Talk:Way Beyond Mortal Limits (5e Subclass)

So I strongly believe that the fact that a player has more Ki with him is not so unbalanced, indeed it brings him to an acceptable level, given that the monk has always been denigrated for the few Ki points. This being a sub-class, it also limits its uses in an excellent way. I understand that you want a character with less Ki at level 3, but I don't find it right since the monk for the martial table does 1d4 damage and will do it up to 5 when instead other classes, especially the magical ones do double it and with the various Homebrew subclasses and classes, the deranged is literally everywhere, I actually believe that this pushes the Master to create more balanced fights.

Whether or not the monk class itself is over or underpowered isn't the problem, it's that no other official monk subclass grants this many ki points. There's no reason for a player take any other subclass when this subclass makes flurry of blows + stunning strikes effectively permanent and costless battlefield control, makes Diamond Soul effectively permanent advantage on saving throws, and makes Empty Body nearly permanent invisibility and universal resistance. The purpose of a subclass is to add more options for a class, not to fix a perceived problem with the core class. We also shouldn't be using homebrew to define balance, since homebrew is meant to be playable alongside official material, and it's not realistic to assume we can catch every overpowered feature across 2200 classes and 2600 subclasses.--Ref3rence (talk) 11:43, 13 March 2023 (MDT)