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I'm just debating the value of this for a monk.
Mythic Path Ability
Pure Body
Your body is so pure that you're immune to all non-mythic diseases and poisons. Diseases and poisons from mythic sources count as mythic for the purpose of this ability.
Monk Abilities
Purity of Body (Ex)
At 5th level, a monk gains immunity to all diseases, including supernatural and magical diseases.
Diamond Body
At 11th level, a monk gains immunity to poisons of all kinds.
So far as I can tell this means a monk of 11th level has the benefits of the mythic path ability.
Purity of body makes them immune to all diseases of a normal, magical and supernatural nature. It doesn't cover mythic diseases but then neither does the mythic path ability.
Diamond body is immunity to all poisons, even taking it as written prior to mythic adventures and ruling it wont cover mythic poisons it again seems to duplicate that half of the mythic path ability.
So am I right in reading this as being a monk with Purity of body and Diamond body would be immune to all non-mythic diseases and poisons like the path ability?
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Yep, Pure Body is meaningless for a Monk with Purity of Body and Diamond Body.
I disagree with you about the interaction of mythic diseases and poisons though and those two abilities. Diamond Body says immune to ALL poisons. Purity of Body says immune to ALL diseases. "All" is pretty all inclusive, regardless of whether or not it came before Mythic or not. The only way I see them not stopping a "mythic disease" or "mythic poison" would be if the particular disease/poison/source had a specific clause saying it bypasses immunity.
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Yep, Pure Body is meaningless for a Monk with Purity of Body and Diamond Body.
I disagree with you about the interaction of mythic diseases and poisons though and those two abilities. Diamond Body says immune to ALL poisons. Purity of Body says immune to ALL diseases. "All" is pretty all inclusive, regardless of whether or not it came before Mythic or not. The only way I see them not stopping a "mythic disease" or "mythic poison" would be if the particular disease/poison/source had a specific clause saying it bypasses immunity.
I did consider that but the immune to all came out before mythic and a lvl 4 class ability trumping a tier 3 mythic (which specifically states it doesn't work against mythic diseases/potions) seems a but overpowered.
I disagree with you by saying that Pure Body is underpowered relative to Purity of Body/Diamond Body; it's two class abilities, one coming online at level 11. The mythic ability combines both of those into one and would most likely be available much earlier than Diamond Body; iirc the suggested mythic to level ratio was 2 levels for 1 rank, so 3rd tier by around level 6 or 7? The mythic ability also gives two monk class features to anyone who would want it.
All that aside, I can't ever recall any time where disease immunity would have helped any of my characters in a meaningful way. Remove Disease is only a 3rd (or 2nd with healing domain) level spell after all. Poisons can be more problematic and Neutralize Poison is a little higher level, but then Lesser Restoration is a second level spell.
Really I'd call both the monk abilities and the mythic ability underpowered just because disease is a non-issue and poisons are easy to both resist and fix in most circumstances.
Unless that mythic disease or poison says specifically that it bypasses nonmythic immunities, the monk abilities grant immunity to it, full stop. That's what monks do, and on average they get precious few opportunities to benefit from it as it is.
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Hmmm interesting points, ok so i agree that poisons does say all but i'm still doubtful the disease one as that specifically calls out the types of disease and mythic's not there. I've played with rules lawyers who'd argue that point. Mythic disease are a class by themselves and the monk don't have that in the listing. How would you respond to that if someone raised it?