Attributes and Feats for a scaled fist

[mandos76]

Hello guys.
My problem, i dont know what is better for a scaled fist. ST oder Dex? Need ST for melee fight, but Dex for armor too.

Is 16 ST, 12 Dex, 14 KO, 10 IN, 8 Wisdom and 18 CH ok? Or more Dex and less ST?
And what for Feats should i choice at teh beginning? Dragonstyle sounds nice, or not?

[Batailleuse]

Focus str and go dragon style. (at least 2 tier) to get the awesome. Str bonus to Fist.

Dex only gives extra ac and for scald fist is secondary since Charisma also gives AC.

Aftee that depends how much lvl you wanna boost your scaled fist.

13 I think gives pretty much all the best out of monk


Fighting style (2 active at all time)
2 flurry hit

With the hammer + punch fighting its pretty much like having 8 attacks per round

Your 2 flurry will roll double damage roll (so with dragon style it's a loooot) and ignore all DR. After that your normal hit come In Up to 4.

You should get decent AC with cha helm or even mental perfection helm.

Or some robes that give 4 or 8 cha later on (that's 2/4ac) some robe give 5AC otherwise.

Just push str every time you can because it's your main damage mod.

After 13 I'd recommend going maybe rogue or vivi.

Vivi gets you some self buff if you can get int high enough and gives access to Strengh mutagen (4) and 2 ac and sneak attack. Which is the only way you'll get dps higher on monk.

Rogue 7 not sure what you would besides sneak get Didn't really check, I think some of debuff on sneak.

Pure monk is a bit underwhelming otherwise.

5 lvl monk Gives you the double roll on flurry but only 1 flurry

Anyway I think dragon style. Is the only monk that can achieve a 150+ on a single fist attack for the achieve.

Dragon style 150% str to the dmg roll 200% with power attack on.

With some Sneak on top and the double roll (including weapon Elemental damage)

Say you have 30 str that's +15 damage, with dragon strike t2 and power attack that's 30+ dmg alone.

Double That with hammer style that's already 60 base alone, then you add your fists damages Elemental and sneak.

Not Sure of sneak is also doubled or not for The roll I should check.

[mandos76]

Thx for the awesome answer. That's helping so much.

[omegazeda]

Here's my scaled fist lvl 10, current build:
Attributes, gear and skills:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541084445
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541084657
Feats, from page 1 to page 6:
1. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541084785
2. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541084856
3. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541084935
4. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541085001
5. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541085081
6. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541085155

[mandos76]

Have you any problems with this build? No more ST needed?

[Thane_Ragnar]

Is the Scaled Fist the unchained Version? Full BAB?

He gets Draconic Mettle/Fury at Level 3, unchained would be at level 4.
But then again he gets Draconic Breath at 12 like the unchained Version, for the normal Scaled Fist it should be at 15.

I am a bit confused.