I would assume it will be a flat one time cost. Any "jin over time" buffs could cause it to wear off anytime we ran out of jin. That would be a pain.

As Khana already said, curently the game code does not support jin over time costing. It's only going to be a 1 time cost while turning on the secret.

~QTM

To this I reply... kewl 

The damage added have little importance at 50 where the monk is properly working, but if it's an increase with 100% over the scale, it's a good one.

That's more how you would expect a release power would look, rather than a Beta-3 like the current. Good change.

Ok.

Might increase pre-50 DPS some, which is good. It'll be a very nice addon for 50 aswell.

As with the secrets, about time.


All of the above are good changes, and if it continues that way, monks might actually no longer be a beta-3 class. It would be interesting to see something happening to AoE's (finisher line and dragon breath) that have been jokes since the nerf just pre-release.

Another day another set of changes rolling though.....  The monk isnt getting tweaked so much as it is an overhaul.

• Monk - Deadly Adder Hand now deals damage over time in addition to the final damage of the ability.  The final damage has been increased significantly.
• Monk - Find the Center now increases dodge instead of block  .  The refresh has been lowered to 5 minutes and the Jin cost has been reduced to 2.
• Monk - Wave hand in Clouds now has a refresh of 4 minutes and costs 4 jin.  The damage has also been increased and is affected by strength.
• Monk - Diamond Body is now an innate ability earned at level 30 for Harmonious Body Monks.  It now increases armor class by 30% and constantly purges poisons, diseases and curses. Looks like Harm Monks have been eating their green veggies.
• Monk - Dragon Stance and Harmonious Body Stance will no longer wear off after an hour. (Bug Fix)

~QTM

well by the looks of it its nice for harmonious, i would assume that drunken will be in the next round of tweaks?

personally Diamond Body is now an innate ability earned at level 30 for Harmonious Body Monks.  It now increases armor class by 30% and constantly purges poisons, diseases and curses. Looks like Harm Monks have been eating their green veggies.  should be a drunken ability not a harmonious.  Drunken are the tanks and as such should have the better tanking buffs.  I personally REALLY dont like this at all.  I think it will be over powered and the other 2 forms of monk would need some kind of compensation.

Drunken i would expect an innate lvl 30 buff that adds 15% parry/dodge and 30% to all resists
Dragon i would expect an innate lvl 30 buff that adds a perm +10% dmg mod (stack with offensive) and 40% haste

Personally i cant say how much i dont like the idea of harmonious monks being the only monk to get 30% increased mitigation and basicly immunity to poison disease and curse.  Not as an innate buff, maybe as a 2 min buff with a 10 min reuse.

My other real problem with this is its basicly the same thing as dragon monks defensive stance, at 50 we can add maybe 600 mitigation, roughly 30%of a fully heroic equiped monk. 

Maybe im being blind sided but ive played all 3 forms of monks and i can honestly say that harmonious monks dont need something that over powered unless the other 2 forms of monks get something similar because harmonious is already the most well balanced.  THey have the most buffs, debuffs, and a better defensive stance then drunken, who are the defensive monks. 

Drunken have 2 less attacks then haronious, 2 less defensive buffs, and a defensive stance thats worse than harmonious, the only thing drunken get is a 22% dps offensive stance (2% less then dragon) , 2 taunts, and 1 defensive buff (2 less then harmonious).   It just seems really out of wack to me.  The drunk should have the most defensive buffs, the best defensive stance, and of any of the 3 monks, id want drunken to get the 30% mitigation not harmonious.