10-29-2018, 09:16 AM
I should look more at long weapons. I gave my barbarian a glaive (same 3x crit damage as a 2H axe) and with the reach he ends up standing behind the monk. I don't think there's any penalty for people getting inside of his maximum range either? Makes it somewhat easier for him to get into the fight especially in tight areas or when it gets crowded....
This time I rolled 2 monks (1 "monk", 1 "traditional monk" mainly to compare the two), 1 barb invuln rager, 1 evocation wizard, 1 conjuration wizard and a cleric. Originally I was leaving the traditional monk behind and bringing Linzy but 2 low level wizards basically sucks so I left the evocation guy home instead. I figure he'll come into his own more later. The conjuration wizard gets pretty ridiculous fairly quickly as he can summon an entire army of animals by himself now. My cleric can summon undead. Linzy can summon monsters as a bard too. I have won some fights with both tanks on the ground just because I swarmed the field with monsters. They aren't very good but it's not hard to have a dozen of them out.
Monks also make nice tanks because their high dex gives them good reflex dodge odds for defending against AE. Maybe fighters come back into their own eventually from being able to have a special shield, special sword and special suit of armor but it's a high dollar fighter that can compete with a monk.
And definitely monk/rogue is nice. It's nice that your front line fighter is also the guy who can detect and disarm traps, not to mention sneak up on people and deliver sneak attacks.
This time I rolled 2 monks (1 "monk", 1 "traditional monk" mainly to compare the two), 1 barb invuln rager, 1 evocation wizard, 1 conjuration wizard and a cleric. Originally I was leaving the traditional monk behind and bringing Linzy but 2 low level wizards basically sucks so I left the evocation guy home instead. I figure he'll come into his own more later. The conjuration wizard gets pretty ridiculous fairly quickly as he can summon an entire army of animals by himself now. My cleric can summon undead. Linzy can summon monsters as a bard too. I have won some fights with both tanks on the ground just because I swarmed the field with monsters. They aren't very good but it's not hard to have a dozen of them out.
Monks also make nice tanks because their high dex gives them good reflex dodge odds for defending against AE. Maybe fighters come back into their own eventually from being able to have a special shield, special sword and special suit of armor but it's a high dollar fighter that can compete with a monk.
And definitely monk/rogue is nice. It's nice that your front line fighter is also the guy who can detect and disarm traps, not to mention sneak up on people and deliver sneak attacks.