Vital strike is less useful for an archer especially a Zen Archer. Past 3rd level there is almost no reason not to flurry with the bow every round. Since all you add is the dice of the bow not all the other bonuses you actually are better off not using vital strike. Also the extra damage does not multiple on a critical hit. Even at 15th level your surprise round damage is only an extra 2d8 which is not worth burning two feats.
I am assuming you have a teammate that is also going to be taking outflank. It is after all a teamwork feat and you only get the benefit if the other person also has the feat. Flanking is also a melee only condition. Since you can still use unarmed attacks to threaten you do qualify. You may want to check with your DM whether he is going to allow you to use a bow for the attack of opportunity since you are not flanking with the bow. You are probably ok, but it would be a shame to get to the point of your build and it not work.
You also don’t have clustered shot. Being able to add all your damage together and only apply damage resistance once instead of per shot is a very useful.
Spending two feats to once in a while get an average of an extra 9 points of damage at 15th level is not a good investment. Shot on the run is a better feat for when you have to move. It would allow you to better position yourself when you do need to move.
Also pinpoint targeting cannot be used if you move at all. That means not even a 5 foot step. It's only real use is to hit something that you can't hit any other way.
What is your DEX? Unless you have a high DEX which most Zen Archers don’t you will only be able to get off two attacks of opportunity. Also even with improved critical your chance of actually getting a critical with a bow is fairly low. It looks good on paper, but you may be disappointed in how works in an actual game.
For the second build take a look at coordinated shot. Since you can flank yourself you qualify for the +2 to hit. This may not seem like much but each bonus to hit really increases your damage especially at that level with that many attacks.
You may want to look into a combat style. Many of them don’t say you have to be using unarmed strikes.
at level 6 you have improved precise. You see their toe you are golden. You do not need to move.
I do not get toughness. You are in the back with a bow. You are meant to be far from combat that 1 hp a level is minor.
Are you building this as a 20th level monk to start with or will you be starting at lower level? If you are starting at lower level than swap combat reflexes and defensive combat training around. At low levels the difference is not that much, but an extra attack is always valuable. Even before you can make attack of opportunities with a bow you can always kick when they provoke.
You may even want to drop defensive combat training altogether and take lightning reflexes. As a Zen Archer you don’t have evasion so will be taking damage from area of effect attacks. The extra on the reflex save is probably more valuable.
If you don’t have another person taking teamwork feats you may also want to delay those until latter. Stunning Fist would be more helpful if you don’t have a partner. Once you have dimensional savant that is no longer an issue.
Also use the adaptive enchantment on your bow instead of a STR rating. This will allow you to use the bow without penalty no matter what your strength is. As it stands if you were to lose a single point of strength you would take a penalty on all your attacks. This will also allow you to take advantage of any strength you may gain from other sources.
Even with the extra damage from KI arrow he is better off using flurry. The 11th level trick shot allows him to hit anything as long as long arrows can find a path to the target. They can even be fired around corners or through a rear window while the Zen archer is in the front of the building. At 20th level the vital strike would do 6d10+ whatever bonus (Probably at least 25) he has, or he can get 7 attacks doing 1d8+ whatever bonus he has on all 7 attacks. Assuming a 25 bonus on damage this works out to be about 58 HP for a vital strike. With Trick shot chances are at least the first four shots will hit so each shot will do 29.5 points of damage, for a total of 118 points of damage. If all 7 hit that is over 200 points of damage.
If you are starting from lower level use the retraining rules for your feats. This way you can get the feats that will be useful early and then latter change them to something else when you get the bonus feats.
By 20th level hitting with the first shot is usually not a problem. Also ignoring armor does not mean they are easier to stun.
Also you may be better of using prefect strike instead of stunning fist. As a Zen Archer you don’t get the other effects from stunning blow so all you can do is stun for a round. Rolling three times to hit and taking the highest for the shot makes it much more likely to critical especially if you have improved critical. This gives you bout a 27% threat chance vs 10%. It also means you will almost never miss. 15% of the time you will hit regardless of what the AC is. Since the bow has a x3 critical multiplier this is particularly deadly.
I understand the thinking behind vital strike, but in his case it is better to full attack. He is a Zen Archer so his maximum range is normally 1100 feet away and can be extended to 1600 feet. As I said with trick shot he can fire on something as long as it there is not a solid barrier between him and his target. So he can be across a football field from the target that is in a building with only a single window in the back of the building facing away from him and still be able to get a full attack. I cannot think of a situation where he would be better off making a single attack instead of full attacking. If he is so far away that he does not have a chance to hit his best tactic is to run up instead of taking any attack. If he is worried about distance than far shot is a much better feat than vital strike. Taking -10 to hit on all attacks instead of -20 on a single attacks is a lot better than getting extra damage any day. Trick shot last for the full round so if he is using it he can still get a full attack. He also has improved precise shot so ignores anything less the full concealment or full cover anyways.
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Also, you cannot combine Pinpoint Targeting and Vital Strike.
You can target the weak points in your opponent's armor.
Prerequisites: Dex 19, Improved Precise Shot, Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, base attack bonus +16.
Benefit: As a standard action, make a single ranged attack. The target does not gain any armor, natural armor, or shield bonuses to its Armor Class. You do not gain the benefit of this feat if you move this round.
