my monk gives caresses instead of fists

[drathdragon]

It was a while ago but i had a monk who was able to break mountains with his hands...
after a couple of years i am back to the game trying to build a monk and
surprise surprise: is not the same anymore.

It seems that at ''maximum powa'' (enanch, feats, stats pumped, etc..) my monk gives caresses instead of fists to the mobs.
Yesterday night, for example, i fighted a kobold (a kobold !!) and it took me 5 minutes (real time !!) to kill him
It happened in 'enter the kobold'' this monster was a kobold sorcerer that conintued to heal himself every time injured.
So i begun to ask to myself ''why my monk can't kill a single normal kobold ?'' then i arrived to the final
stage of the quest where (you know) there are elementals, fireballs, etc.. etc..
evasion works well (always did) the AC is phenomenal but.. confronting the final boss was..

ridiculous

The only thing i was able to do to him was tickles after tickles
in the dungeon we were in two, plus hirelings (both of us had them) and at the end we leaved the quest unfinished
Unbeated but tired to not been able to kill that stupid final monster i leaved the dungeon.

I have two toons in game fully monk and both of them seem to have achieved (at level 20) the admirable status of ''fighting kittens'' they are cute and not deadly as it should be.

what the **** is going on with the most beautiful class of the game ?
This class was so nerfed and lowered ?
but why ?
Something is changes so badly in the game ? Why the monks were so nerfed and punished ?

[LavidDynch]

Yepp, worst class or build in the game right now til lvl28-29 by miles. Punch-monk. Enjoy!

edit: why?

What is more likely,

The devs have probably done proper testing and not realised that a lvl18 monk hits as hard as a lvl6 paladin... or that they didn´t want ppl to play monk, when they released Sharn, in order to milk more money?

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Yesterday night, for example, i fighted a kobold (a kobold !!) and it took me 5 minutes (real time !!) to kill him
It happened in 'enter the kobold'' this monster was a kobold sorcerer that conintued to heal himself every time injured.
So i begun to ask to myself ''why my monk can't kill a single normal kobold ?'' then i arrived to the final
stage of the quest where (you know) there are elementals, fireballs, etc.. etc..
evasion works well (always did) the AC is phenomenal but.. confronting the final boss was..

ridiculous

The only thing i was able to do to him was tickles after tickles
in the dungeon we were in two, plus hirelings (both of us had them) and at the end we leaved the quest unfinished
Unbeated but tired to not been able to kill that stupid final monster i leaved the dungeon.

You do know that this is not the normal Kobold ? That this quest might have this name for a reason ?

The Kobold himself or herself : https://ddowiki.com/page/Desaga
The race of this Kobold : https://ddowiki.com/page/Paragon_Kobold_race
The quest itself : https://ddowiki.com/page/Enter_the_Kobold

[LavidDynch]

You do know that this is not the normal Kobold ? That this quest might have this name for a reason ?

The Kobold himself or herself : https://ddowiki.com/page/Desaga
The race of this Kobold : https://ddowiki.com/page/Paragon_Kobold_race
The quest itself : https://ddowiki.com/page/Enter_the_Kobold

Not that anything you point out really matters, as in helps or being very informative in any sort of fashion, Mr Pointendexter. He used the term to separate the kobolds.

[Nickodeamous]

As sad as it is, i completely concur that monks were neutered. You are fine at 29, but jeez, everything is just sad in heroics. WWA is horendous in heroics due to an attack speed update. The devs say they will revisit, but the fact is, nobody plays monk right now cause it is painful in heroics. Epics is not bad, but again, you dont start keeping up until 29 (,unless you are heavily invested in gear,)

More testing needs done and shouldn't be done using a uber build.

Fun times!
Nico