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Beginner's guide to playing a monk

2025-11-23T14:24:27Z

CHAROK: /* See Also */ Removed Flimbo's guide, it is outdated to show on a new player listing

{{Player-guide
|title=A Beginner's Guide to Playing a Monk
|author=Various
|date=2015-02-06
|updated=2021-04-21
|topic=Monks
}}
Monks are a recently created profession. Monks can provide an enjoyable change of pace for established players and added complexity a new player. Monks are considered an advanced play class in some aspects because of the introduction of Unarmed Combat System that features a tiered combo approach.

If you are new to monks, but not Gemstone 4, playing a monk is the best way to experience the Unarmed Combat System. For effectiveness, particularly in multiplayer situations, UCS combined with stalking and hiding can be used from ambush with a high rate of success, but the flavor is only really experienced when used from the open as a monk. Using a weapon is possible, but comes with a handicap.

Unarmed combat works best for a solo player in an empty hunting ground. If you normally group hunt with other players or frequent the busier parts of the game you will need to change your habits to get the most out of playing a monk. Unarmed combat is slow, not because the individual actions in it are slow, but because more set up is required than any other style. There is plenty to engage you, provided you have the time to be engaged, which is why its best solo in an empty hunting ground.

Monks, like many professions, take a moderate amount of levelling to get decently skilled access to their core abilities. You'll need to get into the 20s to get the Cman points to make your key manoevers effective and the mana to make your key spells effective.

Statistic setting on a monk is different from other professions, in that there is little trade off between training points and growth. This is a consequence of a mismatch between physical prime stats and the main training point costs being mental. Setting a stat high because you want the direct benefits of that high stat at low level will cost both growth and training points in the long run. Other professions normally lose training points when doing a stat fix, but monks gain them. Stats that might be set high are STR (the usual encumberance reasons) AGI (if you can't get defense up from training fast enough to suit you) and LOG (both for the usual experience benefit and its the CS stat)

==See Also==
*[[Monk]] (main article)
*[[New Players' Guide]] (a comprehensive beginner's guide for new players of any profession)
*[[The Art of Roleplaying in GemStone IV (guide)]]
*[[Unarmed combat system]]
*[[Player Guide Contest]]

==References==
*[http://www.play.net/gs4/info/professions/monks.asp Monk profession on Play.net]
*[http://www.play.net/gs4/info/npg/home.asp GemStone IV New Player Guide on Play.net]

[[Category:Monk]]
[[Category:Professional Guides]]
[[Category:New Player| ]]
[[Category:Combat Mechanics]]

Gift of Eonak

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CHAROK: Removed loresinging, no longer affected.

<section begin=GoE />'''Gift of Eonak''' provides for a second [[d100]] roll on all skill-based item improvement/creation attempts, with the highest roll being used, for fifteen minutes.<noinclude> It is one of the [[Gift of the Gods]] options received on the 29th day of [[Login Rewards]]. </noinclude>

The following systems/spells are affected:

*[[Cobbling]]
*[[Enchant (925)]]
*[[Ensorcell (735)]]
*[[Fletching]]
*[[Forging]]
*[[Grit]]
*[[Lock Mastery]], lockpick and lock creation
*[[Sanctify (330)]]
*[[TATTOO_(verb)#Mystic_Tattoos|Mystic tattooing]]
*[[Resist Nature (620)]]

For the [[artisan skill]]s listed, it '''does not''' directly influence whether a rank is achieved on that attempt.<section begin=GoE />

[[Category: Login Rewards]]

1620

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| duration = Special
| type = Utility
| subtype = Combat Gear Enhancement
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Battle Standard. No more redirect.

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Category:Professions

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CHAROK: /* Magical Professions ("Pures") */

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A [[character]]'s '''profession''' ("class") defines their general role in [[GemStone IV]]. Profession determines how often and how easily [[skill]]s may be trained per level, and the [[spell circle|spells]] which may be learned. There are currently ten professions from which to choose.

==Profession Types==
===Physical Professions ("Squares")===
*'''[[Monk]]s''' are specialists in [[unarmed combat]], enhancing their bodies with [[mental magic]]
*'''[[Rogue]]s''' are masters of [[stealth]] and [[AMBUSH (verb)|ambushing]], and can be expert [[locksmith]]s
*'''[[Warrior]]s''' are frontline, heavily armored melee fighters
===Magical Professions ("Pures")===
*'''[[Cleric]]s''' are attuned to [[spiritual magic]] aligned with [[Arkati|Light or Dark Arkati]] and can raise the dead
*'''[[Empath]]s''' are spiritual healers with the power to manipulate living matter
*'''[[Sorcerer]]s''' are practitioners of destructive magic, drawing from both elemental and spiritual spheres
*'''[[Wizard]]s''' are masters of [[elemental magic]] and can learn to change or reverse the passage of time
===Semi-Spell User Professions ("Semis")===
*'''[[Bard]]s''' are [[loresinging|loremasters]] who wield elemental magic in the form of [[Bard Base|spellsongs]]
*'''[[Paladin]]s''' are armored melee combatants who draw on divine spiritual force to aid their groups in battle
*'''[[Ranger]]s''' are expert hunters who use nature-based spiritual magic and have a [[Animal Companion|special bond]] with animals

==Stats and Spell Circles==
{{Prime stats and spells}}

==Skills and Training Costs==
{{Physical Skills TP Cost}}

{{Mental Skills TP Cost}}

{{General Skills TP Cost}}

==Resources==
* [[Profession/saved posts|Saved posts]]

[[Category:World]]

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Savant

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CHAROK:

{{Not-yet-implemented|profession}}

{{profession |
name = Savant |
type = [[Mental]] [[Pure]] |
circles = [[Minor Mental]], [[Major Mental]], [[Savant Base]]
}}

'''Savants''' are an unimplemented profession in [[GemStone]]. Savants might be a [[pure]] profession, with access to three [[spell circle|spell circles]]: [[Minor Mental]], [[Major Mental]], and [[Savant Base]].

==Resources==
=====Officials Folders=====
*[http://forums.play.net/forums/GemStone%20IV/Savants/view Main folder]
*[http://forums.play.net/forums/GemStone%20IV/Savants/Announcements/view Announcements]
*[http://forums.play.net/forums/GemStone%20IV/Savants/Developer's%20Corner%20-%20Savants/view Developer's Corner]
*[http://forums.play.net/forums/GemStone%20IV/Savants/So%20You%20Want%20to%20be%20a%20Savant%3F/view So You Want to be a Savant?]
*[http://forums.play.net/forums/GemStone%20IV/Savants/Savant%20General%20Discussion/view General Discussion]
[[Category:Professions]]
[[Category:Savant]]
[[Category:Delayed Indefinitely]]
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