My feelings exactly. I am not against other classes getting their fixes and tweaks, this is a group game for me and every class that gets a fix is one more person that I group with that will perform better.  However, this totally destroyed my notion that there was a few Sigil Developers sitting around a table discussing soley what to do about the severe underbalance that monks are facing atm.


but hey, thank GAWD they found the time to add this extremely ugly yin-yang icon to Drunken Mastery Stance. Did they lose some artists or something? one of these thigns is clearly not like the others. good thing it still adds the default icon to my buff list and drunken fist icon is still not on buff list, or i'd think we got some bug fixes this patch already!

A Paladin is my second main after a monk, and I can say that while they were never in as poor shape as the Monk, all the changes they've gotten have been justified.

Sigil's changes of the paladin have shown a very strong understanding of the class and what it could use the most in terms of tweaks. The fact that Talisker himself plays a Paladin would explain that now.

Hmm, actually reading this post a little better I did become a tad bit more negative. I was really confused why a Paladin needed more love than us. They have a bugged virtue ability in Dictum of Valus where all ranks can be used one after another, and damage is doubled as opposed to 1/2 in PvP. Their virtue point regens faster than the intended 1 per hour. As of this patch they have an instant 6 second stun (useable in combat) with no cooldown and an ability that reduces the heals of the target by 75%. They have heals, multiple invulns, do good damage, have some nice group buffs,  and are Defensive Fighters. The Paladins in my guild say they swear a Dev must play a Paladin.

Why did they need more love than us? I am all for Defensive Fighters being strong since I have some high hopes for end-game raiding. But if they are getting such sweeping changes as they have...well the changes for Monks better blow me off my feet when we actually get  "looked at" We have been broken since the combat system got changed in Beta. The piddly fixes we have been thrown are not what we need to fix us. You basically tossed us a bag of saline with no IV kit while we are dieing of dehydration in the desert. Why on earth would you even THINK of an AA system before fixing all classes. Shouldn't you have everything running smoothly with classes before adding more to them?

As far as reading forums and posting...are you really that much more busy than Avarem and Cylus to check on forums to see how the community feels about issues? People give feedback on Art issues and Quest issues and get responses from them rather quickly. I see the Devs for VGTact posting all the time on their forums. Whereas getting a response from you is like asking us to pull your teeth out. Quinn is great and all, but sometimes the playerbase wants to hear from the Man, not the Middleman. If you do not want to go to all of the fansites to read posts, read the ones here. But at the very least there should be some feedback from you on stuff. The only thing worse than negative feedback is no feedback at all. Which is basically what we as Monks have been stuck with.

Sorry if this post sounds harsh, but when you play a class that you love, and watch as others outpace you (balance wise) when they are already one of the more polished classes, then you tend to get a bit irratated.  Spreading love across all classes is not going to get the job done, I'm sorry. Some classes need a lot more work than others, and (while I may be a bit biased)  Monks are one of those classes. Maybe try speading love, while focusing more on one or two classes. And use the **In the works page**  to post what classes you are focusing on this week. The community as a whole would probably be a lot more appreciative.

And so far that I have seen Monks have the worst itemization in the game then any other class. Our weapons are a limited choice. Our hand weapons are fast but because they are fast they do to little dmg and thus your specials dont hit hard and your dps actually takes a hit rather then a 2hander which makes your specials hit hard and more dps boost.

what exactly is AA anyways?

AA = Alternate Advancement. It's simply a mechanism that allows the player to continue improving their character without actually leveling.

It's actually a solid concept because of the issue that max level has on the game. Players always want to feel like they can advance or improve but simply raising the level cap means essentially means adding new content, which must be planned, conceptualized, designed, implemented and supported, all of which obviously takes quite a bit of time to do correctly. Additionally, new content and levels have a tendency to make previous content outdated or even obsolete.

To give you an idea, the way it was implemented in EQ was you would be able to earn XP toward a separate AA bar that once you leveled, would earn you 1 AA point, not a new level. Once you accrue enough AA points, you could then use those points to "purchase" new AA skills, such as increasing your in-combat regeneration rate, or mana regen rate, or run speed, etc.

Personally, I'm glad they're looking to incorporate the AA system into the game, but I would agree with most of the folks above in that it's way too early to be actually delving too deep into at the moment. Fixing the core game should be everything until it's fixed.

i think they are working on a revamp thats why they are not fixing us in the previous patches
(only reason i can think of )