http://thebigwave.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Change_6101 2026-04-15T03:48:00Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.29.2 http://thebigwave.net/wiki/index.php?title=Change_6101&diff=14985&oldid=prev 2021-11-03T02:59:11Z

<p>Created page with &quot;```Originally Posted : Wed Nov 03 02:59:10 2021 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Burlok &lt;br&gt;Title : Monk Changes &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Greetings denziens of Tsunami.&lt;...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>```Originally Posted : Wed Nov 03 02:59:10 2021 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Burlok &lt;br&gt;Title : Monk Changes &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Greetings denziens of Tsunami.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The non-shaolin monastic order has been hard at work with their sticks. &lt;br&gt;Their have learned additional staff-techniques that fuse their walking &lt;br&gt;stick and their unarmed style to create a new style of stick-based-combat &lt;br&gt;-- however, they have vowed to never use this style during war.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Okay. Weve all seen it. Monks are in a very good place. In fact, I have &lt;br&gt;personally abused their power to win a handful of wars including one by &lt;br&gt;standing in a room with &quot;repeat kiai&quot; on (this is true) taking out two &lt;br&gt;equal level layers. Monks are still in a very good state (see below) in &lt;br&gt;fact may be even better on the MUD but there have been slight war related &lt;br&gt;reductions. Some of which arose from bugs.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THE BAD (Reductions)&lt;br&gt;1) Monks are supposed to gain a higher attack-cap as they level. However a &lt;br&gt;bug in the formula meant they always got their maximum (19+6) number. &lt;br&gt;Which may explain why you sometimes see low-level fox-style Nekojins doing &lt;br&gt;6 attacks in a round. I fixed the bug and so now their attack cap scales &lt;br&gt;as intended (this will have an impact for low-level inspired monks, &lt;br&gt;obviously, because theyll hit their natural attack cap).&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;2) Monks had a very heft bonus to weapon damage baked into their shadow. &lt;br&gt;They also got more weapon damage from kiai. More weapon damage from dragon &lt;br&gt;style. This contributed to them casually doing 100-200 point combat &lt;br&gt;rounds. I reduced the shadow bonus to &quot;normal&quot; but from limited testing &lt;br&gt;they still hit freaking hard underkiai.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THE WHO CARES&lt;br&gt;1) I increased focus *very* slightly and made it instant to fuse with &lt;br&gt;their lightning-strike playstyle. There was a suggestion or two that were &lt;br&gt;years old about letting monks be able to cleanse themselves. So focus will &lt;br&gt;now try to remove blindness, disease, and poison in addition to healing.&lt;br&gt;2) I made this change a couple of weeks ago but meditation now updates you &lt;br&gt;as it rises and falls outside of HP report. Which takes the guess work of &lt;br&gt;when youre ready to murder. This was based on a suggestion.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;3) Monk stick should no longer load during wars. No one was using it &lt;br&gt;anyway in a war. This was done because ...&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THE GOOD&lt;br&gt;1) Monk stick had a hard-cap of 17 WC. I think the thought was that &lt;br&gt;special abilities would make up for it but Nekojin monks have a WC of &lt;br&gt;about 30 so it didnt. Monk stick WC now scales based on a combination of &lt;br&gt;being a weapon + staff skill + unarmed skill. At high levels if my math is&lt;br&gt;right it will have less WC than unarmed but only by a few points. So it &lt;br&gt;should now be much more viable.&lt;br&gt;2) I gave pretty healthy boosts to the elemental special attacks based &lt;br&gt;upon number of areas explored. At max level itll proc about like an &lt;br&gt;unmodded blast but youll need to have explored most of the MUD. I think &lt;br&gt;(with 1) this makes it viable and hopefully a worthwhile reward for &lt;br&gt;exploring.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Test these out. Send me feedback. See if you can still win a war idle.&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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