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Hey Everyone! I've hopped into a Gestalt campaign recently, starting at level 1, and I just wanted advice on what to best combine with the Unchained Monk! He will likely be a weaponized Monk for the most part and rarely use unarmed strikes. The plan is to utilize Snake Style(or whatever) + Ascetic Style + Weapon Style Mastery to aid in this. So the rules we have to stick to, we pick one class and that'll be the class that stays pure, then for the second part of gestalt, we can combine whatever classes we like along the way. We rolled our stats, and I got two 18s and a 17, followed by a 13, 7, and 3... which worked out great for the Monk. Any race is OK, but I ended up going with Kasathas for the extra defense, and having four arms to hold stuff is convenient.
That being said, what should I do with my gestalt levels?
Originally I thought about UMonk/Druid(8+ and Shaping Focus) primarily for Strong Jaw access, Wild Shape into an Elemental Form(Earth or Air), and the ability to use armor and it not counting as actual armor mostly to get the AC and the Brawling enchant. Unfortunately that whole armor thing is out the window since now you do count as wearing armor while wild shaped(if you actually have some on), which screws up my Monk pretty badly. There's a whole "Wild Armor" thread somewhere on it too..
Maybe a spiritualist with the ectoplasmatist archetype; it doesn't offer much at first level but from 3rd it's a wis-based magus with a weird spell list and from 4th it gets reach, can wield weapons (including monk weapons) with the lashes and gets an armor bonus which isn't armor.
Alternately consider empyreal sorcerer. No action economy advantage this time but it's full casting from a good spell list, one which I prefer using to the cleric's.
Finally, an inquisitor gets a variety of swift-action buffs direct from the class, good skills, and some spells.