So basic idea here is that there are a couple of spell like abilities that the qinggong monk gets that cost a fair number of ki points (2 or 3), but with the ring of ki mastery you can get that cost down to one or two ki points.
Well, a drunken master gets to recover ki points as a swift action with fast drinker (18 con required) and will recover 2 ki points starting level 11 with deep drinker.
Would it be possible then to build a monk that can spam spell like abilities for little or no cost at least every other round?
(and eventually every round, two rounds of swift action drink and scorching ray/dragon's breath followed by a round of cold ice strike, or cold ice strike continuosly using the standard action to drink)?
Relevant Qinggong abilities:
2 ki point cost (reduced to 1 ki point cost)
Scorching Ray (lvl 4)
Dragon's Breath (lvl 8)
3 ki point cost (reduced to 2 ki point cost)
Cold Ice Strike (lvl 14)
So a continuous barrage of spell damage then.
prototype00
Yeah, I more or less came to a similar conclusion while I was writing this.
The good thing is that Qinggong is pretty inobtrusive, so you can tack it on to a basic monk drunken master build. With cold ice strike as a swift action, you basically can drink every round as a swift action, full attack and then next round, use cold ice strike as a swift action to get 15d6 bonus damage, and then full attack again.
Maybe take scorching ray early and keep it around as a ranged option.
The action economy on swift actions is probably working against the character here.
prototype00
Well, you could. But it's not very "strong".
Seems strong compared to what the monk can normally do, and seems like it could be fun =p
I'd probably go Sensei too, as with drinking you have the ki to go around for some pretty nice Qingong buffs to give out.