great to solo and really do well at lower levels, but most Monk build avoid Agi entirely, with the notable exception of combo builds. Again, you have to decide what you want out of your Monk and plan accordingly.

And one last thing to watch out for... Remember that you need Demon Bane 10 and Divine Protection 10 to get the Monk skill Iron Fists, which is a prereq for almost all Monk skills. With your current skill build, if you go job 50, you'll already have to spend 1 Monk skill point to get them both maxed. And you won't have any of the warp tree skills (Ruwach, Warp Portal, Pnuema.)

I can understand where you're coming from when you say you don't have a specific build in mind, but you should at least have a vague idea. At this point it sounds like you don't, and that's really going to hurt you. My Champ is a Str/Agi/Dex combo build, and I never planned out his stats in advance, but I did enough research about combo builds to know which stats were useful and which weren't. I'm sorry if I sound harsh.
     

iRO player since April '03... Doing a poor job of quitting!
@Tris would you not say that if she focuses on vit that she could always be a MS monk. They really don't have much use but hey at least they have a chance of tanking MVPs so they'll have a use. She wouldn't need much to be a MS monk in which all you need I believe is raging trifecta, a high lvl occult, maybe root, and then the pre reqs to get MS and that's it. That should give her enough skill points to get pneuma too. (I've never made a monk so this is just from my experience of partying with monks)

@Lady If it's a for fun character then it's alright but if you ever intend to pvp or WoE just wait till you trans to set it right. Also I've known people in Valk who can get from like lvl 1-86 in a week if they spammed all the repeatable quests past lvl 10... I for one am a slow lvler xD So I understand that you don't want to remake her and in which you don't have to. It'll just be a bit harder to lvl up is all really.
 
     
LexaeusV
LexaeusV
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how about munaks?? razz
     

iFearGod
My friends call me Pretty....


Louyang?



...pretty annoying... o.o
 
     
 
if you can find enough ygg leaves, try using them on anubis in sphinx. aside from that, I suggest a private server, pay to play RO? yea right.

Edit:

Oh, you might also try high orcs. if you went int for fo you could heal bomb undead til monk. then again you coulda just done that til rebirth
     
Metaphor

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Hm...I never leveled an acolyte to make them turn monk, so I don't really know about their specific training spots. However, I can tell you a few places I leveled my priest-to-be acolyte...Don't know if it will help though.

-Payon dungeon: not that much XP, but easier to handle.
-If you get Pneuma, you can go to Amatsu dungeon and safely healbomb the Firelock Soldiers.
-Moscovia dungeon is excellent if you can get a party.
-Same thing for the Mi Gao field in Louyang.
-When you'll have enough HP, Glast Heim: healbomb the Zombie prisoners, Evil Druids, Wraith...
-Lastly, Ayothaya dungeon: Healbomb the Ghouls inside and kill the Leaf cats at the entrance (they give good amounts of job XP).

I don't really know about VIT/STR acolytes, but getting some INT to be an effective healbomber is a quick way to train. However, if you don't want to do that, you can still use that method if you bring a lot of mana restoring items (the easiest to get is strawberries, from Spore or Yoyo).
 
     
 
Get an hp to help you silence anubis and heal bomb it. wink
     

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