Picking Human over Hearth Orlan is totally fine. I just picked Hearth Orlan because I mostly attacked the same target with both ciphers and then "Minor Threat" is always active. But since Novice's Suffering's damage doesn't increase much with crits it's not really important. Human or other races are totally fine. The higher the MIG the better for Novice's Suffering - so maybe Dwarf or Coastal Aumaua would be best.

Edited July 14, 20187 yr by Boeroer

Excellent, my human soulbender is on her way to the first inn she can find for a mysterious meeting with her Moon Godlike twin cipher .

 

Seriously, I am having so much fun.  This game is is like Fallout meets Baldur's Gate and its sweet pleasure to play.

 

Thanks for the advice.

@Boeroer Hi this build still works on 3.7 patch ?

Yes, nothing changed basically.

@Boeroer Have you ever thought of "porting" this build to Deadfire ? I remember enjoying it so much in PoE !

No, not really. But since you can multiclass now it should be pretty easy to combine a Monk with a Cipher in a decent way.  Helwalker/Ascendant is pretty popular. 

Single class Cipher (again Ascendant maybe) with Monastic Unarmed Training (Deadfire's Novice's Suffering) is also viable.