Recommeded Starting Stats: STR 14 DEX 15 CON 10-14 WIS 10-14 INT 10 CHA 6-8 Start off as a Dwarf or Human Monk to avoid the dual class experience penalty. Here are my recommendations.Please read each one carefully. I had fun with this monk, it was a bit overkill as I tended to rely on one fighting form. At 6th level choose weapon specialization in both kama and unarmed (you need WF in both prior to that). Then you can take the 4 fighter levels while you're trying to find good kamas.Īn alternative is the versatile monk - 2 levels of monk, then four levels of fighter, monk the rest of the way. In HotU you basically need to build your own kama, so having the fighter levels early may not be the best - take 15 monk levels at start (quivering palm), level to 16 to get the ever useful 1d20 damage. Although I've heard the offhand weapon can be something other than a kama while still retaining the unarmed bonuses of the monk. It also depends on what game you are playing and when you will get two decent kamas. But the added hit points, to hit bonus and damage are especially helpful at lower levels. That really depends on how you play and what special abilities of the monk you rely on. This is not an issue for the dualling monk. The only problem with the 4 fighter levels is it delays getting the 1d20 damage (the +2 damage from WS compensates for the earlier boosts, but this delay hurts a bit). With haste, flurry of blows, and circle kick you will have 9 attacks per round at 20th level. So for a non-dualling monk you would still be able to take weapon focus unarmed and weapon specialization unarmed. Taking four fighter levels always gives an extra attack at 20th level. This is probably the best fighter in the game - especially when you add epic prowess, epic weapon focus kama and epic weapon specialization kama. You're basically making your own weapon in HotU and can start with two +4 kamas and add an incredible amount of bonus damage (and make the kamas +10). Ambidexterity, two weapon fighting, improved two weapon fighting, weapon focus kama, weapon specialization kama - make a mean dual welding monk who (at 20th level) makes 10 attacks per round. In HotU though, taking four levels of fighter has some real benefit.
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