Stunning Fist

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[Solmage]

It's been said that you need to be unarmed, but I have not tested it personally.

[MrCow]

Using Stunning Fist with a weapon in hand just causes the ki to deplete with no action afterwards. You must be using unarmed attacks to use stunning fist.

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[winsom]

This should be a bug. Monks are considered capable of unarmed strikes even when they are holding items.

Stunning Fist does not actually require a FIST for the hitting, despite its name.

Because Stunning Fist is one of the few D&D powers that typically makes a monk different from other classes, I think it is very important that Turbine not penalize it with additional restrictions.

Stunning Blow works with weapons in hand, even weapons that you wouldn't think are capable of performing a stun. Its not the weapon doing the stun, but the hero ! The monk specialty attack should not be any worse off.

[Delzon]

We did some testing last night, looking at class, race, and enhancements. There is no way to get Stunning Fist to have close to the save save as Stunning blow, so I wouldn't take it. It is to bad that an attack that is special to one specific character class and is a primary attack at that, is weaker and can be out done by other classes or I should say feat that any class can take. In other words a 16th level fighter (even though he also has all kinds of weapons, attacks, damage in his bag of tricks) can out stun a monk.

It's like spending all this time making the animations for fist fighting (the primary attack type for monks) and making the attacks so sub par to fighting with 2 weapons it makes it hard to want to use it.

[Dailus]

We did some testing last night, looking at class, race, and enhancements. There is no way to get Stunning Fist to have close to the save save as Stunning blow, so I wouldn't take it. It is to bad that an attack that is special to one specific character class and is a primary attack at that, is weaker and can be out done by other classes or I should say feat that any class can take. In other words a 16th level fighter (even though he also has all kinds of weapons, attacks, damage in his bag of tricks) can out stun a monk.

It's like spending all this time making the animations for fist fighting (the primary attack type for monks) and making the attacks so sub par to fighting with 2 weapons it makes it hard to want to use it.

Well that pretty much decides it for me. I have been thinking about swaping out this feat anyways because at least at low levels I kill off the mobs before I build enough ki to use it.

-Dailus