Fighting in river valley I noticed that the slimes could either use a mitigation buff or a mitigation stance.  You have to look at the different icons underneath their name to tell which they're using (stances are the larger icons like DoTs).

Pushing hands seems to go off some sort of success roll.  Sometimes it pushes them out of their stance and sometimes it doesn't.  I generally try to burn them down before they can go defensive.

Personally, I like the utility.  Nothing screams "I'm useful Dammit!" like a mob starring into space so that all your group mates can see it.

The few times Ice has procced my group mates have commented on it.

I've seen the fire proc maybe 2 or 3 times ever.  I've seen the ice proc 2.  I'm also on Gulgrethor.

You know what I expect to see?

Instead of scaling our abilities up to Rangers.  I expect to see Rangers abilities brought down to earth a bit.  I wouldn't be surprised to see Ranger's cloaks moved to a system similar to our secrets.  Mana based obviously but you get the idea.

I noticed this yesterday as well.  But I thought that I had just fat fingered Secret of Ice instead of Fire (hotkeyed near each other). 

Interesting.

Now that's a great idea.  To me that is the ultimate compromise.  Toggle it on when you want it (and suffer an automatic Jin usage) then turn it off when you're done.

Similar to how Storm Dragon Stance works now.

I'll concede that it's a generalization.  But the logic is sound.  While it's not a true 60x increase in damage it will at least yield a similar decrease in cost (120 jin for an hour to what? 12 - 15?).


I suppose it depends on your view of things.  I'm happy to see our class mentioned in all of the last patch notes.  Yeah, we still need some serious loving.  But, they're working on us.  I don't think it's realistic to expect them to be able to crank out major fixes for us in a matter of weeks.  But, that's a discussion for another thread.

Personally I enjoyed Iron Hand + Secrets in a group last night.  In particular Secrets of Ice was proccing rather often.  I enjoyed answering my groups "Who keeps stunning the mob?".

"Why, that would be me.  You're welcome."

I wouldn't complain if they did something like this.  But, I understand why they are hesitant to make a big adjustment.  We know that they're in the process of fixing monks.  However, I think it's easy to forget that they need to do that without opening any exploitable tactics and without demeaning any other classes unnecessarily.

Deciding to make Iron Hands a 1hr self buff is a huge ability shift.  As it currently stands you're paying 2 jin for 1 min.  Making that a 1 hr self buff would be giving us a 60x increase in damage that would at most cost us 5 - 7 times as much (if the cost stays in Jin and there aren't too many other options).

Assuming you're constantly generating jin either through meditation or combat you should be able to reactivate Iron Hand almost every time it runs out.  So, ~60 times an hour.  Without spending Jin on that you would have how many extra Ashen Hands per hour? 30?  That's a HUGE increase in available damage.

Because of that reasoning I think it's important to be patient.  We know they want to fix us.  We just need to understand that it's a very complex equation they're working with.

I've been told that Jahmael (sp?) the subjugator is a monk class mob.  He's a lvl 20(ish) named VIhaad guy near Donovan's roost on Qalia.  He's not in the main camp.  But, the smaller one that's closest to the bind stone.

I'll run back by him tonight and see if I learn anything from him.  I've hesitated to hog him since he's needed for a quest.

I've noticed this twice while leveling and once when using aum to see if I had new Dragon mastery abilities.  It's always been fixed by logging out and back in.

I've /bugged it in game each time.

What are the stats on it?

Well, as the game is built right now you can't pause.  They did this to prevent botting (So, I'm told).  I suppose it would be possible to put in a bunch of junk commands /target %to or something to eat up time.  But it looks like macros lines are executed almost simultaneously.

I'm almost 24.  Once I get 25 I plan on living this quest.  At least for the useful parts (particularly the BP).

As I find stuff I'll let you guys know.

It seems like I saw some of the essences drop during the Infineum quests.  But, I didn't have the list in front of me.

Is that the Lord Tsang quest line?  I've spent almost all of my time in Qalia so I don't really know.

I'm relatively fond of Clerics for duos.  However my room mate has a Disciple.  He's a lot of fun to Duo with.  We haven't tried it since Update #1.  But as it stood we both did good damage, I kept aggro, and he kept me alive.  The only catch was arguing over who got what gear drops (if it has healing focus it was his).