the Player’s Handbook
You can read all of the Way of the Four Elements features in the Player’s Handbook. In short, the Disciple of the Elements “meta-class feature” grants you access to Elemental Disciplines of increasing power, which you can spend increasingly large amounts of ki to activate.
Is Way of the Four Elements weak?
It’s pretty weak tbh. The biggest problem is that it has no free abilities like the Open Hand and Shadow Monk. Way of 4 elements has to pay for everything and the ki costs are honestly too high.
Does elemental attunement cost a ki point?
1 Answer. You are right, the RAW are contradictory in generally describing Elemental Disciplines as costing Ki and specifically the Elemental Attunement discipline not detailing any Ki cost.
What does a way of the four elements Monk do?
The Player’s Handbook is actually the only place you need to go for the most unique subclass the Monk has to offer. The Way of the Four elements grants the monk class some spellcasting options. Similar to the monks of the Sun Soul, the monks of the Four Elements are essentially Warlocks, with a 30-minute rest requirement.
How does a 4E Monk get more spells?
The 4e monk gets access to spell powers at faster rate then a 1/3 caster. The monk gets access to 2 level spells at 6th level, 3rd level spells at 11th, and 4th level spells at 17th.
What to consider when building a monk subclass?
Ki isn’t the only thing to consider when building a monk subclass. Monks love their bonus actions. Bonus actions for monks are sort of resource in themselves, as they limit what a monk can spend ki points on and how much they can accomplish in a single turn.
How many disciplines can a 17th level monk learn?
A 17th-level monk can learn four disciplines from a pool of seventeen. That’s less than one-third the spells known from a spell list that’s half the size of the Eldritch Knight’s.
