It will reduce any ki point based ability by 1 point, to no less than 1 point.
Also, besides the Feats past dimmensional agility, you could try to take Quickened Spell-like ability at 17th level, to do it as a swift action.
Also, 3 levels of horizon walker, errain ability for astral plane is dimension door for 3+ wis mod times per day. So there's even more to get.
With horizon walker, the other feats are better, than with the quickened version.
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Don't take Vows. They're really just a trap.
The only ones that are easy to uphold, is the Vow of Silence and Vow of Chains. Nothing else is worth it as the detriment is too much. Poverty means you'll never own any good equipment(like any +1s or better to your weapons/aomf)... and if you don any, you'll be breaking your vow and suffering greatly. Don't do it.
Ring of Ki Mastery is probably your best bet. It'll lower it down to 1 ki cost, which really is as cheap as it gets. Also, you can always take the feat Extra Ki as many times as you want.
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at level 12, a monk would have base 12 + ~6=18 ki. (IIRC, it may be 1/2 monk level which it is then 6+6=12 ki, drunken master is a boon in this)
I'm not quite sure I understand where you are getting that from...
"The number of points in a monk's ki pool is equal to 1/2 his monk level + his Wisdom modifier."At level 12, he would have 6 + Wis Mod. I assume he can then Drink for more Ki.
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Don't take Vows. They're really just a trap.
The only ones that are easy to uphold, is the Vow of Silence and Vow of Chains. Nothing else is worth it as the detriment is too much. Poverty means you'll never own any good equipment(like any +1s or better to your weapons/aomf)... and if you don any, you'll be breaking your vow and suffering greatly. Don't do it.
This.
I see a lot of guides stating that Vow of Cleanliness is good. Carry an extra robe, have access to prestidigitation, and you're fine, right? Except if you need to attack undead. You can no longer use unarmed damage or grapple against a huge class of enemies.
a Ki MatRing of Ki Mastery, Drunken Master, Hungry Ghost, or extra Ki are the ways to get more ki.
Don't take vows. If you want to RP Vows, that fine, but don't cripple yourself if you have to break them.
I would argue that the Vow of Truth is fairly easy to maintain. It specifically allows for saying nothing if telling the truth would hurt the monk or the party. Losing the ability to bluff probably won't hurt you since odds are you won't have a good bluff check anyway. Even intimidate doesn't have to be predicated on lying ("Yes, I really will pluck his eyes out if he doesn't give us the information we need.") Though again, its not likely to matter anyhow since its unlikely you'll have a good intimidate check.
But yes, most of the vows are not worth it imo. Even the Vow of Silence while, not necessarily hard to pull off, would (again in my opinion) get boring fairly quick.
ETA: I would also concur in the use of the Drunken Monk archetype to get more ki in addition to what everyone else has stated.
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Another way to increase your ki pool is having decent cha and dip one lvl of cleric for channel energy, then use a bronse gong to convert channel enery to ki points.
You have to worship Irori for the Bronze Gong. Also, CHA is pretty much the go-to dump stat for monks. Monks are already the MADest of the MAD classes, trying to fit in CHA as well for Channel Energy is really not worth it.
Qinngong monk can also get you ki leech.
However, the ring of ki mastery is by far the best option.
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This may be a silly question, but if I use the Ki Leech ability, the person I am taking it from obviously has to have Ki to take, correct?
Negative. Just land a finishing blow or critical confirmation on any subject and you take 1 ki point... likely their lifeforce itself is all in that one ki, or it's 1 ki that everyone has and only few know how to harness and expand that ki.
That's how I see it. The part in italics is RAW.
The enemy does not need to have ki.