10-21-2002, 07:32 AM
It seems that a lot of monks are blind to the real effects of this nerf. I keep reading post after post of various monks screaming about how nasty this nerf was (and yes I got hammered by it too). But what is starting to urk me a little is the monks who are saying "What nerf? Everything is the same to me."
In almost a case by case basis I am seeing the later monks fall in one of 2 categories. One, they have some truely uber gear and are WELL above the attack level for the mobs that they are fighting (this has already been established). Or two, they are monks who are tanking slowed mobs (IE pocket shaman, etc).
Why is this making a difference in their point of view about the nerf? Very simple. We discovered that Verant nerfed our mitigation and thus we get smacked around for more damage (increase in average hit + spikes of higher overall damage). The average seems to vary somewhat depending on who did the parsing. Just for shits and giggles lets say its 10% more average damage per hit. If your mob is not slowed, he is gonna get in a LOT more hits and you are gonna see max hits a lot more often. If your mob is slowed then that +10% is gonna be a trivial couple hundred points of damage.
An unslowed (and god forbid hasted) mob doing +10% on each and every friggin hit is gonna hurt bad in just a few rounds of combat. The damage over time will just get worse and worse. The more hit points a mob has the worse the solo monk will see this nerf hit them.
Raladdar Silvermane
Dead On Tuesday
Drinal
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In almost a case by case basis I am seeing the later monks fall in one of 2 categories. One, they have some truely uber gear and are WELL above the attack level for the mobs that they are fighting (this has already been established). Or two, they are monks who are tanking slowed mobs (IE pocket shaman, etc).
Why is this making a difference in their point of view about the nerf? Very simple. We discovered that Verant nerfed our mitigation and thus we get smacked around for more damage (increase in average hit + spikes of higher overall damage). The average seems to vary somewhat depending on who did the parsing. Just for shits and giggles lets say its 10% more average damage per hit. If your mob is not slowed, he is gonna get in a LOT more hits and you are gonna see max hits a lot more often. If your mob is slowed then that +10% is gonna be a trivial couple hundred points of damage.
An unslowed (and god forbid hasted) mob doing +10% on each and every friggin hit is gonna hurt bad in just a few rounds of combat. The damage over time will just get worse and worse. The more hit points a mob has the worse the solo monk will see this nerf hit them.
Raladdar Silvermane
Dead On Tuesday
Drinal
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