So many jump cuts but it sounds so fluid, my brain hurts.

Stacking up Chronal Shift, Lucky feat and Silvery Barbs to nearly ensure success on all saving throws? Count me in!

So a monk with 2 levels of divination wizard & the lucky feat? I'm here for it!

Holy dialog cuts. This must be what the timeline feels like when you are constantly forcing rerolls to redo outcomes.

Not going to lie, stuns are only truly super helpful at very key points when you need them and the issue is that you can never ensure or even have a decent chance that stunning strike will actually work

Whether they're overpowered or underpowered, they're very fun to play.

I actually played a Protector Aasimar Sun Soul monk/paladin in Strahd. I started out with two levels in Paladin, then went monk the rest of the campaign. I only used Stunning Strike twice the whole campaign, and used Smite far more often. I much preferred the consistent radiant damage output that my monk character provided the party over the stuns, honestly, since it was the Curse of Strahd campaign, where undead and vampires ran rampant. Your mileage may vary, however.

Also they get no bonuses from feats leaving their damage way lower than other melee warriors

I have a monk in my campaign who’s modus operandi was stunning strike, rinse and repeat. That worked alright levels 5-7. Now it’s become virtually useless because most enemies have out scaled it.

My experience with Monk is quite limited but I played one for about 10-12 sessions on Tales of the Old Margreve. My DM was very kind and gave me a magical item that gave me a number of ki points equal to a roll of my martial die once per short rest AND I still felt like I had very little(level 4-6). During my final session where my character ultimately ended up dying. I tried to stunning strike 7 times and the enemy characters saved each time(My DM later told me that one had a +7 con mod). For 6th edition I would prefer if they removed stunning strike altogether and let Monk do things that are more fun like parkour or disengage as a bonus action etc MORE frequently, that ki point pool is too shallow for me. I feel like other martials do a lot more without having to deal with limited resources. Please take this with a pinch of salt as I am a relatively new player, having only played 4 characters over 1 year. Looking forward to tomorrows episode!! 😁

Excited for this! I find that Monks and Bards are the opposites in their perceived power vs actual play experience. People who don't play Monks think that they are too strong (because of Stunning Strike) while people who don't play Bards think that they are "just there for support and RP". Whereas Monk players know how bad it feels to actually play a Monk, and Bard players are Hypnotic Patterning and Object Animating their way to victory every session.

Played a monk in a campaign where the dm was pretty generous with magic items as long as we worked for them/spent our gold. Could add “enchantment slots” basically to weapons (max 2? Maybe 3?) and I managed to get “when this weapon hits, the target has disadvantage on their next con save” it was expensive but I purposely limited it “to hit” and only ONE save type, so not TOO expensive. Made stunning strike feel a lot less risky ill tell you that much. Basically, magic weapons rock!

I know cutting the empty spaces saves time on the shorts and helps in all sorts of engagement ways, but it also makes me lol cuz it looks like someone cut together different videos to have you say something you didn't

Eloquence Bard Unsettling Words + Monk Stunning Strike worked out great for my party in a siege against Fire Giants. Can't wait to see how I could have done something better.

Honestly, I think that stunning strike should be removed from the monk entirely and then the damage they deal rebalanced to make up for it. Either that or make it a wisdom save like hold person or something like that.

There's always that guy/gal who rolls amazingly and thinks monks are good because they hit more and save more than statistics would suggest that they should. XD

"They ruined my boss fight, oh no!" Give your boss a legendary resistance or two, then it'll be fair, Monks still get a lot of attacks.

Now I understand why my DM homebrewed Monk so much. +Wis Mod extra Ki, recover 1 Ki on crit, and 2 bonus actions at 9th. I’m playing my first session with a new character tonight, and she’s a Monk, hoping it goes well!

You had me at “twist the knob”…🤣 …… I’ll see my self out. 😐🤭

I always felt like the monk's weakness was being tied to wisdom when other martial classes just need dex/str and con. I feel like stunning strike and unarmored defense should have been tied to purely physical stats.

I love your gentle delivery

Reminds me of the Custom Lineage Way of the Astral Self Monk 15 / Divination Wizard 5 I made once. Could get a lot of use out of longstrider, shield, enhance ability, misty step, haste and fly. Not to mention using portent on stunning strike saves.

