[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Originally Posted by Vohl [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your memories are a bit scrambled. The sit-in happened before Kunark turned monks into the OP beasts everyone remembers.



It was. The Feign Death mechanic originally caused mobs to lose aggro, but kept the monk on the hate list. This caused a mob that had been fighting a monk to run after the monk when re-aggroed. Monk FD pulling was very different then.

Monk aggro was then adjusted to cause mobs to forget 100% of the time until the mob was somewhere in the 20s or 30s, after which it would remember the monk most of the time.

Monks, pre-Kunark, were a very challenging and fun class with very little equipment dependence. Before Sky opened up, there was one weapon pretty much every monk used -- a fist. Raw and Cured Silk armors were also not originally present. Monks killed Frogloks for Mesh armor, then replaced pieces here and there with a mishmash of items such as Gatorscale Leggings. The Temple of Solusek Ro had no monk quests (the ENC mask was monk-wearable, though -- weird).

A Monk in full planar/dragon gear was very effective compared even to other similarly-geared classes. There were only a few of these on each server, though. Getting to that level meant playing through 50 the hard way, with very little to gain from twinking.

monks were a great afk class for this reason. They just had to lay out whole pull.