M / FS|C / SL / SD - shurikens!

[electric mayhem]

Anyone had a crack at building a Shuriken master chucker?

Monk (12 / 11) ; Cleric(5)|FavSl(6) ; Storm (10) ; SD 3

Just an idea that got spun about the old noggin last few days.
Got most of it all planned out, but curious whether anyone has done one before?
And ran into alignment restriction issues for Talos Divine Caster and Lawful Monk requirements.
I assume favored soul doesnt have alignment compatibility restrictions with their deity?

[Rudolph]

I thought about it quite a bit after my exploration of high-damage Brutal Throw builds. The fact that the shuriken doesn't allow for Strength damage to be added, however, and that I couldn't find any good epic shurikens for sale at the vendors, led me to abandon the project since it would always lead to inferior builds compared to those chucking darts or throwing axes. Started by thinking about a 4 attacks from flurry Death attack build with Epic Precision, but that seems quite impossible to pull off.

[electric mayhem]

Yeh racked my brain too.
Had to go with FS for Alignment issues.
Stats proved to be another hurdle.
The build wanted High Wis for Monk AC bonus and Zen Archery. High dex (19) for HIPS dip. With bonus AC.
And CHA up to 13. All the rest, aimed for 10.
With those in mind, couldn't pull the total amount of numbers in opening creation.
Led to dumping through the levels.
Then came the list of required feats. Rather intensive.
So much so, i even tested a build without SD, which wasn't too bad. Dropped Dex to 17 (as wanted manyshot for uber flurries). It gave me 2 feats back, which was perfect to bring in rapidshot/manyshot again, as i couldn't fit them in before (without sacrificing epic stat feats).

The concept of the build seemed fun. An electrified/shock charged shuriken spammer.
Just that the restrictions of all required seemed to brick wall the idea.

Oh well, was an interesting thought experiment.

[Sun Wukong]

Have you looked at a wisdom based Monk 20/Assassin 10? Apparently Fiery Fists feat does work with weapons, so it might work with Shurikens too, and Blazing Aura (Epic feat) does work with Shurikens, and you do get that ability to HiPS along with 5d6 Death Sneak Attack Dice, which becomes 10d6 with Manyshot.


Now, you just need 17 Dexterity for Manyshot, and you can go max wisdom. You could even get Intuitive Strike to have your high Wisdom grant some unarmed melee damage.


Just a thought.