At 02:18 PM 11/30/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Sheldon Jolson" <Sheldon_Jolson@...>
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>A monk is very fun in his teens. Once you get past the 20s you
>will find ver very few places you can solo, however. By that time,
>a mob that cons low blue will take out the best equipped monk
>without much of a sweat. You will also start seeing warriors or
>other melee types wielding weapons that easily make them better
>damagers than you. Rangers with dual ykeshas in their low 30s
>are not uncommon and those weapons essentially do the same
>damage as a 44th level monk. Also at 30th level warriros get a
>huge HP bonus. You will see their ability to tank go up dramatically
>where as we can barely take hits from higher level mobs. But what
>set us apart was feign death. With that skill I feared no zone. I
>could go anywhere as I had a nice safety net. Now that safety net
>is gone.
Thanks for raining on my parade.
You have attained a level of experience that I may not obtain for months.
Please understand that this is based on my limited experience and opinion.
Prehaps those of us who haven't played under the old feign death, will find
other means to deal with the problems you listed. No disrespect meant to
you or any of the others, but it sounds like feign death was a crutch.
Maybe at higher levels we need to learn to adjust our tactics and stop
meeting problems head on. We should be thinking fighters. Let the wariors
wade in and trade blows with the big bad guy. Let the warriors take the
role of the tank, while we take the role of the Smart bomb. We zero in on
a target and take them out clean and fast. I agree that warrior based
classes and their weapons can do more damge than we can, per hit, but I
still think we hit more often. They are also too dependent upon those
weapons for their abilites. Everything we have is innate. Let Verant
throw in a zone or two that magic doesn't work and see who is really the
true meele (sp?) master. Strip a warrior of his weapons and armor and you
have a target . Strip us, and we are still deadly. I think we just have
to adjust our purpose in the Verant universe
Shando 15th circle, Silent Fist Clan
Bertoxxolous