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monk/Assassin rebuild

Post by homestuff » Fri Oct 18, 2019 12:50 pm

Hey Arelith!
Been away from the game almost since pre- EE. But I'm feelin like getting back into it. With all the re-balance stuff going on I'm kinda at a loss as to how I want to rebuild my Main Character. I'm avoiding logging in so I have plenty of time to work it out, but My original concept was monk6/ranger4/assassin20 (I think I made it to 26 or so) For a stealthy dual Kama, high INT master of death and shadow.

I originally threw in the ranger levels for dual wield, higher BAB and -track / trackless step for the assassin hunting rp and whatnot. Now that assassins get -track Im not sure if I still need the ranger levels or not?

Any advise is welcome! How would you Rebuild this char? :)

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Re: monk/Assassin rebuild

Post by Shadowy Reality » Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:30 pm

The issue with ranger for dual wield is that you need at least 9 levels. Only at level 9 do you get the improved two-weapon fighting feat, and note that Dual Wield from Ranger 1 does not serve as pre-requisite to take ITWF manually on level up.

I played a similar build not long ago but went with Fighter instead. You can also consider the Quarterstaff for +2 ab compared to kamas (you can also investigate the new Assassin Daggers, those are Keen +4 enchant iirc) . You lose access to Flurry of Blows and Poisons. The first is fine, mostly because your AB will not be stellar anyway, so you don't want another -2 on top of it (-4 compared to Quarterstaff). Poisons are nice, but to be honest, I never really used them.

In the end, something like fighter7/Monk6/Assassin17 should work fine. So by level 20 that is something like fighter6/monk4/assassin10 for the 4th attack. Save a Fighter level for EWS in epics.

It is a really fun build, I loved the Assassin spell-like abilities and the amount of damage you dish out with someone guarding you.

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Re: monk/Assassin rebuild

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Re: monk/Assassin rebuild

Post by homestuff » Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:00 pm

Dr. B wrote:
Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:25 pm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Igt ... EFxLg/edit

Do that. ^
This looks fun, but my original concept was built with max death attack DC in mind and I wanna stay as close to that as possible. ( paralyzing an entire dungeon before executing the population one by one never gets old)

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Re: monk/Assassin rebuild

Post by garrbear758 » Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:18 am

You can also use the bonus feat at ranger 1 and 5 to get TWF/Ambidexterity if you really wanna go the ranger route
You've done it [Garrbear], you've kicked the winemom nest. -Redacted

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Re: monk/Assassin rebuild

Post by malcolm_mountainslayer » Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:31 pm

homestuff wrote:
Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:00 pm
Dr. B wrote:
Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:25 pm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Igt ... EFxLg/edit

Do that. ^
This looks fun, but my original concept was built with max death attack DC in mind and I wanna stay as close to that as possible. ( paralyzing an entire dungeon before executing the population one by one never gets old)
Then dont go ranger as ranger wants thst sweet 21 slot for spells and bane of enemies.

Ill let someone correct me for bad advise, but something along lines of 3 monk/8 fighter/ 19 assassin (8th level of fighter at 21 for epic weapon specialisation). Maybe mor3 monk and less assassin

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Re: monk/Assassin rebuild

Post by malcolm_mountainslayer » Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:37 pm

malcolm_mountainslayer wrote:
Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:31 pm
homestuff wrote:
Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:00 pm
Dr. B wrote:
Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:25 pm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Igt ... EFxLg/edit

Do that. ^
This looks fun, but my original concept was built with max death attack DC in mind and I wanna stay as close to that as possible. ( paralyzing an entire dungeon before executing the population one by one never gets old)
Then dont go ranger as ranger wants thst sweet 21 slot for spells and bane of enemies.

Ill let someone correct me for bad advise, but something along lines of 3 monk/8 fighter/ 19 assassin (8th level of fighter at 21 for epic weapon specialisation). Maybe mor3 monk and less assassin
17 or 18 assassin. Lvl 30 should be a monk level

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