In patch notes for tomorrow!  yay!

Monk feat at level 6 meaning autogranted, selectable with pre-req, or selectable without pre-req?

FM wrote on Dec 20^th, 2016 at 6:55pm:


selectable with pre-req for sure.

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Auspicious.

Helps tree builds considerably.
A quality of life fix and fast executed since it was posted on mother forums

Assuming they use some sort of relational data base, I would suspect that there are a series of boolean flag fields in the feats data table for "Fighter Class Feat", "Monk Class Feat", "Wizard Class Feat", etc. 

This change was probably a simple as changing a 0 to a 1 in said data table.  The other possibility being that they normalized a little further and there is a Feats_Classes table and they had to add a row with the ID for the Spring Attack feat and the ID for the Monk Class. 

Regardless, I doubt the change was technically challenging.  Easily executed in a few minutes.  The larger concern (and time commitment) would most likely be in determining the impact of such change on builds and relative power.  Any time the change a class' features, they have to consider how it impacts the power level of the class in relation to other things you can do with that class and also consider multi-class ramifications.  I think this change clearly had limited impact overall, and thus, was easy to decide to move forward on.      
   
I suspect that the majority of changes get caught up more in the "mapping the in game impact over the web of combinations and permutations that can result from a change" vs. the technical challenge of actually executing the code or database change.  Although, I am sure that in some cases the change itself is technically easy, but after mapping out all the impact of a change and then developing safeguards/alterations to prevent abuse, that the programming/execution of the safeguards/alterations takes a simple change and makes it technically complex.

Surprisingly, there were several good changes suggested in that thread on the motherboards that got added to monks on Lama pretty quickly.

Asheras wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 9:28am:

lololololololol. Yes. I'm sure they do this.

Lhynn wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 5:46pm:


I see that Puerto has broken out his socks again.

Grand wrote on Dec 21^st, 2016 at 9:06am:

Lynabell already let that cat out of the bag when, as an intern no less, she quickly made about a dozen fixes that had been known, multiply reported, and completely ignored by Turbine for years.