Max stats for halfling monk

[Fortybox]

I was wondering if I could get some help maximizing stats for my monk at level 100. I am assuming I can tank INF?

[Furrowfoot]

There's a couple of ways you can go. Tanking INF will get you to 979 total (79 INF, 100s everything else). If you're looking for actual max stats though, tanking CON is the better way to go, though you'll end up with only 93 CON and will probably have some (greater than usual) encumbrance issues, especially early on. Tanking CON and slightly dropping INT from max results in a 991 total w/93 CON and 98 INT at 100. My monk went the INF route, but figured I'd mention both. Is 21 INF worth 7 CON and 2 INT?

[Fortybox]

There's a couple of ways you can go. Tanking INF will get you to 979 total (79 INF, 100s everything else). If you're looking for actual max stats though, tanking CON is the better way to go, though you'll end up with only 93 CON and will probably have some (greater than usual) encumbrance issues, especially early on. Tanking CON and slightly dropping INT from max results in a 991 total w/93 CON and 98 INT at 100. My monk went the INF route, but figured I'd mention both. Is 21 INF worth 7 CON and 2 INT?

Thanks Furrowfoot. What should I enter in for my stats if I were to tank INF?

[Stumplicker]

You can't get exactly all the way to straight 100s except for INF as a halfling because you can only put 4 stats above 70 and can't lower agility below 30 because it's a primary. You have to lower either INT or STR to 70 instead of 73 to fit it all in proper. Obviously between the two, INT is the one to lower, not STR. With that in mind, here's what maxes halfling monk stats as best as possible.

STR: 73
CON: 49
DEX: 62
AGL: 30
DIS: 68
AUR: 82
LOG: 77
INT: 70
WIS: 82
INF: 67

At 100, that'll make everything 100, except for Int at 98, and INF at 82. In order to make all 100 but INF you'd have to be able to lower AGL to 28 instead of its minimum of 30, and raise 5 stats over 70, making INT 73 as well as strength.

[Peppwyn]

or go 5 ranks of perfect self and have 100 in every stat!

[Stumplicker]

Heh...well, you always go 5 ranks in perfect self. The assumption is that you've got 8 or 9 of 'em at 110 when you're capped. :D

But man, 30 Cman points, plus 12 for burst of swiftness, plus 12 for surge of strength which you'd likely get anyway, and Perfect self is the most valuable CMAN for its cost in the game. Who -wouldn't- spend 42 CMan points for 100 extra stat points? That's a no brainer.

[MrMortimur]

Well that'd be 52 CMps. But then when you start running surge+burst nonstop the benefit is then 158 stat points. I love it.

[Stumplicker]

54 if you include surge of strength, but I figure most people get that regardless so I didn't count it in the point total.

[khorpulent]

What, you don't want to be a Double Burghal Gnome?