Silly Monk Question

[AbominationFascination]

I never played a monk in the single-player campaigns, so I've no idea how this works:

To bypass damage reduction (say, 10/+1) while using an unarmed attack, does a monk need Ki Strike/Magic Fang, or will those gloves that have a +1 to hit bonus suffice?

Are there +x Enhancement gloves out there?

[_LuCkY_]

The attack bonus of gloves count for bypassing damage reduction. Ki Strike also works for bypassing damage reduction. There are gloves out there with an attack bonus, but I doubt you'll find any with an attack bonus with more than +3 (which is gained from Ki Strike already).

You can reach +5 naturally by picking the improved ki strike epic feats.

[Fuzz]

The attack bonus of gloves count for bypassing damage reduction. Ki Strike also works for bypassing damage reduction. There are gloves out there with an attack bonus, but I doubt you'll find any with an attack bonus with more than +3 (which is gained from Ki Strike already).

You can reach +5 naturally by picking the improved ki strike epic feats.

Pretty much. We've done tests with +5 Attack Rating gloves and they cut through Premonition like it was made of butter. They shouldn't, according to PnP rules, but Bioware coded it that way, I would think primarily for the bows, whose attack bonuses also let them bypass DR. (So a +3 AB bow could bypass 10/+3 DR)

They did fix the Aid/Bless bug, however, so you can't down 2 potions and suddenly boost your unarmed attacks' penetration ability by 2 levels... that's a step in the right direction, at least.

[AbominationFascination]

Many thanks, guys.

And I had never considered the possibility of casting 'Bless' to turn a monk (or animal companion) into a Blessed Weapon.