monk unhanded combat

ribisi

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

I was just wondering dose a monk get to fight unhanded at all or do have to use a staff all the time. would think a monk or any class would have some kind of unarmed skills, such as punch and kicks..

Ollaolas

Ollaolas

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

8-bit Hell

Monks are not fighters in this game.

Zai

Zai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Haha! Unhanded.

Monks are casters, they use smiting spells to do damage. Unless you pick up warrior or ranger as secondary and focus on those weapon skills. There is no unarmed fighting in the game.

ribisi

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

well thanks, just would think a monk would do some good unhanded combat if not it should be...

Zai

Zai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

You're thinking of the wrong kind of monk.

Ollaolas

Ollaolas

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

8-bit Hell

Have you played EQ1? Monks in that game got bonuses to unarmed fighting and they could do roundhouse kicks and other moves.

ribisi

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

what other kind is thier, just think monk should kick some ass kung fu style...

ribisi

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

no I never have or never will play EQ just a personal thing....

Zai

Zai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

There are the Buddhist monks which sometimes practice martial arts, that is what you are thinking of. The actual word monk is just somebody who is devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order. In this game the monks are the religous class, they recieve their power from the gods.

elorei

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by ribisi
well thanks, just would think a monk would do some good unhanded combat if not it should be...

unhanded? like ........you hit em with your stumps after you amputate?

Aija

Aija

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2005

I've played a monk in EQ1, AO, EQ2, CoH, SWG, and I would have played one in WoW if they had the class. At first I was disappointed that monks were not fighters like they had been in the other games, but healers, but I decided to try it anyways and surprisingly I'm enjoying it. Give it a chance.

Belwas

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Yes, generally most monks are just considered devout religous types.. but there are certainly a few orders that use martial arts, usually for the sheer sake of discipline(Self-discipline, that is.). The most notable of these are probably the Shaolin Monks.

Lasher Dragon

Lasher Dragon

Draconic Rage Incarnate

Join Date: Apr 2005

Iowa

Alphahive

R/A

I agree that monks are not made for combat in this game. However I think it is strange that they made them seem so martial-artsy without tossing them some kind of bone for melee fighting. Their /dance emote looks so cool, it's too bad they have nothing to back it up with.

ElGuat

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

True, the kind of monks the game portrays them out to be versus the kind of monks they really are is contraversial. They look like the kind of monks that could catch an arrow- but they really are the kind of monks that you'd see in a monastary in a brown robe where the most action in his schedual is tending the garden or drinkng a glass of holy water (they could possibly catch an arrow as well, but maybe with their face or chest). Maybe they wanted the tougher look without the bark. :P

Soul Monarch

Soul Monarch

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

In the between.

Heros Etc.

Me/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollaolas
Have you played EQ1? