| Simon Langhoff |
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Hi everyone, I hope this is the right section :)
First off, I've recently started playing Pathfinder and I am now a lvl 5 monk. I enjoy playing the monk, but I am having trouble figuring out how I should play my character.
My primary concern is flurry of blows and the utility of my class.
From what I understand the monk pretty much needs a full round action to do any real damage because he has to use FoB. On the other hand the monk is also great at moving around the battlefield, using combat maneuvers like Grappling.
My real problem here is, I don't know how to put my character to any good use in combat, other than just FoB the *beep* out of the enemies, pretty much limiting me to moving to an enemy and then full-round attack when possible.
I want to use combat maneuvers, but I am just having a hard time figuring out when this is actually a good idea. The impression I get from grappling is that it does not really make much difference, because if I grapple the enemy he can perform many actions, and it cripples me greatly because I can't FoB while grappling, not even if I have the greater grapple feat.
I hope you guys can give me some pointers on how to use my monk in combat. Maybe I just need some kind of CMB-epiphany, but right now I'm just not seeing the great use of grappling and then the monk just seems like a sub-par damage dealer at best. (With a nice flavor to the class of course, but still)
Sorry for the long post, any advice/pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thank you