If you are a kensei, then any kensei weapon is also considered a monk weapon. This means that a 5th level monk can take two attacks with a Quarterstaff as an Attack action and then use a martial arts unarmed bonus attack or spend a ki for a Flurry of Blows.
Can you use monk weapons with flurry of blows?
One of the abilities gained through Martial Arts is being able to make an unarmed strike with your bonus action if you used your main action to attack with either monk weapons or unarmed strikes. Flurry of blows does the same thing, only now it is 2 attacks with bonus action but costs 1 ki point.
Can you use hand of harm with flurry of blows?
When you use Flurry of Blows, you can now replace each of the unarmed strikes with a use of your Hand of Healing, without spending ki points for the healing. In addition, when you make an unarmed strike with Flurry of Blows, you can use Hand of Harm with that strike without spending the ki point for Hand of Harm.
Can you use flurry of blows with a two handed weapon?
With Flurry, therefore, you can two-weapon fighting with a single weapon held in two hands, and recieve extra attacks, none of which are off-hand attacks unless you choose that they are. Among monk weapons that you can wield in two hands there are the Temple Sword and the Quarterstaff.
What weapons work with flurry of blows?
When a monk reaches 5th level, the penalty lessens to -1, and at 9th level it disappears. When using flurry of blows, a monk may attack only with unarmed strikes or with special monk weapons (kama, shuriken and quarterstaff in the official campaign).
What qualifies as a monk weapon?
Monk weapons are simple weapons (or a Shortsword) which lack the Heavy or Two-Handed properties. You are already proficient with simple weapons & shortswords as a Monk.
Do monks get 2 attacks?
As a monk, you can make 1 attack with your action, and 1 attack with your bonus action. You can spend a ki point to make 2 attacks as a bonus action instead. You are allowed to move between your attacks. So if you attack an enemy once and move to another target, you can attack them if you have any attacks remaining.
Can way of mercy heal themselves?
The Monk of Mercy is a healing archetype. Their damage potential is fine, but nothing significantly greater than other archetypes. As a result, the Way of Mercy has no significant durability increase. They are reliant on allies (or healing themselves) to stay alive, which can get expensive.
How many unarmed strikes can a monk make between turns?
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.
Do you fight unarmed or with monk weapons?
That’s everything that paragraph states. It simply tells you that monks fight unarmed or with monk weapons and then defines monk weapons as either shortswords or any simple melee weapon that isn’t heavy or requires two-hands to use. Simple melee weapon with heavy or two-handed property = not monk weapons.
How to attack with weapons in flurry of blows?
Like attacking with daggers. Throwing two daggers, one in each hand, as the normal attack, the grabbing two more from your belt to throw. Perhaps make a high dexterity, 17+ to be able to do this. With the speed of attack a monk is capable of, it makes sense it would be rather easy for them to do.
How does a monk throw an extra dagger?
To throw extra daggers, the monk would have to draw, hold correctly, aim, throw, follow through, control breathing, etc, wheras their unarmed attacks are a function of their ki and its connection to their body.
