Alright ladies and gents,
I was curious because I get curious from time to time. If you could cherry pick class features from not just the Monk but all of the Monk Archeypes (All Paizo ones at least) which features would you pick?
Lets build a monk out of this Cherry Picking. You can take any piece out of any monk archetype and place it into the spot of the original monk or keep a feature of the original monk if you would like.
For example adding in Slow Time from MoFW but also taking Punishing Kick from HGM.
Flurry, sohei's weapon training and ability to use light armor in a flurry (might give up any of the uses/level/day stuff for that sweet boost to initiative), MoMS's style stuff, and maybe the hungry ghosts ki and hp stealing stuff (for good measure). Plus the qinggong natural armor thing if it is an unarmed build.
I particularly like the sohei stuff, since it just has more item slots (armor, and it doesn't use its hand slot for bracers of armor), so it can get some stuff that just boosts attack by a lot. Gloves of dueling to boost weapon training by +2, and brawling armor to boost unarmed strikes by another +2 for unarmed builds. With the sohei's own +3, this just makes the sohei comparable to regular full BAB classes...with perfect saves, good skills, and SLAs that can do things like shoot lasars...