Draconic Destinies Project - Feedback Thread

[Manly Man]

Well, the thing is, the flurry with natural weapons nets you ~72 damage if you take the Improved Natural Weapon feats, assuming all of them hit, which is far more likely than the ~66 you get from all of the Monk's normal flurry hitting. As well, if you're going to be adding elemental damage to that, it's not going to matter much about the secondaries only getting half the Strength bonus to damage unless you pump the Monk's Strength score stupidly high. Even if you don't take the INA feats, you're still more likely to do greater damage on average with the natural attacks simply by virtue of them hitting more often. For example, if the last two attacks from the Monk miss (seeing as those are the two attacks in their flurry that are lower than the natural attacks, and notably so), that's ~22 damage being dropped off, not counting what you would get from Strength. The natural attacks' accuracy is also an incentive for getting Power Attack, and if you take Multiattack, you're still going to have a higher hit chance on your three secondaries than the Monk does on their last two attacks (+15/+15/+15/+13/+13/+13 for the natural attacks), and Power Attack would more than make up for the disparity in terms of Strength damage. A normal Monk couldn't really afford to put Power Attack on their normal flurry because they don't have the reliability. And again, there seem to be plans to put elemental damage on top of all that, so you're going to outpace a standard Monk pretty easily.