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<p>Created page with &quot;```Originally Posted : Wed Nov 03 03:43:00 2021 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Burlok &lt;br&gt;Title : Re: Monk Changes &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wed Nov 03 02:59:10 2021...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>```Originally Posted : Wed Nov 03 03:43:00 2021 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Burlok &lt;br&gt;Title : Re: Monk Changes &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wed Nov 03 02:59:10 2021, Burlok wrote:&lt;br&gt;&gt; Greetings denziens of Tsunami.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; The non-shaolin monastic order has been hard at work with their sticks. &lt;br&gt;&gt; Their have learned additional staff-techniques that fuse their walking &lt;br&gt;&gt; stick and their unarmed style to create a new style of &lt;br&gt;stick-based-combat &lt;br&gt;&gt; -- however, they have vowed to never use this style during war.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; Okay. Weve all seen it. Monks are in a very good place. In fact, I have &lt;br&gt;&gt; personally abused their power to win a handful of wars including one by &lt;br&gt;&gt; standing in aroom with &quot;repeat kiai&quot; on (this is true) taking out two &lt;br&gt;&gt; equal level players. Monks are still in a very good state (see below) in &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&gt; fact may be even better on the MUD but there have been slight war &lt;br&gt;related &lt;br&gt;&gt; reductions. Some of which arose from bugs.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; THE BAD (Reductions)&lt;br&gt;&gt; 1) Monks are supposed to gain a higher attack-cap as they level. However &lt;br&gt;a &lt;br&gt;&gt; bug in the formula meant they always got their maximum (19+6) number. &lt;br&gt;&gt; Which may explain why you sometimes see low-level fox-style Nekojins &lt;br&gt;doing &lt;br&gt;&gt; 6 attacks in a round. I fixed the bug and so now their attack cap scales &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&gt; as intended (this will have an impact for low-level inspired monks, &lt;br&gt;&gt; obviously, because theyll hit their natural attack cap).&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; 2) Monks had a very heft bonus to weapon damage baked into their shadow. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&gt; They also got more weapon damage from kiai. More weapon damage from &lt;br&gt;dragon &lt;br&gt;&gt; style. This contributed to them casually doing 10-200 point combat &lt;br&gt;&gt; rounds. I reduced the shadow bonus to &quot;normal&quot; but from limited testing &lt;br&gt;&gt; they still hit freaking hard under kiai.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; THE WHO CARES&lt;br&gt;&gt; 1) I increased focus *very* slightly and made it instant to fuse with &lt;br&gt;&gt; their lightning-strike playstyle. There was a suggestion or two that &lt;br&gt;were &lt;br&gt;&gt; years old about letting monks be able to cleanse themselves. So focus &lt;br&gt;will &lt;br&gt;&gt; now try to remove blindness, disease, and poison in addition to healing.&lt;br&gt;&gt; 2) I made this change a couple of weeks ago but meditation now updates &lt;br&gt;you &lt;br&gt;&gt; as it rises and falls outside of HP report. Which takes the guess work &lt;br&gt;of &lt;br&gt;&gt; when youre ready to murder. This was based on a suggestion.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; 3) Monk stick should no longer load during wars. No one was using it &lt;br&gt;&gt; anyway in a war. This was done because ...&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; THE GOOD&lt;br&gt;&gt; 1) Monk stick had a hard-cap of 17 WC. I think the thought was that &lt;br&gt;&gt; special abilities would make up forit but Nekojin monks have a WC of &lt;br&gt;&gt; about 30 so it didnt. Monk stick WC now scales based on a combination of &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&gt; being a weapon + staff skill + unarmed skill. At high levels if my math &lt;br&gt;is &lt;br&gt;&gt; right it will have less WC than unarmed but only by a few points. So it &lt;br&gt;&gt; should now be much more viable.&lt;br&gt;&gt; 2) I gave pretty healthy boosts to the elemental special attacks based &lt;br&gt;&gt; upon number of areas explored. At max level itll proc about like an &lt;br&gt;&gt; unmodded blast but youll need to have explored most of the MUD. I think &lt;br&gt;&gt; (with 1) this makes it viable and hopefully a worthwhile reward for &lt;br&gt;&gt; exploring.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;&gt; Test these out. Send me feedback. See if you can still win a war idle.&lt;br&gt;&gt; &lt;br&gt;Two more things I neglected.&lt;br&gt;1) There was a reduction in max attacks if a monk is wielding a weapon. &lt;br&gt;This no longer applies to the monk stick.&lt;br&gt;2) There was a reduction in lightning strike effectiveness if a monk is &lt;br&gt;wielding a weapon. This no longer appliesto the monk stick.&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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