Re-roll in MMOGs generally means delete the character and make one of a different class, not a different one of the same class.

Here's the concept behind faster weapons wasting damage when WeaponDelay < GlobalCooldown

For a weapon where WeaponDelay is at least the GlobalCooldown, you autoattack at the same rate as you would when you can do specials, so there is never a different delay that you are concerned with.

For a weapon with a WeaponDelay faster than GlobalCooldown, you have no delay autoattacking, or if you constantly spam special attacks, but if you mix autoattacks and specialattacks, then you are slowing your autoattacks by the amount that they had been recharged when you hit the specialattack.  This doesn't really introduce a damage penalty on its own, because your attacks are still going off as quickly as they can as you use your higher damage specials.

However, faster weapons do less damage than slower weapons of the same level.  Which means that you are taking a faster weapon with a short delay and increasing the delay without getting the corresponding increase in damage that the slightly longer delay would warrant were the item set to that increased delay in the first place.

I hope that made sense.

Just an update for everyone, on the original topic:

I've tried it for two levels now, and as a harmonious monk I seem to have a much harder time maintaining agro of single mobs and groups when duoing with a disciple than as a dragon monk (level 18 and 19).  I suspect it is the slower attack rate of the two-handed weapons, and the lack of weaknesses I can exploit that either I or the disciple could start.

So, last night I switched back to dragon monk.  Harmonious might be better than dragon monk at higher levels, but in my particular situation, I can do more damage more quickly and manage agro better for our duo as a dragon monk.

I've seen the issues with stances thread and several other threads that give me a good idea about what each harmonious stance should be used for, but I have a question on gear.

What weapons do you normally use in each of the stances, or do you use macros to change the weapon for criticals vs. normal special abilities?

Actually, if he plays a monk and solos a lot, so he doesn't get comparisons with other classes, that might explain a great deal.  After all, our class isn't broken (unplayable), merely its just playing the game on hard mode.

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No cookies, but you can go up to the counter after the happy meal is gone and ask for a kids cone.  They come with it, even if they don't advertise that fact.

I guess I need to clarify the bugs with Waning Palm I.

1.  The description for Waning Palm I doesn't indicate it is a rescue reaction ability, and it should.

2.  No where that I've found describes that in order for a rescue reaction ability to go off that your defensive target needs to be the one with agro by the offensive target I have selected, and my defensive target must have taken a certain amount of damage (not sure what that amount is exactly, but just having the targets right still results in an error message if my defensive target is above 50% health).

3.  The icon for Waning Palm I is only grey'd out during global cooldown times, which indicates that its available at all other times.  It isn't available at all other times; I know, I've tried to use it at times and gotten a "you don't have an applicable target" message.

Waning Palm I is a reaction ability (doesn't say so in the tool tip) that appears to always be available.  That is, it never greys out except for the global cooldown, so it looks like its available even when it cannot be used because your target isn't low enough on health.  Also, there is nothing telling you how low health your defensive target must be in order for this to work.

Very nice!  Any idea how many are monks and how many are disciples?

Suggestion:  Can the parser be set up to count the number of dodges and parries, and blocks for sake of completeness for other classes?  These should probably be reported as a number as well as a number / unit of time.

Or perhaps instead of a number / unit of time, they could be reported as percentages.  But the percentages should be based on the order in which the avoidance moves are calculated.  For instance if the first calculation is hit/miss, then block if it would have hit, then parry if it would have hit and not been blocked, then dodge if it would have hit and not been parried or blocked, the formulas would be

misses% = misses /  totalAttacks
block% = block / (totalAttacks - misses)
parry% = parry / (totalAttacks - misses - block)
dodge% = dodge / (totalAttacks - misses - block - parry)
totalAvoidance% = (block + parry + dodge ) / (totalAttacks - misses)

Note that hit% is NOT 1 - misses% because attacks that would have hit still have a chance to have been blocked, parried, or dodged.

To do this, we'd have to find out for sure what the order is for checking to see if an attack that would hit is avoided.

I'm not the world's best speller by any longshot, but I believe the correct spelling is Disciple not Desciple.

Although, as Disciple is a class that now has a home on this board, should that title be something else like... Devotee perhaps?

I missed this question earlier...

If you look at many of the maps on the net, for instance click on your continent of choice on   GamePressure's Maps, you will see that the world is divided into named squares.  Each named square is a chunk.  They are also why you sometimes pause as you are running; you just crossed a chunk boundary.

Crossing chunks in VG:SoH is more seamless than zone boundaries in EQ or changing districts in CoH/CoV, but not as smooth as the zone  transitions in DAoC or EQ2.

As a Dragon monk I received two abilities at level 15 when I first got Aum of the Striking Dragon and then one more ability at level 18.  YMMV.

I saw that show, and while it was very interesting, you also have to take into account that every single martial artist there was an extreme specialist:  hard-body training, bow, staff, three-segment staff, nunchucks, spear.  The spear weilder would not have been able to perform the same feats that the hard-body focused martial artists did, and visa versa.

Vazerai, I really hope that was meant to be humor, because if it was at all serious you need to take a step back and look at the reality of the situation we find ourselves in. 

I spent a year of beta and two years plus after release being the scout team lead in DAoC looking at exactly this issue for my class and I know what Quinn and the devs are going through.  At least Talikser agrees that there is an issue, so Quinn and the rest of us aren't in the position of needing to convince them that there's some issues with the class performance, and needing to gather all the raw data ourselves like I needed to do with scouts.

DPS being low is one of the hardest issues to balance correctly.  Is it a) base damage all around, b) base damage rate of increase, c) specials damage, d) specials rate of fire, e) weapon damage, f) weapon speed, g) scaling of damage against higher/lower level/dot mobs, or h) some combination of the above?  This takes some extensive testing and statistics to figure out, done at a variety of levels and with all three monk types, with at least 200 combats against a variety of foes in each level/style combination in order to get an accurate feel for the statistics.

Once that's figured out, we need to determine how to fix the issue, knowing that a later adjustment to any of these (ie:  new equipment being added by the crafting team or questing teams) may unbalance the class again.  Trust me, its much better to take the time to figure it out once, than to get a fix that wasn't right and swing on the pendulum between chewtoy-for-mobs and every-other-class-yelling-for-nerfs which you just know will eventually get handed out.  If we can't get it right the first time, its better to take a couple patches increasing one variable at a time in gradual steps to get where you should be, rather than trying for a multi-pronged fix that makes the class overpowered.  As much as I'd love to be in the current position of rangers fighting three-dot mobs two or more levels higher than my character, that will lead to a nerf that leaves you behind the curve instead of right where you should be, and in 7 years of gaming experience in MMOGs, the nerf always lasts longer than the overpowered period.

So yes, continue to raise issues and bugs.  Provide details and data to support the bugs and issues if you want to see them fixed earlier (hard data that may be of personal or comparitive nature, not anecdotal evidence).  However, whining like the quote above, while it may be meant as humor, really isn't productive at all and will be taken by someone (me perhaps?) as a feeling of depression.  I was strongly tempted to suggest you go play an alt for a while, perhaps a ranger even, but I'm really hoping that your post was tongue-in-cheek and not a serious sign of burnout/'depression regarding your character.