The God Crusher: Ultimate Monk Build | Pathfinder Kingmaker 

Mr Obvious: Monk Me, an intellectual: Fistomancer

Leveling Summary: Race: Musetouched Aasimar Alignment: LE, Starting Stats: 14 STR, DEX, CON, INT & WIS; 15 CHR Primary Skills: Perception, Persuasion, Trickery LEVELS 1: Monk (Scaled Fist) - Weapon Focus: Unarmed Strike, Crane Style 2: Rogue (Thug) 3: Alchemist (Vivisectionist) - Power Attack; Spells: Shield, Enlarge Person 4: (Scaled Fist from now on) - +CHR, Dodge 5: Accomplished Sneak Attacker, Black Dragon Heritage 6: Ki: Barkskin 7: Crane Wing, Defensive Spin 8: +STR, Intimidating Prowess, Ki: Scorching Ray 9: Crane Riposte 10: Ki: Restoration 11: Cornugon Smash, Leg Sweep 12: +STR, Dazzling Display, Ki: Wholeness of Body 13: Wings 14: --- 15: Shatter Defenses 16: +DEX, Combat Reflexes, Ki: Diamond Soul 17: Dreadful Carnage 18: Ki: Diamond Body 19: Persuasive 20: +DEX, Improved Critical: Unarmed Strike, Abundant Step Suggested Gear: Use Bokken's masterwork 'Transmutation of Mind, Body and Soul' potion for a permanent +2 to all stats. Neck: Amulet of Mighty Fists +5 (House at the Edge of Time) Body: Enforcer's Robe (Giant's Palm) Waist: Belt of Physical Perfection +8 (Ilthuliak's Lair) Glove: Manticore's Claws (Kingdom's Capital) Boots: Manticore Skin Boots (Armag's Tomb) Helm: Hat of Mental Perfection +8 (Farnirras' Prison) Cloak: Castigator's Cloak (Pitax merchant Trader) Ring: Ring of Circumstances (Pitax merchant Trader) Ring: Fortunate Fencer (Kingdom's Capital) Wrists: Bracer's of Armor +8 (Pitax Royal Palace)

-“Obvious, what is best in life?” -“To punch your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the casters!”

Monks don't really need to have much INT, and scaled fists don't need much WIS. I wouldn't dump either, but having 10-12 there will save you 3-5 stat points that can be used to boost scores you actually need. The reason why Monks don't need INT is they aren't skill characters. You need 3 ranks in acrobatics for the extra fighting defensively bonus, then the rest can be put into the critical skills of perception and persuasion. Other characters in your party are going to be far better at the knowledge skills, so no reason to invest. Since this build dips into Viv, you might go with an 11 or 12 int just so you can cast spells, but it's not needed since your stats will be increased by the 3 stat buffing items. This build doesn't really need much Wisdom, because while scaled fists have bad will saves, nearly every effect that failing will saves has can be prevented or negated by items and spells (prebuffing or after the fact). Once again I wouldn't argue with a 12 in Wis since it's cheap and a little useful. But putting both those stats at 12 gives your build 6 character build points. Which is enough to boost your actually important stats another tier. Something like 16, 14, 14, 12,12,15 starting out. +1 to hit and damage at the cost of -1 to will saves and -1 skill point is a fair trade. Especially in the early game where the difficulty is the highest. Also glitterdust is one of the better single target CC spells. It blinds on failed saves and reveals invisible creatures. It's actually good and it made me sad to have it ignored and dismissed.

Mr Obvious Stand: The Monk Power: A Speed: A Range: C Durabilty: A Precision: A Potential: A

>pathfinder >casters are better than martials Well, that's just accurate.

"Having blood in their blood gives them very special powers" Are we talking about vampires?

Reject spell casters, return to monk.

