Half-Orc DPS Stunning Light Monk

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Orcish Monk
Level 20 Lawful Neutral Half-Orc Male
(20 Monk) 
Hit Points: 322
Spell Points: 0 
BAB: 15\15\20\25\25
Fortitude: 16
Reflex: 15
Will: 16

                  Starting            Ending          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats         Base Stats         Modified Stats
(34 Point)       (Level 1)          (Level 20)           (Level 20)
Strength             18                 25                   27
Dexterity            15                 17                   17
Constitution         16                 18                   18
Intelligence          6                  8                    8
Wisdom               14                 16                   19
Charisma              6                  8                    8

Tomes Used
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 7
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 7
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 7
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 7
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 7
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 7

                  Starting            Ending          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills        Base Skills        Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)          (Level 20)          (Level 20)
Balance               2                  3                    3
Bluff                -2                 -1                   -1
Concentration         7                 27                   43
Diplomacy            -2                 -1                   -1
Disable Device       n/a               n/a                   n/a
Haggle               -2                 -1                   -1
Heal                  2                  4                    4
Hide                  2                  3                    3
Intimidate           -2                 -1                   -1
Jump                  4                 21                   21
Listen                2                  4                    4
Move Silently         2                  3                    3
Open Lock             n/a               n/a                   n/a
Perform              n/a               n/a                   n/a
Repair               -2                 -1                   -1
Search               -2                 -1                   -1
Spot                  2                  4                    4
Swim                  4                  8                    8
Tumble                6                 26                   26
Use Magic Device     n/a               n/a                   n/a

{\b {\ul Notable Equipment }} \par Tharne's Goggles \par Minos Legens \par Shintao Cord \par Litany of the Dead \par Vorne's Belt \par Gnawed Ring \par Gloves of Titan's Grip (Upgraded) \par Madstone Boots \par Kyosho's Ring \par Bracers of the Hunter \par Icy Raiment \par +5 Handwraps \par Spectral Gloves \par  \par Level 1 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+4)
Skill: Tumble (+4)
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Monk
Feat: (Selected) Power Attack
Feat: (Monk Bonus) Two Weapon Fighting
Feat: (Automatic) Attack
Feat: (Automatic) Disciple of Breezes
Feat: (Automatic) Disciple of Candles
Feat: (Automatic) Disciple of Pebbles
Feat: (Automatic) Disciple of Puddles
Feat: (Automatic) Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Kama
Feat: (Automatic) Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Shuriken
Feat: (Automatic) Finishing Moves
Feat: (Automatic) Flurry of Blows
Feat: (Automatic) Half-Orc Orc Blood
Feat: (Automatic) Heroic Durability
Feat: (Automatic) Martial Weapon Proficiency: Handaxe
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency: Club
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency: Dagger
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency: Heavy Crossbow
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency: Light Crossbow
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency: Quarterstaff
Feat: (Automatic) Simple Weapon Proficiency: Unarmed
Feat: (Automatic) Sneak
Feat: (Automatic) Unarmed Strike


Level 2 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Monk Bonus) Diehard
Feat: (Automatic) Defensive Fighting
Feat: (Automatic) Evasion
Feat: (Automatic) Meditation
Feat: (Automatic) Sunder
Feat: (Automatic) Trip


Level 3 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Past Life: Disciple of the Fist
Feat: (Monk Path) Path of Harmonious Balance: Fists of Light
Feat: (Automatic) Fast Movement
Feat: (Automatic) Finishing Moves: Path of Harmonious Balance (ALL)
Feat: (Automatic) Finishing Moves: Path of Inevitable Dominion (ALL)
Feat: (Automatic) Still Mind


Level 4 (Monk)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Ki Strike: Magic
Feat: (Automatic) Slow Fall


Level 5 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) AC Bonus
Feat: (Automatic) Ki Strike: Damage
Feat: (Automatic) Purity of Body


Level 6 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Monk Bonus) Stunning Fist
Feat: (Selected) Toughness


Level 7 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Wholeness of Body


Level 8 (Monk)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)


Level 9 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Weapon Fighting
Feat: (Automatic) Improved Evasion


Level 10 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Curse of the Void
Feat: (Automatic) Ki Strike: Lawful
Feat: (Automatic) Moment of Clarity


Level 11 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Diamond Body


Level 12 (Monk)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Bludgeoning Weapons
Feat: (Automatic) Abundant Step


Level 13 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Diamond Soul


Level 14 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)


Level 15 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Two Weapon Fighting
Feat: (Automatic) Quivering Palm


Level 16 (Monk)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Ki Strike: Adamantine


Level 17 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Timeless Body


Level 18 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Selected) Stunning Blow


Level 19 (Monk)
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Empty Body


Level 20 (Monk)
Ability Raise: STR
Skill: Concentration (+1)
Skill: Jump (+1)
Skill: Tumble (+1)
Feat: (Automatic) Perfect Self
Feat: (Automatic) Shining Star
Enhancement: Monk Serenity
Enhancement: Orcish Fury I
Enhancement: Orcish Fury II
Enhancement: Orcish Melee Damage I
Enhancement: Orcish Power Attack I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength I
Enhancement: Orcish Strength II
Enhancement: Lifting the Veil
Enhancement: Way of the Patient Tortoise I
Enhancement: Way of the Patient Tortoise II
Enhancement: Way of the Patient Tortoise III
Enhancement: Way of the Patient Tortoise IV
Enhancement: The Receptive Earth
Enhancement: Restoring the Balance
Enhancement: Monk Improved Recovery I
Enhancement: Monk Improved Recovery II
Enhancement: Monk Improved Recovery III
Enhancement: Shintao Monk I
Enhancement: Shintao Monk II
Enhancement: Shintao Monk III
Enhancement: Rise of the Phoenix
Enhancement: Difficulty at the Beginning
Enhancement: Adept of Flame
Enhancement: Grandmaster of the Sun
Enhancement: Master of Bonfires
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Monk Wisdom I
Enhancement: Monk Wisdom II
Enhancement: Monk Wisdom III

Criticism, advice, thumbs up, etc are all welcome.

