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1 year ago ::
Mar 12, 2012 - 2:42PM
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No I said its not necessarily weaker in heroic, but I could have been more clear. You can slap hybrid monk on almost any class that likes a high dex in early heroic without much problem because it gets ki focus and five storms.
I am more worried about the build if he plans to take it to higher levels, which its not clear he plans to do. At 1-3 it should be fine.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 12, 2012 - 2:44PM
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Apr 20, 2009
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Checked with my other half. Here's what we have for a AoE role monk|sorc at 6th FINAL ABILITY SCORES
STR 11, CON 12, DEX 19, INT 8, WIS 11, CHA 19 AC: 23 Fort: 16 Ref: 18 Will: 19 HP: 49 Monk Attack 1: Five Storms
Sorcerer Attack 1: Blazing Starfall
Monk Attack 1: Light the Fire
Monk Attack 1: Masterful Spiral
Sorcerer Utility 2: Rock Armor
Sorcerer Attack 3: Flame Spiral (lightning cut just didn't cut it)
Sorcerer Attack 5: Thunder Leap
Monk Utility 6: Centered Defense
D&D is like religion. People focus far too much on the differences rather than the similarities.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 12, 2012 - 3:38PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 31, 2009
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I think you might really be interested in either of the two new monk builds in Heroes of the Elemental Chaos. They seem to fit your backstory really well, and would basically be the same character, but full monk.
Hybrid monk just generally isn't that great, although it might look nice at first. It almost demands you burn two feats on defenses, and as currently built, your sorcerer powers don't have great accuracy. As a rule, you shouldn't make a hybrid unless you really get some synergy going that makes up for the things you've given up. I think a Monk/Sorc is going to have to work pretty hard to get there.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 12, 2012 - 4:47PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 20, 2009
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It's playable, but you have to work to make it playable. It's certainly do-able if the party needs it.
As a 5th char for a specific party it can fill a role. It could be similarly taken by a swormage|warlcock which is considered more optimal (among other things it can have a close burst 2 at-will in paragon). You could make a case for a druid|monk (but go sentinel as beast form would conflict with monk) as staff is shared and magic stones could be used without provoking, but again it's not optimal. I looked at a few of these hybrids recently as we needed some skills covered as well as AoE role. I ended up going monk|rogue, which takes some work but gets a bit of optimisational synergie, shares dex primary, dagger implement and gets more skills.
D&D is like religion. People focus far too much on the differences rather than the similarities.
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