What is WRONG with my monk?!

[Mahlennacht]

Originally posted by Omicron: ...level 13? That means your level is *beyond* low. Monks are powerful at high levels. Anything lower than 20 is low level, at least in TOB heh...

BTW I never use ToB anymore - so I don't use any of the high-level abilities. I have the XP uncapped, but I find I hardly ever exceed the cap by much anyway, unless I'm soloing, and I might try playing with the cap ON from now on, which will mean I'll max out a monk at lvl 21 if I even get there...

Anyway, yeah, so I guess I'm too low-level to be whining yet, but JEEZ a monk seems to be a split personality; weak for a long time, then [supposedly] he'll suddenly turn godlike - just wasn't used to that, every other class I played seemed more consistent for the whole game - and he is a LOT better ever since
he got the girdle of hill giant strength, actually does 10+ damage now for once.

...and I just got Quivering Palm - only got it to work against a sahuagin so far [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img] - I'm looking forward to trying that on a dragon (after lowering his rolls), but the way things are going, I am fully expecting to reload 50 times before I get off a successful quivering palm on a dragon. [Check that, I'm giving up after 3 reloads and killing the dragons the regular way - less frustrating]

[untouchable]

Just be patient with the monk. Yes it seenms that they are pathetic at the begining, but just wait t'il lvl 14. Much damage and ill can be stoped by only 40+ magic resistance. Later you can become 100% magic resistant. "Mage?, what mage?" keep uping your strength, it will help you hit and deal more damage, your THAC0 will also drop as you level up.

About quivering palm, consider casting greater malision on the target first. This will help you imensly, same goes for stunning blow.

Later in the game your monk will be invincible, if you equip him well. Just remember that he is NOT a tank, use anomen for that and you can kick but from behind or beside him while he distracts the enemies.

actually does 10+ damage now for once

wierd my monks were able of dealing out an average of about 17 damage by the time they got quivering palm.
Overall don't fret, you will have a weapond of mass destruction when your monk hits the higher levels. Hope you enjoy your game.