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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6519146" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I said:Then you said:That sounds like you're spending freely, not carefully. Spending ki on flurry of blows is a waste for a Shadow Monk, it's a minor increase in damage output with none of the benefits that an Open Hand monk gets. You can get movement from Shadow Jump for free instead of Step of the Wind. Patient Defense can work, but you can get the same effect for free by using Dodge. Finally, you can also just use a bow (or melee kite if you happen to have Mobile feat) and not need Patient Defense/Dodge at all. All of this is circumstantial of course (melee kiting doesn't work all that well if you have idiot PCs in your party who like to charge into melee combat and hammer away), but that's why I phrased it the way I did: "if you're careful you can" conserve ki, not "you will always have ki to blow whenever you feel like it."My Shadow Monk spends ki primarily on stunning strike (in important fights) and Pass Without Trace (when scouting). Spending on flurry of blows is very rare.</blockquote>