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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5412706" data-attributes="member: 35909">Is Leadership feat to get a cohort devoted solely to buffing and making magic items for you not an option?You can optimize and still role play.  The people who don't care about role playing and are willing to do crazy rules intent limbo with their character's feat/etc... selection choices are "munchkins."  Most power gamers are not like that.  Frankly, I think from what little I've heard that you're far from the worst off anyway.  Monk is just a cruddy class (worst one in core) in general, and IMO the most item dependent one in the game, I can only imagine how much he's hurting.  At least you have maneuvers to reduce item dependency a little (Insightful Strike to replace weapon damage, DM saving throw counters to shore up a weak save, etc...).  And oh man, the rogue.  Judging by what I've read about the undead content in AoW I hope he took Penetrating Strike or Death's Ruin variant, otherwise....good gods...Yeah, the melee characters at high levels should be almost auto-hitting on their first attacks, barring penalties from Power Attack and the like.  If all he does is single enemies, maybe that changes in order to keep fights competitive.  Do you have or can you acquire Lightning Throw maneuver?  I personally love that one for coolness alone.  It's not the BEST damage you can be doing, and the area attack nature of it is semi-wasted on just one foe.  But, just the fact that it ignores AC and turns your attack into a reflex save is a huge versatility boost when AC's proving too hard to crack.  And it's guaranteed to do at least 1/2 damage unless the enemy has Evasion.  If the enemies have piles of natural armor, Emerald Razor and the Stormguard Warrior tactical feat (for the tactic to do touch attacks for big damage next round) can also help to exploit that.  I guess what I'm trying to say is...you have options, and god do I pity the monk. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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