Monk Flurry of Blows with an enhanced "monk" weapon

[coopman1225]

So I have recently gotten into making my sheets using Hero Labs. Love the product but it has provided me with a few interesting situations. The most recent of which as is follows.

Playing a Level 6 Zen Archer, using a flurry of blows with a +2 composite longbow. As a Zen Archer you get "Zen Archery" using your Wisdom vs. your Dexterity for bow attacks, and also having Weapon Focus (Way of the Bow), but they are not stacking with the Flurry of Blows. I couldn't find anything in the errata regarding "enhancing" a Flurry of Blows attack. Can anyone provide some clarity for me. As it stands my Flurry of Blows bonuses are +7/+7/+2 (+3 Dex mod).

[Bobson]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you break it down more? For example: What is HeroLab showing? What are you expecting it to be showing? You say +7/+7/+2, but I don't know if that's what the software is saying, or what your math is saying. Is the bow a +2 bow, or a non-magical bow with a strength rating of +2? And if the former, how does the strength rating compare to your actual strength?

[coopman1225]

Sorry let me try to clarify, at lvl 6 a monk has a +4/+4/-1 for Flurry of Blows. With my current dex mod, it brings it up to +7/+7/+2. But with "Zen Archery" it should use my wis mod (+4) so Hero Labs should show +8/+8/+3. It doesn't... it also should show a +1 from Weapon Focus (+9/+9/+4) and then other modifiers for point blank shot, etc. When these are activate in Hero Labs, it is not adding these additional modifiers. It is also a magically enhanced "regular" longbow, no strength mod. So with a +2 enhancement it would bring the final total to +11/+11/+6. I guess my question is does flurry of blows take these extra enhancements into account or is it only on regular attacks with the bow?

[ShadowcatX]

Sounds like its a glitch in hero lab. Remember, if hero lab and the books don't coincide, books take preference.

[coopman1225]

I figured as much, I just wanted to make sure that I was reading all the rules and errata correctly. Because I figure that they should add in, but I wasn't sure

[Bobson]

Do you have the bow equipped? If so, it's almost certainly a bug and you should post on the wolflair.com forums. It's easy to miss that step, though.

[SuperUberGeek]

It is a glitch with Herolab. I love it, but it hates monks, it is always getting them wrong.

[coopman1225]

I think its a glitch. The weapon is definitely checked. And Weapon Focus is correct as well. If you look at the regular attack stats for a regular ranged attack then the math adds up. It is only happening on the Flurry of Blows. But from all the answers that are being given, no one is blatantly yelling at me saying that Flurry of Blows cannot be further modified, so I'm going to have agree with SuperUberGeek, I think that HeroLab just hates monks :)

[Carbon D. Metric]

Your FOB special ability will never be listed as your proper attack bonus with a given weapon on any character sheet. You have to do Flurry of Blows by hand EVERY TIME, because of the massive number of things that go into it.

In this case you add your FOB BAB, then you add your wisdom mod on top of that, then any feats, situationial crap, cover, magical enhancments, buffs etc.

As far as I know there is no way to setup HL to output a fully calculated FOB attack routine on its own.

I do however know for a fact that the it DOES add your wisdom mod instead of your dex as long as you meet the req's to use it, so I think your "glitch" is somewhere else in the program.