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I'll admit I'm not sure which of these count as "Statistics" or "unarmed attacks," but the 3rd level Animal Form spell could also grant:

- AC = 17 + level
- Ignore armor check penalty and speed production
- Damage mod +5
- Athletics skill = +14

For the record, thank you to everyone for the input on this. It's helped me put this character build more in a better frame for me, if that makes sense.

If you read all the feats given to the Ki style-focused monks, you will quickly realize that they become stronger over time, gaining more focus points every time you pick a ki spell with your class feats and the meditative focus at level 12 to allow your character to regain 2 focus points with the refocus action (see focus spell rule section for more details).

Anyway, at low level you will use your ability sparingly in low levels, doing more melee/physical attacks at low levels, then at mid-levels and higher, having more focus points, you can go supernatural monk more often.

Ki Monk is essentially a build-up.

So, maybe I'm reading something incorrectly, but I think that the rules are saying that "you can never hold more than three points in your focus pool." Am I reading something wrong, because this makes it sound like you can never have more than three focus points at a time, which seems like it would limit your ability to use Ki Focus abilities. Is the idea that you continuously refocus after each combat?

So, I've gotten my hands on the 2E rulebook, and I kind of like the Ki Monk sample build in the book. But I'm not really sure how this sort of build is supposed to be played. I'll admit that this might be a bit due to inexperience on my part (I'm relatively new to Pathfinder as a whole), but it feels like all of this build's abilities are based on a focus pool that can never go above three charges. It feels like they can only ever do impressive things three rounds in a combat, and after that are stuck just punching things. Am I missing something about how this build is supposed to work?