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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9223123" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>Been play testing my level 10 monk some more, and I cannot overstate how much more fun this class is now.</p><p></p><p>You may be surprised to read this, given my many comments about the class, but I am not normally a monk enthusiast.*** In fact, this is the first monk I have played for any length of time in decades. I chose monk at the start of our new campaign because my spouse had played one in the previous campaign and had a lot of complaints, so I wanted to see what it felt like (to be fair, I had warned them in advance that most players didn't love the monk). And Mercy monk had come out, which seemed to address some of the monk's key problems.</p><p></p><p>So while playing it with the 2014 rules, I found monk to be okay, specifically because Mercy is really good. It's one dimensional, but given that our party has a barbarian tank and good ranged attackers, my monk was free to act as a roving skirmisher and she was okay in that role. I kept wanted to take some levels in rogue to make her a lot better and more interesting (cunning action alone would do wonders, not to mention expertise), and debated taking a level or two in cleric, but decided to try to just go pure monk. And I would rate the Mercy monk, specifically, as a solid B tier, but kind of boring.</p><p></p><p>This new monk is amazing. Ironically, Mercy feels a lot less powerful, but that's a good thing - the basic monk stuff is strong enough that I don't have to lean on Mercy's features (good timing, since we've been taking on demons and undead lately). Instead of being a character that was basically being carried by the group, since they covered all the key roles, my monk now opens up a ton of new opportunities in combat. No one on the battlefield is safe, basically. It's just so fun to be able to play a monk the way I always imagined the class.</p><p></p><p>WotC really nailed it with this latest version.</p><p></p><p>***Through my decades of playing D&D, my perennial favourite classes have been ranger and paladin. I stopped playing paladin years ago, though, because they feel broken in 5e, to the extent that I felt like I was stealing the glory all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9223123, member: 7035894"] Been play testing my level 10 monk some more, and I cannot overstate how much more fun this class is now. You may be surprised to read this, given my many comments about the class, but I am not normally a monk enthusiast.*** In fact, this is the first monk I have played for any length of time in decades. I chose monk at the start of our new campaign because my spouse had played one in the previous campaign and had a lot of complaints, so I wanted to see what it felt like (to be fair, I had warned them in advance that most players didn't love the monk). And Mercy monk had come out, which seemed to address some of the monk's key problems. So while playing it with the 2014 rules, I found monk to be okay, specifically because Mercy is really good. It's one dimensional, but given that our party has a barbarian tank and good ranged attackers, my monk was free to act as a roving skirmisher and she was okay in that role. I kept wanted to take some levels in rogue to make her a lot better and more interesting (cunning action alone would do wonders, not to mention expertise), and debated taking a level or two in cleric, but decided to try to just go pure monk. And I would rate the Mercy monk, specifically, as a solid B tier, but kind of boring. This new monk is amazing. Ironically, Mercy feels a lot less powerful, but that's a good thing - the basic monk stuff is strong enough that I don't have to lean on Mercy's features (good timing, since we've been taking on demons and undead lately). Instead of being a character that was basically being carried by the group, since they covered all the key roles, my monk now opens up a ton of new opportunities in combat. No one on the battlefield is safe, basically. It's just so fun to be able to play a monk the way I always imagined the class. WotC really nailed it with this latest version. ***Through my decades of playing D&D, my perennial favourite classes have been ranger and paladin. I stopped playing paladin years ago, though, because they feel broken in 5e, to the extent that I felt like I was stealing the glory all the time. [/QUOTE]
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