New Monk Enhancements

[12201]

So getting on i didnt read which classes got the enhancements my sorc 2 monk was able to access all the monk enhancements even though my 20 monk cant lol just because were not "allowed" yet but im here to say they finally made Henshin Mystic a prestige enhancement it looks pretty neat for light and dark monks dark monks get a nice healing amp its a dot that stacks light damage with each use stack up to 10 times 1d6 light damage for every 2 seconds for 10 seconds if the thing dies within 10 seconds with this on it it heals all surrounding allies for 100 thats dark monk only light monks get a negative leveling enhancement there instead. They also changed around ninja spy and shintao, Newest finisher in ninja spy is called double finisher, you gain 100% double strike for 6 seconds, Cant wait to test that on my dex based monk the rest of the enhancements will all be shown in the picture album i will link. On to shintao the only new thing i see is the base stuff will be linked below and then Meditation of war, To much to type and explain here but the picture of it will be below. All you monk lovers hope your as excited as i am for the new revamped ninja spy and the new Henshin Mystic.

Pictures of most new enhancements = http://s412.photobucket.com/user/122...?sort=9&page=1

[Shmuel]

I cannot see these. can you please tell me
1. Which tree ten thousand stars is in

and

2. how many points in the tree do you need to spend to get it (also how many points is tts itself)

I would be very appreciatie

[Cernunan]

I cannot see these. can you please tell me
1. Which tree ten thousand stars is in

and

2. how many points in the tree do you need to spend to get it (also how many points is tts itself)

I would be very appreciatie

It is gone, replaced by an air attack debuff.
There was talk about 10k star becoming a feat, but it was not on any of my feat lists, so as of now it does not exist. We will have to wait to see if it returns in some form in monk preview week.

[Aragan]

Monk enhancements are here http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...2&postcount=53. Afaik 10k stars is no longer an enhancement, last i heard devs were considering possibly replacing it with a feat. Personally i am very disappointed with what i have seen, while there are potentially some very nice new abilities there is too much pidgeon holing of each and too many flavour abilites that are either completely useless if you aren't building around them or are just of dubious utility but you need to spends the aps somewhere

[12201]

there used to be a zoom feature on photobucket dont know why its not there

[oweieie]

Monks are getting ridden hard and put away wet. Just delete your toon now. Void 4 and Serenity require top tier henshin, healing amp requires shintao, touch of death is top tier ninja spy. So... yeah... having all 3 like I do right now, flat out impossible. In their place you can get a bunch of laughable abilities that are going to just make you want to TR into a barbarian that much faster.

[Jhenissa]

With each new class and pre tree I see, I am just astounded and very disappointed.

If this goes live, Turbine is essentially creating a new game. A game I will not want any part of playing.

[Valakai]

Did monks just lose "wings" (abundant step)? Or did I miss that somewhere.

Ouch. I mean thats just wrong if true.

Also did not see elemental stances which so far have been quite a defining feature for monks.

Some nice and interesting things here as well and maybe since these were not released yet they will look a little different.

[CoasterHops]

Did monks just lose "wings" (abundant step)? Or did I miss that somewhere.

Ouch. I mean thats just wrong if true.

Also did not see elemental stances which so far have been quite a defining feature for monks.

Some nice and interesting things here as well and maybe since these were not released yet they will look a little different.

I think abundent step is an autogranted feat type ability at Monk Lvl 12.

[Valakai]

I think abundent step is an autogranted feat type ability at Monk Lvl 12.

Thanks. Yea, you are right. I guess I just let the panic and DOOOOM get to me a little I suppose. Hehe.

[shadereaper33]

Did monks just lose "wings" (abundant step)? Or did I miss that somewhere.

Ouch. I mean thats just wrong if true.

Also did not see elemental stances which so far have been quite a defining feature for monks.

Some nice and interesting things here as well and maybe since these were not released yet they will look a little different.

Abundant step is an autogranted feat, and the stances will become autogranted feats. The way it works on lamma, at levels 6,12,and 18 of monk, you gain a passive increase to your elemental stances that improves them to the next tier, for free, regardless of stats.

