pure sacred fist just feels like a weak paladin

[dogsoldier]

Outside of Using Trailblazer / Drow Racial trees, Vistani, or any Martial Class' T5s as your main tree, Sacred Fist does open up these old classics a little more:

12 / 6 / 2 - Dark Apostate / Fighter / Monk - Centered Swim Cleric - Favored Weapon, but T5 Kensei anyway for centering - CHA based, Pick any Weapon you prefer.

Edit: This could be favored, though not likely with the weapon of your choice there

Edit: /6 Fighter, CHA to hit and dmg via Feydark Illusionist, Sacred Fist not needed for that one.

12 / 6 / 2 - Sacred Fist / Fighter / Monk - TWF Centered Dwarven Axes with T5 Kensei - Not Favored, but no big deal, Dwarf Racial tree is your secondary one anyway. You do not need TYWA with /6 Sacred Fist - Go all in on CHA. Add more humor into the mix by picking up THF Specialty for some strikethrough at 31.

Any Split you want with Regular Tabaxi could be interesting too, main tree is Tabaxi Racial tree for DEX to hit and dmg until you reach 6 Sacred Fist levels. And just the fact that there are some nice things in this racial tree too, you might end up with as many points here as you do in the Sacred Fist tree (sneak dice, deflect arrows, Vigor SLA meta'd to pair with Cure Mod SLA, Sprint boost upgrades, etc)

[Gnominal_Aphasia]

Devs will make handwraps popular if it kills them.

Or us!

[Kebtid]

Someone test out Dark Fist Soundburst Paladin:

Human, max + levels Wisdom, dex for feats
1-3 DA Cleric Quicken, Dodge, Magic Domain
4-5 Monk Mobility TWF
6-20 Paladin WWA, TWF2, Extend, TWF3, Swords to Plowshares
21 IC:B 22 PTWF 24 OC 25 CW 27 Epic Fort, 28 DS, 30 reincarnate

AP by level
1-6 11+1 tome Falconry wisdom to hit/dmg, 8 RS Divine Healing 4 DA imbue, 1 SF, racial AP: stuffs
7-12 8 DA imbue, 11Falconry 30% helpless, 4 divine might, 1 HeM
13-20 10 Falconry 50% fort debuff and T5, dropping divine might, more SF + SaD stuffs, leftovers Human HAmp

End up with:
13 SF +3 Die
12 DA Imbue
33 Falconry T5 10 MP, 30% helpless, wis to hit/dmg
8 RS Divine Healing > 8 Shintao if staying at cap
1 HeM
Racial/leftovers Human HAMP

Skills: heal, concentration, balance from monk levels

Gameplay: Quicken soundburst mobs, quicken extend buff up, spin to win with constant divine healing regeneration

Not viable.
No need to waste time