Fury Fists - 4 Barb / 5 HS / 51 Monk

[dragonlance007]

I began looking hard into all the posted Monk builds about a month ago. This build is probably most simular to Groo's Dim Mak Master.

But I really didnt want to make a Dwarven Monk so I used Human base and Barbarian as a splash class over DD to get uncanny dodge and boost my AB aswell as net me another attack per round. Also Human gets me another feat and skill. Another difference from Groo's is that I took a bit away from STR and put it in DEX and WIS to not only help me defensively but also to qualify for Imp Stunning Fist. This build gets the same Stunning Fist DC as SG's Dex Monk build, maxing out at 61.

Human Based Zenythri

STR 14 - 18
DEX 15 - 19
CON 14
WIS 15 - 19
INT 10
CHA 8

Start Law Good or Law Neutral

First 2 ability point increases go into DEX and WIS respectively to make them each an even 20 base. The rest all go into STR.

4 Barbarian 5 Harper Scout 51 Monk

Level progression is 16 levels of Monk then (change aliegnment to Chaotic) 4 Barb (change back to Lawful) then take all 5 HS when ever you want in the Epic levels, the rest monk.

Make sure and put 4 ranks into search, 8 into persuade, 6 into Lore, and 4 into Disc asap to qualify for Harper Scout.

Other than that max Disc, Listen, Tumble and Craft Armor on Monk levels. The rest of the skill points I would probably save to throw into UMD in the LLs as a cross class skill or dump them into Craft Weapon for an extra AB.

Pre-Epic Feats

Luck of Heroes
WF Unarmed
Power Attack
Iron Will
Alertness
Great Cleave
Toughness
Blind Fight

Epic

2 Great DEX on HS levels 1 and 5
2 Stunning Fist on your Monk Bonus Feats

Epic Prowess
EWF Unarmed
Overwhelming Crit
Dev Crit
Great STR 1 and 2
Armor Skin

Legendary

Stunning Fist 3
Lwf Unarmed
Leg Luck
Great STR 3 4 5 and 6.

Saves at 60 with items maxes out at:

For 60
Ref 61
Will 62

With Flurry and HS boots going you get 10 attacks per round at a -2 ab penalty. Max out at 70% conceal, 18-20 x3 crits, tons of Stunning Fists per day at 61 DC after using Stunning Fist pandect, Imp KD should also work quite well, crit immunity, decent AC for a STR Monk with 22 base DEX and 20 base WIS (havnt done the numbers yet).

I have this toon at lvl 20 atm and its been quite fun so far. Looking forward to getting him into the higher levels and returning with some feed back.

Please feel free to share any comments, suggestions or thoughts about this build.

~DL

[the1kobra]

I think you get slightly better saves if you go 16/4 monk/barbarian pre epic instead of 15/5, you get 14/11/11 instead of 13/10/10, it's a free 1 to every save, and it doesn't cost you any AB.

[dragonlance007]

hhmmm thats a good point t1k, thanks for that mate. Will update the OP with that level progression. I think I will even delevel my lvl 20 of this build to implement that change.

~DL

[the1kobra]

Actually, you might want to change the progression to 31/4/5, since I don't think you really get anything from the fifth barbarian level, uncanny dodge II's +1 reflex against traps isn't really all that useful, while you will get +1 to unarmed strike damage (level 51), and gain 1% more concealment on empty body.

Another consideration might be to drop INT to 8 and raise STR to 15, then replace the stunning fist feat in LLs to a great-strength, but I'm not sure if you want to do this.

[dragonlance007]

Yeah you could loose a skill and drop int down to 8 if you want and get another ab out of it and get crit immunity earlier. Or if you dont have a stunning fist pandect or dont think you can get one easily then you might want to drop the stunning fist feats and get 2 more str and an epic toughness out of those by taking Armor Skin and Epic Toughness as the monk bonus feats then 2 great str in place of armor skin and stunning fist 3.

I personally want a stunner and like having the skills I listed.

~DL