Aasimar-Musetouched (Azata-Blooded) 14 STR 14 DEX 14 CON 14 INT 14 WIS 15 CHA Tricker, Perception, Persuasion, Use Magic Device (10) L1 Scale Fist (SF) - Unarmed Strike, Crane Style L2 Thug - L3 Vivisectionist - Power Attack - Spell Taken: Shield, Enlarge Person, 4 any other L4 SF - +1 CHA - Dodge L5 SF - Accomplished Sneak Attack - Black Dragon Acid L6 SF - Ki Power: Barkskin L7 SF - Crane Wing, Defensive Spin L8 SF - +1 STR - Intimidate Prowess, Ki Power: Scorching Ray L9 SF - Crane Riposte L10 SF - Ki Power: Restoration L11 SF - Cornugon Smash, Leg Sweep L12 SF - +1 STR - Dazzling Display, Ki Power: Wholeness of Body L13 SF - Wings L14 SF - L15 SF - Shatter Defenses, L16 SF - +1 Dex Combat Reflexes, Ki Power: Diamond Soul L17 SF - Dreadful Carnage L18 SF - Ki Power: Diamond Body L19 SF - Persuasive, Ki Power: Shattering Punch L20 SF - +1 Dex - Improve Critical: Unarmed Strike, Ki Power: Abundant Step

I've always like monks, as you said it's something about punching things that make it so satisfying when everyone else is using weapons.

This build is so much fun to play thanks showing us it

Subbed! Thank you for this, even though I'm about 5 months late due to life problems, I am grateful! Any game that has the monk class, I always go for it! Not too clue-ed up on D&D rules but learning as I go along, that being said, I was struggling playing the Monk. Going to try this when I can! Thank you for this amazing content!

just tested this, enemies run away all the time , freaking awesome

Ok this really makes me want a mr. obvious let’s play channel

this is something i didnt expect but a nice addition

Very nice; I'll need to try this build. One thing to note, I don't think I saw it in your build, but having at least 3 Mobility skill gives you a little extra dodge bonus when you use Fight Defensively. That's handy to have early on.

Well I will be damned. I thought it was just a throw away comment, but you were serious. I'm impressed. And you are choosing to make melee viable and a little fun. The build looks legitimately enjoyable to roll.

I would watch a whole season of this!!!

Ah, nostalgia. I still remember powerbuilding in Neverwinter Nights 2 with Monk + Rogue + Shadow Dancer, which had Hide in Plain Sight, Flurry of Blows and around 10+ attacks per round with his dual wielded kamas each with +4~6k6 stealth attack modifier which pulverized EVERYTHING (if you were buffed by something to actually land them, and not miss haha). Ah, good times. Didn't play the Pathfinder yet tho, but after watching this maybe I will. I kinda miss the powerbuilding and the fun it provides.

*puts every stat to 14* "This is the most efficient thing" - ... "So for voice I chose madman." - ok, now I get it.

I don't know if maybe you were trolling a bit in this build guide, but where you are talking about the stat setup and explaining the adds and minuses and how you can end up building an inherent weakness into your character by min-maxing the stats too much, I think you have missed an important extension of your perspective. Yes, you get a better overall return if you don't push a stat up to excessive levels, having to 'spend' increasing points to get to the peak and burn other stats to get there, but flatlining all your stats is also as problematic giving you no strong focus and weakening your build. There's a good middle ground where you maximise your point returns and have good peaked stats without any real weakness. You did 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 15 and your adds ended up being 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, no weaknesses. But Muse Touched Asimar allows Dex and Charisma both to be moderately peaked with little to no downside, and for a Scaled Fist Monk the amalgamated peaks add up to significant core survivability benefits early. A stat spread of 13 (Str), 16 (Dex), 14 (Con), 14 (Int), 12 (Wis), 16(Cha) gets 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, which is the same as your add total. The first stat point infusion you bumped the 15 to 16, making your add spread 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3. My first infusion I round out the 13 Strength to make my adds 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, which is the same total as yours, but I am +2 AC ahead from the start and once I get Thug at level two I am 1 Attack plus ahead of you at the cost of one damage point and a Wisdom save point. I also have another persuasion point for the first four levels till you even out your Charisma. Given persuasion is the tentpole skill for dazzling display, that's pretty significant. You also have to 'buy up' to your elevated Dex much later in the game, and my Dex, which again, is central to both AC and Attack, is always 2 potentual points higher than yours. So I have lost very little while gaining core character aspects and not wasted any of my initial stat points trying to peak any one stat. The reality is that an entirely median approach as you suggest ignores that each class does have focused aspects that 'magnify' off base stats and that configuring to favor those, even occasionally burning some points to amplify features, pays off more than if you simply try to draw an unwavering line the middle. This is a case of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. I don't like dump stats and min/maxing as I think you are right, that creates a serious weakness and it's just stupid from a role-playing perspective, but your homogenized version isn't really any better. The rest of the guide is pretty solid though, and I think you genuinely meant well with your stat principle.

