Great on the RitW. Why change Sun Dragon's Corona to a PBAE? I've asked the question repeatedly. That's what Dragon Breath is about. I don't want yet another AE. I actually like the fire resistance, it's about the only thing that makes sense about the ability. How about this: make it fire resistance plus a chance at a fire DoT STACKING with Secret of Fire. I'd rather have another DoT than another AE any day.

I've said it before. There's no way a FIGHTER should EVER get hit more than a CASTER, with maybe the exclusion of clerics. We're trained to fight, pantsy clothies aren't. It doesn't make sense for an offensive stance to make your ARMOR worse - becasue that's what it's currently doing. It DOES makes sense for an offensive stance to lower your AVOIDANCE. Focusing on attacking means you're spending less time defending, not stripping down armor.
Either the mitigation penalty needs to go and get replaced by an avoidance penalty, or the mitigation penalty just needs to go. Even with the incoming changes, we won't be dealing more damage than rangers as it is. I'd settle for the mitigation penalty going back to what it was, but I still wouldn't agree on that mechanic.

AEs are "almost" useless.

The only time i ever use AEs is when im grind faction on lowbie mobs.

I'm not complaining here, any upgrades are appreciated, but I am agreeing that I too could not care less about yet another button I will almost never use.

Sooner rather than later.


Quick question on how far out till we see these changes on Test?
Talisker says:
Early next week I believe.

~QTM

General: Iron Skin, Is indeed on a 5 min timer now
Harmonious: Flying Kick Line will stay as is for the moment as it's 0 reuse time should even it out. DPS testing will define weather it needs a tweak.
Dragon: Sun Dragon's Corona, Changes put on hold pending community feedback
Drunken: Errant strikes reuse is indeed down to 5 mins

I also neglected to report that the Drunken Ability Magnificient Stagger is being changed. Reduced to 2 Jin cost and 5 mins reuse timer.

Looking at Harmonious Diamond skin innate ability, Im happy and think it makes sense-the Harmonious monk should be the defensive stance while Drunken is the middle, even though originally Drunken was meant to be defensive, I think it makes more sense for the Harmonious to be-the Harm monk as a bunch of debuffs, the only purpose of most is to weaken the mob so that he can survive tanking.

The Devs sem to have gotten confused as to which should do what, the Drunken mob does more damage than Harm and has the taunts, however while he can keep aggro, he struggles to tank, I changed to Harm from drunken becasue Harm abilities allow me to tank   with a small group, yet I struggle with aggro, it needs to be decided which is which, and it makes sense for the Harm to be the defensive tank type monk-tbh the Harm debuffs are of little use if Im not tanking, I play a pally and have no real use for a monk debuffing the mobs str, I can tank everything in the game easily as it is, so the only use of the Harm damage debuffs is to allow the monk to tank, so then making the drunken the tanking monk makes no sense to me

The reason I think Harm is more the tank monk is simple-My drunken couldnt handle it, my Harm can.  Its why I think the game is confused, they started with the idea the Drunk would be the tank type-aggro tools, then at 50 they end up being more DPS and a cross between offensive and defensive.  Meanwhile the Harm doesnt have the ability to grab agro, yet can actually tank when he does.  The str/damage debuffs are serving one purpose-the ability for the monk to tank, if you have a tank in group those debuffs mean crap, sure its a pretty little extra, but I'd rather have a monk in my group doing all out DPS

agree with fujitsu, if you take my drunken abilies I hope my dps sure goes up