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Does this same advice apply to an Inqiusitor?
I keep thinking of so many combinations, so here are some basic questions that might help me find an answer.
This thread is basically stating that a person should go Zen Archer Monk for a 3-4 level dip over 3-4 levels of fighter.
1.) Does that also apply to a Zen Archer 3/ fighter 1 / Inquisitor 16?
If i do the above, i will not need a huge wisdom as 6th level spells are my max anyway. 16 dex max
2.) Will having a lower Wis, but higher dex and str make up for the AC lost by picking that little fighter bit?
3.) If i was wanting to be a switch hitter with only power attack, would it be better to focus on 4 levels of fighter?
4.) What race works well? Was thinking dwarf, but if i go fighter 4, then i can be any race in medium armor. A normal humanoid would fit a better concept of blending in.
5.) Is wisdom one of those stats that is just so amazing to max on a primary Inquisitor that not doing so would hurt me badly?
I keep tripping over whether or not my armor class as a Zen Archer/Inq will be ok, or whether it even matters at all because a fighter/Inq will have just as high an armor class with similar saves etc...
Thank you for any help given.
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Well, people often go Zen Archer since after level 3, WIS basically serves many of the same purposes as DEX. You get a class feature that lets you use Wisdom instead of Dexterity for determining to hit with ranged weapons. As a monk, you also add your Wisdom to your AC. A commonly used stat block (after racial modifiers) for Zen Archers have 14 in STR, DEX, and CON, 18 in WIS, and the other mental stats as dumps. So you want to have a good wisdom score.
You seem to want to go with medium armor. Honestly, that might not be a great idea for any archer, since it would limit their DEX bonus. Also, since you are adding both DEX and WIS to AC, you get +6 to AC, which is not much worse than if you wore armor. The fact that it take away the AC bonuses of monks and, most importantly, the flurry of blows, would make taking Zen Archer useless.
Flurry of blows is the key reason to take Zen archer. With it, you free up several feats since you cannot nor do you need to use rapid shot or many shot. It continues to advance in hit and number of attacks even if you take other classes. Monk simply provides it with a full BAB on the flurry of blows for those levels. So with ZA 3/ figher 1/ inquisitor 16, you would be doing +14, +14, +9, +9, +4, +4, +1. As you can see, that is about the same to hit as an inquistor 20, but you get 4 extra attacks. While rapid shot and many shot add onto the number of attack per round, it costs you several feats just to get a similar effect. So you want to go without armor to keep flurry of blows.
Zen Archers make interesting switch hitters, since they do not need to 'switch' Their unarmed strikes mean that they are always armed, so switching would not be that much trouble since you do not even need to drop your weapon. Just use kicks. This should suffice when something gets in your face. I am not sure what you are going for other than this for switch hitting. What, going to grab a great sword? Not advisable, it would be better to avoid zen archer if you wanted that kind of switch hitter. They are not the front line sort. You'd be better off just taking a 5 foot step back and just using a flurry of blows with your bow.
As a final suggestion: maybe avoid fighter and go ZA 4/ Inquisitor 16. With that, you get ki, so you can occasionally add another attack to your flurry of blows sometimes.
Thank you, this advice has helped a lot.
Yeah, i think i was trying to do too much.
The whole reason i was even thinking of fighter was to pick up a great sword as a secondary weapon.
I was going to then drop wisdom down to my minimum, and put on some mithril plate, or use celestial armor.
This would allow me to use those monk feats to pick up precise shot and rapid shot while using things like the free weapon focus as a base for, later, getting the snap shot feats.
I'd have enough feats to do all this with the above combo.
One other thing i was also pondering is that with this high wisdom, i may not get extra spells known on an inquisitor, but i will get more castings of those spells.
Another thing that is swaying me to go with high wisdom is that it applies to just about everything i am going to do. Example: I am going to take the Trade subdomain of Travel because i cannot afford a high charisma. While the bonus will not be effected, the number of uses per day will be.
"Have you considered a Middle-aged Archon-Blooded Aasimar, with the Immortal Spark alternate racial trait?"
I honestly don't even know how long an Aasimar is supposed to live.
Now i just need to find a race...
Heh, i can create great concepts, but the rules keep getting in the way of those concepts.