Wow, this is awesome.

Hey I've been in that reddit thread before. Wasn't the list specifically for solo unfair runs. They didn't say monk was bad, but were simply not the choice for a unfair solo run.

A fan of Pathfinder? Well color me blue.

I wasn't expecting a dank gaming video from this channel but you won't hear me complaining :)

Intimidation builds are always my favorite

Awesome build and I would not mind videos similar to this in the future.

Hey, my suggestion won! Neat!

Very enjoyable!

Make more of these. Wouldn't mind a full playthrough either.

Never saw this game. What a fantastic breakdown. Great build too. But, that's... merely the obvious.

This is why i love pathfinder if you look hard hard enough theres a build for anything

Monks are one of the cooler physical classes in multi-class RPG's. Good on ya.

I legit thought this was path of exile for a moment

Loved this content. Wouldn't picture you for an RPG player. Mr. Not So Obvious after all...

WHAT?! MR OBVIOUS HAS PATHFINDER CONTENT?! Duuuude

Gonna use this build again on the next Pathfinder game

Nice build

Good Build my dude. It's been months since I played this game and I've never had the patience to beat it. Anyways, i'd like to add that wisdom does not actually increase your stunning fist as a scaled fist, so you don't need 14 I remember the build i played first time through was Monk 1/ Thug 1/ Sorcerer 8/ Dragon Disciple 10. Or somthing along those lines. I dumped wis and int for more STR and CHA and was angelblooded for the bonuses in the two as welI. Picked up dragon style, which doubled my STR bonus to my attacks and gave me a bunch of resistances. Dragon Disciple itself granted a ton of nat armor increases that actually stacked with other natural armor, as well as granting inherant bonuses to STR, CON, and INT. Not only that, but it gave you a powerful dragon bite with 1.5x STR mod , that although the in game text says is only available when using claws is actually available all of the time. The main draw to my build was that it had a lot of caster levels, and could cast a lot of high level magic without the assistance of other characters, while still being stronger than other martials, making it great for solo runs. Transformation especially makes up for lost attack bonus at later levels.

Amusing we've been playing the same game.

This is pretty good, and I haven't even played Pathfinder: Kingmaker yet. Make more gaming videos pls, especially build videos, shit's interesting.

Ah yes, the face punching got to love it

“Hmm... blood in their blood...” *writes that down*

Fantastic Pathfinder Kingmaker build! Have you worked out any other builds for any of the other classes?

I'm re-playing this now and re-speced Valerie into a Two-Handed Weapon Fighter, giving her a Fauchard (1d10, 18-20 crit, and reach). She's completely broken, easily and reliably doing over 100 dmg in one round at lvl 10, and not uncommon to do over 300 dmg. Add in Cornugon Strike, Shatter Defenses, and Cleaving Finish and she's a one-woman wrecking ball without equal. I'm up to lvl 15 right now and she's my #1 damage dealer, hitter, destroyer, and the only thing the casters can do to keep up is hope that a Hold Monster or something sticks. Oh, and buff HER with haste.

I've been watching you politics videos and all this time you were a Chad gamer of one of my favorite video games....ima hit the bell just for you

Did you turn into a based gaming channel?

