@@darkwin1977 I get so irritated by people who make it out like, hur dur you're a pseudo immortal, no monks are like Ooguay or Shifu from Kung Fu Panda, age doesn't hamper you but you can still die due to old age.
Instakill anything that is no longer a threat as you are level 17 now and pretty much every threat is a dragon or undead have "auto" success on con saves with advantage/LR/average +11 (or literal auto success if using ported over monster 3.5 rules) AND with resist if not immunity or heal from necrotic damage.
@@ANDELE3025 ...quivering palm when you succeed the save deals like 100 damage. "When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 3 ki points to start these imperceptible vibrations, which last for a number of days equal to your monk level. The vibrations are harmless unless you use your action to end them. To do so, you and the target must be on the same plane of existence. When you use this action, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, it is reduced to 0 hit points. If it succeeds, it takes 10d10 necrotic damage." So like, you can make someone roll 10d10, lets see this is level 17 so you have 17 ki points combine each hit with stun and flurry you can make a target roll to not die, roll to not be stunnedx4 and if they dont die deal (10d10)x4 necrotic damage all in your first turn against them- and then be useless. oh and you can also Wait to trigger it until someone on your team makes them have worse con saves.(though I dont know what spells or abilities can cause that)
@@thaynes9799 What do you mean it takes and action to force the save? It doesn't, you can literally use all attacks (2 attacks + 2 furry of blows attacks) and make stun on every one of them if you have enough ki points and you hit the AC
@@kamilidczak1583 No. The person meant that you have to sacrifice your possible four attacks on a turn to use your action to make the tremors stop and thus make them make the save. Why else would they bring up the 10d10 requieing an action? Later on, any boss you are fighting is most likely going to succeed that save. 10d10 is still pretty wicked for an action though.
Cat: Oh its just my human being overly dramatic again. Sheesh can't have any peace and quiet in this house. I'm going to lay down on his hands when he is online again and refuse to move.
My first game consisted of all monk party that acted like power rangers. I joined them mid campaign, so in story I was just some street urchin that held pretty well in a brawl against two other homeless kids. They decided to adopt my character and train him as their successor. Good times.
@@briansanders8122 Some, yeah. We had two monks of the same subclass. Two remaining monks had different subclasses, and I also had a different subclass. So there was only 5 of us (I was the fifth player) There was a sixth monk (technically the first considering they had a role of the red ranger), they were an NPC and a major character in the 1-3 level prologue campaign that I never witnessed (I joined in the mids of the second campaign). That monk NPC died at the beginning of the second campaign, and near the end of the story we did fight his reanimated corpse. He did almost TPK us, knocked 3 out of 5 players including me, I was the second to go down, and only because the first player to go down only had 1/4 of the health XD. Two remaining players had to fall back to a room with a bottomless pit in it, and an old bridge running through it (it was a temple to an ancient abyss god who's name was long forgotten, there was a LOT of homebrew in that game). Player 1 and player 3 could not beat the reanimated corpse of their old friend, so player 3 tackled the undead monk off the bridge, and they both fell into the bottomless pit never to be seen again. That did cost us our victory over the BBEG, they completed the ritual that would awake the ancient evil 1000 years in the future. We ended up continuing playing in that world, we had to move to gurps due to it being set in modern times now, 1999 specifically. (It was like a spin on YIIK but with cthulhu) The last campaign we did took place 160 years after the events of the 1999 campaign, trying to figure out why the world collapsed. Anyway, sorry about the long comment, I guess I got overexcited. XD Have a nice day you all. :)
One of my friends is playing an awakened koala rogue and actually has an ability that gives her advantage on attacks from above on unsuspecting targets. She's used it once and instantly knocked out a couple of goblins.
@@QuanTrietLOL you don't suffer the fragility of old age, although that isn't mechanically described. You don't get old and weak, although that's more of a flavor bonus then a mechanical one.
Litch: I've studied magic to learn a rutual that let's me cast away my humanity to gain immortality! lvl 17 Drunken master monk: I just got drunk and punched people untill i stopped ageing! (also according to the rules, alcohol counts as poison, so Drunken Masters can't get drunk)
That settles it, one of my next characters is gonna be a True Neutral monk that was studying to become a Necromancer because he wanted to live forever and found out that monks get the same thing without constantly being hunted by adventurers.
@@sannogaming4766 Well any monk can use weapons. It’s just Kensei gets more options. Short swords, daggers, and quarterstaff (and some others maybe). Those r all monk weapons. In fact using a quarterstaff is actually good for u for quite some time cause u can do a d8 worth of dmg instead of doing a d4 starting out. And dagger gives u a range weapon. And they all go up in dmg as well so that dagger will go up as your martial dmg goes up. The only problem is that unless your a kensei only your fists become magical automatically. But still don’t say non kensei monks don’t use weapon or shouldn’t. It some ways it’s good to (as for reasons I just talked about). And yea I know this is a little old but meh.
Dragon: Are you gonna do that Stunning Strike thing where you hit me over and over again until I'm stunned? My party's Dark Hadou Monk who gets extra flurry of blows by spending Hit points: *Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!*
I'm disappointed that you called out Way of the Drunkard for being Jackie Chan, but not Way of the Sun Soul for being Goku. But I appreciate that you acknowledge the OP possibilities of the monk.
@cak01vej The fact that you say bullshit like this makes me think that you've never actually read, journey to the west. Sun Wu Kong Has rarely ever shot lasers or engrey blasts beofore(except out of his eyes at times, but still does not one of his prominent abilities)His proficient abilitys includes proficiency is with a staff weapon, Incredibly high strength, eyes that can see through disguises, being low key invulnerable and the ability to transform and duplicates himself(he also becomes god at the end of the book, but only at the very end, so it doesn't really matter)
Having also taught D&D to small children I can see where you're coming from on the "monks don't need equipment" front. The way most my players figured out their AC with armor is that I would figure it out for them and I had to walk them through the damage for at least a couple different weapons. If you'd never played the game at all a level 1 monk is probably as simple as it gets.
@@horserage I wouldn't even say the power is lacking. They don't HAVE to use the 1d4 monk die except for unarmed attacks. They can use a quarterstaff as a monk weapon and deal 1d8, plus their bonus action unarmed attacks. Then they get some cool utility class features and some absolutely broken class features (looking at you Stunning Strike and Empty Body) And then they get a subclass, which are all good in their own right.* *Except for Way of the Four Elements. Doesn't live up to the fantasy, far worse than every other subclass. Homebrew that crap. Start by reducing most of the abilities ki cost by one, and then give them more than four abilities. I'd double it. Maybe also give them an elemental cantrip. And probably expand the list of options by literally adapting most of the spells from Elemental Evil. If they want to be spend 10 ki points to cast Investiture of Wind, I'm not going to stop them.
As someone whose first DnD character was a Monk I can confirm that I chose monk, among many other reasons, because of how simple and straight forward it is Btw I was a tiefling monk who went with the way of the shadow
@@kylepessell1350 I have a character that's exactly that. Hits CAN be calculated with STR instead of DEX, and if you go FIRST barbarian, you can calculate your AC with unarmored defense and get the hitdice of that class. So you can get by with a STR monk.
@@Shouziroku you can calculate AC with either Wis or con with monk/barbarian regardless of which one you pick first. You just can't use both at the same time. Edit: fixed error
@@kylepessell1350 I really like going level 3 barbarian for bear totem to get half damage from all the things and extra rage damage, and then 17th level monk for quivering palm instant death ability.
@@futuza I mean that's good but Empty Body is stronger in my opinion. It gives you Greater Invisibility, doesn't require being hit or hitting so you have more combat options, and you only lose resistance to Force. Not to mention the ability to use Astral Projection has a lot of utility.
oh man if they think stunning four enemies at once at the cost of all your ki (the resource fueling nearly all limited-use monk activities) is insane wait until they hear about a 3rd level wizard casting web once to restrain as many or more enemies and possibly for multiple rounds and for the cost of one 2nd level spell slot
Exaaactly. People out there complaining that the monk has broken abilities while completely ignoring things like warlocks and wizards which have basically the same abilities but aren't limited by having a ridiculously small number of ki points.
ranma1/2 : whipper-snappers, all of you. now get rid of the hot water. (all anime jokes aside, monk actually did come from the pop-culture, it was based on a book series called "the destroyer"about secret mystical martial artists and were featured in the 80's movie "remo williams:the adventure begins")
“Hey remember that Jackie Chan movie? Yeah let’s make that a fucking class” Little does Jacob know that’s literally the reason Gary Gygax made the class
@Aidan Hall he didn't said it took 1 turn. Quivering palm costs 1 ki point, so the monk could have been just spamming that shit until they ran out of legendary resistances.
