The Way of the Ninja

[SolarDawning]

With the exciting advent of Ninja Spy 1, revealed today by Eladrin, as well as the tasty info that Ninja Spy will have two tiers released in Update 5, I've been unable to help myself.

Time to make a character build!

My dark path monk, Elysidia, has always been destined for the Way of the Ninja, and will be reincarnating anew to turn into this build.

Race:Halfling
Levels: Monk 12, Ranger 6, Rogue 2

Reasoning for Levels:
Monk 12 allows for tier 3 Wind stance and Earth Strike, as well as Abundant Step and the as of yet unreleased Ninja Spy II. It's just the best break point for this build.
Ranger 6: Tempest 1, of course, as well as two Favored Enemies and Ram's Might.
Rogue 2: Skills, haste boost, and more sneak attack.

Goals of the Build: Extremely fast attack speed, high DPS via sneak attack and monk strikes against raid bosses and other enemies, survivability through solid HP, improved evasion, high saving throws, self heals and fast movement speed, sufficient trap skills, and UMD.

Simply put- this is a DPS similar to the Exploiter build, except remaining centered and fighting with greensteel shortswords due to the Ninja Spy path. This build fights in Wind Stance 3, attacks with Earth Strike 3, Wind Strike 3, and has sneak attack from halfling racial enhancements, Tharne's Goggles, Ninja Spy enhancements, Rogue class, and Rogue enhancement.

Base Primary Statistics: 36 point buy
(Add tomes as per availability.)
Strength: 14 (Level bonus points will all go here.)
Dexterity: 16 (Will not be raised further except by racial enhancements, ranger enhancements (if desired), or tomes. A tome will provide the required dexterity for GTWF.
Constitution: 16
Intelligence: 14
Wisdom: 14
Charisma: 8

I'm not going to list final stats. You can just look at what gear, tomes, and buffs you can see your character having, and plug them in yourself.

I'm going to do something that I'll take a lot of flak for, and take the Dragonmarks of Healing on this build. Why? Because I like them. Feel free to take more combat-effective feats instead.

Level progression and Feats:
Level 1 (Rogue) Least Dragonmark of Healing
Level 2 (Monk) Monk Bonus - Dodge (Required for both Ninja Spy and Tempest)
Level 3 (Ranger) (Free feat: Bow Strength) Mobility (Required for Tempest)
Level 4 (Ranger) (Free feat: TWF, Rapid Shot)
Level 5 (Ranger) (Free Feat: Diehard)
Level 6 (Ranger) Spring Attack (Required for Tempest)
Level 7 (Ranger)
Level 8 (Ranger) (Free Feats: Improved TWF, Manyshot)
Level 9 (Monk) (Monk Bonus - Toughness), Lesser Dragonmark of Healing
Level 10 (Monk) (Path of Darkness)
Level 11 (Monk)
Level 12 (Monk) Greater Dragonmark of Healing
Level 13 (Monk) (Monk Bonus- Power Attack)
Level 14 (Monk)
Level 15 (Monk) Greater Two-Weapon Fighting
Level 16 (Monk)
Level 17 (Monk)
Level 18 (Monk) (Feat depends on play style- Improved Crit if you like Lit II greensteels)
Level 19 (Monk)
Level 20 (Rogue)

As you can see, we have all the feats needed to cover the basics- Power Attack, Toughness, the TWF line, as well as all the prerequisite feats for our two prestige lines.

I won't go into detail on skills or enhancements, you guys can figure skill and enhancement point allocation however you like to suit your playstyle.

Anyways, that's the basic build!