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Originally Posted by fastboy21
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I've never really weighed in on this (it isn't a new topic, its been brought up many times before) because I didn't play a monk on live so I have very very few first hand anecdotes on how stuff worked, much less how they worked from era to era.
The mechanics do seem less than classic on p99 for FD splitting. Its not really about the devs getting it wrong, I think they just never got around to fixing it significantly from the way it was on EMU.
The problem isn't so much that its broken. It works reliably and lets folks play EQ without disrupting the classic feel totally. The real issue I have with it is that it makes pulling way too easy.
Monks don't really do very much in EQ. They are DPS machines and Pullers. On P99, due to the sneak pulling etc., even a stupid bad monk makes the best monks from live look like an amateur.
It actually only bothers me when I play my p99 monk because I dislike seeing so many people playing monks that know nothing about real tricks to splitting mobs up. Most players who mained monks on live (who were good) made an art out of pulling. It took time to learn the intricacies of each camp. The type of mobs, the respawn times, the map, the various geometries you could use to snag mobs on, the pathing, the bugs to the pathing. It created enough problems that there was a BIG difference between a truly game knowledgeable monk and someone helplessly spamming their FD key. Here if you can hit FD and sneak you can pull just about anything like a pro.
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I don't disagree with your thoughts about live monks probably being better and requiring more skill to perfect the art of pulling. There were truly some badass monks on live.
Sadly, even if it is easier on P99 that hasn't stopped many monks from being pretty bad here. Let me preface this by saying I don't consider myself an expert puller on my monk but I have been grouped with more than a couple truly terrible monks here. Monks that loot everything in sight and are encumbered while pulling/tanking. Monks that have no inkling of how to split or use FD. Monks that FD once on a group of mobs and when it fails they train the group anyway because they don't want to die. Monks that don't understand how spells interrupt FD if not timed properly. I have even seen a couple monks that think splitting means pulling a group of mobs to the feet of the group and hitting FD..then jumping up and somehow expecting that is going to split the mobs instead of training the group. It's painful to watch.