I don't really think you should be shunned. I personally think that playing human is boring in a world where you can be a kobold or elf or whether, but that's just my own opinion. Play what you want.
@@wellingtoncamargo7329 no longer am a monk. My character died and my DM offered to bring him back somehow but I was honestly bored so I swapped over to paladin, and that class is pretty nuts
Tucker Collins wait a minute, can you? Astral Projection allows you to leave your body behind and travel the Astral Plane, so if your mind entered a color pool then would your Astral form travel through the material plane?
Inquisitor Thomas If you go through a portal / colored pool on the astral plane, your physical body travels along the silver cord and rejoins your astral body in your destination
As someone who's first DND experience was with playing monk, yeah, I agree. It'ss super nice for a new player to not have to worry about organizing crap and weapons. It's nice to instead of working around a million weapons and different things and just say; "I'm finna deck this nerd!" Simple isn't bad, it means there are options for people who'd rather worry about some other stuff like roleplay or just slowly learning more about the game. Also Pathfindermonkisabetterandmorebalancedmonk fight meeeeee!!!
@@gotenksta I watched a 1 shot where the monk used stunning strike on an [undead?] dragon. Spending 1 Ki to burn it's legendary actions, allowing the rest of the group to get their big spells and abilities in without being roadblocked. That is seriously worth the trade of Ki points. 3 Ki points to allow the group the opportunities to get THEIR stuff off, is powerful.
YEEEEEES he was a homebrew race a half giant named lemme gedistrat and he was 13 feet tall so he couldn't reach down far enough to punch anyone but when he did kick he would use his quartersatff which in this case was just a large tree branch and use it like a broomstick and shew people away like they were rats
Since my monks use spears and quarter staves (1d8 versatile damage by using it two handed), kicking is the most logical way to use a unarmed strike while having both hands occupied. I also include shoulders, elbows, knees and headbutts for more options.
4:45 - compressed air can fucking kill you before you even hit the floor. When you deal with testing high-pressure valves and components, water and hydraulic oil failures will just get you a little wet/dirty and no one cares about major safety precautions; air will punch a hole clean through your skull (and give you a pulmonary embolism for good measure) and you won't see an air test stand that isn't behind cinder blocks and bulletproof glass. Still not as bad as high-pressure/high-temperature steam that will instantaneously boil everyone in the room alive (read up on the USS Iwo Jima [LPH-2] where they had a catastrophic steam valve failure that killed 10 people almost instantly), but still lethal af.
I think it may have been too much for his mind to take. Invisibility AND astral projection as BASE abilities? Sidenote, timeless body doesn't actually prevent ageing, it just makes you immune to it's drawbacks and you can't be magically aged, as well as no longer needing food or drink.
One of best monk abilities IMO. 4 ki points + 1 action to become invisible and resistant to all damage (except force) for 1 minute. So you have advantage on all attacks and other people have disadvantage on attack against you. Your invisibility can't be ended by ANY means, even falling unconscious. Any fight should probably consist of running around lighting fast, invisible to all attackers, bopping people to your hearts content. Faerie fire is the only way to get you, but with Dex proficiency, the ability to reroll failed saves, and the likelihood that any caster within a five mile radius is about to get BOPPED, it's probably not going to stick.
As a Gm I balance rogue by punishing anyone unfortunate enough to roll a nat 1 in something they have reliable talent in and/or expertise. I also house rule that crits cannot be effected by the lucky feat. As a rogue you get reliable talent and expertise. I hate Marry Sues and I believe that a game with no stakes is no fun so I have to make a way for there to be stakes in a game with all classes I don’t ban (I’ve only banned Mystic).
@@xavierspirit1811 I would have a serious problem with nat 1s not activating reliable talent. Nat 1s suck. They are not fun for players. I do them very differently at the best of times, usually requiring a saving throw instead of something bad automatically happening. I also almost always give other members of the party a chance to react.
7:37 You could stun on all those attacks at level 5, at which point you have no Ki left for the entire fight. Meanwhile the Wizard uses one of their many 2nd level spell slots to use *Hold Person* to paralyze your opponents for multiple turns.
I think you are sweeping several things under the rug here. 1) the wizard could only use hold person max 5 times a day. the monk is the same so they are equal in number of uses. (Wiz does get more if they use 3rd lvl slots, but that is a lot of slots and turns) 2) the monk deals 1d6 + Dex on each of those attacks. The wizard deals no damage. 3) if the target makes the first save: the wizard is out a spell slot and a Action; leaving them to try to make up for it IF they have a bonus action they can use. The monk still has 3 attacks left (which is 3 more chances to stun + 3d6 + 3*Dex) 4) while the wizard can hold it up to 6turns, the opponent gets a save at the end of their turn, each round. The monk’s lasts until the monk’s next turn. That is a full round of advantage for the allies. If it is the first strike, boom, 3 attacks with advantage. I mean yeah the wiz has a wide variety of uses but the monk has the advantage in the combat scenario (not so much a peaceful one)
What about Hypnotic pattern? Just mass stun all of the minions, take them out one by one and the effect doesn't even end at the end of their turn or after a saving throw, it only ends if they take damage or if someone uses their action.
@@mdcarroll1105 what you're missing too though is that even so... Hold person is pretty much regarded as a meh spell for spellcasters cause there's better spells to be flinging around... ever heard of Fear, hypnotic pattern, fireball, invisibility, FLY and others? Like really you're comparing your most current powerful ability at level 5 to something the spellcaster has been able to do for 2 levels and better because all hits within 5 feet ARE CRITS... And they can do a lot of different stuff too depending on the sotuation.
i think the pass without trace is even cooler, add +10 to your roll.. which cant be less than 10... plus your skill mod that should be around +17, so a minimun of 37
I'll go you one better. In a campaign I'm in one of our players is a level 11 Drow with 8 levels of Shadow Monk, 3 levels of Sorcerer. Because fuck *everything*.
I think the "fighters are easier than monks" idea comes from earlier editions, where monks had a huge set of skills that all had to be rolled for separately, whereas literally all fighters could to was hit things.
My friend did the math, and if you play an Astral Self Monk 17/Samurai Fighter 3, you can get up to 9 attacks in a turn, all with advantage. They'd be radiant or necrotic damage and one of the attacks is 2d10. With max wisdom, it'll end up 10d10+50 damage.
@@jmclaughlin2009 couldn't you get 14 attacks (6 with astral body +1 from the samurais turn advantage into another attack ability, + another 6 with action surge + 1 from samurai again)
In 3.5 I made a ranger who could make 7 attacks with 15/20 crit range (dual wielding rappers with all of the feats for it). It caused a decrease to the attack bonus, but it was worth it. It was only like a -4 which I used weapon finesse I think to make it just my base attack+masterwork because my dex was 18
@@millo1095 Jacob doesn't do unearthed arcana because he doesn't want to cover unofficial content that'll almost definitely change later or be removed.
@@DWargs yeah I agree with you at the end of the day it's a collaborative game, just saying it's a crazy feature that I'm surprised xp to 3 skipped over. Could've done some funny gags
@@DWargs Yeah, but now you can split the party (you and everyone else) without that pesky wizard's assistance! Who wants to get charity spell handouts from that nerd? Not the monk.
I don't think stunning strike is all that OP. I mean... if you are level 5 and wants to use 5 ki points to have 4 attacks and every attack having a chance of stunning, alright. But you now have no more ki points and you still have to keep going on the current fight and any other you have before resting. Sure it's great to stun lock that boss monster but it's still very resource heavy. It's a bit more OP on later levels but monsters should also be able to make those saves more often, so a level 15 monk can try it a lot more but won't necessarily get that many successes.
The problem with stunning strike is that you can do it for EVERYONE of your attacks. While yes if you only got it on the fourth try you’ve used 4 ki for 1 stun, but you can also get it on your first try. In which case you’ve used 1 ki to stop your opponent from having a turn and in 5e where turn economy is the most important thing you start to see why this ability is broken. But don’t get me wrong, this ability in no way make the monk OP, In fact this is one of the monks only good ability’s and it would cripple the monk if you nerfed it
@@thomasshepherd8909 There is a way to balance this, the dm only has to, not roll the con save instantly or not tell you whether the save was successful or not, that way if you want to almost guarantee the stun you have to spend all your ki, or you have to just hope, because technically your character wouldn’t know whether the stunning strike had worked anyway until the opponent tried to move.
*also me being a Four Elements monk who spams cantrips when I'm out of ki. Helps that we don't have slots so we can cast 2nd level spells easy. That extra d8 onna shocking grasp be clutch
Actually, drunken fist is kung fu is an ACTUAL kind of kung fu is an ACTUAL fighting style that ACTUAL people ACTUALLY fought with to make their attacks unpredictable.
