Elvaan Best Monks?

[Skeepz]

Are Elvaans the best race for monks?

[Pai Pai Master]

They're certainly the most popular, due to their high Strength and Mind attributes. They have relatively low dexterity, but that is probably the only flaw of an Elvaan monk, and can be corrected easily with proper equipment.

[Anheuser]

i have an elvaan monk. all i can say is accuracy sucks. too many times i'm in a pt hoping no one saw how many misses i made. >_<

[Kirsteena]

It depends what level you are at - if you are low level, everyone will be missing because you don't have access to accuracy gear yet, nor is Sushi a viable food till the late 30s. It does get better!

[Vasilis]

I am a 61 Elvaan MNK, and i dont miss as much. But i do wear Chivalrous chain, Scorpion harness, Life belt, Super ribbon, Tiphia sting, and each Sole sushi as needed. But i try to use Coerul subs(sorry if miss spelled) for the added ATT. But in my honest opinion elvaan are the best due to the high STR. MND helps for Chi blast, and the VIT helps with Chakra as well. Taru and Mithra are good for ACC. but taru WS's are a bit weaker. as elvaan I out DoT taru MNK's easy. Even if i miis a few hits. So don't worry about the misses you get. If you want to play as elvaan. Screw what everyone else thinks. Just have fun with the game.

[Elisen]

I'm a 62 Elvaan monk. The only thing I've ever had a problem with as Elvaan monk is accuracy, but that can be easily corrected with sushi, and then a life belt. Sniper Rings and other +ACC rings are nice, but if you have sushi and a life belt I found that I really didn't need them anymore and went back to STR rings. Little by little the higher lvl I get the less +ACC I need and can go back to +STR and +ATT. I've heard somewhere between 65-70 you can switch to brown belt from life belt and not even miss the ACC.

[Dryhus]

As an Elvaan MNK at level 60, I parse at 85%-90% Acc in XP with 2 Sniper's Rings, Scorpion Harness, Tiphia Sting, and sole sushi. My weapon of choice is Spartan Cesti, which has Acc+2 I believe. The rest is dedicated to STR/ATK, except for the situation Crow Beret.

If you didn't have much of a budget, you could drop the SH and Brown Belt for AF body and Life Belt. Acc is easy to compensate.

[Loial]

If you haven't chosen a race yet (i.e. you haven't started the game), just pick whatever race you want to play. To attain every piece of gear that can make your monk "better" than the rest would take a long long long time. You might as well just pick whatever you want.

BTW, Elvaan fight animations are pretty lame Well, just one Galka's opinion. And have you ever seen them cast Utsusemi?

[Icemage]

If you haven't chosen a race yet (i.e. you haven't started the game), just pick whatever race you want to play. To attain every piece of gear that can make your monk "better" than the rest would take a long long long time. You might as well just pick whatever you want.

Truth.

BTW, Elvaan fight animations are pretty lame Well, just one Galka's opinion. And have you ever seen them cast Utsusemi?

The fight and utsusemi animations are at least reasonable, but the one that I detest is the Elvaan male animation for summoning. It's like Mr. Spock meets the Power Rangers.

Galka animation for Utsusemi is pretty amusing too. Makes me think of John Travolta in Staying Alive... (but I love my Galka buddies anyway - great for a taru to hide behind, and big enough to use as an umbrella when it rains!)


Icemage

[Kirsteena]

I am assuming you mean Elvaan male Utsu animation, and not female - cause the female is ok.

And yes, Elvaan male summoning looks like they are constipated or something...

[KoukiRyu]

I wanna cry every time I hit my summon macro ._. I don't want to be around anyone when I summon cause they'll laugh at me ; ;

But umm, I have MNK75, and besides looking a little lame when you punch, like they've said, just use some acc gear/food to make up for it. I ended up only using one acc ring, AF and sole sushi to 72, where I switched to Pahlu Body and now I can either eat str food(with my new merits) and one acc ring instead of two, or eat sushi and use a couple str rings..just depends on what you wanna do...and if you want cool animations, Taru mnk ftfw! Asuran Fists on a taru <3<3

[Loial]

See? You have bigger things to think about than a few STR points or MND points. And yes, us Galka blink tank in style!

[Armando]

Anyone saying his/her Accuracy sucks because he/she is Elvaan is under a placebo effect. Racial differences aren't nearly big enough to matter outside of the HP/MP department, and to a small extenct THF main SATA.

[Auron517]

I am assuming you mean Elvaan male Utsu animation, and not female - cause the female is ok.

That may be true, but have you seen the Elvaan Female HtH stance? Yuck!

[Mog]

The best animation yet is when a tarutaru uses a great sword.


/enemy approaches
/unsheath sword
/staggers due to the weight of the sword.

Oh shit....