After actually trying this, it makes no sense at all. Springup no longer requires arm balance, which is a great change. For some bizarre reason, it now requires leg balance. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?



It's funny that each time you write something like this and comment about how I don't think before I write, you end up being mistaken. I disagree that aeon is a death condition, as others have said. I don't mean to say that druids are OP or anything either. However, within their demesne, a single druid can do a great deal of damage to an entire group on their own. I don't think anything you said really related to what I said; we seem to be agreeing on everything except for aeon.

That sounds like an oversight that they'll hopefully fix.

Actually, leg balance makes more sense as being an issue than armbalance (I can jump up with my arms off balance, but my legs..?)

Anyways, we'll see.

The intent of this fix, as I see it, wasn't realism but utility. Therefore, it seems like an oversight to use one of our slots to make this skill no more useful than it was.

I dunno about everyone else, but I always find myself recovering leg balance first. Better hope you've got a nice ping so you can springup before your arms recover and fire the next combo? :S

You're right. Kick balance was sped up so that weapon stats actually meant something; kick is always faster than the fastest possible monk weapons so the weapons are always the deciding factor in the speed of your forms.

I personally get about half of a second between my leg balance and arm balance during which I could spring up...I could always try to write code to spring up as soon as I recover leg balance, but of course that is also a pain since there is no prompt marker for leg balance (non-existent monk envoys should fix that).

ANNOUNCE NEWS #956
Date: 11/27/2007 at 22:05
From: Morgfyre, the Legion
To : Everyone
Subj: Bug fixes galore!

The following bugs have been fixed:

ACROBATICS
-----------------------------
+ SpringUp now only requires 1 leg instead of 2 (rejoice, monks!)
+ Dodging will now always fail if you logically cannot dodge (ie, are
asleep, paralyzed, entangled, etc)
+ Jumpkick now requires the target to be in the direction you are
jumpkicking rather than any adjacent location

ALCHEMY
-----------------------------
+ Sprinkling salt and sulfur will no longer consume them if you do not
have balance or eq

COMBATEER
-----------------------------
+ Shock and Shockwave's AB files reflect the correct power costs

COSMIC
-----------------------------
+ Cosmic minions will lose their shields when attacking

CROW
-----------------------------
+ DarkRebirth will fire before Vitae, similarly to other resurrection
skills, as will the eggs from the Black Nest construct
+ Eating corpses will respect the limits of carrion that your stomach
can hold

DREAMWEAVING
-----------------------------
+ You can now DRL/DREAMCATCHERLIST while in dreamform
+ Ab Dreamweaving Dreamcatchers has been updated to include the DRL
syntax

DRUIDRY
-----------------------------
+ Point cudgel now uses the custom death message that it has always for
players against denizens. Huzzah for thorns!

GLAMOURS
-----------------------------
+ You can no longer Ascend out of Illusory Mazes, and certain other
non-portal marked locations
+ Maze's colourmaelstrom will afflict properly again

HARMONY
-----------------------------
+ Ackchu will now protect against Nature Vines. If other types of
entanglement are not protected against, let me know
+ Ooshuti will now work on targetted illusions as well as room-wide
+ Akhooshmulang will now protect against succor and egoscan

HIGHMAGIC
-----------------------------
+ Kether is now an aggressive action

HUNTING
-----------------------------
+ Logging off in tents should now dump you outside the tent properly
rather than in the depths of Aetherspace (sorry, daredevil explorers!)
+ Similarly, items inside a tent will be dumped outside the tent when it
closes up

LOWMAGIC
-----------------------------
+ Violet is now an aggressive action

MOON
-----------------------------
+ Conclave no longer fails entirely if one coven member cannot be called
+ Dark and Waning now respect whether the target is indoors in a Rage
coven

NIGHT
-----------------------------
+ Conclave no longer fails entirely if one coven member cannot be called
+ Brumetower will no longer stop burrowing above or other misc.
elevation movement