Monk almost never comes up for optimized OP builds and stuff but I honestly think Monk is one of the best single classes in the game along with bard and druid.
Definitely one of the classes that is best at self sustainment. In combat it has many features that keep it alive, and out of combat you start shunning things most people consider necessary for living while also being able to communicate wherever you are for the things you still need.
Just an Average Dragon Maybe go bladesinger if u have enough intelligence and u could slap your intelligence on their as well when your in your bladesong. Idk if it works but it’s not considered unarmored defense so I think it does. And if u do u could also get shield as a spell which last for the whole round and not just for 1 attack (and u can do it when u know the enemy hits u and not sure if u can do that with defensive duelist). U could also pick up absorb elements for when the enemy tries to hit u with some things that aren’t attack rolls.
@@Mare_Man it depends on if it is considered another way to calculate ac or a bonus to AC. Considering unarmored defense for barbarian and monk don't stack, bladesinging likely doesn't stack either. Most things absorb elements will block are dex saves and you already have evasion and expertise in all saving throws at high levels. If you're really worried about getting hit use you ki points to dodge as a bonus action and don't bother with shield. If you're going to take a dip at all do 2 levels of warlock for hex and invocations because hex + flurry of blows does a shit ton of damage.
Me: I’ll play monk My DM: hold on just a second y’all can’t play him. (Seriously though why tf can’t I play monk because he is too “op” I think the monk is overrated which makes me not able to play him in my sessions)
yea this is the kind of stuff that makes me dislike videos like these, which portray a class as wildly different than it is, be it overpowered or underpowered. Monks have to compete in the "martial" category with fighters, barbarians, and paladins primarily. Compared to those, they offer higher mobility and crowd control, lower equipment reliance, and weirder durability like Deflect Missiles and Slow Fall, but they lose out on sheer durability (Hit points, AC) and majorly on damage after low levels, due to an inability to use Great Weapon Master. If you compare them to the Rogue, they're less useful out of combat due to a lack of expertise, but more durable in combat and trade Sneak Attack's lackluster DPR capabilities for Stunning Fist's lock-down potential. So they're sort of a hybrid between a frontline martial and a backline skill monkey. Open Hand makes them more frontline-y while shadow makes them more utility-y, and 4Elements throws a bit of caster in there because why not? They are in no way overpowered unless your party is frequently denied, stripped of, or never given adequate equipment.
Why should you ever ban a martial if casters are a thing? I'd understand if your dm had a problem with wall of force, force cage, wish, simulacrum, leomunds tiny hut, polymorph, animate dead, counterspell, shield, mirror image, true polymorph or animate objects or something but banning a martial class? Doesn't make sense to me.
@@timothye.2902 This video... portrays monks.... as being easier than fighters.... if you actually look at all the other XP to level 3 how to play videos, they are all hyperbolic in one way or another and you need to tell the exaggerations apart from his actual thoughts. In this video the only thing you can get out of it is that monks are easier than fighters.
Same lol, was thinking of a new campaign and because of the other members in the new party, members in another party, and what I was currently using and planning to use in the other party the only options I felt were barbarian and monk and I felt like slapping things many times
Stunning strike sounds busted until you look at any spell caster and see they can achieve the same or practically the same affect from a distance and targeting better saving throws
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Every fantasy character is a monk. Every bender in Avatar- Monk Most anime characters; dbz, etc- monks There are just so many fictional characters that you can't quite place and then they're just a monk with a home brew subclass
Sorry I have to disagree on the stunning strike bit. You can only stunning strike on melee weapon attacks as per the wording at 6:59. Meaning your monk has to attack using a weapon. Flurry of blows is strictly two unarmed strikes, so no weapon is being used. So you can only really try to stun 2 times a round.
Not really. Because you also have to manage resistances, rage damage, managing the aspects that stop you from raging and all that. Barbarian is easy but there are some elements that a new player would struggle with.
@@palikia3233 I disagree, there isn't really anything to manage there. For 90% of the time, the common barbarian will rage for the whole time of every encounter, so you can just note on your character sheet that you have resistance to people hitting you and a +2 to damage (the DM will tell you in half a year that the +2 is now a +3). Your rage ending early also only occures in the very rare circumstance, that you did neither receive nor deal damage for a whole round. The only exception to this is, when you are saving up your Rages for the later encounters in a long dungeon, in which case you should come prepares anyway (aka. at least take the time to read your class description)
From a functionality perspective, Monks are very similar to Barbarians. Both use melee attacks and do not use range attacks. Both are lightly armored or wear no armor. OK, not exactly the same, but very similar, none the less.
Yeah you're right they're incredibly similar. Unarmored defense and movement, being anime as shit, melee, extra attack, never dying, going into the astral pl... wait.
Thank you so much for this! I'm going to play my second game ever today and I made a monk a few days ago... My first character is a drunk barbarian dwarf and I was nervous playing something else... But glad I seem to be able to play a drunk halfling monk after this. Love your humor too! :)
Eamonn Ryan what are you talking about obviously the mystic is the easiest class it’s only a 25 page packet that’s nothing compared to how complex the barbarian is. I mean look at it, he has to keep track of his rage rounds and his lucky d12 and I think you’ll find that’s a lot more complex than the mystic.
As someone playing a monk for the first time on my second ever game i habe to say its been really easy (thanks to my teammates and DM) I was a druid the first time and it was....alot lol now im a monk and I love it! Story: last week I had the last hit on our BB and I missed two of my three hits BUT my hit was a CRIT and I rolled max on mt damage! Took him down and won the battle! My proudest moment so far lol
Dirty Diamond Yea, sad he didn’t talk about it. I really want to play as a long death monk cause they look really good (the 11th lv ability mastery of death is fucking broken lol). I was gonna play one in a campaign but the dm doesn’t have swords coast so I wasn’t able to (so I had to pick the only other one that looked interesting to me and that was kensei).
Dirty Diamond I said it was the only other one that looked interesting to me, I didn’t say wether it may or may not be good. It’s just what looked fun to me. No reason to be rude, like can’t we all just get along?
Dirty Diamond Also the Kensei monk I feel is the easiest to multiclass out of (which I always do), especially at the lower lvs. I mean I went a lv into rogue and I’m only lv 4 (I mean I can use a raiper which will do more dmg then my fists, especially with sneak attack). I will be going swashbuckler for my rogue subclass. I like the Kensei but I honestly don’t care if it’s good or not.
It's probably the best ability for saving throws, with only the paladin's Aura of Protection being comparable. The paladin's aura stacks with the proficiencies you already have, and you can get it earlier, but you don't get the rerolls. Of course, you can also get both, but I'm not sure what I'd do with a paladin 6/monk 14, and I'd feel like it was more than a little MAD, needing DEX, WIS, and CHA to be fully effective.
Greywander I have tried hard to fogure out this build and it is challening. You need at least 13 STR, CHA and 13 DEX, WIS to multiclass - you will have to sacrifice CON and INT unless you rolled golden stats. While the monk levels will let you otherwise dump STR, the whole point of the multiclass is defeated if you dont have a high CHA. Also, you are taking one of those abilities as a capstone, so you can only enjoy it for a little while if you ever get there
@@44tuck3r Yeah, exactly. This is a common problem with a lot of multiclass builds: they don't come together fully until you're already high level, or even 20th level. On paper they look great, but in practice you're going to be spending a lot of time playing a subpar character, and the campaign might end before you even reach the requisite level. I've looked into some homebrew options that do allow for builds like this, such as gestalt characters. It certainly opens up a lot more options when you can get more than 20 class levels, but it's hard to balance properly, and having _too_ many abilities can be a bad thing, too.
Greywander Oh absolutely Something like a druid with tons of wildshapes for different situations, in addition to having access to the full druid spell list. Monks also have a ton of features but I think these give you options for many situations.
Just for note, legally/RAW on death saves, adding bonuses doesnt matter because it specifically asks for the rolled value not save result. As such you could stack +10 to death saves via pally, prot items and monk, yet you still get death save fails on 12-19 and 2 on a 11 save result. Not that that matters since prof in all saves is already 2.5~ish feats worth of value with save reroll being 1 level more worth ontop.
This is funny because i was literally joining a new game and was gonna try out the Monk class Edit: That cat at 5:10 looked at him like "What is wrong with dis hooman? Okay I walk away now."
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you do age, you dont suffer negative effect from ageing
Didn't you forget the empty body feature?
he did
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@@darkwin1977 I get so irritated by people who make it out like, hur dur you're a pseudo immortal, no monks are like Ooguay or Shifu from Kung Fu Panda, age doesn't hamper you but you can still die due to old age.
Quivering Palm - You instakill anything for 3 ki.
That's a thing.
