Nice list. 90% agree, except for the Lull. There's already Nerve Strike and FD. And eventually, knowing the Sigil guys, 99% of the high level mobs will be immune to Lull.

Also, a mistake, I think:
You cannot dual wield Parrying Daggers. They work *exactly* like a Shield. +AC, +Stats and +Parry, no Dmg / Dly.They are not weapons, and they are off-hand only. But I agree with the "king" part.

Wishlist 1:
All styles have a relatively neutral stance that grants no negative penalties, with some light bonuses.
But in the case of the Dragon stance the in-combat health regen is such a non-factor that is basically like having no stance at all.
It would be nice if it got a bit more perk to it, and there are several fitting options:
1. Grant significant out of combat health regeneration to reduce downtime (Which would be quite useful because monks when soloing are almost always forced to rest after each fight).
2. Grant a minor attack speed bonus.
3. Grant a minor run speed buff.

Ie: 5% attack speed bonus, 5% run speed bonus, and faster out of comabt health regeneration. I think it would be fine to put it all into one stance, because it's nothing that powerful but it's a few nice perks that are all along the same thing: Increased speed, which is fitting for a Dragon monk.


Wishlist 2:
Create difference idle combat stances and attach one to each monk stance.


Wishlist 3:
More attack animations, especially for the blunt martial staff (which has really only one or two attack animations, with the rest being normal attacks with the staff ackwardly positioned in your hand and clipping through the player model).

I whould like to see Martial Swords as 1 handers we got to many 2h wepons.
and i also wish they adjust the dps. for us. or the speed of the wepons.

As it is now i do more dmg with unarmed then with any other wepons. even Zank Bladstaff of the ages that is "Legendary" is worse dps then unarmed

I see the light!

Want to see what being a kung fu monk is all about? Watch a Gordon Liu Kung Fu film!. Pulling? F@#k that I just want to kick some ASS! Hyah Het hyah waai ! I'm talking about Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique / Shaolin Wonder Palm / Chin Kang Fist / 8 divine sword style. Whoever thought of the drunken style in Vanguard needs to watch the final fight with thunder legs in jackie chans Drunken Master

maybe I am missing something but what is wrong with feign death?  it works for me for the most part..  but I would expect it to not work against higher level mobs.. and just mostly with current level mobs...

I'm a relatively young monk in VG.  But from what I've come to expect to what I've seen, there's a few things I'd like to see:

Counter Reactions - Way too 1 dimensional atm.  I had envisioned a monk's counter being something along the lines of making an enemy pay if they detected and anticipated something they were doing.  Have a variety of types of counter reactions - damage, debuff, stun, etc. that only open up based on certain criteria.  For example, monk has a really powerful, long reuse debuff he can use should he detect the mob missing with a special attack. Or they see a certain spell about to go off and it opens up an attack to stun to stun the mob.  I expected more offensively oriented counters  as opposed to the defensive counters I'm seeing now.  This may be in game, because as I said, i'm relatively new.  But if not, it'd be nice if there were abilities like that tied to the counter reaction.

Iron Hand - longer buff please.  If it's an hour long, that means I only have to med jin up to whatever every hour.  Although yes, I am in the habit of mashing it as I lead off with a crescent kick, but it is somewhat annoying.  Is there any reason why this can't be a longer duration self buff?

Should just get rid of any dual wield penalty.  This includes the half crit bonuses from fists and the evasion penalty.  Martial artists learn to become equally proficient in both hands, so having another fistwrap should not reduce our ability to parry.  I'd also include not halving the damage done, but that could be overpowering.  Of any classes though, monks dual wielding should be just like using 2 primary weapons.  It gives us something unique in that respect ( assuming some other class doesn't have that already).

Jin Surge  - as others have suggested, should be a short duration buff with a toned down % mod.  A high Jin cost and longer reuse can curb possible abuse.

Ignore Pain - while I don't want it % based (because it'd be a mend clone and really render every subsequent ignore pain skill useless), it should scale somewhat.  Have it be X hp * level. The higher versions would do more hp per level. 

As for FD...I've never really liked it being used as a pulling tool (even though I've been an EQ1 monk for years).  It just doesn't make sense and seems hokey.  And as such, while I'd definitely use FD for splitting if it's allowed, it'd be nice if it were simply used a means to escape combat and nothing more.  In EQ1, FD pulling was never intended.  Heck, the concept of pulling itself wasn't intended.  That's why I see mobs running back immediately after an FD as a an intended means to thwart FD pulling and not a bug, unless of course they've admitted it is.  But anyway, its success rate vs higher level cons should scale more naturally. 

Anyway, that's part of my wish list.  The big ones being the dual wield and counter thingies.

1) Fix DPS

2) Abadon styles.  Make stances more powerful.  Allow monks to learn new stances later in their career similiar to how gestalts give psionicists abilities.  Condense, Or make new abilities for the monk class (which has the lowest total number of abilities of any class.  All 3 styles, and monk general = paladin number of abiliites)

3) Fix FD.  Granted the unintentional bug honestly makes split pulling faster for me,  I should't be able to pull a room of 8, fd, then be able to go back to the group with 1 mob (at least not due to a bug, I'm all for highly skilled monks being able to do this).

4) Remove DW penatly.  We are friggin monks.  I took 8 years of tae kwan do.  I feel pretty confident in my ability to punch with my left, or right hand.

5) Give us heals, plate armor, snares, fear, root, 3 new mezzes, and a can of whoopass.  That should cover anything else I missed

Harmonious Reuses & durations:
North Wind Snaps the Limbs
North Wind Breaks the Trunk
2 minute reuse for 20 second duration. If we're supposed to be able to be masters of debuffs, we should be able to use it a bit more often. If the reuse would be 20-30 seconds, the duration is totally fine, the abilites does deal a decent chunk of damage for the effect (and being finishe/adv. finisher, they aren't exactly at will either). Also lacks a description saying "Finisher", "Advanced Finisher".

Deadly Adder Hand
Eagle Claw
They need something more incentive than tiny tiny damage increases as rank increases, such as longer durations; 16 seconds is really short on higher levels; and the endurance drain from particiarly Deadly Adder Hand is very noticable to be reapplyable.

Tiger Pounces (And their other style eqvivalents)
Trapping Mantis Claw (and their other style eqvivalents)
While harmonious is hardly really in need off crit-on-demand, the 5 minute reuse for these is grossly exagruated, considering their weak damage and Jin cost.