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<blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 356775" data-attributes="member: 381">I'm not going to re-do the math right here ... but I've done statistical analyses of both the flurry of blows class ability and the lightning fists feat. The lightning fists feat, in short, sucks boulders through a straw. While flurrying is almost always as good as or better than taking the regular iterative attacks, lightning fists is often worse. Furthermore, it anti-scales ... as the monk goes up in levels, the additional attacks for the -5 to apply to, and the fact that the percentage increase in attacks is lower, makes the feat less and less useful. IIRC, at 18th level (with a base 5 attacks per round), lightning fists is a dead feat-you're always better off taking your regular attacks or a flurry of blows. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />I don't know why they didn't make lightning fists use the mechanics from the improved two-weapon fighting feat. It could have actually been some use ...[Edit: Actually, at 4 attacks per round is where the lightning fists fades to uselessness ... Unless you needed a 19 or 20 to hit in the first place, you'll hit more often with a flurry. And if you need a 19 or 20 to hit, you'll be better served by the Run feat than Lightning Fists.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Christian, post: 356775, member: 381"] I'm not going to re-do the math right here ... but I've done statistical analyses of both the flurry of blows class ability and the lightning fists feat. The lightning fists feat, in short, sucks boulders through a straw. While flurrying is almost always as good as or better than taking the regular iterative attacks, lightning fists is often worse. Furthermore, it anti-scales ... as the monk goes up in levels, the additional attacks for the -5 to apply to, and the fact that the percentage increase in attacks is lower, makes the feat less and less useful. IIRC, at 18th level (with a base 5 attacks per round), lightning fists is a dead feat-you're always better off taking your regular attacks or a flurry of blows. :( I don't know why they didn't make lightning fists use the mechanics from the improved two-weapon fighting feat. It could have actually been some use ... [Edit: Actually, at 4 attacks per round is where the lightning fists fades to uselessness ... Unless you needed a 19 or 20 to hit in the first place, you'll hit more often with a flurry. And if you need a 19 or 20 to hit, you'll be better served by the Run feat than Lightning Fists.] [/QUOTE]

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