It's an enhancement for Druids, Tier 1 in Season's Herald:
Beguile (3 ranks) - 1AP - whenever you attack or cast on a critter. 50% chance to beguile them [1/0-2/0-3] times for [3/0-6/0-9] seconds: -2% attack speed, -2 spell power. This can stack up to 25 times.

My guildie on his druid used this on one of the red-named in the explorer area. I don't know how many times it ended up stacking but it was a significant change in attack speed. I have not heard if it works on purple bosses or not.

Packfan wrote on Aug 21^st, 2013 at 9:46am:


Why not do both? I think the stance changes make some 12/6/2 monk/fighter/druid build reasonable. On a 36 point build with a +4 tome in STR and WIS and a starting 16, you can hit 23 by splitting your level points and still not dump con and dex 16 in one and 14 in the other. You have 14 heroic feats (15 if human) and could fit all required feats plus grandmaster stance, the two weapon line, stunning fist, improved sunder and empower heal.

Any flaws in that?

Looking at a feat list I think if you're Human you can fit it all in on a 16/2/2 build:

PA, Cleave, GC, IC:Bludg, TWF, iTWF, gTWF, PL:Mnk, Weap Focus, Stunning Fist, Dodge, Emp Heal, GM of Forms (in no particular order).

That's 13 feats. You get 7 Normal, 1 Human, 3 Monk and 2 Fighter for 13. Since I'm Helf and not looking forward to another TR (already have 2 projects) I'd have to drop a feat or change my thinking. I would drop Weapon Focus and just not take the Tier2 Weapon Specialization from Kensei most likely.

Just drag the stances from the auto grant level 1 stance feats. You automatically go into the highest available stance.

Not intuitive at all.

Beguile is crazy good.  I haven't check to see if glancing blows will proc it yet though.

Has anyone consider 16 Monk/3 Ranger/1 Druid? You sacrifice Kensei tactics and 1 net feat, which is kinda unfortunate, but you gain +10% offhand, more reflex saves, and still has access to haste boost and magical training.

Or did they make it so Ranger stuff doesn't apply to unarmed?

I agree with Shadehater, I like Ranger for other builds but for a Monk that's splashing stuff you want solid tactics unless you're giving up on them completely, in which case you probably don't want to go unarmed and then you're looking at completely different build goals.

I'd say doublestrike is more important personally. I like the way haste boost feels but I think I put out more damage with DS.

Vissarion wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2013 at 6:36pm:


Depends on your off hand proc %

Right, but if your offhand proc % is low, then haste boost won't benefit you as much as doublestrike. I mean I could be totally wrong. Plus there are other benefits to a 2 druid splash - ram's might, empower heal etc etc

I have Haste boost and Damage boost on my Helf 12Mnk/8Ftr now, so I know you can get at least one of those from Kensei. I thought it was Haste boost as a Tier 1 where you can select either To-Hit or Damage, but it's been a while since I've been back in the game.

So in my case Doublestrike would be another boost to take advantage of.

And for me the tactics boost is important. I'm not sure where I'll end up once I LR into this build but 70+ is required for EE from what I'm hearing. I don't have any Fighter past-lives so it becomes an issue. I've only done 3 lives and the two with Fighter I ended up LRing to get a Monk PL instead.

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Yes and no. It only stacks up to the number of core Kensei abilities you have, which would be 2.

And I can also confirm that you get Haste Boost as a Tier1 Kensei ability.

Packfan wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 7:54am:


Good to know. The wiki was inaccurate, then.