PUREBLADE
-----------------------------
+ You can no longer begin decapitating someone who isn't in your room

PSYCHOMETABOLISM
-----------------------------
+ DoublePain's AB file updated to indicate that it increases wounds, not
damage

RITUALS
-----------------------------
+ Via is no longer aggressive

STAG
-----------------------------
+ Gore will no longer afflict everyone in the room with the impaled
person

TAROT
-----------------------------
+ Soulless will now respect targets being out-of-phase and fail
accordingly

WICCA
-----------------------------
+ Fae will lose their shields when attacking
+ Toadcurse will now properly clear blindness and deafness

GENERAL
-----------------------------
+ Spreading arnica now checks whether you have herb balance properly
+ Kephera and Illithoid mindsense is no longer aggressive
+ Auronidion particles cannot be stored in pocketbelts, only in rifts
+ Auronidion particles will drop on death/logout if not rifted
+ Auronispheres now have a higher base cost
+ Selfishness will prevent burying anything
+ Artifact pipes will no longer give the dying out messages
+ SMOKE will no longer try to smoke herbs in your inventory that
are not in pipes
+ You must actually be engaged into a construct or colossus to operate
them now
+ You will now get the "don't be so hasty" messages last when trying to
move (ie, it will check for other obstructions first)
+ Mobs which reset to random rooms will no longer reset in stockrooms
+ You can no longer SHOW SCORE while blacked out
+ Getting thrown out of the arena will set your elevation to the ground,
preventing you from being trapped underwater and the like
+ When focusing on a construct, you must be at the same elevation as the
construct
+ Shouting will now only take endurance if you actually shout something
+ Demigod essence loss from ego burnout has been reduced from 1.5
million to 100,000
+ Fixed bug with Demigods and Avenger where Avenger avatars would kill
them repeatedly until they lost Demigod status (ouch!)
+ The Megalith of Doom will no longer froth and churn when Celest's
Nexus World weakens. The traitorous Nexus has received a stern talking
to.
+ Furniture will now be properly wiped when a room is deleted
+ Powerplex jewels will only tell you that they have added power if you
are online (to prevent massive message spam)
+ OFFER CORPSES had a cap on karma gain - no longer
+ There is a new config option: NAMETELLS. It is on by default


Enjoy!


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Quite apart from all the -bugs- being fixed, I'm really pleased that we actually got such a large list that they WERE all fixed. I think a lot of people appreciate that, so I hope it didn't take enough time to justify not doing it again. Thanks, Morgfyre!

This one is my favorite

Ooh, pretty hefty list there. Now fix the problem with Hexaura and my losing my hexes whenever I bypass rubble and I'll be happier!

Thank you so much!

Great changes all-around.

way to make monks immune to mindburst and wrack/absolve. Worst move ever....

Using that locks monks into a specific harmony combination, so it's not necessarily likely that they'll use it all the time. Also, they're not immune to it; you can still get them just by guessing (SDs in particular can do this without much trouble) based on how messed up they are. It's harsher, but the spirit mantras should be good.

We'll have to just agree that you're wrong Nejii, and let the world go on its own course. I mean, I completely feel for you and I cannot help that I'm right. But hey, such is how fate dictates things.

Oh no, a class has an advantage to it. Envoys, quick, make all the guilds the same!

Says Mr. "Waaahhh!!! My OP damage got nerfed... oh wait, it didn't yaaaay!!! I can actually kill people now that I'm an OP bard! woot! I have no skill but i don't caaaare" <3 And i mean that in the least flaming way possible *hugs*

Says Mr. "Waaaahhh!!! I can't cure and when I get afflicted with easily managed afflictions I cry on forums because instead of learning how to cure, I'll just whine until things that are hard for me go away" xoxo

Xoxo namedropping!?

Hugs n kisses, foo'

Thanks for fixing the smoking thing. I can finally delete those three pipe variables.