Doesnt matter really anyways.  SOE came in with too little too late.  The game is dead.  The server consolidation is last step in the eventual complete breakdown.  Brad was smart to get out when he did, at least.  Damn him, he should have at least gone down with this sinking ship.

Wave hand in the clouds SHOULD be a 100% counterattack sort of skill, like ... oh what was that skill in eq, where all attacks incoming would allow the monk to get an attack in return, INSTEAD of taking damage.

This is the only thing that makes sense with the large jin and re-use costs.   

PFFT

I understand that the game wont be balanaced towards PvP but I would seriously use the no global cool down and being able to do stuff while using the skill mainly in a PvE environment.  Using the skill to outdistance a pull then use defensive abilities or whatever while flying. 

As for having it removed altogether, see my first comment.  It is the only skill that sets Monks apart from other classes.  Oh wait, they made a item with a click ability that does the same thing.  I am sure they will soon make an item that will let you FD over and over like we do.

To help monk's playability in PvP and PvE, I would like to see Soaring Leap changed so that it will no longer cause a global cool down.  Also, there is something about using the ability that whenever it's in use you can not use any other ability.  This way we could at least use SL to jump around and throw surikens.  SL also breaks our 160% dodge and this needs to be changed as well.

Thus this is my petition. 

Oh it's not that bad, if you know what to do.  Spend some time running around Rhaz Inkur looking for named, you will get lots of practice trying to wipe agro.

Some hints on wiping agro and using the buggy FD against large groups: 
- Always have as many run speed buffs as you can, as high as you can.
- When running away to FD I use my mouse while pressing both buttons.  In this manner when I FD and fail I keep moving.  In other words, when you hit FD you dont actually stop, FD, fail, then have to jump back up and start moving.  Try it and practice this.  If you continue to fail you can just keep moving and spamming FD over and over.
- When you do successfully get a FD off but some are still stuck to you from the FD bug, give them a couple of seconds for the ones you DID FD off to move away from the ones that are stuck to you then FD again.  Otherwise, the ones that stick to you will re-agro all of the others that you FDd off and you are back to square one.
- Get proper gear.  Especially the Martial Sword from Rhaz, which has 18% parry vs. lvl 53's.
- Use our 160% dodge whenever you are about to run past stuff.  Usually the mobs will only get one chance to hit you then once they miss use a jump/soaring leap to move way past them and then FD.  Unfortunately, using our 160% dodge then soaring leap makes the dodge go away.  Sigh.
- Use jump/soaring leap whenever you can.  Mobs cant hit you if you are too far away.

Has anyone ever seen the Afrit Ulak ever proc?  In the last patch, all of the afrit weapons were changed to procs that affected all mobs, but more damage vs the efret.  I have yet to see mine proc a single time on anything.

Wasnt this guy the same one that basically ignored everyone elses class inputs and did whatever he wanted?  I do still have hope, I still actually play my monk at 50, but I know that lots of the community is dispersing quickly...  This game needs Raid content and its still 2 months off.... what are they doing with their people??

I would have to say that this is also why this board has become so stagnant as of late. 

It's a shame that the only reason FD splitting is even somewhat viable is because of how bugged FD is.  When you FD and it says that everyone thinks you are dead, yet you still have a mob on your encounter list that will run up and camp your "corpse"... working as intended? 

My suggestions:

- Of course our DPS sucks, this one is a no brainer.  We need higher DPS because there is no way a Ranger should out damage us in melee (like they currently do)
- Monks need a stun, root, and/or a snare.  Something like a leg sweep that knocks the target down and they have to take a few seconds to get up.  Every other class in the game just about has a way to do one or more of these.  And I dont consider Secret of Ice a stun as you have no control over it.
- Monks should have super-human evasion that give them a high chance to avoid roots, suns, snares, ect.

The only reason I still play my monk is in hopes that raiding content will eventually be released and I will be needed to pull.  Whenever I get into PvP I end up running around trying to throw shurikens at people because thats all I can do. 

I really hope SOE does somethign for this game, and for Monks in general.  All they need to do is to take a class population poll and they will see the disparity.  Whenever I log on, I am usually the only 50 Monk on Varking.  I know of 3 Monks that have made it to 50 on Varking so far... how sad is that?

From reading the opinions of the ex-Sigil employee, I am not sure I would want him back...  Maybe someone fresh with an open mind is what all classes need right now.

Was the ranger using ranged or melee?  I think a ranger should have great dps ranged but crap in melee, yet they blow us away in melee.  It is very frustrating.

I have to say that I would never have made it to 50 on Varking without a guilding helping me level.  Do I feel that our overall dps is lower then it should be at 50?  Sure.  But I feel that if I play my toon right I can do a lot more dps then people might realize.  It's gotten a little boring now but the guild is going to test server soon to try out new raid content.  Should be interesting at least.  I'm the only monk in my guild, if that tells you anything about how many monks are lvl 50 on pvp servers.

It's been out a while but I havent heard anything in a while, so I was curious if there had been any updates to its functionality.  Thanks a lot.

Is this specifically for Monks?  I have heard of other classes getting new abilities, outside of the scope of the original group of "found" abilities. 

I wonder because QTM never responded to the question of whether RitW 3 was in the game or not.