Monk AC progression?

[konzacelt]

Old school D&D player here, and monk-o-phile at that. Thinking about getting this game, but I have a question: do monks get AC progression for every few levels? For the life of me I can't find info on it anywhere.

[KalkiKrosah]

Not by level, but by wisdom levels. Every 2 points in wisdom raises the AC by 1. 8 is the lowest wisdom rank, so that's 0 AC. But at 20 wisdom you can gain 6 AC from stats alone.

BG3 took a lot of creative liberty with monks compared to the pen & paper variants. Most people who have played both (I have not) have said that the monks in BG3 are stronger than their D&D variants.

Should you buy it and make a monk of your own, the Githyanki, Half-Orcs & Wood Elves offer the most bonuses towards playing as a monk. But anything works really.

I made a human monk and She is very fun to play, nothing else plays like it. It's the most naturally mobile class in the game.

[tet5uo]

I made astarion my Open Hand brawler in my latest playthrough. He's sitting at 19AC with the stats I gave him and no armor.

[konzacelt]

Originally posted by KalkiKrosah:

Not by level, but by wisdom levels. Every 2 points in wisdom raises the AC by 1. 8 is the lowest wisdom rank, so that's 0 AC. But at 20 wisdom you can gain 6 AC from stats alone.

BG3 took a lot of creative liberty with monks compared to the pen & paper variants. Most people who have played both (I have not) have said that the monks in BG3 are stronger than their D&D variants.

Should you buy it and make a monk of your own, the Githyanki, Half-Orcs & Wood Elves offer the most bonuses towards playing as a monk. But anything works really.

I made a human monk and She is very fun to play, nothing else plays like it. It's the most naturally mobile class in the game.

Hmm, that's an odd way to do it.

I rather liked how monks were weak and hard to play for 1-10 lvls, and slogging through slow leveling to become untouchable tempests at 17-20. The auto 1AC/3lvls or so really helped to do that, having it instantly linked to Wis seems really weird to me.

Anyway, thanks for the response!

[RollerPig]

no one multi classes monk ?
I always start barbarian which effectively removes wisdom (mostly) as a needed stat as AC will now scale off CON..plus 2 rage charges. Monk is very attribute hungry.

Super fun class though and my current honor mode Tav. Tavern brawler, thrower. insane mobility and surprisingly tough

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Depends, either wisdom path for it, or you can go with you Dex bonus and unarmoured clothings.

There's tunic that put your dex to 20, so it's a plus 5 from dex and then a plus 3 if you get mage armour.