Question About Monks...

[ZTempest]

Okay, I am starting a new monk character, and I just reach level 3, and am picking my new feat. Oddly, the feat "Dragon Style" is NOT recommended...but greyed out AND recommended Dragon Ferocity is there a possible future pick...but that feat REQUIRES Dragon Style in order to pick it...

So my quesiton is, with the Traditional Monk - -which is what I am playing -- how can the advanced form of the feat be recommended, but the pre-requisite to get that feat NOT be recommended? It logically does not make sense to me...

Can anyone help me figure it out?

[Adeptus Stark]

Did you raise the mobility skill at least 3 times and have a strength of 15 or better?

[ZTempest]

Yes. I have the pre-requisites to get Dragon Style...the problem is that the skill has a thumbs down marker, suggesting it is not recommended for some reason...but that skill is a pre-requisite for the recommended Dragon Ferocity. I did a bit more reading...it looks like Crane Style might be the preferred skill to take...but I was just wondering why the pre-requisite is a thumbs down, when the follow-on is a green thumbs up.

[Adeptus Stark]

Ah. I never look at the thumbs lol. I just get what I need for my characters. :p

[reidj062]

I'd be suspicious about what the game recommends. Sometimes the computer has good ideas, sometimes it doesn't. Dragon style gives you a couple extra resistances, as I recall, which are very useful in this game. Looks like it gives you extra damage and bonuses to sleep, paralysis and stunning. Those are all status effects you don't want. I see no issue with taking it.

[ZTempest]

Thank you! Yep. I makes sense that the computer simply does not take into account some of the complexities possible with building characters in this game -- especially monks, which have odd skills that synergize with other feats/skills in different ways that are not always obvious.

Thanks for the comments! I think that I am going to have fun experimenting and seeing what works...

[Pudding]

go youtube search "Mr Obvious Monk"

[Soft Lockpick]

I have seen the game suggest a thumbs down for things you will get automatically. But I wouldnt be surprised if it suggests that on things you dont and truly would want as well. I'm not all that familiar with Monk building in this system so cant say which it'd be, just something to check.