Monk

Monk
Job Base:			Acolyte
Job Type:			2-2
Changes At:			St.Capitolina Abby
Number of Skills:			15
Total Skill Points:			82
Total Quest Skills:			2
Job Bonuses
STR	AGI	VIT	INT	DEX	LUK
+8	+7	+6	+2	+4	+3

Overview

Monks are a versatile class that can deal damage in several ways unique to themselves. They are most known for the powerful Guillotine Fist skill, which has uses in MVP, PVP and WoE scenarios. Most builds are damage-dealers, focusing on maximizing damage via skills such as Occult Impaction and their Combo abilities. Specialized Monk builds can be very efficient for MVP and WoE purposes.

Jobchange Guide

See Monk Job Change Guide for detailed information.

Changing into a Monk from an Acolyte requires the player to complete a number of tasks:

• Item Collection Test
• Memory Test
• Mushroom Collecting or Marathon Running
• Maze Test

After completing these tests, the player will be transformed into a Monk. All of this takes place at the Monk Abbey (prt_monk).

Builds

Auto Attack Monk

A monk that focuses entirely on auto attacking, using payon stories specific buffs to be a rival to rogue. You basically just click and punch monsters, using quadruple blow if you have extra SP.

Pros:

• Good starter, very cheap to setup
• Has lots of convienence spells (teleport, warp, heal, agi up)
• Can farm a variety of zones
• Very brain dead to play (click and wait)
• good sustain with Enchanted Peach Tree card
• Magmawhip card + endow makes you melt stuff

Cons:

• Very similar to rogue but without steal
• Bad aoe damage
• Some might find it boring

Important skills: https://skillsim.irowiki.org/mon.html?10akakJkandxbnHNbn2k

Options for the remaining points:

• warp portal (convienence)
• pneuma (helpful early for some ranged monsters, like enchanted peach trees)
• signum (lets you be a tapper in static leveling parties)
• sphere absorbtion (can help with sp, but feels bad to use)
• occult impaction/investigate (lets you kill certain high defense monsters)
• flee 10 (makes it harder for 3+ monsters to break your flee)
• IMPORTANT: Do not level raging thrust, if you do then raging quadruple blow will have a delay when you use it, lowering your dps. You shouldn't need to go further down the combos to kill monsters.

Example budget setup + stats

https://payonrocalc.jaludev.com/#hapbLaYbFbFabaLanabxnaacefbSbSbSaae8ee7aaaaaakWgegjaaeueOaalraaflbBfCbNfCbNeeeeaaaaaaaaaikkkkjaaabkkaaaaaaEaaabaaaaaaaaaaabaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaabauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabaaakaauaaxaaaaakaauaaxaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaEaaakaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaababaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHbaaaaaabaaacvaaaaaakakua

Early gear priority should be a panty + undershirt, a crafted elemental fist, and enchanted peach tree card. You can fill in the rest as you wish.

Stat notes:

• You can reach 130 strength using some combination of cramp + tarou, ring[1]'s, picky pet, firelocke soldier, and 99 strength which is slightly more damage, but leaves no flexibility on your gear, less flee, less attack speed for proccing heal, and is much more expensive. It is more damage though, so decide for yourself how much you want to commit to your monk. I prefer the 120 strength setup.

• Some people prefer more int for sp regen (some go up to 36, which will bump you to 700 max sp giving an extra regen point).

• More dex also can help with certain monsters (mostly corruptors & ashes f3). You can also make up any missing by having a weapon with a mummy card or stone shooter card. You can also go for less dex, the amount in the example is kind of arbitrary.