Instakill anything that is no longer a threat as you are level 17 now and pretty much every threat is a dragon or undead have "auto" success on con saves with advantage/LR/average +11 (or literal auto success if using ported over monster 3.5 rules) AND with resist if not immunity or heal from necrotic damage.
@@ANDELE3025 ...quivering palm when you succeed the save deals like 100 damage.
"When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 3 ki points to start these imperceptible vibrations, which last for a number of days equal to your monk level. The vibrations are harmless unless you use your action to end them. To do so, you and the target must be on the same plane of existence. When you use this action, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, it is reduced to 0 hit points. If it succeeds, it takes 10d10 necrotic damage."
So like, you can make someone roll 10d10, lets see this is level 17 so you have 17 ki points
combine each hit with stun and flurry you can make a target roll to not die, roll to not be stunnedx4
and if they dont die deal (10d10)x4 necrotic damage
all in your first turn against them- and then be useless.
oh and you can also Wait to trigger it until someone on your team makes them have worse con saves.(though I dont know what spells or abilities can cause that)
@@thaynes9799 What do you mean it takes and action to force the save? It doesn't, you can literally use all attacks (2 attacks + 2 furry of blows attacks) and make stun on every one of them if you have enough ki points and you hit the AC
@@kamilidczak1583 dont forget u also spend the ki to activate the effect after hitting and legendary resistance can be burned by ur stunning strike
@@kamilidczak1583 No. The person meant that you have to sacrifice your possible four attacks on a turn to use your action to make the tremors stop and thus make them make the save. Why else would they bring up the 10d10 requieing an action? Later on, any boss you are fighting is most likely going to succeed that save. 10d10 is still pretty wicked for an action though.
My current campaign is literally just our DM throwing Monks at us because of the storyline and we've almost been TPK'd like four times
Are you really playing d&d if you haven't almost been tpk'd a thousand times
@@drpepperbidet and someone had sex with a dragon. Thats an essential
@@AmogusEpic dont forget our favorite edge lord
Don’t forget insta killing the end boss and revealing plot twists in the start of the Story
@@vilgot9570 also dont forget that one new player who made their character wrong so they don't have a stat below 15
Jacob: monk is so easy
Everyone else: no fighter is easy
Barbarian: *Angry Anger Noises*
MMM YES THE FLOOR HERE IS MADE OUT OF FLOOR.
i prefer shooting lightning out of my chest
(thanks zee)
Rouge: *Staby Staby Noises*
bro
monk-fighter-barbarian
I am a fan of angry anger noises
I love how confused the cat was while Logan was dying, yet it still refused to leave, because it's not the first time that's happened.
I was looking for this comment. My cat would be under the bed for a week if I did something like this! ahha
I wonder what a cat expert would say, they way it's tail was up and it mewed.... poor kitty I hope it has a good life
Cat: Oh its just my human being overly dramatic again. Sheesh can't have any peace and quiet in this house. I'm going to lay down on his hands when he is online again and refuse to move.
My first game consisted of all monk party that acted like power rangers.
I joined them mid campaign, so in story I was just some street urchin that held pretty well in a brawl against two other homeless kids.
They decided to adopt my character and train him as their successor.
Good times.
So you joined partway through. So green ranger
And THAT is how a good party welcomes a new player into the fold.
So you were the Sixth Ranger?
Were they all different subclasses at least?
@@briansanders8122
Some, yeah.
We had two monks of the same subclass.
Two remaining monks had different subclasses, and I also had a different subclass.
So there was only 5 of us (I was the fifth player)
There was a sixth monk (technically the first considering they had a role of the red ranger), they were an NPC and a major character in the 1-3 level prologue campaign that I never witnessed (I joined in the mids of the second campaign).
That monk NPC died at the beginning of the second campaign, and near the end of the story we did fight his reanimated corpse.
He did almost TPK us, knocked 3 out of 5 players including me, I was the second to go down, and only because the first player to go down only had 1/4 of the health XD.
Two remaining players had to fall back to a room with a bottomless pit in it, and an old bridge running through it (it was a temple to an ancient abyss god who's name was long forgotten, there was a LOT of homebrew in that game).
Player 1 and player 3 could not beat the reanimated corpse of their old friend, so player 3 tackled the undead monk off the bridge, and they both fell into the bottomless pit never to be seen again.
That did cost us our victory over the BBEG, they completed the ritual that would awake the ancient evil 1000 years in the future.
We ended up continuing playing in that world, we had to move to gurps due to it being set in modern times now, 1999 specifically.
(It was like a spin on YIIK but with cthulhu)
The last campaign we did took place 160 years after the events of the 1999 campaign, trying to figure out why the world collapsed.
Anyway, sorry about the long comment, I guess I got overexcited. XD
Have a nice day you all. :)
@@gen2763Sir Thomas Oliver
Ah, the monk. The melee version of the warlock, running around and spamming one move over and over
Melee warlock for the bants
@@tobythenpc7040 the undertaker 0_0
Isn’t that all melee classes tho? Fighters and barbs have one spell (attack)
Don't all martial classes spam ''I attack with my weapon''?
Warlocks can do things other than Eldritch blast?
My friends: "And you, what class do you serve?"
Me: "What am I supposed to say, Jesus?"
Jesus is a Cleric. One of the domains that grants martial weapons, because he is proficient with whips.
Toa Tahu LoL but clerics can’t walk on water
@@Retrovorious Yes they can. Better and earlier than Monks. Third level spell: Water Walk.
@@toatahu2003 Honestly, I think Redemption Paladin fits the theme of Jesus far better for obvious reasons.
@@toatahu2003 Um, Divine Soul Sorcerer?
We have a bugbear monk. Since 4th level, he likes climbing on cliffs and rocks and jump on enemies from above. Yes, we have a dropbear.
Ah I was a bugbear monk/Druid it was really fun
Does he scream PEOPLE'S ELBOW when dropping on them?
VAMOS LUCHA
One of my friends is playing an awakened koala rogue and actually has an ability that gives her advantage on attacks from above on unsuspecting targets. She's used it once and instantly knocked out a couple of goblins.
Gnome Monk that fights like Yoda in Attack of the Clones.
"Hey remember that Jackie Chan movie?" is even better after the Way of the Ascendant Dragon UA.
Drunken master is a way better movie
That one is like martial arts sorcerer
@@WillToNihilsm to years
@@WillToNihilsm Jackie Chan's Chinese stage name translates to something about dragons.
@@blackfang0815 in that case it also refers to Bruce Lee, whose stage is "Little Dragon"
“You don’t age”
*Me, a flying Aasimar who only lives >100 years*
“Look who’s the true immortal now elves!”
"however you can still die of old age" rip
Aarekokra monk who still dies at age 30 :(
That must be the biggest case of "WHAT'S UP, BITCHES?!" I have ever seen.
@@teamrockets01 Whattttt!!! Then what's the fkin point
@@QuanTrietLOL you don't suffer the fragility of old age, although that isn't mechanically described. You don't get old and weak, although that's more of a flavor bonus then a mechanical one.
9:49 Level 10 means that Drunken Master Monks can't get drunk since alcohol is a poison.
Where's the fun in that?
Technically the Technique is about looking like your Drunk than Being drunk, The Drinking adds to that Illusion.
@@tanith117 So you can drink insane amounts still be sober but people will never doubt you are drunk.
No, it just means they can't get alcohol poisoning. Intoxication isn't a result of poisoning.
@@troodon1096 In*toxic*ation.
You forgot to mention that, if you are a weeb, you can scream ora ora ora when doing the furry of blows
or , if you're an oldschool weeb, you can say you're dishing out Dempsey Rolls left and right
@@brunop.8745 if you're an older weeb you can scream ata ata ata ata ata.
Caedes bee especially with the new subclass released. STANDO POWA!!!
Did you know they just added a new sub class that is BASICALLY just a stand user, it is called Way of the Astral Self.
I just love video games One second has passed.
Monks look more complicated if you just glance at their phb entry. But in practice, they're a breeze to play.
I agree, but I love the flavor that is apart of the class
Yeah that's what I thought when I frist saw this was oh shit is complicated. Then I played it then realising oh this is easy
Fair enough
Step one: be a god
@@gus6481 step 2: ????????
Litch: I've studied magic to learn a rutual that let's me cast away my humanity to gain immortality!
lvl 17 Drunken master monk: I just got drunk and punched people untill i stopped ageing!
(also according to the rules, alcohol counts as poison, so Drunken Masters can't get drunk)
They don't drink they just base their fighting on looking drunk.
That settles it, one of my next characters is gonna be a True Neutral monk that was studying to become a Necromancer because he wanted to live forever and found out that monks get the same thing without constantly being hunted by adventurers.
To clarify, monks still die of old age. They just don't suffer the effects of being old.
