Meiyo,

I play drunken on Live and I tank / off tank for my guild groups quite regularly so I hear what you are saying. The original plan was to make them targetable and let you pile hate on to your defensive target and force aggro on to your defensive target. This would allow the drunken monk to effectively control aggro while not being the center of attention.
 While talking about it we realized that it was greifable, and rendered the aggro abilities of all other classes obsolete with the presence of 1 drunken monk in a raid you cement aggro. While I want us to get our due one of the last things I wanted to do was put in an ability that breaks the game (It could be fun for the PVP server to sic that 5 dotter your enemy for 5 attacks  ).

In the end I really wanted to slightly enhance our tanking abilities as it aint broke why "fix" it. The ability is enhanced and not "Fixed". I dont think we are keeping score with what gets "Fixed" so dont worry about that.

I am still playing around with the new Staggering Punch and I am still on the fence with it. 12 sec reuse is pretty steep. and only prevents 1 cast but the mob pretty much starts casting the same spell anyway. (Secret of Ice may have more utility) On the other hand it does crit a whole hell of a lot (almost considered a jin free spinning fists)  I'd like more monks to test it and get thier impression as there time to tweak it prior to it going live.

Given they are moving errant strikes to 5 mins reuse timer, Drunken will still be able to deliver the largest DPS spike in the game every 3 mis or so.

I'll have to look through my notes but I thought there was something about slap hands taking advantage of STR and lasting longer. Knowing me I just neglaected to post it.

Talisker and I took a hard look at pretty much every skill in the monks aresnal and looked over the message boards / bug lists /feed back from you guys to effect these changes.

I am starting to ramble on, and I have a deadline I need to get back to.... DOH!!!! I'll check back on this later

~QTM

While they're making all of these changes, any hope they can fix storm stride for harmonious monks and have our debuffs land when we use it?  Currently if you are outside of melee range and storm stride in using an ability, you get to hit the target for the damage, get the self buff if it applies one, but don't put the debuff on the target.

Having storm stride cost nothing on live as it does at the moment means I actually use it,and its fun. Putting a cost back on it will mean i only use to catch kiters in pvp again like it was before.

As things currantly stand on a test center in the worst situation -

LvL 15 ish Harmonious Monk in Tiger stance -

Strom stride 10 end + Cresent kick 22 end  + 50% = 47 endurance to get 2 jin, warp to target and do about 200 damage maybe if it crits with a secret on. Thats just wayyyy too expensive.

The same move currantly on Live costs 15 endurance and its fun to do.

Jin surge is fine, its storm stride hes refering to.  Our teleport attack.  On live it costs 1 jin, on test it costs 10 end. 

With the change to endurance regen, storm stride is ok, but its harshest on harmonious monks as i knew it would be.

speakin of monk changes  can anyone explain to me the update ur suppose to get from a flame maidin in RI.
 had a fellow dragon monk i was grped with said he had to tank the flame maidin to get update on the reed in the wind abilty? to reed in wind # ?

i  have reed in the wind #1 im lvl 50 so that only one ive have gotten  from aum of the roaring dragon ,

i thought we  get stuff from dropped spell books like necro n clerics get ect fighting mobs to learn an abilty havnt heard of that since DK's had from ealry in the game,

either im lost   :'(or that other monk a bit confused    any info on this be a great help p.s we didnt get any update ,neither did the cleic fighting another mob in RI that was supposed to do same thing for a cleric ability

ahhh yes ok now i understand now that i think of it he did mention  something bout getting an update at the tomb

thnks for  straighting me out on this ....yes i was definitly confused

Update:

Talisker got a chance on Friday to go over the document detailing  the issues on test. The im session was rather brief and one sided as I was WAY past a deadline at work.   


*Dragon Breath is going to be bumped up in damage.
*Aspect of the inviso levi ability, He worked worked on the end drain, depending when you activated the ability a duration of  25-30 sec is possible.
*Divine Tsunami will be going 350% Weapon Damage + X.
*The Hamony abilities should be flagged appropriately now.
*Sundering Dragons Claw will be inreased in DoT Damage.


I will be attempting to get numbers regarding these changes but I wanted to let y'all know that these abilities are being looked at

~QTM

oh, dont forget crescent kick is still 22 endurance on test :-/