Monks do need a Nerf. So does tempest burst, given their ungodly AOE. Dodge needs a nerf (probably the mabar helmet first).

Granted I'd rather see them fix bows, damage casters, and that fucking TR cache.

abcdefg wrote on Sep 16^th, 2018 at 5:54am:


I want to add that although my last post was critical of Lynn's development capabilities, I do actually think she is a credit to the ddo team. She's just in the wrong role. Seeing as she is the only dev with the balls to have a two way conversation with players, she should be the community relations manager.

Or if she really wants to be a game dev, maybe she just needs to get out of her comfort zone, jump into the code and start rewriting things. If it doesn't work, who cares. Just revert it, it's only a dev build.

Or you know, they could have her work alongside a supposedly competent senior dev and actually progress her that way.

Anyway, on the actual topic of the monk nerf. It's retarded, that is all.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Sep 16^th, 2018 at 6:00am:


"...BECAUSE I SAID SO!"

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Sep 16^th, 2018 at 6:09am:

The helpless damage is what needs nerfing, the values in spy and falcon. but they wont nerf falcon because they rather just nerf monks during heroic progression instead of the shintao capstone, and keep the falcon tree as is because $$$. Let's not kid ourselves.

Tempest does not need a nerf, it's a burst clicky, any of the other dps builds overtake its dps output after 1k cuts goes on cooldown. This is only noticeable on raid bosses or high skull bosses, and would be more apparent if the game used dps meters per encounter. Rogues, barbs and fighters all pour in much more damage after the 15 seconds of tempests burst are up. That is 75 seconds of cooldown where the other builds pile on immense damage that any dps meter would make it look like tempest needs a buff. If dojo kobolds were set to 1 mil or higher this would also be easier to  display that difference.


If they nerf the helmet then they will come for meld, uncanny, and primal travel too. Or fuck with champ and reaper buffs making dodge bypass more common.


They will never fix bows or magic dps, or ranged dps. If anything they will probably nerf throwers again, just because morkas solo'd r10s. They cant fix every perch. The magic dps nerf was largely because guys like goldie, sestra, teth, eth, ath, and some others all smashed legendary content on shiradis. The devs responded by stealth nerfing the joy proc ( and denying it while BLATANTLY ADDING IN 2 MORE OUTCOMES THAT DILUTE IT... ), and nerfed the individual procs behind the scenes. They even went so far as to try to say " we dont see the big deal with shiradis " lo fucking l.

Theyre never reverting that. ever.   

Well, given that monks have more defenses and cc than other classes, it's fair that they do less damage. Funny how the melee DPS balance is again close to what it used to be right before they changed twf and killed rangers. Now just need to undo the garbage 25% buff.

Rose-tinted Goggles wrote on Sep 16^th, 2018 at 11:28am:

There are no individual "servers" anymore. It's all virtual boxes on the same machine so merge or no merge, lag will basically be the same.

The most funny part is that they are nerfing monks because some ppl that exploit cosmetic daggers bug.

Why they dont delete those toons too?

ILoveExploits wrote on Sep 17^th, 2018 at 9:51am:

YeAh BrO ThE ExTrA 1W OmG ThE DpS..... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do you even post that stupid shit, lil nigga.

ILoveExploits wrote on Sep 17^th, 2018 at 11:54am:

Your powers of comprehension have my pity

ILoveExploits wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 7:39pm:

How I can see it:
1) monk nerfs not needed at all. They are not winning DPS race and to be played well on higher skulls need to drop a lot of DPS, cause 50mrr hurts. They benefit greatly from pastlife feats, probably on of the most benefitiant class, yet triple-everything not making them gods till well geared.
2) aasimar neeed nerf. 10% hp, prr, mrr, 60 hamp and sick numbers on LOH all at once. Thats not best DPS race, but too well rounded consider to others.
3) They'd better do something about balancing ranged DPS and especially energy spellcasters. There like 3-4 ranged builds that can do something on higher skulls, and those exclude pure ranger or fighter with bo\xbow\throwing weapon. Energy damage just suck balls right now.
4) they need to rework badly all the trash trees: archmage, kotc, vanguards, eldrich knights, warsoul\warpriest, Thieft-acrobat.
5) rip off this trash 25% hp buff. Worst designed thing they could ever make.
6) rework bear again. It has okay potential right now, but how many bears can you see running? On Orien (I believe most populated server still) literally 0. Poor guys who just trying it respeccing in like 1 hour or TR as soon as possible. Super boring to play, super slow attack speed, super short cleaves.

Yet its all wishes. They will do whatever they want sell. Both balance and disbalance is business, and its actually not competetive game. So we'll just have to deal with what they are feeding us

Oh, almost forgot, they need to do something with epic destinies finally. Why the fuck we have 12 if 90% people stay in 2? :-D 10% are fury\shiradi throwers, US tanks and people who just leveling EDs lol. Arcane sphere is just not needed right now at all, you can just twist all the shit you need. Martial sphere not that bad actually, but on most classes you wont give up best mp\rp + 30 prr. And primal just not playable outside fury ranged, since both shiradi and tree are broken.
Big rework here would be damn good.