Adam D. said: Nikolai M. said: Adam D. said: Nikolai M. said: Adam D. said: I have read the Basic Rules/FAQ. I have read the New Player Checklist. I have downloaded the Portable Compendium or have access to the Online Compendium. Below is a link to my character sheet which I have made using the above resources. <a href="https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1563874" rel="nofollow">https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1563874</a> Thanks for the guidance. Just for context, the original build was going to be lightning based, and was to use the +2 staff for the weapon. I had made a change to instead be using Thunder as my element, making use of a Thunderfist Iron Ki Focus, and using a standard quarterstaff. In the online build my attacks display as 'Your stats using Iron Ki Focused Quarterstaff'. - so yes I got rid of the lightning +2 weapon purchased off the board - hope this explains some of the strangeness you could see. 1) Please note what your racial skill bonuses are and be sure to add the bonus to the associated skills which appear to be missing I have added the +2 nature and perception. 2) Under quick lookup for defenses please make sure everything is filled out even if it is with a 0, under special senses here your low light should be listed as well. I have added the low light sense. The 'Iron Soul' flurry of blows describes a 'Mental Arsenal' feature that gives what it describes as a +1 shield bonus to AC. However if I change the 'shield' bonus to 1 in the quick lookup for defenses, it also provides 1 reflex - which I *think* is incorrect. So rather than add it here, it is listed in the 'ac' row of the defenses section. 3) For attack and damage workspace please include two different attacks or powers, also under the damage workspace there is nothing giving you a static feat bonus. This can be addressed furthing once they have been filled out with powers. I have now named the powers - which were fallen needle and five storms. I 'sortof' get a +1 from the 'Superior Implement Training' for the Iron Ki Focus - which has the 'Deadly' Property - which says +1 to damage rolls made with a deadly implement. I really wasn't sure the best place to put this. It is currently listed as the +1 feat bonus. I could put it under misc if that is preferred? 4) For your +1 to AC from your class feature as well as your Iron Parry feat you must be wielding a weapon that is not in the unarmed group which you appear to be missing I should be wielding a quarterstaff - which is empowered by the Ki Focus - I have added the quarterstaff to my items. 5) You are missing your racial power I have added Elven Accuracy in the powers section. 6) You are missing the ritual you gain from your theme I have added this. 7) You have not added your bonus to nature from your theme I have added this. 8) You are missing your Flurry of Blows power I have listed it explicitly in the powers section. 9) Please show a break down of your expenses, also you posted you bought items on the sale thread, one of which you are missing. Also having that item would give you what is needed for your class feature and feat defense since you would have a weapon. If you decided to go back on the purchase please know it needs to be made known. With loot increasing exponentially as you level, combined with constantly playing up as a level 5, please make the best of the resources available to you now. Starting = 4500 - Amulet of Protection (bought off board for 180) - Bloodthread Cloth Armor (bought off board for 500) - Thunderfist Iron Ki Focus (full price 840) - 2x Blood Apricot 100 - Quarterstaff 5 - Thieves Tools 20 - Adventurers Kit 20 - Potion of cure light wounds 20 Now = 2815 (my original was 5 gp off - as I had failed to subtract the cost of the quarterstaff). 10) Under conditional I'm seeing notes of your FoB giving EoNT benefits but seeing nothing that is actually giving these benefits Yeah - sorry - I originally had the 'Shielding Whirlwind Style' feat - but had to drop this in favor of the superior implement training feat when I switched my intention from lightning to thunder. Take the time to review the above. When you are ready to reply, please do so using the Quote function. With the same numbers I used, please indicate what, if anything, you changed please do not just put fixed or check. Thanks for reviewing all this for me. I hope it's not too tedious. Cheers, -Adam 1) Racial skill Bonuses are still missing from skill section. 2) All set 3) The +1 from your implement property would go under misc because its not a 'feat bonus' 4) All Set 5) All Set 6) All Set 7) Theme skill bonus still missing from skill section. 8) All Set 9) My biggest concern here now is on the item thread you posted you purchased a +2 Lightning Weapon (which you could still use as an implement as a monk in place of a ki focus, doing this would only involve change of feats to go this route) that is not listed on your sheet. 10) All Set 1) I had stupidly added these directly to the total scores, rather than the misc box. This has now been changed (including removing my original addition to the total scores so I haven't double counted by adding the bonus in the misc box) 3) - I have corrected this, however, your prompt has caused me to change a feat. (Iron Parry has become Implement Focus Ki Focuses) - so now do have a +1 feat bonus to implement attacks. As a result my ac feat bonus has dropped by 1, due to the loss of Iron Parry. 7) I had done the same thing as in 1) - has been corrected in the same way. 9) - The staff has been mulligan retirement home for items that should not have been purchased... I refunded myself the money - and no longer possess it. Let me know if I'm not allowed to do this, and instead have to accept the 2.5k gold loss. The reason for doing this is that I want to optimise around Thunder, rather than Lightning (although many parts of my build will be the same, Sarifal, lyrander etc). The main aim here is to get access at 11 to resounding thunder to increase the size of my bursts and blasts by 1. My (limited) understanding is that there aren't many thunder weapons available in the game - but happily for Mr Monk here there are Thunderfist Ki Focuses, which would allow me to type the damage that I'm outputting to be Thunder. (please let me know if this is a misapprehension). As a result I'm building around the Ki Focus, and am committing a number of feats to that (including things like my free expertise feat). It could be possible to still use the staff at the start, with associated feats, and gradually retrain them as I approach paragon, but I felt this was messy, and that I might somehow screw it up, so would rather just start with the correct implement setup (even at the cost of having to use a +1 implement, rather than a +2). - Hope this all makes some sort of sense. Thanks again so much for your patience. -Adam 1/3/7) All Set 9) The issue on the Thunderfist Ki Focus is that is it is only melee attacks which bursts and blasts are not. Luckily the person the Lightning Weapon had not picked up the gold for the item, so it has been readded to the thread. If you are looking to do Thunder type things you will want to look at the Screaming Bow (untyped damages to thunder for attacks) to use as your implement since you should have bow proficiency from being an elf and monk allows weapons you're proficient with to be used as implements. Which brings me back to the other initial point I made, since loot increases exponentially as you level, and you will only play up as a level 5, its best to make use of as much of your starting gold as you can since you won't gain much from saving. Take a look at some of the other slots for equipment, head, arms, hands, waist, feet, and wondrous you may find things to improve your character further
