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How broken is Long Death Monk at 11th level or higher?
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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8977063" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>11 hits at 11th level is probably around 150-200hps worth of damage, which would be after he lost the 70hps or so that he starts with. If a Monk runs through that much ki, that quickly, any other character would be long gone at that level, which is the point.</p><p></p><p>So you are generally talking about is a character absorbing over 250hps worth of damage alone ...... three times a day if he has 2 short rests.</p><p></p><p>For example - One Adult Green Dragon is a "hard" encounter for 5 11th level characters. A green dragon has 6 attacks a round (including legendary actions) and does an average of 16 damage per attack. So if he if he goes into that fight and uses all his ki against 11 hits from such a creature, that ki would have absorbed on average 176 damage and that is if the Dragon never breathes. If the dragon opens with a breath weapon it is about 216 damage he is soaking up and those numbers don't include any hps he starts with. </p><p></p><p>To put this another way - if he starts that combat with 1 hp, with no magic buffs and an 18AC, on average he will go down in the 4th round of combat and do on average 63 points of damage to the dragon BY HIMSELF before he goes down (using only attacks and martial arts). That is doing weak Monk damage, if the other 4 members of the party can manage to match the Monk's weak DPR, the Dragon will die in the 3rd round, and the Monk will still have on average 4 ki left with another 11 coming at the next short rest. If other party members can each equal the paltry 16DPR vs AC19 that he puts out, the Dragon will die in the third round .... That is assuming he breathes and then concentrates every single one of his attacks on that Monk.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now if your hard combat is with 30 skeleton archers, where each hit does 6 points of damage, they all target you and you start the fight at 0 hps, then you have a point because it is the number of hits it nullifies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8977063, member: 7030563"] 11 hits at 11th level is probably around 150-200hps worth of damage, which would be after he lost the 70hps or so that he starts with. If a Monk runs through that much ki, that quickly, any other character would be long gone at that level, which is the point. So you are generally talking about is a character absorbing over 250hps worth of damage alone ...... three times a day if he has 2 short rests. For example - One Adult Green Dragon is a "hard" encounter for 5 11th level characters. A green dragon has 6 attacks a round (including legendary actions) and does an average of 16 damage per attack. So if he if he goes into that fight and uses all his ki against 11 hits from such a creature, that ki would have absorbed on average 176 damage and that is if the Dragon never breathes. If the dragon opens with a breath weapon it is about 216 damage he is soaking up and those numbers don't include any hps he starts with. To put this another way - if he starts that combat with 1 hp, with no magic buffs and an 18AC, on average he will go down in the 4th round of combat and do on average 63 points of damage to the dragon BY HIMSELF before he goes down (using only attacks and martial arts). That is doing weak Monk damage, if the other 4 members of the party can manage to match the Monk's weak DPR, the Dragon will die in the 3rd round, and the Monk will still have on average 4 ki left with another 11 coming at the next short rest. If other party members can each equal the paltry 16DPR vs AC19 that he puts out, the Dragon will die in the third round .... That is assuming he breathes and then concentrates every single one of his attacks on that Monk. Now if your hard combat is with 30 skeleton archers, where each hit does 6 points of damage, they all target you and you start the fight at 0 hps, then you have a point because it is the number of hits it nullifies. [/QUOTE]
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