Hi Fellow Monks.

Just dropped in here to say dam Fine APW is, aside from the lag which i know there working on a fix for.  My guild are having a real Blast, so things are looking really good and go as far id say its the best raiding i have ever taken part in.

Us Monkies have some fairly important new roles to play too which is pretty cool. 

Heres some screenys for your pleasure http://www.obsidian-orden.de/vanguard/

Enjoy

Thanks for the Heads up QTM

I assumed Errant Strikes was the Rogue grp Damage Buff, seems not, thanks for clearing that up.

Nice to know some even better things are around the corner. 

Hi QTM

I did find  that Jin surge will break a chain.

Can you tell me more about "Countess Fury" this is a new one to me.

Thanks

Hi Monks

Recently i have been practicing setting up for big hits.
Yesterday I had a 90k epic ( not a buggy VG players epic) but a real exploding heart epic. I was using secret of Celerity the Cleric had plus 20% damage buff running (forget the name) Group consisted of Monk Shammy and another Monk and was farming some zenn mobs for clickys.

So was contemplating if i was grouped with a Cleric, Bard, Druid and a BM  (using Quickening symbonite x2 Damage for 8 seconds)  Think it would be possible to get a mob fully debuffed then set up for massive burst damage of well over 250k prolly closer to 300k. This assumes an epic Hit.

Even so on a normal Exploding heart if set up properly using above classes plus belt of ages, Secret of Celerity, Symbonite of Quickening should be possible to set up normal chains making well over 100k damage per chain!

Just some thoughts anyways wondered if any had come close or made more damage in a single hit?

I would hold fire on the respec button,

Back when was with Ten Ton Hammer i tryed to get some strait answers  from the Devlopers regarding how INT effects Monks Secrets,  I was given the same old "Working as intended" quote back then. The Fact is it isnt working as intended and never has.
INT isnt scaling properly with Secrets, therefore its impossible to guess how its working, where the cap is (if any) or where diminishing returns come.

I for one would be the first to Dump all my DEX and pump INT, maybe get some INT gear maybe even Spell damage focus!

However as this is still being tampered with would not advise any respec only to find the goal posts have been moved, having already spent all the respec points!

This could lead to having a Lot of Very Angry Monks, Angry Monks tend to lead to Riots 

Zull Flair Maidens got me ritw3
Thats Flair and not the much more common water maidens, this was a few months ago, so unsure if this is still the case.

Seems a crime to have to drop str and dex because of the cap, oh well, i guess it can be balanced with jewelery and re spec points if needs be.

Specific Monk skills like FD, Jin, Kick,  Etc I like the sound of this too

Dodge and Parry works at over 500 skill, However the readings are a little odd and don't seem to tally up. I have the following

Adventuring skills reads;
Dodge is a little over 761  18% (maximum)
Parry at 742 and its reading 17.8%

Mouse over Dex reads (410dex): -
Dodge = 9.48% of 18%
Parry = 9.36% of 17.8% possible

Mouse over defense reads: -
14.04% Melee Mitigation
10.35% Spell Mitigation
50.06% Melee evasion (22.42% Dodge, 32.24% Parry)

Anyway increasing Dodge and Parry is helping us, if you get enough items you can realy notice the difference. Dodge seems to be hitting a cap at around 760ish! Where Parry caps i dont know, but it should be possible to boost it to over 1000 points. Something else to consider is that a Martial sword, Aum buff and stance Buff will add a % increase to the Base stats!

Sorry, Our Raid leader posted it up on our forum i thought it was a Very nice read and thought it would be nice to share. Anyway sorry if i stepped on your toes.

 

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N Thanks Sung_Entune (VG Bard Leader) for the Lovely wright up 

Recently my Guild has been collecting more HP gear for the forthcoming raids. It came to my attention that in order to make every last bit of DPS our HP suffers considerably.

We need HP to survive pulling in AWP or indeed the AOE Dots, thus makeing most of the AWP Set useless.

Can we have more constution and HP, as it stands its easy to hit the cap on STR and Dex so why we need any more?

Have to say looks very sweet indeed

Its hard to comment on stats tho without knowing what the special effect adds; resists? regen? who knows...