LE Monk Build request?

[Gods_Kill_People]

Offensive, weapons or not, starting stats, skillpoints and all please? Also, Race is Drow.

[Gods_Kill_People]

Rogue(10), Monk(20), Drow

STR: 9
DEX: 19 (26)
CON: 12
WIS: 12
INT: 14 (16 after Subrace)
CHA: 8 (10 after Subrace)

Elf: (Hardiness vs. Enchantments, Keen Sense, Low-light Vision, Skill Affinity: Listen, Skill Affinity: Search, Skill Affinity: Spot, Sleeplessness)
01: Rogue(1): Expertise
02: Rogue(2): {Evasion}
03: Rogue(3): Weapon Finesse, {Uncanny Dodge I}
04: Monk(1): DEX+1, {Cleave, Improved Unarmed Strike, Stunning Fist}, (DEX=20)
05: Monk(2): {Deflect Arrows}
06: Monk(3): Improved Expertise
07: Monk(4)
08: Monk(5): DEX+1, (DEX=21)
09: Monk(6): Weapon Focus: Unarmed, {Knockdown, Improved Knockdown}
10: Monk(7)
11: Monk(8)
12: Monk(9): DEX+1, Blind Fight, {Improved Evasion}, (DEX=22)
13: Rogue(4)
14: Monk(10)
15: Monk(11): Toughness
16: Monk(12): DEX+1, (DEX=23)
17: Monk(13)
18: Monk(14): Improved Critical: Unarmed
19: Monk(15)
20: Monk(16): DEX+1, (DEX=24)
21: Rogue(5): Epic Weapon Focus: Unarmed
22: Rogue(6)
23: Rogue(7)
24: Monk(17): DEX+1, Armor Skin, (DEX=25)
25: Rogue(8)
26: Monk(18)
27: Rogue(9): Epic Skill Focus: Discipline
28: Monk(19): DEX+1, (DEX=26)
29: Rogue(10): Defensive Roll
30: Monk(20): Epic Dodge

Discipline 33(42), Heal 33(34), Hide 33(41), Move Silently 33(41), Tumble 30(38), UMD 26(26), remaining skillpoints 95


This is the build suggested so far, thoughts? Opinions?

[Nitro]

Just make sure to pick a female and wear next to nothing and you'll fit right in with the other drow monks as you zoom around the hub.

Seems to be a bit of a waste of skillpoints in that build though, unless you really want to skillmonkey you could probably reprioritize into WIS or CON instead.

[Lorkas]

This is the build suggested so far, thoughts? Opinions?

It seems like a shame to wait until level 30 for both mind immunity and epic dodge. I'd move the last 3 rogue levels forward so that they're all before level 27 personally, and pick up epic dodge on that level.

Epic dodge is a game changer on this build. You want to be able to actually enjoy it for a few levels rather than waiting until your training is all completed.

[Gods_Kill_People]

K thanks!

[Zavandar]

Alternatively, you can go 5 Sd/5 assassin for hips and contracts. I've seen it played to great effect.

[Aero Silver]

You could start with 12 INT and get Blind Fight or Toughness at Character Creation, and get Weapon Finesse at level 3 and Expertise at level 6. The build above is still the same, but the feats are shuffled a bit.

As a personal point of view, for an RP server, drow shouldn't have CHA under 12. Forceful personalities is almost always present and needed to advance in drow society. Ugly drow babies are killed birth (Read: ugly by drow standards). Though you could have a scar or gash on the face that ruined your character's good looks and caused the drop in CHA. It's your choice, I am simply voicing an opinion.

[Nitro]

Charisma does not equal looks though, and not to mention that 10 charisma isn't bad, it's just average. Can't expect every single drow to be a hurricane of personality and memorability.

[Jack Oat]

You could start with 12 INT and get Blind Fight or Toughness at Character Creation, and get Weapon Finesse at level 3 and Expertise at level 6. The build above is still the same, but the feats are shuffled a bit.

If you take under 13 INT you lose Expertise/Imp Expertise, and that's a no-go. Also not having Expertise at the start can be extremely painful. The difference you're suggesting is a whopping 3 extra HP at those early levels and the ability to hit concealed creatures more effectively... despite not actually likely encountering any such concealed creatures until later levels. Also not worth, hence the split/spread I had.


Gods_Kill, I spoke with the person I forwarded that build to after the fact and they recommended the Melee-Magthere background for +2 to CON instead of CHA. Would definitely recommend that change.

As for what Lorkas said, yea you can drop Rogue back so that Rogue 10 is on level 27. I personally didn't take Rogue 10 on mine til 29 just for the extra 2 skill points into Rogue classes that weren't Monk classes, but that's mostly because I'm a bit anal-retentive in that regard. If you aren't concerned about the like 2 extra points of bluff or whatever, you can see do that.

I like that you decided to double-check build advice, that's good. Just be wary of some inputs and always be sure to double-check those as well.

[Gods_Kill_People]

Thank you, and yes I did use the Melee Magthere build option. I will likely take rogue a little bit early.