Way of the Astral Self (Monk) Build Guide in D&D 5e - HDIWDT
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
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Intro 0:00
Race, Stats, & Equipment 3:30
Levels 1-5 10:35
Levels 6-10 22:41
Levels 11-15 28:14
Levels 16-20 32:30
Honorable Mentions 38:20
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Going to be playing a Plasmoid Astral Self Monk in my next campaign, and taking a level in Druid is interesting.
About to start into the Abyss. DM is allowing a free feat at first level to hopefully help us survive the lower levels. We're not allowed to do varient human or custom lineage. Im taking the opportunity to try to make a monk work. I'm going Way of the Astral Self Tortle so I can make dex my third stat and taking the fighting initiate feat to get 1d8 on all my hits from first level.. still feels under powered
Great job; I like the idea of getting wisdom saving throw proficiency at level 1.
On the final ASI, any reason why eldritch adept was chosen over warcaster? Warcaster essentially offers the same benefits as the eldritch mind invocation, with a few extra benefits. Interested to know if it was purely a story driven reason, or a mechanical reason to choose eldritch adept.
It is more of a story reason. We qualify for War Caster but we aren't going to be casting cantrips as opportunity attacks at this level I wouldn't imagine. The somatic component portion could come up but that's the only distinction really.
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I played a Tortle in this subclass at one point because my thinking was that he could focus wisdom while having only a moderately good Dex throughout his career. It helped that he was for a one shot that started at 10 because low levels with ki are the struggle.
I appreciate that! Yeah low levels are really tough. I think this build helps in that regard some but there's not really a way to mitigate it.. at least without some homebrew magic items or some other type of intervention
Surprised that a 2nd level in Druid was not an honorable mention as having access to the Druid subclass and wild shape is a big deal. Wild shape, which can also be used for Find Familiar, is an excellent scouting tool that refreshes on short rest like the Monk is great. The subclasses Moon, Stars, and Shapard are really good for the monk, especially wisdom focused monks. Moon allows for a hp buffer and better physical stats that can still use Monk class features. Shepard can summon spirits that can add the party in different ways. Stars, my recommendation, gives a good amount of versatile options and Dragon form helps the concentration checks the build is looking for.
Druid 2 isn't bad at all. I probably would only go Stars though. Regular Wild Shape in it's normal form isn't worth much as you get to higher level if we aren't going to be buffing it
Astral self monk is great for making the monk less MAD but even the astral self monk needs a good dexterity for ac and evasion. The blade ward is a good option for a monk for versatility but blade ward, flurry of blows and your astral self powers all uses a bonus action.
This is true but a lot of those cost Ki. Blade Ward gives you a decent defensive option that can allow you to save the precious Ki for later
Great build but where is that document you referred to?
It's in the description! Let me know what you think
@@DapperSnapperGaming I think it's pretty well done, I like the table at the end and the fact that entangle is in bold to show it's importance
Looks like u added racial stats twice
The racial would be +1 to 3 stats. So 17 to 18, 15 to 16 and 13 to 14
@@DapperSnapperGaming Aren't the base stat 15 14 13 12 10 8 ? If you add the the racial stat it would be 16 15 14 1210 8 or i'm missing something?
It's modified standard array which is used by lots of people on YT and elsewhere. 17 15 13 12 10 8