2nd of August 2010 update

[edgebee]

Changed:
monk can't meditate outside of combat
apocalypsus got some of its old behavior back, it randomly deals % dark damage to the enemy or the wielder 50-50 chance

UPDATE:
monk hard hitting damage increased
monk focus dmg and absorb per level lowered
fixed 50% hits on focus not working properly

[aatchoum]

Please also check the unbuff damage made by monks. It was lowered significantly after the last patch.

My high lvl monk used to be able to kill normal opponents unbuff. Now he is merely able to do 50% damage on them.
Right now, monk class is unplayable without focus, which imho isn't your initial idea of this class.

[ccl0]

Please also check the unbuff damage made by monks. It was lowered significantly after the last patch.

My high lvl monk used to be able to kill normal opponents unbuff. Now he is merely able to do 50% damage on them.
Right now, monk class is unplayable without focus, which imho isn't your initial idea of this class.

makes me wonder if they are finally going to implement this viewtopic.php?p=12017#p12017

[aatchoum]

september 21st 2009

They probably forgot this idea...

[edgebee]

We dropped it because at the time it would have broken some unofficial copies of the game.

[ccl0]

why would you be concerned with unofficial copies? would unofficial = illegal?

:(

[Lilipea]

UPDATE:
monk hard hitting damage increased
monk focus dmg and absorb per level lowered
fixed 50% hits on focus not working properly

My best attacker just became useless. Thanks Edgebee.

[omg111]

UPDATE:
monk hard hitting damage increased
monk focus dmg and absorb per level lowered
fixed 50% hits on focus not working properly

My best attacker just became useless. Thanks Edgebee.

your best attacker ( who was overpowered) can no longer one hit KO one opponent but still deal decent dmg , if thats useless in your eyes ok

[Pallareth]

Posting here because I can't seem to find which change was the one that hit barb path of destruction - sue me :P

I agree path was a crazy 1 pt wonder. Get a pointy weapon and an aiming cap = 40mp to hit everything, the damage really started to stack up on the bigger packs. It was still great even after the aiming cap was nerfed.
The change hasn't fixed it though.
There's still no reason to put a pile of points into it, it just costs a lot more and the barb often kills himself on retaliating bad guys (bad guys you are 100 levels higher than...) at 1 point, or you drop 70 skill points into and the mana cost goes up to silly levels with no noticeable change. Yay, 40% hit penalty instead of 50%?

At least other AoE skills you see a damage improvement when you sink points into it and pay higher mana costs. Nerf the damage on low-ranked path, not the hit chance.

[Alanti]

Or make damage increase and to-hit decrease with level. :)
It's the same with rush, though, too.