Roderic wrote:Folks, to my knowledge Chei is useful to casters > unarmed fighters (monks) > melee fighters.
This is only the case because Melee Fighters don't make use of the INT bonus he grants. Unarmed itself doesn't benefit much from Chei, but rather, the calculations in several unarmed transmutations damage fly upwards from his stat buffs (i.e. Blade Hands gets about +14 or so extra damage per hit, Dragon Form does like 70+ a hit).
Roderic wrote:Does nowadays Chei grant a non-challenging melee-fighter build (such as NaFi)? I would like to use Chei for a type of tank build with relative ease.
Naga Assassin is pretty decent from my estimation, branching out with some evocations and other ranged support. As already noted, since you're going to be staggeringly intelligent, there is absolutely no excuse to not have spells with Chei.
However, the new ability, temporal distortion, covers for you if you don't have Deflect Missiles, and Step from Time is there if you get into a bad situation. And naturally, you have an unmatched tactical nuke with slouch. You need about 12 Invocations ASAP, regardless.