@SykoLiu im gonna pretend I didn’t hear that
I used the drunk to destroy the drunk.
“Way of the open hand” is the English translation of Karate. It basically means it doesn’t use weapons. (Like the rest of the sub classes)
Well, like the rest of the subclasses other than kensei
Technotoadnotafrog i posted this before I knew about Xanathar. I know now
I would translate it as empty hands.
@@sannogaming4766 Well any monk can use weapons. It’s just Kensei gets more options. Short swords, daggers, and quarterstaff (and some others maybe). Those r all monk weapons. In fact using a quarterstaff is actually good for u for quite some time cause u can do a d8 worth of dmg instead of doing a d4 starting out. And dagger gives u a range weapon. And they all go up in dmg as well so that dagger will go up as your martial dmg goes up. The only problem is that unless your a kensei only your fists become magical automatically. But still don’t say non kensei monks don’t use weapon or shouldn’t. It some ways it’s good to (as for reasons I just talked about).
And yea I know this is a little old but meh.
I think about Hinata from Naruto
Astral self: it it become official Jacob Is gonna freak
Yeehaw! time to put the nani in shenanigans.
JOJO!
When you can quite literally become a stand user
When you realise if you have haste and multiclass with fighter you can get 12 attacks for the first turn doing 13d10+132 damage
@@lukeplays9209 *ORA* *ORA* *INTENSIFIES*
Dragon: Are you gonna do that Stunning Strike thing where you hit me over and over again until I'm stunned?
My party's Dark Hadou Monk who gets extra flurry of blows by spending Hit points: *Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!*
Then, you run out of ki.
Oh God. That's disgusting. Where can I find this?
Is that a jojo reference
a random furry Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
I feel like everyone ignores that legendary resistances exist.
I'm disappointed that you called out Way of the Drunkard for being Jackie Chan, but not Way of the Sun Soul for being Goku. But I appreciate that you acknowledge the OP possibilities of the monk.
Way of the Sun Soul isn't Goku, it's Ryu from Street Fighter
@@anakinligman3715 this
@cak01vej The fact that you say bullshit like this makes me think that you've never actually read, journey to the west. Sun Wu Kong Has rarely ever shot lasers or engrey blasts beofore(except out of his eyes at times, but still does not one of his prominent abilities)His proficient abilitys includes proficiency is with a staff weapon, Incredibly high strength, eyes that can see through disguises, being low key invulnerable and the ability to transform and duplicates himself(he also becomes god at the end of the book, but only at the very end, so it doesn't really matter)
Best thing about sun soul is you can power daitarn 3.
@cak01vej w0t? Sun Soul is completely different from Sun Wukong. Where's the 72 transformations, Ruyi Jingubang, Golden Eyes, immortality, etc.
Having also taught D&D to small children I can see where you're coming from on the "monks don't need equipment" front. The way most my players figured out their AC with armor is that I would figure it out for them and I had to walk them through the damage for at least a couple different weapons. If you'd never played the game at all a level 1 monk is probably as simple as it gets.
Monk is easy for people who aren't children and can understand how to fucking read the book.
But the power being lacking, is annoying.
@@horserage While that is true, monks are also the only class at lvl 1 to be able to attack twice.
@@horserage I wouldn't even say the power is lacking. They don't HAVE to use the 1d4 monk die except for unarmed attacks. They can use a quarterstaff as a monk weapon and deal 1d8, plus their bonus action unarmed attacks.
Then they get some cool utility class features and some absolutely broken class features (looking at you Stunning Strike and Empty Body)
And then they get a subclass, which are all good in their own right.*
*Except for Way of the Four Elements. Doesn't live up to the fantasy, far worse than every other subclass. Homebrew that crap. Start by reducing most of the abilities ki cost by one, and then give them more than four abilities. I'd double it. Maybe also give them an elemental cantrip. And probably expand the list of options by literally adapting most of the spells from Elemental Evil. If they want to be spend 10 ki points to cast Investiture of Wind, I'm not going to stop them.
As someone whose first DnD character was a Monk I can confirm that I chose monk, among many other reasons, because of how simple and straight forward it is
Btw I was a tiefling monk who went with the way of the shadow
oh no, that's just seeing cat eyes in shadows but the cats are demons
I have a teifling monk too!
i chose monk because jojo
@@jewmin7810 you must be way of the astral self
I love way of shadow but my friends hate me because I can teleport and turn invisible.
Jacob the monk has taken a level in barbarian in order to harness the rage from people thinking monk isn't the easiest class.
Barbarian Monk is a pretty strong option. *Wink*
@@kylepessell1350 I have a character that's exactly that. Hits CAN be calculated with STR instead of DEX, and if you go FIRST barbarian, you can calculate your AC with unarmored defense and get the hitdice of that class. So you can get by with a STR monk.
@@Shouziroku you can calculate AC with either Wis or con with monk/barbarian regardless of which one you pick first. You just can't use both at the same time.
Edit: fixed error
@@kylepessell1350 I really like going level 3 barbarian for bear totem to get half damage from all the things and extra rage damage, and then 17th level monk for quivering palm instant death ability.
@@futuza I mean that's good but Empty Body is stronger in my opinion. It gives you Greater Invisibility, doesn't require being hit or hitting so you have more combat options, and you only lose resistance to Force. Not to mention the ability to use Astral Projection has a lot of utility.
How to play Monk: Fist things, fist everything, just keep fisting. You only enjoy fisting.
Help the bard fist the dragon
;)
Way of the Fisting
Giggity
AND THEN YOU STICK YOUR FOOT INTO IT
I love how at 5:05 the cat walks in and then is just like "oh, this shit again. Whatever"
I`ll just wait here until he stops flailing then carry on with my day.
The cat knows it can take on a level 1 commoner so it can take it easy.
oh man if they think stunning four enemies at once at the cost of all your ki (the resource fueling nearly all limited-use monk activities) is insane wait until they hear about a 3rd level wizard casting web once to restrain as many or more enemies and possibly for multiple rounds and for the cost of one 2nd level spell slot
Exaaactly. People out there complaining that the monk has broken abilities while completely ignoring things like warlocks and wizards which have basically the same abilities but aren't limited by having a ridiculously small number of ki points.
0:03 "the one punch man but with alot of punches"
Star platinum:||Am I a joke to you||
Go back to Reddit you cringe normie
@@lykos2327 sick burn bro. I barely use reddit
I like meme. Take like, my friend.
ranma1/2 : whipper-snappers, all of you. now get rid of the hot water. (all anime jokes aside, monk actually did come from the pop-culture, it was based on a book series called "the destroyer"about secret mystical martial artists and were featured in the 80's movie "remo williams:the adventure begins")
Boy do I have the UA for you my friend. It’s called way of the astral self
“Hey remember that Jackie Chan movie? Yeah let’s make that a fucking class”
Little does Jacob know that’s literally the reason Gary Gygax made the class
We once had a monk use quivering palm to kill not one, not two, but three demon lords instantly
Good times
*make a save or fucking die*
Did I mention that it can be done >4 times ensuring at least 40d10 necrotic while eating all the resistances?
I became an abyssal lord summoner in one of my friends old campaigns.
Cant you only do it to one creature at a time?
@@johnsmith-np2fj yup, but it doesn't say u cant stack it on the same creature :>
@Aidan Hall he didn't said it took 1 turn. Quivering palm costs 1 ki point, so the monk could have been just spamming that shit until they ran out of legendary resistances.
Fighter is harder to play then Monk because you're shunned if you pick human.
#Bringbackhumanfighters
Just play a goblin fighter and become a derpy roughed using the goblins racial abilities to disengage and hide as a bonus action
I don't really think you should be shunned. I personally think that playing human is boring in a world where you can be a kobold or elf or whether, but that's just my own opinion. Play what you want.
Man, one of my favorite characters was a human fighter. People need ta let people have fun
@@DHTheAlaskan I find it interesting to be what is effectively a "normal" in a strange and interesting land.
I literally started my FIRST EVER campaign about 7 hours ago and we just finished a little bit ago. This new world is fucking awesome
How's the campaign going, pal? Are you a monk?
@@wellingtoncamargo7329 no longer am a monk. My character died and my DM offered to bring him back somehow but I was honestly bored so I swapped over to paladin, and that class is pretty nuts
Im on my first campaign, 10 hours omce a week, for the last 3 months, and weve barely put a dent in the dms story line. This is fuckin amazing!
Your paladin still kicking it?
"Before that, we have a sponsor."
Me: "Lemme guess, Raid Shadow Legends?"
"It's... World Anvil"
I’ve waited for so long, thank you JACOB. Keep up the great work
Edit: also looking forward to what I assume is a tease for a How to Play Cleric
rants 12 min. on how broken is the monk
Cleric: laughs in OP
You just kinda.. missed an ability. 18th level they can become invisible and project themselves into another plane.
