All the above changes have been made.

~QTM

Another few minor things

Secret of ice - can we get the actual damage it adds put on the icon/tool tip?

Dragon Rage/Tigger pounce/spinning fist - The 5 min attack, 4 jin cost skill that garuntees a crit
Not sure what to say but I have yet to find a use for these skills.  If i need to crit i used crescent kick and ashen hand, or if i really need one ill pop the 2 min attack that always opens a finisher.

So then all monks get a 2min skill (cloud dragon ruse/lurching feint/trapping mantis).  All of which do about 3x the damage of the 5 minute reuse skill, and have the same effect in the end. 

Bottom line is we crit enough as is, that an attack with a 5 minute timer on a skill that does next to no damage is silly.  What purpose does it server when we crit about 100 times in 5 minutes anyways?

The 2 min finisher opener i love dont get me wrong there, i just dont understand why the 5 minute version is worse then the 2 minute version.  Personally youd think it would be switched damage wise.

Yeah Ive always felt that "Dragons Rage" should have also been lowered to a 2 minute timer in the same patch that lowered "Cloud Dragon's Ruse" to 2 minutes- and it was a more powerful ability anyways lol; anyone else remember that? Given its poor damage and Jin Cost, reguardless of the level you get it, its an underpowered ability imo, and should have its timer reduced to match "Cloud Dragon's Ruse" because of that alone.

Cloud Dragon's Ruse Rank 2 and 3, should have upgraded stun components to the "fient" portion of the attack, for Rank 2 it needs to be a 2 second stun, for rank 3 it needs to be a 3 second stun. This matches Disciples "Fient" ability stun duration progression.

And Crescent Kick needs to state that it increases critical hit rate like other classes abilities do. For example, Rangers "Fleet Blade" states in its description how much of a critical hit bonus the attack has (and how much its increased ranks do), why doesnt ours? This goes for ALL classes with wierd undocumented high critical hit rate abilities- like Clerics "Strike Down". We all know these abilities critical hit more often, so they should say it in the description :p.

Er um well..... Disciples are garentied two crits every 30 seconds for 3 jin... if you land the attack then land that first finisher, thats a rather nice spike dps.

Then we have our 3 jin cost kick that has a higher chance of triggering a critical, also giving us access to our finishers.

I think a garentied crit for the monk every 30 seconds would be fine, and would be a great extra use for your teleport in attack:


Just how Rangers and Monks have "openers" that almost always trigger a critical hit if they land, the monk could have the same think built in with his teleport attack.

Well the second round of monk changes hit the test server 2 days ago.  It was a MASSIVE patch and im not quite sure what else was added, but it took a good 10 minutes to download.  Im assuming it was a lot of optimization being as there were a good number of world object and chunks downloaded.

Vanguard Build 1909 Patch Notes 10/30/2007 – TEST SERVER October / 31 / 2007
GAMEPLAY
ADVENTURING
- 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 - Immortal Crane Form will now properly stack with Aum Ti.
- Monk - Ignore Pain has changed. It now heals based on a percentage of your base hitpoints. A percentage based rune has also been added. This will absorb a portion of incoming damage for 20 seconds. Both the heal and the rune amounts increase with level.
- Monk - Secret of Ice and Secret of Fire now last until canceled or removed.
- Monk - Secret of Celerity now has a 5 minute reuse timer
- Monk - Secret of Celerity is now called Fists of Celerity. It is no longer affected by the 'one secret' limit.
- Monk - Slightly altered the progression of Secret of Ice. A new version is available at level 50 from your trainer.
- Monk - Deadly Adder Hand now shows the correct damage in the display description.
- Monk - Increased the damage added by Iron Fists.
- Monk - Storm Stride now costs 10 endurance rather than 1 Jin

CODING
GENERAL
- The player's particle throttle sliders will now save and load their previous settings properly.

UI
- There is a new option in the settings window to toggle Vertical Sync on/off
- There is a new option in the settings window to toggle Triple Buffering on/off.

Work has been kicking my arse this whole week so my playtime has been cut dramaticly... I am going to try and get some timme on test tonight

If ya'll git a monk on test please let me know your opinion on these changes. This should affect all monks not just the 50's  so if you feel more empowered at any point aside from level 50 then so much the better.

~QTM

Ill be on the test all night.

As of now theres no message about diamond body and im not high enough to do the quests yet.  However no changes were made in the notes to harmonious/dragon/drunken.  IF i get 3 levels ill let you know.  Im only 12 atm on test :0-p

UPDATED

secret of flame - doest stay on once u log out (not really an issue)
      tool tip once cast doesnt display damage added, spell description in book/hotbar does
three finger strike - still only 6 sec duration on the avoidance debuff
crits on flying kick open flying kick again allowing for chain flying kick--- is this how it is on live? ive never noticed it before
Crescent kick - damage not upgraded yet
Jin surge - still used up on misses
Ashen hands damage is increased (wee)

So far from level 12 to 15, the damage increase at low levels has made soloing WAY more reasonable.
The changes to ignore pain are a bit harsh for low level since the heal used to be 40% + at low levels however im used to it since being 50.