That would only work on your weapon attacks, not on your BA Martial Arts or FoB. So you would be sacrificing an extra 1d6 to 2d6 in the first round for an extra 2d4 for each following round (assuming you maintain concentration). And you can only do this 2-3 times per day, whereas your Ki comes back on a short rest.
Not sure what the "plus 2d6 per" means there.
Not sure what you mean about BA attacks not being weapon attacks for the DF spell. I did suggest that you would need the DMs ok to precast Divine Favour before the fight breaks out.
From Sage Advice on this site
Can a monk use Stunning Strike with an unarmed strike, even though unarmed strikes aren’t weapons?
Yes. Stunning Strike works with melee weapon attacks, and an unarmed strike is a special type of melee weapon attack.
The game often makes exceptions to general rules, and this is an important exception: that unarmed strikes count as melee weapon attacks despite not being weapons.
Divine Favor only applies to weapon attacks (this would still apply to ranged weapons too). Unarmed strikes are melee weapon attacks, but not weapon attacks (the wording really needs to be fixed...) thus they are not compatible with Divine Smite or Divine Favor.
And I doubt any DM would just let you have DF up before fighting starts (it's a BA and only lasts 1 minute) unless you were constantly casting it any time you thought a fight might break out, burning through your spell slots.
That would only work on your weapon attacks, not on your BA Martial Arts or FoB. So you would be sacrificing an extra 1d6 to 2d6 in the first round for an extra 2d4 for each following round (assuming you maintain concentration). And you can only do this 2-3 times per day, whereas your Ki comes back on a short rest.
Not sure what the "plus 2d6 per" means there.
Not sure what you mean about BA attacks not being weapon attacks for the DF spell. I did suggest that you would need the DMs ok to precast Divine Favour before the fight breaks out.
From Sage Advice on this site
Can a monk use Stunning Strike with an unarmed strike, even though unarmed strikes aren’t weapons?
Yes. Stunning Strike works with melee weapon attacks, and an unarmed strike is a special type of melee weapon attack.
The game often makes exceptions to general rules, and this is an important exception: that unarmed strikes count as melee weapon attacks despite not being weapons.
Divine Favor only applies to weapon attacks (this would still apply to ranged weapons too). Unarmed strikes are melee weapon attacks, but not weapon attacks (the wording really needs to be fixed...) thus they are not compatible with Divine Smite or Divine Favor.
And I doubt any DM would just let you have DF up before fighting starts (it's a BA and only lasts 1 minute) unless you were constantly casting it any time you thought a fight might break out, burning through your spell slots.
I would disagree that weapon attack and melee weapon attacka are exclusive. Weapon attack is used because it applies to both ranged and melee, which you stated in your post. Unarmed strikes would qualify unless it used the phrase “attack with a melee weapon” Ranged weapon attacks and melee weapon attacks both fall under weapon attack, and unarmed strikes are a special type of melee weapon attack.
It doesn’t apply to Divine Smite because it says it adds the damage to the weapon.
Divine Favor only applies to weapon attacks (this would still apply to ranged weapons too). Unarmed strikes are melee weapon attacks, but not weapon attacks (the wording really needs to be fixed...) thus they are not compatible with Divine Smite or Divine Favor.
And I doubt any DM would just let you have DF up before fighting starts (it's a BA and only lasts 1 minute) unless you were constantly casting it any time you thought a fight might break out, burning through your spell slots.
I would disagree that weapon attack and melee weapon attacka are exclusive. Weapon attack is used because it applies to both ranged and melee, which you stated in your post. Unarmed strikes would qualify unless it used the phrase “attack with a melee weapon” Ranged weapon attacks and melee weapon attacks both fall under weapon attack, and unarmed strikes are a special type of melee weapon attack.
It doesn’t apply to Divine Smite because it says it adds the damage to the weapon.
I play a Monk 4 (Long Death) / Cleric 5 (Death)...it's pretty good.
You can start off with a 17 dex and 15 wisdom. Magic initiate Cleric with custom lineage. ASI @ 4&8 +3 DEX +1wis