Wipe wrote on Aug 17^th, 2013 at 4:29pm:

Even moreso in U20 when TR'd Bladeforged Monks will Reconstruct themselves.

There were definitely periods where light monks were very much favored over dark, especially for Grasp of Earth Dragon in TOD and that sort of thing. And let's not forget the solar phoenix.

Wipe wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 2:56pm:


Only if you are running in water stance 24/7 and/or have enlightenment twisted. But who wants that?

I went with 16 str, dex ( yes, I KNEW combat archery was going to be fixed one day ) and wis on my monkcher, 2 lvlups into str for OC, rest in wis.
Got +5 tome for dex and str though.

You should go with wis if not going for OC and just enough dex for 21 for Combat archery.

Wipe wrote on Aug 19^th, 2013 at 6:50am:


Yes, we do. Fairly low in the tree too - I think it's a total of 11ap to fill out everything required.

Alright , how do i access AA via helf on 12 mnk/6rgr/ 2 fighter ? EDIT : Nvm, you have to stop being a retard to figure that out.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/422759-Fury-nerfed-for-ranged FUCK YOU MADDMATT

I am sorry for false alarm, that's what you get after looking at new shit for 4 hours I guess.
Luckily the thundercunt Matt is wrong.

Woot ! WAI ?
But stupid forced dex to dmg still here.

Had some time to log in and check the new enhancements.
From what I've seen, Helf 12 monk / 6 ranger / 2 ftr still looks like one of the best options.

However, I like the fact there are a lot more viable options. Elf would work very well, barbarian AA would be fun as well to play, but probably lower DPS since it's just too 68 AP alone to get the +2 crit threat range & + 3 crit multiplier... Lower survivability, insanely tight (feats + enh.) but could still be fun & viable for the few interested.
Also, 12 monk is no longer that attractive.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you can now get the highest monk stance with just 2 monk levels (2 feats investment for +1 crit multiplier). Sure the running speed loss will be a loss, but that way you can fit in 12 fighter levels for full boosts (3 extras), some extra damage on chosen weapon (had to test with a level 1 dude so I couldn't "pick" the enhancements, my guess is it's +1 dmg per tier? Anyone can confirm ?), +8 psionic str and +1 crit threat range.
All in all, not sure it's worth it going 12 ftr levels.

I really like the idea of picking up empower healing, which would mean going for 8 ranger and imo, it's either going for 12 ftr levels, or you go for 6 and lower.

Only had time to look for about an hour and no testing since I'm stuck with a 10yo laptop with no mouse for 3/4 weeks.

After looking at the enh. here's what comes to my mind
12 mnk 6 rgr 2 ftr probably still best
8 rgr 6 ftr 6 mnk
12 ftr 6 rgr 2 mnk

The boosts staves received is just fucking nuts. Probably will have to include that depending on how tight enh. will be - good ki regen as well.

Combat archery & improved martial arts fixed? Yeah, been away 5 months, but knowing turbine.. could be 5 years before we have news!

New slaying arrows looks awesome, I heard it worked on the 4 manyshot arrows.
Good deal, can almost imagine : buff -> Pin -> moment -> boosts -> adrenaline -> slayer arrows.. that's probably a 40k right there.

Besides the complete pay to win bullshit (what the fuck is up with the astral shards count displayed on screen? And I couldn't find how to disable it in the UI options), I like the new enhancements. Might even get me back to playing.

LafoMamone wrote on Aug 19^th, 2013 at 4:19pm:


Oh thank God, I thought I was just an idiot.  Not that that's excluded as a possibility anyway, but Otto's Whistler seems to make what I'd swear are moving targets dance like 1 every 20 shots.  Pin on the other hand near-always seems to successfully root, even if I would swear they were moving.

Going to keep dicking about with them, since I'm new to this ranged thing and am still not picking the right one at the right time often enough, but I agree Otto's seems fucky.

Would be cool to be able to justify ditching Otto's to pick up sense weakness in that twist slot.  (Which is probably a problem unique to gimpy rogue repeater toons who want to be in Shadowdancer for the int boost to assassinate, but whatever.)

Ewilan wrote on Aug 20^th, 2013 at 6:32pm:


1 monk level is all that's required.

LafoMamone wrote on Aug 21^st, 2013 at 10:22am:


One of the cleric trees also had +2 to all saves at tier 1 but I can't remember whether it was in a tree you could get along with the other things you listed.

What kind of crits are you guys pumping out now? I did a LR on my Jugg (don't really want to level him up as a TR at the moment) and did 16 ranger/2 monk/2 arti. Biggest crit I saw on a helpless dummy was 14,8xx. No updated gear from anything new (such as the deadly permutations on gear).

I really miss quickened reconstruct, and I can see that non-empowered cocoon on a WF is gonna suck in tougher content, but so far it's not so bad.