New Raid Beaten on Beta!!!!!

[SimVerg]

Correction: Unarmed monks are boned. Kamas/quarterstaves remain the same.

Remaining terrible probably does not preclude them from being boned.

[rimble]

so basically since theres no transmuting handwraps.. monks are still boned even with rings

+1d6 Fire Damage...hahahahaha! That's insane cackling by the way...I think they finally broke me...there are THREE lights okay!? You win. THREE LIGHTS!

I'll keep on hopin' something is useful on the other Monk PrE rings...don't know why I bother tho...

I have to admit Thief Acrobat continues to confuse me too...the whole Quarterstaff thing is just at odds with all the Dex boosts...though an Unbalanced opponent is nice.

[Narus]

yeah with just kama/qs monks are still boned in that department.. and now the one hope for the monks only true high dps option is also boned... dont get me wrong monks can do some decent dps against trash but dr is the bane of monks... so now still cant bypass dr and to get the extra weapon effects that people get with green steel monks will have to pass up +2 to stats or other stuff.

So in the end.. monks are still boned.

[Lithic]

+1d6 Fire Damage...hahahahaha! That's insane cackling by the way...I think they finally broke me...there are THREE lights okay!? You win. THREE LIGHTS!

I'll keep on hopin' something is useful on the other Monk PrE rings...don't know why I bother tho...

I have to admit Thief Acrobat continues to confuse me too...the whole Quarterstaff thing is just at odds with all the Dex boosts...though an Unbalanced opponent is nice.

there... are... FOUR.... LIGHTS!

Actually now that I think of it, the lights I was thinking of was a 4 vs 5 thing, while you said three lights. Guess we aren't on the same trek, err i mean page

[BlackSteel]

+1d6 Fire Damage...hahahahaha! That's insane cackling by the way...I think they finally broke me...there are THREE lights okay!? You win. THREE LIGHTS!

I'll keep on hopin' something is useful on the other Monk PrE rings...don't know why I bother tho...

I have to admit Thief Acrobat continues to confuse me too...the whole Quarterstaff thing is just at odds with all the Dex boosts...though an Unbalanced opponent is nice.

its flavor, considering the mystic is supposed to be the casty/elemental PrE for monks. If you're looking for the bad*** damage monk set go take a gander at the shintao one.

considering all the common resist/immunities this set would have been much better served with a light damage bonus. same flavor as fire, and half the game wouldnt laugh at it.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Great work on the hard completion!

And to the devs, nice idea having the artifacts scale with level, that will really make it worth completing hard/elite.

Anyone think its odd that the acrobat item has a +6dex bonus even though the best other rogue item set in the game has a +6dex bonus?

Personally I'd rather see something else, like a str bonus... But I guess thematatically this makes sense.

[rimble]

there... are... FOUR.... LIGHTS!

Actually now that I think of it, the lights I was thinking of was a 4 vs 5 thing, while you said three lights. Guess we aren't on the same trek, err i mean page

Hey, it was late...but yeah, Trek fail...

Anyways...Fire damage?! I think that's what is so...sanity breaking...is that anyone would think that helps at all in the current content. I'll admit I haven't played the Beta...but does anything really not have at least 6 Fire Resistance at end game right now? It seems like such a mind-numbingly braindead out-of-touch decision...like the Monk strikes. Kinda good in theory, negated by innate Resistances in implemented content.

[totmacher]

Great work on the hard completion!

And to the devs, nice idea having the artifacts scale with level, that will really make it worth completing hard/elite.

Anyone think its odd that the acrobat item has a +6dex bonus even though the best other rogue item set in the game has a +6dex bonus?

Personally I'd rather see something else, like a str bonus... But I guess thematatically this makes sense.

just before anyone reads that post, we are still unsure whether dual artifacts drop from:

downing suulo (which we did with this attempt)
OR
it was set to hard mode

we'll know for sure next time, glin hinted at an extra chest we missed

[Visty]

Great work on the hard completion!

And to the devs, nice idea having the artifacts scale with level, that will really make it worth completing hard/elite.

Anyone think its odd that the acrobat item has a +6dex bonus even though the best other rogue item set in the game has a +6dex bonus?

Personally I'd rather see something else, like a str bonus... But I guess thematatically this makes sense.

which other rogue item? you mean tharnes bracers? its not that good, its the bonus which is good...and that you can also get on your armor as featherfall sucks anyway you wont miss the 3rd set item

[Lorien_the_First_One]

which other rogue item? you mean tharnes bracers? its not that good, its the bonus which is good...and that you can also get on your armor as featherfall sucks anyway you wont miss the 3rd set item

Not everyone has or wants DT armor.

[Thrudh]

I think they finally broke me...there are THREE lights okay!? You win. THREE LIGHTS!

+1 rep for obscure Star Trek reference...

[Thrudh]

So how was the loot from the non-raid chests?

[Mhykke]

So how was the loot from the non-raid chests?

Kraaap.

[Erekose]

And now you will be complaining that there is no new content after it goes live? And the game is boring etc, etc, etc.

Shame on you. U just wasted over a month shortening your enjoyment on the live server.

[Yajerman01]

And now you will be complaining that there is no new content after it goes live? And the game is boring etc, etc, etc.

Shame on you. U just wasted over a month shortening your enjoyment on the live server.

hahha my sentiments exactly. Its cool that they went out their and did this, but im glad I opted out of beta because content is thin already, no point killing the experience just yet.

[beelzebaba]

Awesome job guys. :-D

[Vivanto]

Not everyone has or wants DT armor.

Yeah, most of them prefer icy, which would then require an ac8 bracer so the tharne is out again, that dex 6 ring is good as is. I gladly give up +2 to-hit from weed for the new stuff.

[moops]

Congratulations on the Hard completion and the work you all put into it.

However, I certainly hope that they make it harder for the Live servers--those are some fast completion times. . .Im not saying Titan or Abbot when first released hard, but you know, something a bit more challenging.

[totmacher]

Congratulations on the Hard completion and the work you all put into it.

However, I certainly hope that they make it harder for the Live servers--those are some fast completion times. . .Im not saying Titan or Abbot when first released hard, but you know, something a bit more challenging.

it was fairly hard, the only thing that kept this raid from failing was the ability to buy mana pots from the store. i filed up my heal timers (on every spell, with quicken on) trying to keep blah alive at the end fight. that's 9 different heal spells with empoewr heal + maximize on

[gfunk]

very nice work! Thx for posting all this info.

I was happy to see that there was some reward for the increased difficutly (unlike shroud).