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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tobiasosir" data-source="post: 5459977" data-attributes="member: 98357">Ah...this makes sense, and seems a lot less broken. So this Ki Focus would only be useful when using an action point, for example, or an attack that has a rider saying I can make a secondary attack? Or (not that I plan on this, just thinking out loud) if I were to multiclass into Ranger instead and get an attack power that let me do two attacks per round?At any rate, sounds like it's not useful to me at all. I'm looking instead at the Abduction Ki Focus +1 or Iron Body Ki Focus +1. I do have a 17 Dex; I was trying to spread my ability scores out so I could optimize all the stats related to the character. So I took a second look at everything, and noted that I had only one attack that used Wisdom, a utility that gave temp hit points. I instead picked up Supreme Flurry, a daily that grants a second use of Flurry of Blows. All my other powers use Dex, except for one RP power and the Dwarven thrower, so I pumped those up to 18, giving me a +4. Now my to hit is between 8-11, with a plus 7-10 for damage. Sweet...As above, I rethought the ability scores, so switching to Stone Fist makes a lot of sense...and actually gives me more to my FoB anyway, between 9 and 11 as opposed to about 7 originally. So thanks for the input! The character is already looking stronger; and actually, switching to more Dex and Str as opposed to spreading it out convinced me to switch a couple powers, so it seems more balanced. Now the question is: without the Iron Soul feature, there's less of an incentive for weilding two weapons, as I don't get the AC bonus. I could switch the Dwarven thrower for some nice +2 cloth armor (thinking Robe of Eyes) and stick with the staff and the unarmed strike. This would bring my damage down by two (because of the feat that allows proficiency and damage to hammers), but I could offset that a bit with a feat in weapon focus, or increasing my monk unarmed strike (which would come into play a lot more) to D10s.  Which makes me think about another option...the hybrid class. I thought at first that the stats wouldn't go well together, but this MC build shows I could get away with using Dex Monk powers and Strength RP powers without delving too much into wisdom and con, the other two relevant stats. Monk's stats are Dex, Strength, Wisdom; RP is Strength, con and wisdom. The Multiclassed character I've drawn up right now has a +4 in Strength and Dex, and a +1 in the other two; would this work with a hybrid? I'm thinking it wouldn't be too different from what I've got going now, except I'd be splitting powers between the two classes, and give up some of the class features. Not close to a character builder right now, I'll have to play with it...</blockquote>

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