I've always loved playing monks in D&D, never played past 3.5 ed though. favorite was a drunken master monk.

This is....interesting, shame I don’t really play these types of gamea

Love this game. I will definately attempt this build next campaign play of this game. I played a standard rogue with two-weapon fighting dueling swords. With how I spec'd myself with Dex, Cha, and Con. I have it as a front line fighter who tanked with other fighters near me to wreck shit with 35 AC. I am at last chapter in game and I am not sure if I wanna finish it because I love my character too much. Also, they gotta make a multiplayer mod for this game so you and your friends can make a 6 man team to wreck shit. It would be like Diablo but ACTUALLY ENJOYABLE to play. Please modders, find a way to make multiplayer a reallity. I would enjoy wrecking shit side by side with friends.

I wish we would get a new Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance. I used to spend late nights playing that on the PS2.

Mr. Obvious, I know you off spending a lot of time and effort doing your 'other' commentary videos (I know cause I love to watch them) but how about guides for each of your party members, like a guide for building Valerie, Jubilost, etc.? I don't run with many party members whether with your 'God Crusher' build or any other main character build, but I, as well as others, would love to know how you built your party members that went along with this nice 'God Crusher' build. Thank you, as always for your time and efforts in making your vids, mate.

For a second I thought it was a glitch in the system or something, but no... you actually play this. Glad to see you're a fellow fan, You ever play the Pen and Paper version?

This was a nice change of pace. It looks like a cool game, might check it out, but I like dnd the most.

"having blood in their blood" _ Mr.Obvious

wait what, mr obvious plays games? fuck, now im playing his build xd ty mr obvious

Me Obvious flexing nerd credentials.

Mr. Obvious, this was the first video of yours I've watched... I don't know if it was the topic, or if it's a 'role' your playing, but I must commend you on channeling Morty from Rick and Morty quite effectively.

I see that you too, are a man of culture

Hello! Thanks for your work and video, is this build viable for Unfair? Thanks in advance.

*Blueish God build* Best build trust me, lots of points in charisma, subversion and manipulation.

I come to find out you do video games too. Crazy

Mad dog barbarian pit-born tiefling named Torn is what I'm playing level 1 I picked up tower shield proficiency. Its mildly amusing but god damn I didn't realize how bad towershields are (unless you are that fighter archetype) Also in a tabletop campaign playing a mutation warrior fighter human that goes by Lee "Ghost Finger" in a heavy homebrew frostpunk game. He dual wields hammers, has an effective light load of 200lbs and gets 4 attacks per round at level 6 (Mythic Rank 1). I've been crafting a lot of war crimes with this character too (he has 15 alchemy and an alchemist lab)

I too have run I to this issue when it comes to RPGs. I think Dragons Dogma does a better job than most when it comes to balancing classes, always opting for a fighter class as my companion cos they hit really really hard

2:45 my character I made in DnD is an Aasimar and can confirm master race

"There's something... cathartic about punching things in the face" Preach.

Mr.Obvious: melee monk class Me: Ah an old hidden o.p trick and also the path to ONE PUUUUNCH Negative points: Hes not bald

Love this game but only since I got the turn based mod on nexus. Makes the game so much better since you can actually use your spells and builds that you spend so much time on. Couldn’t play before with RTwP, but turn based I can’t stop playing. So much more fun with this mod. I really hope they hire the guy who made it for Wrath of the Righteous or that it will work for WoR since it’s going to be built on this engine.

I'm going to continue. But at 1:27 you said unbalanced. Which is true. Because the mage/caster trope has been a problem for many years. Back in 2013-2014 when 5e was introduced they really helped balance out all of the classes with introduction of concentration spells. No more 15 buffs to make your wizard hit harder than a fighter the same level (looking at you transformation). So yeah you're right it is unbalanced. But not because of bad video game design, but bad table top design. I'm super pumped for BG3 because I believe it'll be the first rpg I'll play where caster superiority is toned way tf down. Great video so far though :).