Try to stun a fighter or a barbarian... my monk just got wrecked by great weapon and polearm master. Doesn't matter if it is lvl 1 or 10. My monk was wrecked in 2-3 turns max. Most boss encounters have legendary resistance.

stunning strike sounds super powerful until you actually have a monk in your party and get a feel for it in real combat lol

All those cuts required to get Cody's sentence short enough for a short

The problem with monks: Everything, from everything costing ki, to being MAD, to crappy subclasses. The end. XD

"How many cuts do you want?" Yes

Late-game, the only real use stunning strike seems to have is locking down minions/adds so the team can either focus them or the boss down.

Prior to Strixhaven my go-to monk started fighter 1 (unarmed style) then arcana cleric 1 ( distance cantrips and , healing word, bless and... BANE for later stunning strikes!) then monk...

One reason why divination wizards are stupid good.

We stunning striked Glass Staff from Lost Mines, instantly got neck punched. Then we grabbed him with earthen grasp and he was toast

I feel like the creators are afraid of letting monks be cool AND useful. The way they differentiate unarmed attacks and weapon attacks makes it so monks can use the thing they are known for in combination with a bunch of stuff. They make martial arts dice scale slowly to where you are better of taking the fighting style feat or a dip into fighter in order to have your unarmed strikes be d8 before 11th level. The extra attack you get from fighting unarmed is a bonus action, but a significant portion of cool monk abilities are bonus action based. Then they do not make much in terms of class specific gear or magic items. In theory and concept the monk is amazing, but in execution it is lacking. Give them martial weapons without restriction or introduce monk versions of martial weapons (maybe make class books like they had back in the day). Give them a straight up extra unarmed attack if they choose to fight completely unarmed that isnt a bonus action. There has to be ways to improve the execution of the monk class without breaking the game.

Divination wizards monk multiclass to guarantee the con save is a fail

monk tragedy bard would go insane

I know DMs hate monks when they just shrug off any conditions put on them.

The fun thing I learned from playing monks is that they can be the bane of spellcasters with stunning strike because the stunned condition ends concentration spells no matter what

I was like, um yeah.. monks are overpowered. Sitting in a monastery all day along with celibacy? Too op for me

Every monk in every one of my games has died 😂

some small hope this is for a kensei archer (with a reference to focused aim), but some sort of wizard multiclass seems more likely as the others have pointed out. I wonder how much monk there will be in this build, I guess you dont need to many spell slot levels for silvery barbs to be available most of the time

as someone who really enjoys playing a monk, i rarely use stunning strike, burning a ki point that could be used better later against a enemy that has high con would use resources too quickly, i do a kobold monk where as a action use the kobold feat of grovel cower and beg to give your party advantage on all enemies within 10ft of you until the end of your next turn, then follow it up by burning a ki point for patient defense so all attacks on you are at disadvantage.

Monks are mage-killers. Use your speed to get around the front lines and run up to the mages/clerics and stun-lock them into oblivion.

That's why I put my monk up against lesser martial characters and mages 🤗 You are right, of course. But it comes down to the principle of the right tool for the right job 👍👍

Silvery barbs, clockwork soul sorcerer, monk.

You get several chances to use it each round. And one round stunned at high levels is the death knell for almost all monsters.

A divination wizard monk

Is this a Bane Monk with Silvery Barbs and a dip in divination wizard?

Ouch to the front lobes of my brain with that editing!

I feel like Stunning Strike gets all the love but leaves the whole class feeling... bland. It's the divekick of TTRPGs. I'm excited to see what you have in store.

completely out-dps'd at 11th level by fighter without feats, otherwise GWM and PAM blow it out of the water pretty early

Right my first thought was a halfling monk with the lucky feat.

There is a creature who is also able to stun multiple creatures in a single turn expending no resource and forcing a commonly overlooked type of saving throws.

*sniffs wind* I smell a variant on a Way of the Hin Fist coming.

On a side note, is that a kitty kat couch whisker on your head? I cannot unsee this now.

Monk/Wizard with Chronmancy school for Wizard archetype!

