Duelist build
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human / male / parrymancer
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Staffmonk parrybuild might actually work somewhat decently. High apr at good ab. Could do some wonky staffmonk/fighter multiclass for all the feats. Since staff gets monk's ubab, and the channel is at your highest ab, plus monk ac, it should work fairly well.
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Still, while staffmonk is a valid parry build... it's not your quintessential rapier-toting duellist!
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I wouldn't make a parry staff monk, parrying is an attempt to stall for time. Monks suffer from time expenditure the most because they're the most buff reliant class in the game for meleeing (up there with the cleric), and time is a detriment to them.
More-over, they'd only be able to parry at their best when channeling (which also has a duration), and during that channel their ripostes would barely do any damage. Parrying also requires a heavy feat investment to be effective, something a monk with no kit might be able to afford doing, but a kit monk can't.
Rangers and fighters are currently in the best position to play parry concepts, high level rogues suffer from it because they can never sneak attack on a riposte, so relying on sneak attacks for your damage is a detriment in this case.
Rangers thrive because they get improved two weapon fighting at earlier levels, fighters thrive because they can sink in the feat investment and still have room for some good feats afterwards.
Neither will compare to the bravo kit though, that shit was basically a monk that still got to use weapons and wear armor, with a higher hp pool and base attack.
All that said and done, you really don't need the parry skill in order to build/play/roleplay a proper duelist. Parry isn't in any way shape or form a requirement, and I wouldn't recommend trying to build for it at the moment.
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Monks are lame. Pure rogue FTW