Ashley! A plane with portals to all the other planes
Also, becoming invisible gives you resistance to ALL DAMAGE
...Except force
@@aionicthunder Oh yeah thats a huge part too. Its such a strong ability that solo's one v ones
Tucker Collins wait a minute, can you? Astral Projection allows you to leave your body behind and travel the Astral Plane, so if your mind entered a color pool then would your Astral form travel through the material plane?
Inquisitor Thomas
If you go through a portal / colored pool on the astral plane, your physical body travels along the silver cord and rejoins your astral body in your destination
I can only think of the neighbors saying "Theres that guy again walking out with that same book."
5:12 I love that the cat checked Logan out to see if he really died and if he could eat him. Cats are so wholesome
As someone who's first DND experience was with playing monk, yeah, I agree. It'ss super nice for a new player to not have to worry about organizing crap and weapons. It's nice to instead of working around a million weapons and different things and just say; "I'm finna deck this nerd!" Simple isn't bad, it means there are options for people who'd rather worry about some other stuff like roleplay or just slowly learning more about the game. Also Pathfindermonkisabetterandmorebalancedmonk fight meeeeee!!!
Rouge: you can’t defeat me
Warlock: I know , but he can
Monk shows up and stunning strikes the rouge a million times
Why would a monk fight make up?
They'd be doing the Colonel Armstrong and Meatshop guy manly handshake cause now that the monk stunned someone, all the sneak attacks
Didn‘t know that Mista linkes DnD
Wait when did Rouge the bat become a dnd character?
@@ultraatari9298 The meatshop guy was Sig Curtis btw. Husband of Ed and Als teacher, Izumi Curtis.
How to play Monk
Step one, use all your ki points on stunning strike
Step two, watch it never work and be sad
DC 14-15 which is what the dc usually is after level 5 isn't THAT easy to beat so in my games usually the monk gets it off pretty frequently.
i played an open hand monk that never stuns.. and it works perfectly
@@bezretmet
Except your DM throws you only creatures with a bazillion Con Save and Legendary actions.
@@gotenksta I watched a 1 shot where the monk used stunning strike on an [undead?] dragon. Spending 1 Ki to burn it's legendary actions, allowing the rest of the group to get their big spells and abilities in without being roadblocked. That is seriously worth the trade of Ki points. 3 Ki points to allow the group the opportunities to get THEIR stuff off, is powerful.
I played monk until 30th level (epic level supplement) and from 1st level to 30, I could count the amount of times my stun worked on my fingers.
Does anyone else play monks that kick instead of punch
Not entirely kicks, but yes
YEEEEEES he was a homebrew race a half giant named lemme gedistrat and he was 13 feet tall so he couldn't reach down far enough to punch anyone but when he did kick he would use his quartersatff which in this case was just a large tree branch and use it like a broomstick and shew people away like they were rats
Since my monks use spears and quarter staves (1d8 versatile damage by using it two handed), kicking is the most logical way to use a unarmed strike while having both hands occupied.
I also include shoulders, elbows, knees and headbutts for more options.
The Doomslayer whenever you play monks I hope you get plenty of glory kills
Gnome monk, headbutts
That cat just trying to chill and you having a seizure 5:08
4:45 - compressed air can fucking kill you before you even hit the floor. When you deal with testing high-pressure valves and components, water and hydraulic oil failures will just get you a little wet/dirty and no one cares about major safety precautions; air will punch a hole clean through your skull (and give you a pulmonary embolism for good measure) and you won't see an air test stand that isn't behind cinder blocks and bulletproof glass. Still not as bad as high-pressure/high-temperature steam that will instantaneously boil everyone in the room alive (read up on the USS Iwo Jima [LPH-2] where they had a catastrophic steam valve failure that killed 10 people almost instantly), but still lethal af.
Did I miss something or did he forget the Empty Body (Lv18) feature?
I think it may have been too much for his mind to take. Invisibility AND astral projection as BASE abilities?
Sidenote, timeless body doesn't actually prevent ageing, it just makes you immune to it's drawbacks and you can't be magically aged, as well as no longer needing food or drink.
One of best monk abilities IMO. 4 ki points + 1 action to become invisible and resistant to all damage (except force) for 1 minute. So you have advantage on all attacks and other people have disadvantage on attack against you. Your invisibility can't be ended by ANY means, even falling unconscious. Any fight should probably consist of running around lighting fast, invisible to all attackers, bopping people to your hearts content.
Faerie fire is the only way to get you, but with Dex proficiency, the ability to reroll failed saves, and the likelihood that any caster within a five mile radius is about to get BOPPED, it's probably not going to stick.
@@MrJethroha oh most certainly. I like it, I was just cracking a joke on it being too much for Jacob lol.
@@LordOfBagels117 It's not even invisibility. It's GREATER invisibility and no concentration on top of that
Antimagic field or truesight might beat it, but are pretty rare
Jacob: Monk of the easiest
Everyone: fighter is easy
Me: what about rogue
It's not easy cause everything will try to kill you even more than before
As a Gm I balance rogue by punishing anyone unfortunate enough to roll a nat 1 in something they have reliable talent in and/or expertise. I also house rule that crits cannot be effected by the lucky feat. As a rogue you get reliable talent and expertise. I hate Marry Sues and I believe that a game with no stakes is no fun so I have to make a way for there to be stakes in a game with all classes I don’t ban (I’ve only banned Mystic).
@@xavierspirit1811 I would have a serious problem with nat 1s not activating reliable talent. Nat 1s suck. They are not fun for players. I do them very differently at the best of times, usually requiring a saving throw instead of something bad automatically happening. I also almost always give other members of the party a chance to react.
saltypork101, then you’d have a serious problem with me (or most of my friends) as gms. That’s fine. Luckily we won’t but heads over it in real life.
@@xavierspirit1811 Not really a problem with you is it. It's a problem with your game. But you can make it personal if you want.
7:37 You could stun on all those attacks at level 5, at which point you have no Ki left for the entire fight. Meanwhile the Wizard uses one of their many 2nd level spell slots to use *Hold Person* to paralyze your opponents for multiple turns.
I think you are sweeping several things under the rug here.
1) the wizard could only use hold person max 5 times a day. the monk is the same so they are equal in number of uses. (Wiz does get more if they use 3rd lvl slots, but that is a lot of slots and turns)
2) the monk deals 1d6 + Dex on each of those attacks. The wizard deals no damage.
3) if the target makes the first save: the wizard is out a spell slot and a Action; leaving them to try to make up for it IF they have a bonus action they can use. The monk still has 3 attacks left (which is 3 more chances to stun + 3d6 + 3*Dex)
4) while the wizard can hold it up to 6turns, the opponent gets a save at the end of their turn, each round. The monk’s lasts until the monk’s next turn. That is a full round of advantage for the allies. If it is the first strike, boom, 3 attacks with advantage. I mean yeah the wiz has a wide variety of uses but the monk has the advantage in the combat scenario (not so much a peaceful one)
stunning blow isn't a bonus action. Never mind I was wrong.
You don’t play against many monster campaigns, do you?
What about Hypnotic pattern? Just mass stun all of the minions, take them out one by one and the effect doesn't even end at the end of their turn or after a saving throw, it only ends if they take damage or if someone uses their action.
@@mdcarroll1105 what you're missing too though is that even so... Hold person is pretty much regarded as a meh spell for spellcasters cause there's better spells to be flinging around... ever heard of Fear, hypnotic pattern, fireball, invisibility, FLY and others? Like really you're comparing your most current powerful ability at level 5 to something the spellcaster has been able to do for 2 levels and better because all hits within 5 feet ARE CRITS... And they can do a lot of different stuff too depending on the sotuation.
5:14 That cat's like "What are these weirdos doing? Eh typical day" 😸
You have to love that confused cat at 5:06.
The new monk UA makes you a stand user and it’s great
Spagandhi it’s more like a susanoo tho
100 type guanyin bodhisattva
Ewafingmyth Cannotbebotheredtotell quiet, naruto fanboy. Let me use GER in peace
Chaotic Neutral rogue used to be the universal red flag, now there's a new one
Not the One Punch Man, but the 「MANY PUNCH MAN」
Also new UA Monk subclass gives you a 「STAND」
Gold experience
You should multiclass into sorcerer tp have the "stand abilities "
They could already use hamon and now you're telling me they have stands?
Ora ora ora
Hey wanna hear something gross
Multi class 14 rouge 6 shadow monk who can teleport between shadows and make them
Neat
12 level assassin rogue 6 level shadow monk and warlock 2 to see in the darkness you make.