After level 6, other classes scale better than monk.

Monk is one of my all time faves 😎✊🏽

There may be a sizable group of people who believe that Monks are overpowered. They believe this because they're stupid.

The Monk of destiny

Divination Wizard? I REALLY waiting for you to tip into it a little bit :) Those portent dices have alot of possibilities and randomness :)

Colby psyching us out with the other short… untrustworthy…unless lucky monk build lmao

To all the people who still say Monks are OP, I want to share some maths with you: At CR10+, there's only 37 creatures with less than +5 to their CON save and 99 creatures with less than +10 to their CON saves (or immune to being stunned) in the main source books. That's ignoring Magic Resistance (yes, some DMs apply it to Stunning Strike) or Legendary Resistances. Many creatures in question also have fly speeds or are magic casters. So, the average Lv10 Monk meanwhile will have a DC15 save. That's less than 20% of the creatures that I'd consider dangerous for a Lv5 character even having less than a 50% chance to succeed, and almost half of all dangerous creatures having less than a 25% chance to fail their save. Meanwhile a caster targeting intelligence or charisma or strength will as often as not have a better chance of making their target fail the chance than a Monk using their Stunning Strike on EVERY SINGLE ATTACK on that round. There is Lv11 martial builds out there that can KILL many of these ~200 creatures before they even get a single round in combat. My experience with a Stunning Strike build is having to spend every last Ki-point on Stunning Strikes, just managing to pop the boss' Legendary Resistances with the last one. He died the same round to the Fighter's damage. My experience with a martial Monk is that I don't even use Stunning Strike in battle, because even the low level runts make their saves. Yes, in the right circumstance you're absolutely broken. I've had fights against a strong enemy that didn't get a single turn. But that just makes it even worse. It's fun if that happens once or twice in the campaign (which it will for a caster due to sheer RNG), but that just makes it even worse. I consider this type of balance a game design fallacy. Aka. a character who's too good in the situation they're strong in, and too weak otherwise. Another famous example is the Assassin Rogue btw.

My rework of the Monk class addresses the saving throw issue :)

Monks seemed powerful in the two games I played in in which someone monked. These games were low level games and did not include optimizers. When each game moved into 2nd tier, the monks faded, and the players lost interest.

That's EXACTLY how I feel about the Battlemaster Fighter.

Was wondering what was your most perfered stat gen. I prefer 18 in any one stat you prefer. Then roll 2D6+6 five times. Place as you like.

I actually undertook this recently. A challenge to make a monk just as good as a fighter, without the need for stunning strike. I find Savage Attacker as a feat super good for monk. As all the attacks you make give multiple shots to deal more damage than normal.

If the monk can twist the knob, everyone else will want it too. How about an illusionist that can A) drop disadvantage on a save versus my subclass. B) let's the illusionist choose what stat you save with. C) both A and B. I'd get vetoed. Probably. If not, carry on ms. Monk. But if I don't get it, you don't get it.

People think monks are overpowered because they are bad at math.

My fix for stunning strike is that it should target either Constitution or Wisdom, whichever is worse.

Is it just me, or is the background jumping around erratically with every cut? This feels like a sentence mix YTP

a divination monk with silvery barbs?

The thing I hate about monks is that anything they can do can be replaced by pretty low level spells. Want someone stunned? Hypnotic pattern among others. Need to be fast? Longstrider, fly, polymorph, and so many others.

I’m sorry, weak? Strong? All I care about is that they’re badass.

Hex is stunning strikes best friend.

playing my first monk in an upcoming campaign. Long Death/Spore Druid Tortle-Damphir with Shadow Touched feat. gonna be fun!!

Monks are magic user killers

The funny thing is you could make 4 or 5 attacks and make em all stunning strike, it only needs to roll like one failure and the odds of it rolling below a 5 on the dice is more likely then. Stunning that one creature will practically win the encounter

I take it perhaps Divination/Chronurgy? Although I think Bloodhunters have a curse that affects Con saves if I remember correctly.

Hmm this seems like an imPortant multiclass build for monks

That sounds like either Divinition Wiz or Eloquence Bard, which let go 9th lv spell.

