help?

A Warrior Monk, or a plain Monk?  Because a Warrior Monk for Barbarian's is a Penalized Profession (incurring the 15 build instead of the 10) but a normal Monk for Barbarian's is neither a Penalized nor Prohibited Profession so you could dual class into it for the normal 10 build cost.  Unfortunately, Monk isn't a starting profession for Barbarian either. 

As for how to become a Barbarian Monk, maybe start as a Barbarian Druid and dual class into Barbarian Monk?  That might be something to do.

can you tell me more on multi classing?

Before you get too confused, Phil, I should point out that there used to be a Monk profession, but it was removed from the game some time ago since it was too similar to the Scholar profession to be worthwhile.

So, Warrior Monk is what you want, which is I'm sure what you were referring to. Unfortunately, you simply can't start the game as a barbarian warrior monk. The reason is that the warrior monk profession is very particularly a product of Khitanese culture, and barbarians are too far removed geographically and too xenophobic for them to become warrior monks right away. They can eventually learn those ways, but it takes some adaptation for them, and that's what the "penalized" attribute represents.

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thanks for all your help


if i have any more questions ill post them

A Warrior Monk, or a plain Monk?  Because a Warrior Monk for Barbarian's is a Penalized Profession (incurring the 15 build instead of the 10) but a normal Monk for Barbarian's is neither a Penalized nor Prohibited Profession so you could dual class into it for the normal 10 build cost.  Unfortunately, Monk isn't a starting profession for Barbarian either. 

As for how to become a Barbarian Monk, maybe start as a Barbarian Druid and dual class into Barbarian Monk?  That might be something to do.

Wasn't the 'Monk' class removed?

Tom,
Read Matt's post.