Example endow setup: https://payonrocalc.jaludev.com/#hapbLaYbFbFabaLanabvnaab9jababababe8ge7aaaaaakWgegjaaeuwdjyfcexflbBfCbNfCbNggigaaaaaaaaaikkkkjaaabkkaaaaaaEaaabaaaaaaaaaaabaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaabauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabaaakaauaaxaaaaakaauaaxaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaEaaakaaaaaaaaaaaaaabMaaaaaaaaaaaaababaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHbaaaaaabaaakpaaaaaakakua

Class Data

Payon Stories Balance Changes

• Dodge: Now increases FLEE by 2 per level, up from 1.5 FLEE per level.
• Mental Strength: Now doubles your DEF and gives you 4x MDEF up to a maximum of 90 of each DEF and MDEF based on these new calculations instead of setting you at a flat 90 DEF and MDEF.
• Absorb Spirit Sphere: Now increases SP per spirit sphere absorbed by 10 SP, up from 7 SP.
• Iron Fists: Now provides +5 ATK per skill level and reduces the weapon speed delay of fist weapons and bare hands by 1% per level.
• Raging Thrust: Now provides a 15% increased attack buff to the Monk for 8 seconds after using this skill.
• Snap: Cannot be used to snap out of ankle snare traps if snagged.
• Throw Spirit Sphere: Retains its original values for damage of 100% + 50% per skill level for each sphere. This skill may be adjusted if considered too powerful in the current landscape.

Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Dodge	Adds 2~20 Flee.	10	Passive
Fury	Increases critical rate of attacks by 10~20, also enables use of Guillotine Fist.	5	Supportive
Guillotine Fist	Deals a single attack consuming all of the caster's SP to deal massive damage.	5	Offensive
Iron Fists	Increases damage done with knuckle class weapons by 5~50 and reduces weapon speed delay of Fists and bare hands by 1~10%	10	Passive
Mental Strength	For 30~150 seconds, doubles the user's defense and quadruples their magical defense up to 90.	5	Supportive
Occult Impaction	Consumes a single spirit sphere to attack a single target (ATK×3.5~9.5), damage is higher based on the target's DEF.	5	Offensive
Raging Quadruple Blow	Deals 4 hits in rapid succession to a single target at ATK×2~4, this kill is only usable in the delay after Raging Trifecta Blow.	5	Offensive
Raging Thrust	Deals up to 3~5.4× damage to a single target, but is only usable in the delay after Raging Quadruple Blow. Provides a 15% increased attack buff to the Monk for 8 seconds after using this skill.	5	Offensive
Raging Trifecta Blow	Enables regular melee attacks to hit a target three times at ATK×1.2~3.0 instead of once by 29~20% chance.	10	Passive
Root	Catch an enemy's sword mid-attack in 0.5~1.3 seconds, locking the Monk and the attacker in place for 20~60 seconds.	5	Active
Snap	Instantly transports the Monk to a targeted cell as long as a direct path to that cell exists. Cannot be used to snap out of ankle snare traps if snagged.	1	Active
Spiritual Cadence	Enables the Monk to regenerate HP and SP at anytime by sitting even if over 50% weight.	5	Passive
Spiritual Sphere Absorption	Allows the Monk to recover SP by absorbing previously summoned spirit spheres.	1	Supportive
Summon Spirit Sphere	Allows the Monk to summon 1~5 spirit spheres which enable many powerful attacks.	5	Supportive
Throw Spirit Sphere	Throws numerous spirit spheres at a single target to deal up to 5 hits of 1.5~3.5× damage each, depending on number of spirit spheres on the character.	5	Offensive

Quest Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Job Level Requirement	Quest
Spiritual Bestowment	Transfers one of the Monk's spirit spheres to another party member.	1	Supportive	None	Spiritual Bestowment Quest
Excruciating Palm	Hit a single target for 300% damage, all nearby targets are knocked back and may be stunned.	1	Offensive	None	Excruciating Palm Quest

Job Bonuses

The Levels in which you receive a certain bonus

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8
STR	1	2	12	13	26	27	49	50
AGI	5	10	18	23	35	44
VIT	7	20	25	33	41	46
INT	16	38
DEX	4	22	30	43
LUK	15	32	40

Base ASPD

Equip Attack Speed From Acolyte Bare Handed 160 0 Mace 142.5 (-17.5) +2.5 Rod (One Handed) 142.5 (-17.5) +2.5 Rod (Two Handed) 140 (-20) N/A Knuckle 152.5 (-7.5) N/A

ASPD Potions Usable Concentration Potion ✔ Awakening Potion ✔ Berserk Potion ?