First, the will save is weaker than before. UnMonk is mostly a huge buff to the (melee attack centric) Monk, but has three little downsides. Since you've said "Paizo material only" without mentioning restrictions, I'm gonna presume unchained is allowed. Whats the best setup to play an armed monk? Archetype? Weapons? Traditional monk weapons or totally off the wall, ie greatsword, earthbreaker, that kinda thing?įirst, is unchained Monk (unMonk) possible? If not, I'd actually probably steer away from Monk, although Sohei is ok-ish. I know monks unarmed damage and abilities get really good starting mid levels, but i wanna know is an armed monk viable as well? So i have been thinking about playing a monk. It comboes well with Monk of the Mantis UnMonk archetype since Stunning Fist is a fantastic way to ensure Sneak Attacks. This is pretty good if you want to use Mantis Style to get higher Stunning Fist DC while also using a weapon to increase output.
You can always choose to exploit a different Style feat, while keeping a Body Wrap of Mighty Strikes to use Style Strikes, Stunning Fist, and so on. Now, Ascetic Style is not the end all solution to weapon Monks. In this case, traits like Monk Weapon Skill become much more important to pile up more damage early on, and more crit-boosted damage too. Out of these options, probably the best is the Sansetsukuon, because it's cheap as hell, can deal two types of damage, has some interesting properties, and has a good critical range to exploit the sheer amount of attacks an Unchained Monk gets.įor Finesse users, Ascetic Style + Form can be used effectively with a Waveblade, which has even better critical range.
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Usually, UnMonks are stuck with amulet of mighty fists which costs an eye and a leg.Īscetic Style + Ascetic Form lets the UnMonk completely forget about unarmed strikes, and allows you to fully exploit the power of Unchained Flurry – unlike the regular Monk, you do get 1.5x STR to each attack, plus the Power Attack bonus. But this thread is about weapon using monks, not armored monks.Īscetic Style on an Unchained Monk is stupidly good because it breaks the class economy. wisdom to AC and scaling AC bonus overtake the AC from armor. Assuming a str based build (non-turtle), this is good for survival in early levels, and you could grab mithral breast plate at mid levels (Armor expert allows anyone to use that for free).
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Sohei can also use light armor and full attack. AoOs are the only thing that slightly suffer from your real 3/4 bab. Reach on a monk means you can easily full attack- flurries everywhere. You can also full attack with the weapons you pick for weapon training.
When you have both, your non flurry attacks compare to the unchained monk, and your flurries are just as good as a full martial character. It gets weapon training with a select set of weapons- which means you can get gloves of dueling. So across the "two hands" of flurry's pseudo TWF, you get a total of x3 power attack.
It has been clarified before- while you only get 1x str when you 2 hand with a flurry, you still get 1.5x power attack. When you have a sword, you don't have to make the decision about whether you will get an attack enhancement or natural armor.Īdditionally, you can get a lot of damage from weapon use. In fact, they probably work better with weapons than with unarmed.
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