Recent content by Gladius Legis

Balatro is practically tailor made for those kinds of situations.

Don't know what the point was of doing numbers with Stunning Strike in the first place when you would not even bother using that against an Ancient Red Dragon. Rather dishonest the way you're framing it. The base Attack + Flurry Monk does 28.5 DPR, adding up to 57 stretching it to 2 rounds...

That only works with the Attack action. So you can't do that between Flurry of Blows attacks. You haven't been counting it for the Monk either, so fair is fair. Plus Fighters actually have ways of improving their chances of those attacks still hitting. Fighter can reroll it too with...

Yes, they are. 7 attacks, 3 of which must be against different enemies. If you are not surrounded by 4 enemies you aren't getting 7 attacks. Magic weapons and feats benefit the Fighter more because they get more attacks to apply that with. Flurry of Blows is unarmed attacks only, so magic...

Low bar. Fighters are more about damage, and they are far and away better at that than 2014 Monks. That's why I said one of those two things. 2014 Monks still suck at control compared to pretty much any other class for whom control is their MO. You intentionally neglected A LOT of other things...

Why? The mechanics are the same either way. 2 sessions, as long as they involve full adventuring days and a variety of encounter types, is a good sample size. Just because you're free to be wrong doesn't mean you're free to not be called out on it.

But so are doing damage and control. Without being effective in at least one of those, survival doesn't matter. lolwut? Not even close, dude. Nothing any Monk can do even comes close to matching a Fighter Action Surge turn. Your credibility is tanking with every single thing you say. None of...

Treantmonk, Colby, Pack Tactics, even Dungeon Dudes. Whatever you may think of any of them, I'm pretty confident saying they know what they're talking about.

3 times per day is not "repeatedly." Why does that matter whether it's a whole 1-20 campaign or whether it's a one-shot? The adventuring day works the same way. So you actually like casters being leaps and bounds better than Fighters. Gotcha. Glad you admitted it finally. Obviously, I think...

So ... things that don't actually defeat enemies. Damage and control win battles, and Monks in 2014 are not good at those. These abilities you listed help you survive a bit, and that's it, and they're no better at that than, well, pretty much anything any other martial gets. Such as? Enough of...

2024 Maze is a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. A Fighter likely has neither a high INT nor Investigation proficiency, so they're rolling that check with a base bonus somewhere around +0 (or even -1 if it dumped INT outright). Again, against DC 20. Tactical Mind and Heroic Inspiration...

In comparison to the Sorcerer: Charisma saves are about as rare as INT saves, so that comparison is a wash. Constitution proficiency is good for concentration, obviously, and probably better than Wisdom proficiency overall, but it doesn't come without its tradeoffs. With no WIS proficiency for...

Wizard being on this list is certainly ... a take. Wizard is still the best full caster in 2024, and it still isn't close. Rituals you can cast directly out of your spellbook without preparing the spell and being able to switch out your spells every day will always be king.

How has it been disruptive? You keep repeating this claim but you never give any examples or analyses. The only way I can see it being "disruptive" is if you're one of those killer DMs who was upset you couldn't CC the Fighter out of commission. Which, by the way, you couldn't really do that...

It's your word against plenty of people who have broken down how bad 2014 Monks are, especially in tier 3 and 4. If I hadn't played a 2014 Monk for myself at that level and found it every bit as unpleasant as their analyses suggested, then I'd still take their word over yours any day.