Wild soul barbarian and druid. Enjoy your not dying.
i think the pass without trace is even cooler, add +10 to your roll.. which cant be less than 10... plus your skill mod that should be around +17, so a minimun of 37
I'll go you one better. In a campaign I'm in one of our players is a level 11 Drow with 8 levels of Shadow Monk, 3 levels of Sorcerer. Because fuck *everything*.
I think the "fighters are easier than monks" idea comes from earlier editions, where monks had a huge set of skills that all had to be rolled for separately, whereas literally all fighters could to was hit things.
Never thought I'd be inspired to start a character based on the phrase "fleshy nubs", but here we are.
Astral self,,, it's JoJo. It's beautiful. It's op. It gets more attacks at lvl 17 than a fighter at lvl 20.
Cameron Scott and it just gets free magic armor. which is sick
My friend did the math, and if you play an Astral Self Monk 17/Samurai Fighter 3, you can get up to 9 attacks in a turn, all with advantage. They'd be radiant or necrotic damage and one of the attacks is 2d10. With max wisdom, it'll end up 10d10+50 damage.
@@jmclaughlin2009 couldn't you get 14 attacks (6 with astral body +1 from the samurais turn advantage into another attack ability, + another 6 with action surge + 1 from samurai again)
In 3.5 I made a ranger who could make 7 attacks with 15/20 crit range (dual wielding rappers with all of the feats for it). It caused a decrease to the attack bonus, but it was worth it. It was only like a -4 which I used weapon finesse I think to make it just my base attack+masterwork because my dex was 18
@@puppybork3054 honestly any dnd build that starts with "in 3.5" is always fucking hellish
Hate to be “that guy” Jacob... but there is a Monk Subclass you forgot: Way of Long Death from the Sword Coast Adventurer Guide.
Also empty body...Great video though!
Necromonk!
Also the newest unearthed Arcana monk subclass way of Mercy which basically is Zenyatta from overwatch with healing and poisoning
@@millo1095 Jacob doesn't do unearthed arcana because he doesn't want to cover unofficial content that'll almost definitely change later or be removed.
Meh it's fine. Long death is simple anyway. :P
... just wait until realizes he missed Empty Body... invisibility and 9th level spell astral projection.
@@DWargs yeah I agree with you at the end of the day it's a collaborative game, just saying it's a crazy feature that I'm surprised xp to 3 skipped over. Could've done some funny gags
@@DWargs Yeah, but now you can split the party (you and everyone else) without that pesky wizard's assistance! Who wants to get charity spell handouts from that nerd? Not the monk.
@@futuza in the words of Martin Luther King fuck that nerd.
5:14 such a adorable cat with compassion and worries
Okay but can we talk about how “diamond soul is an AWESOME name for a band?
I don't think stunning strike is all that OP. I mean... if you are level 5 and wants to use 5 ki points to have 4 attacks and every attack having a chance of stunning, alright. But you now have no more ki points and you still have to keep going on the current fight and any other you have before resting.
Sure it's great to stun lock that boss monster but it's still very resource heavy. It's a bit more OP on later levels but monsters should also be able to make those saves more often, so a level 15 monk can try it a lot more but won't necessarily get that many successes.
The problem with stunning strike is that you can do it for EVERYONE of your attacks. While yes if you only got it on the fourth try you’ve used 4 ki for 1 stun, but you can also get it on your first try. In which case you’ve used 1 ki to stop your opponent from having a turn and in 5e where turn economy is the most important thing you start to see why this ability is broken.
But don’t get me wrong, this ability in no way make the monk OP, In fact this is one of the monks only good ability’s and it would cripple the monk if you nerfed it
@@thomasshepherd8909 everyone of your attacks? And? You are still burning for an only okay duration for an alright condition.
@@thomasshepherd8909 There is a way to balance this, the dm only has to, not roll the con save instantly or not tell you whether the save was successful or not, that way if you want to almost guarantee the stun you have to spend all your ki, or you have to just hope, because technically your character wouldn’t know whether the stunning strike had worked anyway until the opponent tried to move.
@@horserage one round stunned is huuuuuge especially for a boss
*also me being a Four Elements monk who spams cantrips when I'm out of ki.
Helps that we don't have slots so we can cast 2nd level spells easy. That extra d8 onna shocking grasp be clutch
Actually, drunken fist is kung fu is an ACTUAL kind of kung fu is an ACTUAL fighting style that ACTUAL people ACTUALLY fought with to make their attacks unpredictable.
@Zaktot1357 ACTUALLY yes you do
*ACTUALLY unpredictable*
"Actual"
Monk almost never comes up for optimized OP builds and stuff but I honestly think Monk is one of the best single classes in the game along with bard and druid.
Definitely one of the classes that is best at self sustainment. In combat it has many features that keep it alive, and out of combat you start shunning things most people consider necessary for living while also being able to communicate wherever you are for the things you still need.
A Kensei monk with maxed Dex and Wis and Defensive Duelist can get 28 AC on reaction
Just an Average Dragon Maybe go bladesinger if u have enough intelligence and u could slap your intelligence on their as well when your in your bladesong. Idk if it works but it’s not considered unarmored defense so I think it does. And if u do u could also get shield as a spell which last for the whole round and not just for 1 attack (and u can do it when u know the enemy hits u and not sure if u can do that with defensive duelist). U could also pick up absorb elements for when the enemy tries to hit u with some things that aren’t attack rolls.
@@davidstratton696 I don't think Bladesong meshes with Unarmored Defense, but I could be wrong.
@@Mare_Man it depends on if it is considered another way to calculate ac or a bonus to AC. Considering unarmored defense for barbarian and monk don't stack, bladesinging likely doesn't stack either. Most things absorb elements will block are dex saves and you already have evasion and expertise in all saving throws at high levels. If you're really worried about getting hit use you ki points to dodge as a bonus action and don't bother with shield. If you're going to take a dip at all do 2 levels of warlock for hex and invocations because hex + flurry of blows does a shit ton of damage.
5:15 the cat just walking in on whatever the fuck is going on is hilarious
I love how enthusiastic this one was. Like, legitimately. It was a very enjoyable watch.
I like monks how they have a pool of points, and how they fully optimize their turn with actions and bonus actions
The kitten was cute.
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I don't normally comment, but I wanted to say that. Also, your ending was vv nice.
How could I not like this ?
Agreed
5:00 dem cat was really bamboozled, he is litteraly the most realistic reaction anyone could have of dnd drama
Me: I’ll play monk
My DM: hold on just a second y’all can’t play him.
(Seriously though why tf can’t I play monk because he is too “op” I think the monk is overrated which makes me not able to play him in my sessions)
yea this is the kind of stuff that makes me dislike videos like these, which portray a class as wildly different than it is, be it overpowered or underpowered.
Monks have to compete in the "martial" category with fighters, barbarians, and paladins primarily. Compared to those, they offer higher mobility and crowd control, lower equipment reliance, and weirder durability like Deflect Missiles and Slow Fall, but they lose out on sheer durability (Hit points, AC) and majorly on damage after low levels, due to an inability to use Great Weapon Master.
If you compare them to the Rogue, they're less useful out of combat due to a lack of expertise, but more durable in combat and trade Sneak Attack's lackluster DPR capabilities for Stunning Fist's lock-down potential.
So they're sort of a hybrid between a frontline martial and a backline skill monkey. Open Hand makes them more frontline-y while shadow makes them more utility-y, and 4Elements throws a bit of caster in there because why not?
They are in no way overpowered unless your party is frequently denied, stripped of, or never given adequate equipment.
Your DM is shitty :/
Why should you ever ban a martial if casters are a thing? I'd understand if your dm had a problem with wall of force, force cage, wish, simulacrum, leomunds tiny hut, polymorph, animate dead, counterspell, shield, mirror image, true polymorph or animate objects or something but banning a martial class? Doesn't make sense to me.
@@timothye.2902 You can beat monks mobility, quite easily with horse spells, and crowd control with, cc spells.
@@timothye.2902 This video... portrays monks.... as being easier than fighters.... if you actually look at all the other XP to level 3 how to play videos, they are all hyperbolic in one way or another and you need to tell the exaggerations apart from his actual thoughts. In this video the only thing you can get out of it is that monks are easier than fighters.
lol jacob here telling me that monk should be EVEN WORSE like come on man, let them have their stunning strike
"More like the many punch man."
Please, his name is Kenshiro.
I mean,yes; Normal Series: but Consecutive Normal Punches is also a thing
Damn im going to play monk in our new campaign, best timing ever
Same lol, was thinking of a new campaign and because of the other members in the new party, members in another party, and what I was currently using and planning to use in the other party the only options I felt were barbarian and monk and I felt like slapping things many times
Lol same I'm playing an acrobat girl
Playtested it last sunday, 41 damage in one turn at level 5 XD
@@majikkarp177 at level 1 my monk covered her hands in holy water and punched the shit out of ghosts
There's still time! Quick, create a new character! You can still be saved!
