Hey guys    

It's been quite a while since I've popped in here, and I was just wondering the state of the monk in VG now, compared to last April or May?

-jojo

two words: ha ha

just wait?? it's been how long already? everyone has been telling the whole monk community to 'just wait' since release. ill believe it when i see it, and im guessing we wont see it for years down the road.

Not like we could be crappier than we are now? lol  I didn't even attempt a monk in eq2 because it was no where near an eq1 monk, didn't want to be a halftank.  Any word on if Talisker is still in or not?

on test:

- Rahz Inkur - NPC’s in Rahz Inkur can now grant abilities via observation.
- Nusibe Necroplis - NPC’s in Nusibe Necropolis can now grant abilities via observation.


Thanks Sigil for the wild goose chase for RitW3 up til this goes live!

Yeah I agree, factioning does kinda suck, but you don't have to do those areas for new stuff if you don't want to do the grind. I pretty much refused to do Tehat factioning except for teh 100 kill in the bigger pyramids because it involves loot and actual crawling isntead of just sitting around mass ae'ing 3 adn 2 dots  

Rhaz faction really wasn't that bad if your group pooled the stones/bags to people that needed them. Got mine done in a night.

The new Xennemut dungeon doesn't need any faction as far as i know, except has an access quest. There are some decent loot drops in there, not to mention fun events. It's mostly grey at 50, but they bumped most of the named up to 45 so we wouldn't get TLC'd. (btw, Quinn if you read this, could you let someone know that monks get gimped out of having air brakes on the power suits because it uses energy...which we don't have. I really wish they would let all the devs know that ONE class doesn't get energy so they should stop putting it on reward abilities)

Gorgalok/Ichtakhta/Flordiel does involve _some_ faction but really not all that much, you just have to be non kos to get the quests, and you can collect armor bits while getting that faction so its no where near as bad as Marsh of Peril crap was.  And if you are sneaky, you don't even need to be non-kos to get the armor quests heh, haven't tried turning any in at kos yet tho

So really, while I agree, faction grinding like Tehat sucks, not all of it does, you just have to explore your options. And to make it better, skip around from night to night, that way you don't get burnt out on any one area

So far we've only seen them in Rhaz (but haven't doen any other 46+ dungeon since they were patched in) Got a Bloodmage one from a trash elemental, and a Hayatet Shaman one from a named Phoenix, not sure if that was coincidence or not yet heh. We also got that bloodmage one again from another trash, so seems to be random drops, maybe some are on named or just named have higher chance or something.

With all the new tomes/idols/crystals/etc dropping, I am curious if we could get word or not if we were left out. They were announced as 'spells' on the patch notes, most were group versions of buffs, but I think some classes got something new?  We as monks dont have spells, so I am just wondering if I shouldn't get my hopes up much for getting a new level 50 skill?

Before patch it was 15% dodge, now it is 9% dodge/parry. On the tooltip, not a stacking issue, or a cap issue. The tooltip itself was lowered.

As for the Dragon Mit Stuff:

http://www.vanguardmonks.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,27/topic,685.0/

Just curious if there is any word on when we will see fixes to the fixes we were given?

-Secret of Ice still has incorrect duration of 20seconds (not all versions but this is sloppy it should be consistant)
-Immortal Drunken Sway got a 6% cut on evasion, wth?
-Stone Dragon Stance is NOT calculating mitigation penalty correctly, some confirmation that this is not working as intended would be nice.
-Iron Hand's Damage nerf when duration was increased.
-Palm Slightly Bruises the Chest (tm Sybrant) still not worth the 5 minute timer.

no one at sigil can do math. have we not figure this out yet? 

i also love how previously we had no penalties at level 50, but now we do. thanks sigil 

This is what actually went in:

Drunken Fist - same damage, less mitigation (ie nerf)
Drunken Mastery - still no hard number on aggro, haste still doesn't stack with Aum Kor
Drunken Sway - went from 15% dodge to 9% parry/dodge (ie nerf)

Sorry to see you go Chunli. Best of luck to you, and thanks for all the help you've done here. 

if this idea goes live, i will have little quinn the mighty babies. 

did i miss upping the damage on most abilities on patch notes? and eagle claw is harmonious only.


as for finisher chains, every monk has ae finisher that was 2 minutes, now 1, ae is situational and does not up our damage 100% of the time...and i can only speak for drunken but we only had one other that was 2 minutes now 1....and it does the same damage as flying kick but adds a 30% crit chance (which i seem to miss the second chain 50% of the time, it should add +acc too imo) and three finger strike is moved to 5, not to one....sooo....we gain one minute on an ae finisher.....and gain one minute on a finisher that does maybe 150% of flying kick which is instant recast. and lose 5 minutes on the still to be proven worth it three finger strike chain. forgive me if i dont feel this is groundbreaking dps uppage.