And really, the duration upgrade for Iron Hands is sad.
Take BM for example, with a symbiot (something which could be likened to the Jin cost) they can use a buff which is not only greater than Iron Hand (despite it's previous significan upgrade) - but lasts a full hour. It's a rather relevant comparsion because the two buffs do not stack.

- Secret of Celerity: Still global cooldown on it (which makes it 18 seconds duration as it only affects special attacks anyhow).

Ditto

Keep at it, looks like some stuff was changed from test to live. I am kind of disapointed that the palm exploding the heart on test changed as it was a very nice chain (landed for about 8K for normal no crits) worthy of the 5 min cool down imo. I am getting reports that its only hitting for aout 6K with crits now *meh*

*Grumble*  X 2


~QTM

  I am really ticked off..I mean wth? The damage changes to the dragon line are not even funny..I don't get it seriously..what are they afraid off? Every other class gets added damage to their already powerful damage spells/skills (look at BM etc)..I am slowly starting to get frustrated too..and I am normally a freaking patient person..

Are you F'ING kidding me!? How can they keep screwing this stuff up?? If you ADD a 5 freaking minute timer to a 50th only line that only does equal damage to a line ANYONE can just do over and over with NO timer, how can you even begain to consider that a useful change? Energy costs on secrets?? Unnoticable change to AoE damage? Is this a gd joke? I too am usually a patient person, but even a saint would be furious by now if they played a monk. All this broken stuff comes right after they destroy our most useful evasive ability too... awesome. Please tell me they are aware of the broken sh*t they pushed to the live servers at least...

I'm usually the epitome of patience, but this just blew my socks off in a very, very sourly tasting manner.

Secrets having an energy cost: obviously copy-pasted from beta. Not only is the increase in duration a nerf - we can't chain use them anymore - now they simply can't be used at all. 100-120 damage added at level 30 is very measly - a buff that a healing class should get at level 20 IMO. Why give something like this to a melee class AND make it cost a unique, player built resource?

Dragon Rakes its Claw is now a measly 80 damage more. How the HELL does that justify an increase in Endurance? It should have been at that damage and more to begin with !
Dragon disciple AE moves: why do they have a reuse timer at all? Their damage is less than what a BMG, sorcerer and whoever else may have AE's can do.
Dragon Sweeps Its Tail... why does a reactive move have a reuse timer at all? For one, it's not overpowered as it is. Second, you need to have parried, which means you need to have been hit several times before it goes off.

I'm starting to get the feeling that fixing the Monk class is like building a house on quicksand. I'm gonna give this game 2 more weeks, and if nothing gets seriously overhauled about the Monk class, I'm quitting.