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Yeah, it's just.... didn't ever see it here on the board... is it strong?

 

I was thinking it could be fun to build a staff dwarven monk... whaddaya think?

Would I be losing something in comparison with....humans..or whatever else?

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I thought so...

I really like the powerful bonus against races...

And I like the White that wends "mystic" background" which can be related to monks...

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See the Witch Doctor build for a boreal dwarf + monk combo. One of the most powerful non-caster setups in my opinion.

I'll surely do. Thanks!

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The Juggernaut build has always been based on a Boreal Dwarf. I consider them to be the best race for a Monk, higher Con and Might are everything a Monk wants and the extra accuracy is great.

 

For that matter I consider a Boreal Dwarf to be one of the best races for any offensive class.

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I know that res is not that important for monk, but it's the main attribute for talking... this thing really gets on my nerves... resolve has a much larger input on dialogues than int or per...

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Constitution for a monk is their resource pool, think of it like mana :) Higher is better.

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You can also leave CON as it is and put more efford into "virtual endurance" - meaning self healing with healing bonuses. Veteran's Recovery + Shod-in-Faith + >80% healing bonus from MIG, items and survival makes up for a LOT of missing CON. Of course you can combine both high CON and great self heals and have an even bigger wound pool.

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Mmm I'll try the different combinations... I usually play with con 10 and it's enough on most chars.. I'll try going a bit up, see what happens.

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On monks and barbs higher CON is nice because they already get more base endurance and health than other classes - this means the +5% from every point of CON leads to more endurance than on a fighter or chanter or so. A monk with maxed CON can easily reach 500 Endurance at the end of the game. If you add self heal like a boss you become unkillable by the usual mob - even if your deflection is crappy. Another good thing: your fortitude will be very good, which prevents nasty things like petrify. Becoming a stone pillar will get you killed - no matter how high your endurance is. ;) 

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I know that res is not that important for monk, but it's the main attribute for talking... this thing really gets on my nerves... resolve has a much larger input on dialogues than int or per...

 

As far as I can remember, there are almost no occasions where the alternative dialogue options make any difference to the outcome of quests in concrete terms, they are mainly there for role-playing flavour. There might be a couple where you get a little more experience, but experience is not in short supply in PoE, but I don't think you can ever miss out on any items. When an attribute leads to a different resolution of a quest, there is often another way to get the same resolution without an attribute check. Once I realised this, I worried less about having higher conversation attributes.

 

That's not to say it's not cool to have other unique options in conversations, but unlike a lot of RPGs you're not going to miss out on rewards for skimping on them.

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... Becoming a stone pillar will get you killed - no matter how high your endurance is. ;)

 

Which, when you think about it, is kind of weird. I haven't attacked many stone pillars in my life, but my sensory experience of them suggests they'd actually be pretty resistance to sword blows.

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Well in DnD terms stone has always been deadly, oh Basilisks and Irenicus in BG. :)

 

Weren't the Basilisks deadly primarily because of they stoned the Bhaalspawn it was instant game over. I don't remember your characters being prone to taking more damage when stoned (though I might be wrong).

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Well in DnD terms stone has always been deadly, oh Basilisks and Irenicus in BG. :)

 

Weren't the Basilisks deadly primarily because of they stoned the Bhaalspawn it was instant game over. I don't remember your characters being prone to taking more damage when stoned (though I might be wrong).

 

If they get killed while in stone they permanently die, can't be raised.

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Ah, I had a mod installed which didn't allow permanent death so perhaps it also applied to this case. Whilst said mod might seem like easy mode, honestly I'd just reload if a character permanently died so it was simply there to save me time.

 

In BG1 I remember getting Minsc to drink a potion of glass eyes then solo clear that Basilisk map quite easily.

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