Ranger/monk...... /rogue?

[Aurora1979]

Ive capped a few chars now but only ever 1 cleric and some arcanes. The highest fully melee I made was a 16 drow ranger back when i started.

I been looking at making, well, i was gonna go 18/2 ranger monk. then i decided i would like some trapsmithing in there. Had a look around and realised I was starting to look at a build similar to the exploiter.

Few questions here.

firstly is the exploiter still a working, end game contributing build..... theres been quite a few game changes since it came out.

Next, When i was measuring up the ranger monk it seemed like dwarf was good for stats. I was able to get a....

16
15
16
10
14
6

Ive not played any sucessful dwarfs so I like the idea of this. Nice racial bonuses, can get dwarven con and ranger dex, if needed although id probably just eat a tome. So, would a dwarf still be viable once i add a bit of rogue to the mix?

Next, this monk AC from wisdom bonus..... A. it does stack with the dex bonus yea? and B...... where the heck is it im using the 3.5.1 char builder and I cant find it as a feat..... or enhancment.

Cheers for the help.

And im sure I will have more questions once i get rolling

EDITED: im making up enhancments

EDIT AGAIN: P.S i was gonna go dwarven axes and enhancments, also i only unlocked monk yesterday so i have NEVER even played around with building one

[unbongwah]

Monk WIS AC bonus isn't a separate feat, it's something you get free with monk 1. Only caveats are you can't wear armor or carry a shield or you lose the bonus.

Dwarven Exploiter is almost identical to the original (http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=168687). I would go base stats 15 / 14 / 16 / 14 / 14 / 6 with all lvl-ups into STR. Could go STR 16 INT 12 instead, but that costs you skill pts; I would probably drop them from Open Lock. Feats: same as Exploiter, only drop khopesh and take Mobility at lvl 3, since you have 1 less feat than human; use dwarven axes instead.

[Aurora1979]

Nice one, thank you.

Yea was going for the DA's and wasnt sure about str. I will have a couple of +2 tomes so can sort those out and fingers crossed for some 3's :)