superior unarmed strike

[Borthos]

Superior Unarmed Strike (ToB) says " If you are a monk, you instead deal unarmed damage as a monk four levels higher." if i multiclass out of monk at second level, take that at 3rd level, my unarmed damage becomes 1d8. does this begin to scale in any way with my character? If it doesn't, it's ok, because of the character's overall build. I'm just curious if it begins to scale in any way.

Edit: my DM is allowing 3.5 feats which is why i'm asking.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

It'd remain your monk level +4 for effective unarmed damage. Now, if you have no monk levels, it has a scaling amount that will eventually surpass the 1d8 Monk level 6 would give. At that point, I'm not sure if it's the strict RAW, but I'd hope any sane and fair DM would let you use the feat's progression since it's now better. But again, you would not count as higher than monk 6 if the feat and Monk 2 is all you ever get. If you meant that you're continuing as a monk, sorry for misunderstanding. In that case, your effective monk level for unarmed damage will always be +4, so at monk 10, you use monk 14 unarmed damage, for instance.

 

[pawsplay]

Unless some restriction is stated, you can usually apply feats and abilities in any favorable order. In this case, you would apply the increased damage after leveling; in this case, you would want to apply the increase to monk damage before comparing it to the non-monk progression. I don't see any reason why you would be required to use the lower damage; it says "if you are a monk" and a multiclassed character is clearly a monk in some ways, and not in others.