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I just tested again, and couldn't it to proc. Either it's the same bonus as Advancing Blows (which I had) or it doesn't work. I tried it fully geared and gearless and still never saw my bonus go above 5 which is a fully stacked Advancing Blows, and my to-hit only increased when I got a new stack of Advancing Blows.

The 2 I was seeing was on my other melee toon for a different ability who doesn't have any fighter levels yet.

From the description, looks like the core kensei ability would only stack to the number of core abilities you have, ie if you have 2 core abilities it will stop adding new stacks once you hit two. The tier ability should continue to add up to 10 and the two should stack together. Plus if it doesn't stack with advancing blows, that frees up some epic action points since I'd rather have 10 than 5. 

After reflection, my new concept is 15/4/1 which gives you one more feat to burn or go away from human. It lets you deeper into the kensei tree for extra damage options. I would strongly consider dwarf for this for the extra tactics boost. With 16 starting STR and WIS, +4 tomes and splitting your levelups between the two you qualify for Overwhelming Critical and vorpal. Action points will be finicky to way the least.

I think I'm liking 16/3/1 as my split. 16 is another half die step for unarmed. I think I'll probably drop Cleave/GC/OC since I'll be hurting for feats since I keep coming up 1 short. In hindsight I think I'd go Dwarf, but I have no plans to TR this toon. With that in mind I'll probably go max WIS for DCs. If I ever get a +4WIS tome then I'd consider going back and making Overwhelming Crit work.

Last night I found out that Haste Boost and Doublestrike Boost share the same pool of action boosts, so it's one or the other. The only thing in Tier3 I'd take at this point would be an ability point in STR/CON/WIS. So, it comes down to whether I was 25 more SP and 1 more Fort save from Druid or 2 more HP and 1 Reflex from Fighter. I'll probably go Druid since I would have the option of Vengeful Hunter which would be fully stacked most of the time.

EDIT: I take it back, they are from different pools, I have 5 separate boosts between Doublestrike and Haste, so I'll definitely be going 16/2/2. That's what happens when I'm playing until 2am. This is what happens when my wife takes the kids out for a "girls weekend". I think I'll take a shower... tomorrow.

2 pally for divine might isn't gonna work unless you want to spend a twist in unyielding sentinel. Consider 2 cleric instead. They get divine might at a much lower ap expenditure. They also give 75% scroll bonus. You will lose out on saves though.

Imho, 2 druid is the way to go atm. Especially with you know...  on top of doublestrike clicky and 75 % scroll bonus.

Also sdsf you suck, so just stay hjealing and leave the heavy lifting to me.

I went IMA and Vorpal. I plan to be sitting mostly in mountain stance so I'll take the permahaste last. I didn't have a +4WIS tome to make a split between the abilities work out, plus feats were thin, so it was easy for me I just focused on max WIS for max DCs. It feels weird fighting without Cleave/Great Cleave though.

My problem was that there were so many things I wanted to spend points in that I had to make sacrifices. I'm testing it out now and I'll adjust as I need to.

Now like every other monk I need to find a shattering item for QP.

Carpone wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 7:05pm:


Don't have a monk myself, but the DC monks I see on Sarlona have a 80-85 DC and seem to land QP almost 100% in EE Storm Horns. The only thing I can really remember them failing a lot on was What Goes Up ice ellies. EIN is obviously similiarly effective. Smoothest EE What Goes Up I've had so far had two DC monks (and a druid to heal them).

That's what I recall being claimed. I could be off.

10 base
10 monk level
28 wis mod
14 weapon
06 combat mastery
03 PL
02 Tactician
03 Dwarf enh
03 GMOF
06 Legendary Tactics

= 85, and I may be forgetting something

ETA: forgot something

This is my new sustainable stunning fist DC breakdown after quickly hitting the AH.

Wisdom	type			Stun
18	base			10	base
7	levels			14	half character level
5	tome			21	wis mod
2	completionist		14	stunning item
2	monk enhancement	5	combat mastery
1	human enhancment	3	fighter past lives
10	item		 	2	fighter dilly
2	insight			6	legendary tactics
1	exceptional		3	gmof
4	gmof ED wisdom		2	Tacticon

52	Total wisdom		80	Stunning Fist DC
 

I could easily get it higher if i were to count ship buffs, yugo pots, swap to water stance etc.

Only new items.

Stunning 14wraps
wise+10 goggles of accuracy
deadly trinket of resistance

Munk, I believe 80 SF no problem. This thread's about QP though.

BTW...what item grants 14 stunning?

Arkat wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 10:45pm:


A 28 wis mod in fire no less.

Still he did stuff up the character level modifier, that high wis mod is almost a wash when you fix his calcs.

The less sustainable boosts I can think of to my wis would be

52 Wis (as per my post above)

+2 yugo
+2 ship
+2 capstone
+1 profane (not worth giving up +10 deadly / resists to me)
+1 more gmof ED (not worth it giving up 2 points in way of fire)
+4 water stance
____________
64 wisdom
____________
+2 inspire excellence
+3 alchemical pots
+3 more insight (void dragon)
+2 store bought

74 wisdom.

Munkenmo wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 11:00pm:

I did not know about the +14 lootgen stuff. Thanks.