Incarnate questions

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So if you equipped Lightning Gauntlets to an Incarnate/Monk, and then bound it to your chakara, and early on managed to invest about 2 essentia, it could effectively add 2d6 or 3d6 on top of your normal attack

Yep, juicy extra electrical damage on top of your Monk unarmed strike damage, and mantle of flame is good as you'll be in melee a lot.

 

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So I end up making a difficult choice between VoP and maybe getting a max of like 7 essentia invested, or dropping the VoP feat and taking up some Incarnum Magic Items. I may go with the VoP choice, but I don't know.

Might as well go for VoP, now's the time as you're playing an Incarnate/Monk.

 

[Jackinthegreen]

Keep in mind Incarnates can't be Lawful Good, so the only way you could play a monk/incarnate and still be Good (besides the DM being lenient with alignments) is if you're monk first and then transition into incarnate, which means don't expect to get back into monk. And you'll have to be Good for VoP.

As for the other questions: If the bonuses aren't the same type, they stack. Note that the Incarnum Radiance ability grants an untyped armor bonus for Good incarnates, so it'd stack anyway. Watch for the type of AC bonus granted, such as the Lammasu Mantle granting a Deflection bonus which would overlap with VoP's deflection bonus. Likewise, since both Exalted Strike and Incarnate Weapon are enhancement bonuses, they would overlap, not stack, unless your DM was lenient and felt them stacking would be okay. Which they are, mathematically speaking.

By the way, you'll want to take a look at http://dndtools.eu/feats/categories/exalted/ since Exalted feats are found in more books than just the BoED.

 

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Edit (sorry).

 

[Vael]

editted - So if you equipped Lightning Gauntlets to an Incarnate/Monk, and then bound it to your chakara, and early on managed to invest about 2 essentia, it could effectively add 2d6 or 3d6 on top of your normal attack! It also says handheld so I could even take advantage with my trusty Incarnate Hammer.

While true, note that the bonus damage from Lightning Gauntlets can only be applied once per round, and must be declared before the attack roll. A monk that is using Flurry of Blows would get more out Bluesteel Bracers ... though I'm not sure that they'd work with unarmed strikes since it only applies to melee weapon damage.

... What you'll want to take is "Shape Soulmeld: Mauling Gauntlets" ... they're a Soulborn-only soulmeld that when bound to your hands is going to add 2+ (2x essentia) morale bonus damage to unarmed attacks. That's a lot.