[AzraelDB]

Feats: Ditch Diehard for Luck of Heroes. IMHO, Diehard is great if you get it for free (i.e. Rangers), but not worth spending an actual Feat on.

Also, with Kukan-Do and Stunning Fist, Stunning Blow is almost overkill. Unless you are dead-set on it, another Toughness wouldn't hurt.

Enhancements: You may not want to take RotP. Improved Recovery III already qualifies you for Shintao II (if that's what you were going for) and you can use those enhancement points elsewhere (stances for better strikes, racial toughness, etc.). Same goes for it's prereqs. Sure, it's nice if you're the only one left standing, but if you compare it to it's Dark Path Equivelant (ToD), it's really not worth the AP you have to spend to get it.

[Relenthe]

Feats: Ditch Diehard for Luck of Heroes. IMHO, Diehard is great if you get it for free (i.e. Rangers), but not worth spending an actual Feat on.

Also, with Kukan-Do and Stunning Fist, Stunning Blow is almost overkill. Unless you are dead-set on it, another Toughness wouldn't hurt.

Enhancements: You may not want to take RotP. Improved Recovery III already qualifies you for Shintao II (if that's what you were going for) and you can use those enhancement points elsewhere (stances for better strikes, racial toughness, etc.). Same goes for it's prereqs. Sure, it's nice if you're the only one left standing, but if you compare it to it's Dark Path Equivelant (ToD), it's really not worth the AP you have to spend to get it.

Stunning fist is a pre-req for shintao as well

[AzraelDB]

Stunning fist is a pre-req for shintao as well

Yeah, but it's a Required Prereq, not one of the "Requires one of" prereqs.

Stunning Blow, however, is not (if that's what you were referring to).

[Relenthe]

Yeah, but it's a Required Prereq, not one of the "Requires one of" prereqs.

Stunning Blow, however, is not (if that's what you were referring to).

Ah yes i read that wrong sorry.

[endofrivers]

Feats: Ditch Diehard for Luck of Heroes. IMHO, Diehard is great if you get it for free (i.e. Rangers), but not worth spending an actual Feat on.

Also, with Kukan-Do and Stunning Fist, Stunning Blow is almost overkill. Unless you are dead-set on it, another Toughness wouldn't hurt.

Enhancements: You may not want to take RotP. Improved Recovery III already qualifies you for Shintao II (if that's what you were going for) and you can use those enhancement points elsewhere (stances for better strikes, racial toughness, etc.). Same goes for it's prereqs. Sure, it's nice if you're the only one left standing, but if you compare it to it's Dark Path Equivelant (ToD), it's really not worth the AP you have to spend to get it.

I didn't even realize that you could ditch RotP, I skimmed past it and thought it was required along with Improved Recovery III. I also realized later that Stunning Blow was overkill, in a revised version I'll post later I took it off.

[Jaid314]

rise of the phoenix also loses a lot of it's awesome when you consider that greensteel tier 2 clickys, while not exactly cheap (you can farm the mats yourself, but then you're basically spending resources that you could have sold for a bunch of plat, which is not much different from spending plat in the end), they're not all *that* hard to craft either.

[Sirslapemsack]

Yeah rotp is not really worth it when Imp recov 3 gets u the same thing plus goes right into the whole self healing thing for light monk. My light monk is very much like this. Horc shin monk. I started my stats a bit differently but I had a few extra +3 tomes so I changed things up a bit. Yeah stunning blow is just so slow and the dc isn't really high enough without running pots to jack your stats up.

Kukan do and stunning fist are more than enough

[Rhumor]

Isn't Orc Melee Damage only applied when using 2handed weapons? So, wouldn't help with handwraps?

[kamimitsu]

I have something very similar. At lvl 16 at the moment, but he is a complete beast. I'd definitely take stunning blow AND stunning fist as you'll cycle through them easily until you get kukan-do. I hit stun fist, stun blow, then fists are up again usually with a slight pause before stunning blow is up again. When kukan-do comes around (which I haven't reached yet) you might ditch stunning blow... but something tells me I'll keep it.

I also took Diehard, which has served me well. At low levels, when I was soloing a lot (often on elite) I was surprised how many times it saved my butt. I tend to be lazy at chugging pots and/or bringing a hireling in lowbie land and was mostly relying on Fists of Light, so your mileage may vary.

[jmonty]

i like ninja spy better, but that is mostly a good build. as a tr'd h-orc, with past life monk, i had almost the same stats but i think my starting wis was 16 and my con 14.

i took dodge [for ninja spy] and another toughness, in place of IC:B, and diehard.

if you are set on shintao, i understand, but i loved leveling up with shadow fade and touch of death. it was great, and i mostly solo'd (with hirelings often).

i almost want to tr into the same build again