I'm playing a Monk 10/ Barbarian 2. I'm trying to bump my wisdom as high as possible for obvious reasons. I've already maxed my inherent bonus with a +5 tome and my enhancement bonus with a +6 headband and I've bumped wisdom at 4th, 8th, and 12th.
Any suggestions?
Just out of curiosity, how are you circumventing the alignment restrictions?
Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts
Our group considers them ridiculous
Well, you've exhausted a lot of the usual avenues, but there are still some obscure ways that you could raise your Wisdom score. Technically (depending on your race and how and where you allocated your ability scores at character creation) the reincarnate spell can net you stat bumps (if you get lucky or are willing to risk it often enough), as can older age categories.
Probably the best way to gain a significant new Wisdom bump would be to take one or more levels in alchemist, grab an archetype (like the mindchemist) that allows access to the "cognatogen" class feature at 1st level, and brew Wisdom-boosting cognatogens. The bonus will be an "alchemical" bonus; that's not a type of bonus that you're likely to find anywhere else.
If you're a human, there's always the Advanced Race Guide option to trade your bonus feat and skill ranks for a +2 to any stat.
The Ability Focus feat won't help your Wisdom, but it will further improve your no-doubt insane Wisdom-based DCs. Mantis Wisdom can further improve your Stunning Fist.
I suppose you could wish for or otherwise gain the advanced creature template, the half-celestial template, the half-fiendish template, or become a vampire and/or a lycanthrope (all of those templates grant small to moderate Wisdom bonuses). For that matter, you could just wish for more Wisdom.
Oh! Here's a fun one. Make a deal with a succubus. See their "profane gift" special ability. I can't say that I recommend it - although some folks might - but it is one way to gain a Wisdom bonus that you won't find elsewhere (a "profane" bonus).
Good luck!
Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts
I'm playing a Monk 10/ Barbarian 2. I'm trying to bump my wisdom as high as possible for obvious reasons. I've already maxed my inherent bonus with a +5 tome and my enhancement bonus with a +6 headband and I've bumped wisdom at 4th, 8th, and 12th.
Any suggestions?
If you're not concerned about physical stats, you could always get aged one way or another.
Reincarnate don't change the mental attributes modifiers, only the physical modifiers.
Sure enough, you're right.
I should've caught this myself since I just ran a campaign where this came up, too (it ended with a megalodon eating everyone, though so it didn't matter for long).
Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts
Wow. That's a lot of options. Unfortunately, the only one I'm willing to try is "wishing" for the half-celestial template, though that is entirely up to my GM and after reading the template, seems a little unlikely. Thanks for the suggestions.