Interesting build option for fist pally

[fatherpirate]

after playing around,

If you go 2/MNK 18/PAL

you can grab whirling steel strike
basic wind stance
(evasion)
single weapon

most of the fist paly tree works
with it except the far left column

this eliminates the slow smite animations
in fact, this type of build has an insanely fast
attack speed (or more correctly, is very fast early on at least)

something to try
it is new so there might be flaws with this
too bad whirling steel strike is not offered to the fist pally
by itself but you will need to splash monk to get it

you could also splash just 1 lvl of monk, but I like evasion
and am not sure if fist pally gets it later :-/
would be nice to get a total breakdown of archetypes
abilities and bonuses.

[droid327]

Fist pally gets Evasion too (at /2 Pal I think?)

Better off going /1 Monk/1 FvS so you can get your Trance alongside WSS and Stances

Note: I assume the Handwraps deity feat will be autogranted at L1, but you should be able to swap that at Fred to Sov Host to get Longsword prof, take WF:Slash at L1, then take a Monk level for WSS with your MA feat, and be able to get up to Master of Forms alongside TWFx3 and IC:Slash

Problem is you cant squeeze in KT for that without dropping down to Adept, or giving up your trance for a Fighter level

[fatherpirate]

Some of this is educated guesses
I wish we would get a straight up breakdown of the optional paths,
might as well just call them new classes really

[donblas]

Edited as out of date