So, I am amking just a few updates to my build guide as I have conducted more testing. Firstly, though I am not changing anything core to the build I shared earlier I do have some leveling order recomendations.
From Level 7 to level 9 I recommended going from Tempest Cleric 1, Monk 5, Rogue 1 to level 9 at which you should be Cleric 1, Monk 5, Rogue 3 to get fast hands from the Theif subclass. While I am not changing this recommendation, I will be more specific about what to do from Level 10-12 for what I consider the best leveling progression for the most pleasant leveling experience that has the smoothest power curve.
At level 10, I have found that take Rogue 4 is the best experience to pick up your nest feat which will Savage attacker. It’s just too good as the mechanics of Savage attacker just makes damage output consistently higher than almost any other feat you could take at this point this point or any other skill or ability you could get from taking another level in Monk. So now you would be Cleric 1, Monk 5, Rogue 4 at level 10.
At level 11 the smoothest power curve would be to take Monk 6 which gives you the ability to make all your strikes magical and ofcourse our extra Ki point. Now you should be Cleric 1, Monk 6, Rogue 4.
At level 12 we are going to respec back out of Rogue 4 in out build to become Cleric 1, Monk 8, Rogue 3. That means we are giving up our Rogue 4 but actually will not lose Savage attacker because we get that feat back by taking Monk 8. We can do this by giving up our Rogue 4 level whivh used to give us a feat from Rogue but will be replaced by becoming Monk 8, which will give us that feat back. So we are picking up both Monk 7 and Monk 8 by doing this in one respect by giving back our Rogue 4 level.
This gives us 2 more Ki Points than we had before when we hit Level 11. We retain our Savage attacker feat and we are also picking up Evasion and Stillness of Mind from our monk 7 we took with our Monk 8 during our respec. That a lot of extra abilities and ability enhancements from just that one repec. Losing Rogue 4 hardly gives up anything as we don’t even lose our feat we got from Rogue 4, because we get that from our 8th level of monk.
Final Configuration then at level 12 would be Cleric 1, Monk 8, Rogue 3.
As I mentioned in an earlier post I will begin posting my itimization guide shortly when time allows and after testing with various item combinations. The two I will fous on testing then posting here will be a Lighting Itemization build and a Cold itemization Build.
