Hello People of the Forums,
I am worried I have poured a lot of effort into a build and idea, but I am concerned I have focused perhaps a little to much on Melee Damage and AC bonuses.
The race of the character is a Kasatha, an alien on a foreign world is always kind of fun to play.
My character is a gestalt build of a Monk and Barbarian. Monk is a Martial Artist and Barbarian is a 3pp Archetype known as the Serene Barbarian.
Serene replaces rage, and acts like a Zen or Combat Trance that allows you to add a +4 Dex and Wis instead of the Str and Con of a normal Rager.
Now as you can guess for a Monk thats a godsend right there.
Wis and Dex is a 20 so +5 to each of those plus the +2 Dodge bonus means at level 1 I have a AC of 22 (Touch AC mind you) that while in serenity goes to 26.
Now we use 3.5 material so long as we can provide were the stuff comes from and its from a book the DM agrees to use. So for example Spirit Lion Totem Barbarian replacement of Fast Movement to allow for Pounce.
As my first level feat I took Multiweapon fighting which according to James Jacob allows me to drop the penalty of using the four arms to a -2 for his main and three ofhands. He confirmed Kasatha use 4 arms and get four attacks.
Well with four arms and four attacks a turn I can honestly say damage output is not an issue for this monk build. As I took two flaws (Shaky and Murky-eyed) to gain Weapon Finesse, and Deadly Agility for his unarmed strikes (Deadly Agility is from Dreamscarred Press's PoW books)
So at level 1 I currently have three feats, Multiweapon fighting, Weapon Finesse, and Deadly Agility. Not including bonus feats like Improved Unarmed Strike and Stunning Fist.
So when Serenity is activated he gains a +2 bonus to hit and damage. Currently he has a 1d6+5 with Serenity this is a 1d6+7. But even with the +5 I can throw four punches as a full attack at level 1.
Am I focusing to much on Damage output and Defensive AC and not yet enough to skills and other abilities and aspects he might have open to him. (I do not want to gimp him)
For the Purpose of this argument assume perfect score of all 18s because at this point it is still theorycrafting as I have yet to use him In Character yet. And I may or may not have a banked score or blackmail on the DM (Kidding)
This seems like it's good old 3.5 broken.
It can be. In fact the only thing this character uses of 3.5 is Flaws and the Pounce from Barbarian ACF.
I guess if you're already playing gestalt it's fine, I would just hope that the rest of the people in the party are on a similar level of being generally scary. What does deadly agility do?
Deadly Agility allows you used Dex in place of Str for weapons that can be finessed via weapon finesse.