Monk

Monk Type Square Spell Circles Minor Mental, Minor Spiritual Prime Requisites Agility, Strength Mana Statistics Wisdom, Logic

Physical Skills Skill Cost Ranks Two Weapon Combat 2/2 2 Armor Use 10/0 2 Shield Use 8/0 2 Combat Maneuvers 5/3 2 Edged Weapons 2/1 2 Blunt Weapons 3/1 2 Two-Handed Weapons 5/2 2 Ranged Weapons 4/1 2 Thrown Weapons 2/1 2 Polearm Weapons 6/2 2 Brawling 2/1 2 Ambush 3/2 2 Multi Opponent Combat 5/2 2 Physical Fitness 2/0 3 Dodging 1/1 3

Magical Skills Skill Cost Ranks Arcane Symbols 0/6 1 Magic Item Use 0/7 1 Spell Aiming 5/20 1 Harness Power 0/6 1 Elemental Mana Control 0/15 1 Mental Mana Control 0/8 1 Spirit Mana Control 0/8 1 Spell Research 0/38 1 Elemental Lore 0/40 1 Spiritual Lore 0/12 1 Sorcerous Lore 0/35 1 Mental Lore 0/12 1

General Skills Skill Cost Ranks Survival 2/2 2 Disarming Traps 3/4 2 Picking Locks 3/3 2 Stalking and Hiding 3/2 2 Perception 0/2 2 Climbing 1/0 2 Swimming 2/0 2 First Aid 1/2 2 Trading 0/3 2 Pickpocketing 2/2 2

The Monk is the newest professions to be added to GemStone IV. Monks are a square profession, with access to the Minor Mental and Minor Spiritual spell circles. Monks have access to Iron Skin (1202) which obviates the need for armor. Monk training point costs favor their use of the Unarmed combat system.

Combat Maneuvers List

Monks have inherent knowledge of Unarmed Specialist. Monks also have the ability to train in the following:

Monk-only Maneuvers

• Burst of Swiftness (burst): Agility/Dexterity bonus (5 ranks)
• Flurry of Blows (flurry): Martial Stance, Jab multiple targets in area (3 ranks)
• Inner Harmony (iharmony): Martial Stance, chance to shake off spell effects (3 ranks)
• Internal Power (ipower): Health point recovery (5 ranks)
• Ki Focus (kifocus): AS/UAF bonus (3 ranks)
• Mystic Strike (mysticstrike): ? (description not available at this time)
• Perfect Self (perfectself): Statistics enhancer (5 ranks)
• Rolling Krynch Stance (krynch): Martial Stance, potentially raise attack tier against second foe (3 ranks)
• Stance of the Mongoose (mongoose): Martial Stance, auto retaliatory strike (3 ranks)

Martial Stances

• Flurry of Blows (flurry): Jab multiple targets in area
• Inner Harmony (iharmony): chance to shake off spell effects
• Rolling Krynch Stance (krynch): potentially raise attack tier against second foe.
• Stance of the Mongoose (mongoose): auto retaliatory strike
• Slippery Mind (slipperymind): chance to avoid certain warding spells

Other Available Maneuvers

• Bearhug (bearhug)
• Charge (charge)
• Cheapshots (cheapshots)
• Combat Focus (focus)
• Combat Mastery (cmastery)
• Combat Mobility (mobility)
• Combat Movement (cmovement)
• Combat Toughness (toughness)
• Crowd Press (cpress)
• Cunning Defense(cdefense)
• Dirtkick (dirtkick)
• Disarm Weapon (disarm)
• Duck and Weave (weave): 30 second boost to evade chance (3 ranks)
• Evade Mastery (emastery)
• Feint (feint)
• Garrote (garrote)
• Grapple Mastery (gmastery): Increase Grapple attack proficiency (3 rank)
• Headbutt (headbutt)
• Kick Mastery (kmastery): Increase Kick attack proficiency (3 ranks)
• Multi-Fire (mfire)
• Precision (precision)
• Punch Mastery (punchmastery): Increase Punch attack proficiency (3 ranks)
• Quickstrike (qstrike)
• Side by Side (sidebyside)
• Slippery Mind (slipperymind): Martial Stance, chance to avoid certain warding spells (3 ranks)
• Spin Attack (sattack)
• Stun Maneuvers (stunman)
• Subdual Strike (sstrike)
• Surge of Strength (surge)
• Sweep (sweep)
• Trip (trip)
• Unarmed Specialist (unarmedspec) (see note)

Note: All monks are inherently unarmed specialists and are granted this ability at no cost.

Return to the top of this page.

Statistic Growth Rates

For more information see the article on statistic growth rates.

Monk Statistic Growth Rates

Profession	STR	CON	DEX	AGI	DIS	AUR	LOG	INT	WIS	INF
Monk	25	25	20	30	25	15	20	20	15	10

Note: The table above is the baseline statistic growth rates. These values are actually modified for every race in GemStone IV, including humans.

History

On July 8th 2012, the long awaited Monk profession was released in Platinum along with the revised of the Order of Voln.

See Also

• A beginner's guide to playing a monk (work-in-progress)
• Unarmed combat system
• Monk and UCS release event (saved posts)

Reference

• Nilandia's site on archive.org

Monk Profession
Spell Circles: Minor Spiritual Spells | Minor Mental Spells
Professional Highlights: Unarmed combat | Combat Maneuvers