Raven Darkholme

Even though I don't really understand the intentions behind the thread: Low CON high might monk is not as bad as you think it is, especially in a party. But here's the prolem with this thread, if you play characters correctly any party will be able to go through PotD, if you don't, what's the sense in playing? I think the most important thing about a "bad" party would be to use somebody as tank who is not tanky and build everyone else as a ranger. If you use a low con wizard who gets the best tank items, but doesn't use spells, the rest of your party will die quickly afterwards, same goes for all spellcasters.

Reflex. Fear will, yes, knockdown fort.

That's because pallys defense is supreme. Also against 3 single foes per rest you get increased accuracy and damage, generally not THAT useful but perfect for single strong foes like dragons.

Fighter is definitely better suited for dps than paladin.

So you 8m is more than enough for "alpha strikes", unless you've completely neglected Stealth, which you really shouldn't do if you are going for alpha strikes. Also, 2m Backstabs with Rogues. Yes please. So you don't mind moving your ciphers and rogues forward more than the tank(s)?

My Cypher begs to differ. Especially ciphers love that arquebus. But anyway, sorry for posting OT here everybody has their preferences.

If it was for rp reasons only guess I would go arquebus.

I honestly think killing Readric is harder in spite of the door cheese. I also never used Fan of flames against Kolsc, but if you wanna be absolutely certain to kill him, sure take it. There is like 10 scrolls before Caed Nua, so you have some leeway.

A bit offtopic, but why would anyone even bother with pistols in the first place? Their damage is nice, but that 8m range sucks on alpha strikes.

I would say the monk excels at lower levels, without getting completely useless at higher levels, he stays good but not excellent. So if you have trouble with pre Caed Nua gameplay the monk is definitely a class I would consider.

Right away, so you don't take all the damage.

If that was directed at me: Act 2, my bad. And I played till the end of Act 2 but couldn't be bothefed to go into Act 3 and started my cipher instead, beat the game with it, and then beat the game with pala, both Potd solo.

It would be nice if torment's reach could be toggled on so you don't have to keep using it. What I like to do is pick heroes from popular movies, then see if I can re-create them to a certain degree in game. Suprisingly POE gives you A LOT of customization to do this which is impressive. You can make a Samwise style fighter Orlan if you wanted Too bad there is no frying pan crush weapon in game You can assign it to ctrl though, which makes the monk a lot less of a hassle.

Well you have to switch targets every now and then, don't know, whether that is much of micro but, yeah....

Yeah, I don't think offhand will stay that good for monk forever, it seems broken, but while it still is possible, why not use it? Funwise I think you have the most fun in a monk if you solo the early levels, don't know about later tho, never played monk till level 3, in 1 and 2 he's op, but he never gets anything beyond torment's reach, no really high saves and his good accuracy on mostly single target attacks will only get him so far... In a party monk is probably awesome all the way through to Thaos if you have high fort saves the statues can probably soloed by him and the rest of the party can concentrate on Thaos.

Depends on your strategy I guess, I never micromanage rogues, other people afflict targets for them.

Why go to all the trouble if there is a stiletto with jolting touch in the game? :D Only had 12 base might, too.

Position yourself next to the mage, kill him first. Call Animat on the archer or priest.

Oh, so I speed soloed my monk to level 4 in vain. At least I got 62 highest damage out of him. :D

Barb has to mmed more.

For some reason torment's reach works better with pure unarmed, I'm doing a lot more damage. So I've ditched having a weapon in the off hand. Nah torments reach has a fixed damage value. Use the jolting touch stiletto offhand for maximum cheese. :D

Offhand weapon for monk is kinda buggy, there is no reason not to use it, if you actually consider it a legal strategy. (Which you totally should. ;P)

I muscled Raedric on my first playthrough, I might do it again and record just for you.

This. Especially since he always dies before Def-Bay, so whatever fight he can't do (I'm guessing phantoms) is NOT BLIND, let alone all the content leading up to it. Also @OP how can you do Trial of Iron but redo the radric fight, wouldn't you have to start up a new game?

Oh stop with insulting bovine fecal matter. You got issues. I wasn't insulting anyone. Now for you that's an entirely different story. You damned well were. You said that anyone who doesn't use more casters is lazy. That's pretty damned insulting in my book. So stop it. Stop insulting people. You ever heard of people referring to themselves as “you“? It's normal english grammar. Hardly. In the real world, proper english grammar is to refer to yourself as "I" or "me". Let me guess, you are not a native?