A side note for the disarm issue. the only time I reccomend using disarm is
when the mob is using a very fast weapon like a dagger or a rapier etc..
what we know is that if the mobs hand damage is the higher damge weapon it
will use the damage from it hands. if it happens to be holding a fs dagger
then it will use the speed of the dagger but not the damage of the dagger.
so it would be doing its hand damage with dagger speed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Braunstein <aaron_spam@...>
To: <EQ-Monks@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [EQ-Monks] Monk skill caps
> From: Aaron Braunstein <aaron_spam@...>
>
> >I know that sneak is capped at 113, does anyone know what the
> >highest levels we can take our other skills too?
> >
> >I think I remember reading that the natual cap for skills is 200,
> >but Dual Wield is at 250.
>
> Well, although I cannot speak definitively or authoritatively, I can
> say that the only skill I can recall capping at 200 was Sense
> Heading. Most of the other abilities that I can think of off-hand
> seem to have progressed beyond that except at an extremely slow rate
> of progress. Speaking as a recent achiever of level 46, I can say
> the following with some confidence:
>
> - After the last 30 hours of play, my Defense has gone up a single
> point (to 211) - and I've spent almost the entire time being the
> exclusive tank to a nearly endless parade of blues.
> - I don't remember the last time I saw Flying Kick go up.
> - Offense seems to keep going up at its normal rate of speed (now in the
220s).
> - The last number I saw out of Dual Wield was 252 - and that was some
> time ago. It's possible that it went higher (perhaps all the way to
> 255) and I just didn't notice it, however.
> - Mend seems to still be progressing, but again is an extremely slow
> progress so I may have capped that as well - not that it matters
> becuase it's been over 20 levels since it's failed.
> - Progress on Feign Death continues, although I haven't been working
> on it as much as I perhaps should lately so it still is languishing
> in the 190's.
> - Disarm is still moving into the 170s as well, but don't ask me why
> I bother - a disarmed opponent doesn't seem to be a whole lot less
> dangerous than an armed one.
> - Instill Doubt is the singularly most useless and dangerous (to us,
> that is) skill in our arsenal and I haven't bothered to skill it up a
> single point since acquiring it at level 29 (which is where I was
> when the patch went in which supports it), so I can't really speak on
> that one.
>
> While my current rate of progress is annoying, it doesn't
> really bother me. However, I'm becoming rather concerned about my
> Defense and Flying Kick. I don't think I've capped them, but the
> rate of progress is disturbingly slow. I really don't want to
> out-level my skills and thereby be rendered useless in a group of
> like-leveled people (as so many power-levelers have found). Does
> anybody else have anything to say about this situation?
>
> --
> Aaron Braunstein
> Pacific Data Management, Inc.
>
> <aaron_braunstein@...>
>
> >