You know, I haven't put more than an hour into my monk in a good 2-3 weeks now and just the other day when the changes finally started coming I thought, "Great, now I can play my main again."

Yeah okay.

It appears the developers sat up late one night and said, "Okay, so in about 5 minutes time how can we mess around with monks?" And they subsuquently rolled dice to see what changes they would make because the majority of these changes, especially to the abilities themselves, are horribly thought out and honestly do not change anything at all, specifically for Dragon monks. Wow my AoE attack does about 80 more damage while costing EVEN MORE End. Hot damn, what a fix.

I'm completely fed up with both being positive and waiting for this class to be properly fixed and quite honestly the frustration I feel is simply not worth it to me so I'm quitting my monk. Outside of minor stance tweaks we've seen nothing of real significance and I'll be damned if I'm told to just "have more patience." I'm sorry if that's not something a lot of you want to hear, but all I've done is wait from day one and received very little in return. I'm no longer in the frame of mind to accept both the quality and rate at which we're being fixed and as it stands we're far too one dimensional for my taste. I'm currently enjoying (frustration free, mind you) my alts and I intend to continue that for as long as Vanguard holds my interest.

To the devs: I have absolutely no idea what you guys are trying to accomplish, but the logic behind your actions is simply mind-boggling.

If my friend asked "Hey man, I'm just starting Vanguard which class should I play if I want to DPS?" I'd tell him he has 15 classes to choose from. Classes in general are far too capable of multiple roles (minus of course, the monk) and honestly classes feel more like copies of one another in Vanguard than they did in the much less complex but much more distinct (class wise) Everquest.

To VGMonks: I really appreciate all the effort you guys have put into both this game and our class with hopes of making a difference. I've played a lot of MMORPGs and rarely seen the kind of dedication and hard work shown here and I'd just like to thank you all for being a part of it. Also my best wishes to everyone.

To Quinn: You've done a fantastic job trying to do as much as you can given the circumstances. You are obviously not responsible for the actions of the developers and despite the difficulty of your position you've shown trememndous perseverence and this community should be glad to have you. Here's to hoping for the future.

Later.

Age of Conan Dev diary 1
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=17865&type=wmv

Age of Conan Dev diary 2
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=17866&type=wmv

Warrhammer Online info (look at the podcasts)
www.warhammeronline.com

This is so people will realize (or be reminded) that there are other games out there we have to look forward too.  Some companies seem to have it together.  Take it or leave it, love it or hate it (or me), but these games look fantastic!

(for the AoC stuff you can go to http://www.gametrailer.com/gthd.php?page=10&plattyfilt=&letter=A&s_cc=true&s_sq=[]&plattyfilt=&letter=A&s_cc=true&s_sq=[]
and load it yourself, these links i've made seem to be taking forever)

I'm done as well.

Good luck all. This latest patch was the last slap in the face I'm gonna stomach. My post "A Monk over the edge" is on the General Discussion of silkyvenom. I go into a fair bit of detail as to why being a PvP Monk is a nightmare.

 

sweet i go away for a week thinking ill come home to some sweet monklove and instead we have been nerfed and broken and given some cosmetic changes posing as love... guess ill play my necro instead chaining 4lvl hihger 4dot mobs instead of sitting and crying on my monk when a even level 3dot kicks my ass.

Agreed about that.

Stopping my 35 harm monk for now - been chatting with many players as i grouped all along my levels, been parsing logs - as someone said here or on silkyvenom some times ago, i just feel like a dead weight on my group leeching xp... I'll keep my monk in case it becomes better some day, but i'm gonna roll for some real damage dealer now.

VG monk is nothing but a joke next to EQ1 monk, which is what made me roll it up first.

Yeah, EQ1 monk had some problems (mainly mitigation, frail druid caster in the same leather armor mitigating better than someone who "honed their body into a weapon"!) but it was still rather functional. Could do respectable damage and I had my fun hectic raid pulling. Hell, even just feign pulling for a random xp group felt alot better than....this. The main use I have on Vanguard is the Kojani racial, yay for helping a little in a pinch once every half an hour that any other Kojani class can do! Now I miss my old EQ1 chaotic pulling