Just found out about the Asteral Monk. This is from the perspective from a relative DnD noob who have only played for about 2 years. This is the class that have made me want to build a character around it the most so far. As I only have made three characters so far (2 CE and 1 LN) this inspired me to want to make a NG and play a character I usually is not drawn towards. Now I really want to play a Asteral Monk witth the personality of Colossus from Deadpool :)
It said that if the character was going to stay depended on the feedback. Where to you leave feedback? Sorry for noob questions
Don't worry about it, lol. The survey for the UA Barbarian/Monk is included in the same article as the new UA for Sorcerer/Warlock. I'm not sure if it's still open, but if it is you can give your feedback here:
I'm not so sure it's not 6 attacks total at lvl 17. There's a lot of repetitive language, but looking at each item individually makes it fairly clear (IMO)
Immediately after you use the Attack action with your astral arms on your turn, you can make one extra attack with your astral arms as a bonus action. The number of extra attacks increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to two at 11th level and three at 17th level
This reads that you get 3 attacks as a bonus action if you attack with your astral arms.
Astral Barrage. Whenever you use the Extra Attack feature to attack twice, you can instead attack three times using your astral arms
This reads that you can use the Monk's attack action to attack 3 times instead of 2 if you use your astral arms for the action.
In total this would be 6 attacks, plus the extra martial art die damage from Empowered Arms. So the way I read it is that when combat starts, you spend the 10 ki to summon your full astral self, select a target if you want to (or rather WHY wouldn't you?), then attack 3 times with your astral arms. Next round you can make those 3 astral arm attacks again, and then throw out another 3 astral arm attacks as a bonus action. There's nothing stating that these extra attacks use ki, so if hypothetically 1 target per round goes down within 10 feet of you you would get back those expended ki points in two rounds. You would just need to spend your reaction for each of those rounds
Pretty @#%!ing ridiculous, isn't it? Completely dumps on every other monk. 🙄
All monk subclasses are kinda way under subpar besides Open Hand and Kensei.
Even as that goes they still arent up there with Paladin at that level.
Sorry for the extremely belated response, but it seems to me that this subclass is essentially a Wild Magic Barbarian. It's got some great features and things, but it's also pretty unpredictable and can cause some party disruption with some of its harmful effects hitting teammates
I really like the Astral Self subclass in how it is designed. It is a perfect form of Stands in the D&D 5e universe. Za Warudo! Toki wo tomare! I am currently making the DIO and Jotaro Kujo build. Using the Vampire race from the Plane Shift pdfs.
Not sure why I haven't seen a new thread about it yet (neither here nor in the Barbarian subforum), however there has been a preview of the updated version of the Wild Magic Barbarian from Tashas which I think improved a lot.
No worries. If it wasn’t a reaction, it’d be way overpowered lol
Just found out about the Asteral Monk. This is from the perspective from a relative DnD noob who have only played for about 2 years. This is the class that have made me want to build a character around it the most so far. As I only have made three characters so far (2 CE and 1 LN) this inspired me to want to make a NG and play a character I usually is not drawn towards. Now I really want to play a Asteral Monk witth the personality of Colossus from Deadpool :)
It said that if the character was going to stay depended on the feedback. Where to you leave feedback? Sorry for noob questions
Don't worry about it, lol. The survey for the UA Barbarian/Monk is included in the same article as the new UA for Sorcerer/Warlock. I'm not sure if it's still open, but if it is you can give your feedback here:
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/sorcerer-and-warlock
Thanks for the link and your insight. :) It was still open
All monk subclasses are kinda way under subpar besides Open Hand and Kensei.
Even as that goes they still arent up there with Paladin at that level.
Sorry for the extremely belated response, but it seems to me that this subclass is essentially a Wild Magic Barbarian. It's got some great features and things, but it's also pretty unpredictable and can cause some party disruption with some of its harmful effects hitting teammates
STANDO POWA
*Insert JoJo reference*
I really like the Astral Self subclass in how it is designed. It is a perfect form of Stands in the D&D 5e universe. Za Warudo! Toki wo tomare! I am currently making the DIO and Jotaro Kujo build. Using the Vampire race from the Plane Shift pdfs.
Not sure why I haven't seen a new thread about it yet (neither here nor in the Barbarian subforum), however there has been a preview of the updated version of the Wild Magic Barbarian from Tashas which I think improved a lot.
https://dndcelebration2020.com/assets/downloads/TashasPreview_Barbarian.pdf
I've never encountered a forum where I got this many "talking to a wall" impressions as this one...