Hullo all. I've still got some caster lives to breeze through, but then it's time for the class I dread most: Druid.

Well, actually, I dreaded barbarian more, but it's done.

What kind of advice would you give me? I much prefer melee to casting. This character will have the following past lives: (Yes, it's all of them except druid at least once)
Bard, Sorc, Wiz, Cleric, Fvs, artificer, ranger, rogue, paladin, monk: 1
Fighter: 2 (my first two lives)
barbarian: 3 (I hated this class enough that I never wanted to be tempted to do it again...)

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I was looking at 18/2 druid monk or 16/2/2 druid fighter monk... these look interesting to me, but I'm unsure as how they work.

I have pretty good crafting levels, really, I'm interested in these melee builds and advice as druids seem to function very... wonky(?), and building a good one just doesn't seem as intuitive to me as every other class.