This is soothing more gameplay or create one for us pls n tnk u

Build is a ton of fun. I'm struggling a bit in the mid-game like all monks do but I picked up cornugan smash early to make up for that. Not sure if that will mess up my progression down the line but ya. I couldn't tell if I was using a feat in place of bonus feat and messing that up by nabbing cornugan smash. I'm going to try tiefling monk next run since I found a cool item that trips people when I bite them in the face. Wondering if maybe there are upgradeable items that have that "biting people" synergy. Vampire scoundrel monk build next plz ty. Another thing I love on this build: barbed spine spell from jubilost. Makes people take damage when hitting you and adds damage to unarmed fisties. Crazy spell if you take infusions to let jubie cast it on you.

The shield hero is OP.

tbh swordsaint with duelist is still the best melee combo. you can put some monk, ald fighter, vivi and/or paladin there to make it even more overpowered, you dont do tons of damage like a 2 handed weapon build but they dont hit you 95% of the time and when they do and its a crit 50% of the time it will not do enough damage to kill you even on the highest difficulty so it does not matter. let the pets tank while you position your backup and go all in. I suggest a ranged Druid, a Erastil Archer cleric and a alchemist with bombs that dont hit allies. they do summons to help tank while having tons of AoE buffs/debuffs and damage. Duelist with swordsaint makes you think they needed to buff hard Tower Shield and Stalwart Defender builds cause the only bad thing in Duelsaint is the relative low fortitude saves but with good items you just circumvent this problem quite easily.

Dude you need to lead with this build is for lawful evil

Is there a recommended party setup to run with this? I wanna keep it as synergistic as possible.

Im stuck between this or arma 3, any advice as to which would give more solo play time?

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Do you have anymore pathfinder builds I cant seem to find them on your channel

Is this build only possible as evil? Or just a bit more powerful?

What the hell? This video is 42 minutes

Yo! The song starting 36:09 is it in game of overlaid? Care to share the song name, it´s really catchy!

How would you modify/recreate this build for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous? Or would you say the build doesn't need modified except for extra gear.

I don't get it Mr. Obvious, but I support it.

there are nun-chucks in the other other secret room you are not supposed to find in the tutorial (opening castle)

Your monk is really good but remember a lot of his bonuses come from casters.

you forgot to dip into paladin for saving throws EDIT: oh, evil monk; although good monk with bonus saves from paladin will be a lot more resistant; so it's either 3 lvl of paladin with 17 monk for tankiness (maybe 16 monk 1 thug 2 paladin); the 20th level never comes to bear; for damage and intimidate yea, your build is perfect, there would be no room for Lawful Good and paladin levels

Late to the game here (literally}. I will be picking this up soon. How much worse would a lawful good version of this build be?

Is there a summary of how to make this build? I like the video but a summary will be great.

You should honestly make a gaming channel

Jesus you made an aryan born dragon trained Batman

What was the mod manager you were using?

Looks dope, how does it run at higher difficulty? Like are the skill checks higher or are they just more spongy?

even if you make videos about games and they're not getting as popular as other ones, I wish you did more if you really have passion on it

Your gear is hilarious haha

What's the chill piano music in the background ?

Is it important to have Lawful Evil, or it can be any Lawful?

What is the song playing when you fight the final boss?

Well in my playthroughs Amiri, Nok Nok and Ekun is my best dps and they are full physical with only Ekun being a mini caster because of Ranger. And I played as half-Orc Scaled Monk 12, 4 Scion, 6 Dragon Disciple. And second playthrough Scaled Monk 12 and 8 Slayer. And I always go Dragon style. And no caster even comes close to touching me. Each of them has high dps to oneshot any casters or even other dps. And they have enough ac and hp to survive the offchance spells. Also they all have good DR that most casts never damage me. I finished the game in Challenging mode both times. Although, gotta say up till level 10, physical characters seem lame. It’s only after the 12-14Level that the physical characters truly shine

Hi, would Tiefling Shackleborn work just as well? +2 Const/Char/Intimidate/Mobility +1AC