At your level of editing skills, i think an epilepsy warning is in order 😂

Monks are awesome at lower levels because not of stunning strike, but multi attach before any other class.

There is | a | sizeable group of | people | who think that | monks | are | on the overpowered side

I’m confused about the abrupt ending for this. I also feel like this was made by someone else entirely with a collection of dialogue spliced together.

In response to the question you pose: Isn’t that just the Fortune’s Favor spell from the Wildemount book?

I can't comprehend how people can come to conclusion, that top2 of worst classes by nearly any optimization ranking is overpowered xd Like ok, stunning strike is powerful. Lets remember the fact, that it not only uses the worst saving throw, but more there uses extremely limited resource - KI?)

Do you hear it...? Silvery barbs

Stunning strike is nbd (throw group bosses with legendary action pool to pull from) The issue is high level advantage on all saves making them difficult to hit, so the party ends up taking the brunt of everything

The way you speak is so sensual I feel a knot in my throat

Oh wow, a martial class being weak in 5e, who would have figured.

I have a monk at level 8 and I chose the feat warlock initiate which gave me the hex spell. It causes disadvantage on any roll you choose. So a disadvantage constitution roll for two rolls is almost a guarantee stun. Do that for every turn.

Monks are strong because they can use stunning strike. It is weakened by (very rarely) enemies being immune to the stunned condition, but more commonly, high constitution save bonuses. But they are strengthened by being able to do it multiple times a turn, but weakened by having to burn a LOT of ki points if the enemy passes every time and the monk keeps going for it. 2 attacks plus flurry of blows which each hit using stunning strike. 1 ki point for blows, 4 total for stuns, and imagine if they used the ability to gain a bonus to the hit rolls using ki points. That could be 8 ki points in one turn, when you have 20 max (as far as I know). All in all, a monk by themselves is strong and able to hold their own a LOT, as any class should be able to, but they become overpowered in the same way ALL CLASSES do, when they have a party the uses the power of teamwork to combo off each other. A monk uses his first attack and just barely misses, a divination wizard or a chronurgy wizard either replaces the miss with a crit or lets the monk reroll the attack and it crits. One ki point to attempt to stun, monster passes, and if you had a divination before and a chronurgy now, the chronurgy wizard forces that save to fail. 3 people work together to make sure and enemy can do nothing and is an easy target. Monks are balanced, but they could still use a subclass that sends them to another level since ever other class has at least one subclass that is 20 leagues above everyone else

divination wizard monk? Clock work souls Sorc Monk??? hmmmm!!! interesting!!!!

No link? I'm sure I watched this build when it first came out. But this short came up in my feed a year later, and I have no idea what the main video is.

To anyone who thinks stunning strike is op... I cast web

i could see creating a really good stunlock monk by going 3lvls eloquence bard/2 lvl divination wizard/6lvls of star druid/6 lvls of shadow monk with the luck feat(potentially), eloquence bard for unsettling words, divination wizard for portent and star druid for cosmic omen and 6 lvls into what ever monk you like, i personally like the 6 lvls into shadow monk for the teleport and the extra ki points, this should allow you to reliably stunlock something like an adult maybe even an ancient dragon for 3-4 rounds, 5 rounds with a little luck, provided you have made it used it legendary resistances first, the stats needed is achievable and it does make it a bit easier if you chose to start as a wizard then you only need 3 different stats instead of 4.

If only a new subclass had come out that could let you change that Con save into a Cha save! Oh boy, this is gonna be MAD. 😃

I have a character dedicated to "twisting the knobs of fate" in this way! It's a support character, a Divine Soul 1 / Peace Domain 1 / College of Lore (or Eloquence) X Halfling. All about Blessing or Bane-ing with Emboldening Bond and Vicious Mockery or Mind Sliver, plus either Cutting Words or Unsettling Words or good old standard Bardic Inspiration. Serious bonuses to ally saving throws and attack rolls, and serious penalties to enemy saves and attacks. Super fun to just control the battlefield like that! Edit: Halfling to get access to the Bountiful Luck feat to get rid of those pesky critical failures all around

Speedy Colby today

A feature that needs heavy feat support or multiclassing to function properly is not a well-designed feature...