The video with enough passive-aggressive energy to power up the Sun
"Evasion is the Hip-Hop Zip-Zop 'I can dodge a fireball' with the hoo-hah WHEEEE!"
Stunning strike sounds busted until you look at any spell caster and see they can achieve the same or practically the same affect from a distance and targeting better saving throws
"Evasion is the hip hop zip zop I can dodge a fireball with a hoo ha weee" Is probably my new favourite sentence
So basically I'm Monk-y.
Also, what happened to EMPTY BODY TURN INVISIBLE AMD HAVE RESOSTANCE TO ALL DAMAGE BUT FORCE FOR 1 min
Hey Tucker
Dude!!! Ever since you started this series I’ve been waiting for the cleric! And he’s finally going to show!!!
Same here
world anvil: it works. My first campaign finally ended since I'm so organized with information now.
not sponsored, just an opinion based on experience.
YES THE CLERIC IS COMING NEXT Hahahahahaha i have been waiting for this for YEARS
The song that plays when he's dying is called Memories of Mother and is from the God of War (2018) ost, awfully fitting too
PLEASE make a joke about the Cleric not taking healing spells to revive Jacob xD
Every fantasy character is a monk.
Every bender in Avatar- Monk
Most anime characters; dbz, etc- monks
There are just so many fictional characters that you can't quite place and then they're just a monk with a home brew subclass
Sorry I have to disagree on the stunning strike bit. You can only stunning strike on melee weapon attacks as per the wording at 6:59. Meaning your monk has to attack using a weapon. Flurry of blows is strictly two unarmed strikes, so no weapon is being used. So you can only really try to stun 2 times a round.
Isn't barbarian the easiest class to play? you only need to manage rage.
Not really. Because you also have to manage resistances, rage damage, managing the aspects that stop you from raging and all that. Barbarian is easy but there are some elements that a new player would struggle with.
@@palikia3233 I disagree, there isn't really anything to manage there. For 90% of the time, the common barbarian will rage for the whole time of every encounter, so you can just note on your character sheet that you have resistance to people hitting you and a +2 to damage (the DM will tell you in half a year that the +2 is now a +3). Your rage ending early also only occures in the very rare circumstance, that you did neither receive nor deal damage for a whole round.
The only exception to this is, when you are saving up your Rages for the later encounters in a long dungeon, in which case you should come prepares anyway (aka. at least take the time to read your class description)
From a functionality perspective, Monks are very similar to Barbarians. Both use melee attacks and do not use range attacks. Both are lightly armored or wear no armor. OK, not exactly the same, but very similar, none the less.
Yeah you're right they're incredibly similar. Unarmored defense and movement, being anime as shit, melee, extra attack, never dying, going into the astral pl... wait.
7:31 The part with the spinning monk attacking the dragon killed me. 😂😂😂
I Love how at 5:08 the cat in the background is like
“What the hell is he doing”
“Oh shoot, he’s dead...
Anyways”
Thank you so much for this! I'm going to play my second game ever today and I made a monk a few days ago... My first character is a drunk barbarian dwarf and I was nervous playing something else... But glad I seem to be able to play a drunk halfling monk after this. Love your humor too! :)
*actually monks are the third easiest class in the game you forgot the M Y S T I C*
So the mystic is OP, but certainly NOT easy, it is comparable to wizard in terms of complication. Unless you were being sarcastic, then sorry.
Eamonn Ryan what are you talking about obviously the mystic is the easiest class it’s only a 25 page packet that’s nothing compared to how complex the barbarian is. I mean look at it, he has to keep track of his rage rounds and his lucky d12 and I think you’ll find that’s a lot more complex than the mystic.
@@solerosable You're right, my bad.
Anon & Mouse I mean idk, I think personally the dice have a harder role
*im leaving*
I play a Mystic. Mystics are NOT easy. They are overpowered. There's a big difference.
Level 13: tongue of sun and moon
My mute monk:...*signs* this is useless to me.
Elizabeth Brown telepathy?
AKreid shit, I forgot about that, thanks for reminding me
Elizabeth Brown no problem, fam!)
Even if you can't speak, you still understand all spoken language, which is huge.
Fierce Mushroom I haven’t seen it in that way... thank you for enlightening me
Any rogue ability: **exists**
Jacob: 7:24
Edit: Also, you missed Empty Body at level 18
As someone playing a monk for the first time on my second ever game i habe to say its been really easy (thanks to my teammates and DM) I was a druid the first time and it was....alot lol now im a monk and I love it!
Story: last week I had the last hit on our BB and I missed two of my three hits BUT my hit was a CRIT and I rolled max on mt damage! Took him down and won the battle! My proudest moment so far lol
Don’t mind me, crying in Long Death
Dirty Diamond Yea, sad he didn’t talk about it. I really want to play as a long death monk cause they look really good (the 11th lv ability mastery of death is fucking broken lol). I was gonna play one in a campaign but the dm doesn’t have swords coast so I wasn’t able to (so I had to pick the only other one that looked interesting to me and that was kensei).
David Stratton “i couldn’t play the best monk so I played the worst monk”, brain expansion
Dirty Diamond I said it was the only other one that looked interesting to me, I didn’t say wether it may or may not be good. It’s just what looked fun to me. No reason to be rude, like can’t we all just get along?
Dirty Diamond Also the Kensei monk I feel is the easiest to multiclass out of (which I always do), especially at the lower lvs. I mean I went a lv into rogue and I’m only lv 4 (I mean I can use a raiper which will do more dmg then my fists, especially with sneak attack). I will be going swashbuckler for my rogue subclass. I like the Kensei but I honestly don’t care if it’s good or not.
Come one DIAMOND SOUL IS BETTER THAN THAT
It includes death saving throws
And you can spend 1 ki to reroll any failed save
It's probably the best ability for saving throws, with only the paladin's Aura of Protection being comparable. The paladin's aura stacks with the proficiencies you already have, and you can get it earlier, but you don't get the rerolls. Of course, you can also get both, but I'm not sure what I'd do with a paladin 6/monk 14, and I'd feel like it was more than a little MAD, needing DEX, WIS, and CHA to be fully effective.
Greywander
I have tried hard to fogure out this build and it is challening. You need at least 13 STR, CHA and 13 DEX, WIS to multiclass - you will have to sacrifice CON and INT unless you rolled golden stats. While the monk levels will let you otherwise dump STR, the whole point of the multiclass is defeated if you dont have a high CHA.
Also, you are taking one of those abilities as a capstone, so you can only enjoy it for a little while if you ever get there
@@44tuck3r Yeah, exactly. This is a common problem with a lot of multiclass builds: they don't come together fully until you're already high level, or even 20th level. On paper they look great, but in practice you're going to be spending a lot of time playing a subpar character, and the campaign might end before you even reach the requisite level.
I've looked into some homebrew options that do allow for builds like this, such as gestalt characters. It certainly opens up a lot more options when you can get more than 20 class levels, but it's hard to balance properly, and having _too_ many abilities can be a bad thing, too.
Greywander
Oh absolutely
Something like a druid with tons of wildshapes for different situations, in addition to having access to the full druid spell list.
Monks also have a ton of features but I think these give you options for many situations.
Just for note, legally/RAW on death saves, adding bonuses doesnt matter because it specifically asks for the rolled value not save result. As such you could stack +10 to death saves via pally, prot items and monk, yet you still get death save fails on 12-19 and 2 on a 11 save result.
Not that that matters since prof in all saves is already 2.5~ish feats worth of value with save reroll being 1 level more worth ontop.
This has finalized my decision of which of my characters to play for my first ever game of D&D. I’m gonna play my Dark Elf Monk.
Go ahead, just read carefully his features because some of them are incorrect in this video, if you're not sure ask your DM to clarify
This is funny because i was literally joining a new game and was gonna try out the Monk class
Edit: That cat at 5:10 looked at him like "What is wrong with dis hooman? Okay I walk away now."
Might as well try them all. Can always retire them if you get bored.
I came here to genuinely learn how to play monk cause I’m new to dnd and now I feel like the guy who mains bastion in overwatch 😂😂
"Way of the Drunken Master"
Oh, so Bo Rai Cho from Mortal Combat then.
5:15 The cat is like "Is he alright?"
“Consecutive Serious Punches”
Totally One Punch Man
I loved the cat, hoping to see more of it (maybe even as part of the players table).
Also enjoyed the video, but that is not as important as the cat.
:3 cats rule
Holy shit, the idea you could stun an Adult Dragon from lvl 5 monk ability, a stun, like holy shit