Daggertooth wrote on Jan 31^st, 2017 at 12:29am:



Very simple. The monk was re-examined more recently and benefited from the higher power level that the Development team has aimed for in recent years.

The problem was that Monk was just the example that I gave that happened to have recently been upgraded.   

The real point here is that all Tier 5 and core abilities and enhancements and major features of classes don't become mind numbingly disabled to the point where you will never ever land it.   

This is not something that needs to be adjusted in a pass that may or may not come anytime soon.  They simply need to take their thumbs out of their asses and add the appropriate spell school bonus to the Tier 5 savant abilities (looking at Earthgrab which I love using every few lives as an acid sorc, which life after life I have to get rid of comipletely once I hit epics because it becomes completely unlandable on any occasionion whatsoever even with a near 40 con.


Hopefully they will see this... if anyone has the inclination and access to the regular forum, maybe post this so they might be made aware of it.   

Asheras wrote on Feb 1^st, 2017 at 9:45am:


Yes but even before the pass, kukan do (monk stun gaze) added stunning bonuses to the DC, which came in the form of gear, feats, enhancements etc, making it at least somewhat viable in higher lvls.  As far as Im concerned it is blatant neglect to allow a major feature of a class to be so left behind.   For many years now, a major component of spell DC's has come from spell school bonuses.. and at any particular time of leveling, it is these bonuses of a range of 6-8 or so (think what you are getting now from equipment and insight to evocation/conjuration etc) that makes the difference between almost always landing and almost never landing the abilty/spell.   This is a blatant mishap that requires immediate attention.... not an enhancement tree overhaul.

lostthenloved wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 10:21am:


Isn't that backwards?  Don't they use item inflation to try to correct character balance issues?

Why else would NRL include assassinate bonuses and ignore so many other abilities in other enhancement trees?  So many assassinate items just get vendored because this is one enhance tree amongst 40+ others and yet it's like someone thought:

"Hey, assassinate needs a boost.  But the best way to do that isn't to improve the ability itself in the enhancement tree.  No, that would make too much sense.  Instead we'll help out assassins by introducing item inflation and flooding the random loot drops with items that only a single class using a single enhancement tree will want to keep.  Brilliant!"