[SealedInSong]

Abundant step is an autogranted feat, and the stances will become autogranted feats. The way it works on lamma, at levels 6,12,and 18 of monk, you gain a passive increase to your elemental stances that improves them to the next tier, for free, regardless of stats.

Wait--what? Can you provide any citation here? That sounds neat.

[Fecerak]

Wait--what? Can you provide any citation here? That sounds neat.

I have tested it ingame and can confirm that it works for now at least (having GM stances on a 12 fighter/6 ranger/2 monk)

Basically, you gain a feat at level 6, 12 and 18 monk called adept/master/grandmaster of forms. However, if you have at least 1 monk level, but fewer than 6/12/18 you will be able to select these feats as your levelup feats at that point or with another levelup feat if you have the monk level, fewer than the required monk levels to get it for free and are a high enough level.

You get all the stance upgrades at once, so all 18+ monks will have GM fire, water, air and earth to choose between, as well as all the elemental strikes of all tiers.

[HelvanderSeries6]

Did monks just lose "wings" (abundant step)? Or did I miss that somewhere.

Ouch. I mean thats just wrong if true.

Also did not see elemental stances which so far have been quite a defining feature for monks.

Some nice and interesting things here as well and maybe since these were not released yet they will look a little different.

I think these are the stance replacements:
Fire: +2 Insight bonus to Damage and DCs on Stun, Sunder and Trip. -5 AC.
Water: +5 Insight bonus to max dodge bonus. -10% damage with attacks.
Earth: +10 Insight bonus to PRR and +3% insight bonus to max HP. -5% dodge cap.
Wind: +2 Insight bonus to hit, +5% insight bonus to offhand attack chance. You take 5% more physical and elemental damage.

Uhg..not happy if so for my grandmaster of storms stance'd shintao.

[shadereaper33]

I think these are the stance replacements:
Fire: +2 Insight bonus to Damage and DCs on Stun, Sunder and Trip. -5 AC.
Water: +5 Insight bonus to max dodge bonus. -10% damage with attacks.
Earth: +10 Insight bonus to PRR and +3% insight bonus to max HP. -5% dodge cap.
Wind: +2 Insight bonus to hit, +5% insight bonus to offhand attack chance. You take 5% more physical and elemental damage.

Uhg..not happy if so for my grandmaster of storms stance'd shintao.

keep in mind, one of the core abilities in that tree removes the negative effects from these enhancements, so it would become +2 hit, +5% off hand attacks. not too bad, given how good wind stance is already.

[HelvanderSeries6]

keep in mind, one of the core abilities in that tree removes the negative effects from these enhancements, so it would become +2 hit, +5% off hand attacks. not too bad, given how good wind stance is already.

True. I did think of that but the loss of melee speed and doublestrike chance...Mmm still not happy with a change like this.

[shadereaper33]

True. I did think of that but the loss of melee speed and doublestrike chance...Mmm still not happy with a change like this.

They aren't changing the actual stances themselves. Those are now given out via feats at the appropriate levels. These are in addition to what you currently have as part of the stances.

[oweieie]

keep in mind, one of the core abilities in that tree removes the negative effects from these enhancements, so it would become +2 hit, +5% off hand attacks. not too bad, given how good wind stance is already.

Which does nothing for staff monks. They may as well make Legendary Dreadnaught not even an option for monks instead of just nerf the **** out of anything monks could possibly get out of it.

Also without the wis boost, finishers which are already ridiculously hard to land in EE will become just that much harder. If you aren't Henshin main then you'll be down 6 wis, so -3 DC on finishers. Lovely. And if you ARE Henshin main, then you can't have Touch of Death anyway, but your Void 4 doesn't have a save so doesn't benefit from your higher wis. LOL

[ArcaneArcher52689]

My biggest issue is the defensive stance reduces offhand attack chance? On the tree made for unarmed? This just doesn't make sense to me...

[ArcaneArcher52689]

Oh,
And one more thing,
Probably not soon enough,
But I hope they make the first henshin core ability a selective enhancement, that changes some of the other abilities(similar to kensai), so that you had riddle of fire/water/air/earth. That would just make henshin great in my opinion.