You make a single attack that deals significantly more damage than normal.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can make one attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional damage. Roll the weapon's damage dice for the attack twice and add the results together before adding bonuses from Strength, weapon abilities (such as flaming), precision based damage, and other damage bonuses. These extra weapon damage dice are not multiplied on a critical hit, but are added to the total.
Pinpoint Targeting is a standard action that allows you to make an attack. It's not an attack action. You cannot combine the feats.
I cannot think of a situation where he would be better off making a single attack instead of full attacking.How about this: The ground you are standing on is ABOUT TO EXPLODE. If you stay there, you will explode with it.
Luckily, safety is only 40 feet away!
This is a situation I can think of where you would want to move and attack instead of full attacking
You realize the character has Dimensional Dervish so can actually teleport up to twice his movement and still get a full attack. If you have read some of his posts he is even planning on being able to flank with himself. So about the only reason he would have to not use a full attack is if he does not have the Ki to use abundant step.
Even if there are reasons to only take a single attack they are going to be rare and very circumstantial . They are not going to come up often enough to justify taking 2 feats.
That is a hungry ghost monk that drains ki. They both alter stunning fist, and thus would not mix.
There is a problem with outflank. The bonus to hit from flanking is melee only so it gives you no bonus to hit. You may still get the attack of opportunity because you still can flank using an unarmed attack, but your GM may only allow it to be with the unarmed attack.
Flanking
When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by another enemy character or creature on its opposite border or opposite corner.
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Outflank
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +4.Benefit: Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.
Dimentional Savant
Prerequisites: Dimensional Agility, Dimensional Assault, Dimensional Dervish, ability to use the abundant step class feature or cast dimension door, base attack bonus +9.Benefit: While using the Dimensional Dervish feat, you provide flanking from all squares you attack from. Flanking starts from the moment you make an attack until the start of your next turn. You can effectively flank with yourself and with multiple allies when using this feat.
So... i would need to just be in melee range for it to work. i could flank with myself, threaten at 5 ft for AoO, and also get an AoO with every crit I make.
No, you can't because you are not making melee attacks. Flanking does nothing for ranged attacks. If you use dimensional dervish to make melee attacks then you will get the out flank bonus. But then why are playing a zen archer?
As a Zen Archer he is still technically flanking because he has improved unarmed strike. Obviously he does not get the flanking bonus to hit. The second bonus from the feat is that whenever you score a critical hit vs. the flanked creature it provokes an attack or opportunity from your ally. Since he is his own ally he gets the attack of opportunity. This is probably a GM call but that is what he is going for.
Also if he takes the feat coordinated shot he would actually get a bonus to hit. He would also get the extra bonus to for flanking the target that coordinated attack provides. I could also see if he has both feats that he gets the bonus from outflank as well.
All of this is of course subject to GM's call.
You also seem to be missing deadly aim. That is one that you really do need.
I would probably stick with a pure Zen Archer. While you are flurrying you are at full BAB, you also have a lot of abilities that are based on monk level, stunning fist, perfect strike, abundant step just to name a few. You will also be giving up empty body which is actually pretty good. Also you can trade out perfect self for another Quinggong power. There are also a lot of small bonues you would give up including AC saves, Ki points, extra movement and so forth. Also if you are playing this character from the ground up you do not want to dip until very late.
With Empty Body you may not even need gaseous form. If you picked up whirlwind attack and lunge you should be able to combine them after 17th level. This would allow you to make a single attack on all targets within 10 feet of you at your highest bonus. Against a tough opponent it may not be that good, but when you need to clear out a bunch of minions it may get the job done.
Also you need to factor in a huge amount of arrows. You will probably be getting between 7-15 attacks per round so you are going to go through arrows like they are not there. You may want to consider the endless ammunition enchantment for your bow. You will at least want to get a efficient quiver. The bracers of falcon are normally a good items but in your cased there are actually only so many good bonus feats so saving a feat is not as important as the bonus to hit and damage.
The inquisitor levels are not really going to worth that much. If you were going to go up to 5th level of inquisitor than it may be worth it, but that would be giving up a lot of things
He is not going to be using unarmed damage that often and the AC bonus is only +1. Monk’s robe is not going to be worth it. But he would lose +1 save, +1 to hit, Empty Body, and either perfect self, or another Quinggong power.
Judgements will be once a day and only a minor bonus so not much gained there. He will get some spells but the caster level is going to make them very weak. He will gain 4 skill points and some class skills.
He will get a bonus to identify monsters, but will not be able to use it. You can only make knowledge check untrained if the DC is 10 or lower. To make this worth anything he is going to have to invest a lot of points or a feat, over wise the DC is going to be too high for anything worth using it on.
The bonus on saves for the protection domain is only going to be +1. The granted power is based on the class level not character level. This means that the bonus is the same as if he stayed pure monk.
Initiative is not that important unless there is something you need to get started. For a rogue or spell caster it is more valuable. After the first round it really does not matter that much.
Personally I would give up Defensive Combat Training. With all your bonuses to AC your CMD will be through the roof anyway. Add your monk mobility and the fact that you'll typically be a long way from combat, and it really is a waste of a feat.
As a GM I would also not allow you to Outflank with yourself. The feat requires you and an ally. There must be two people, so definitely check with your GM.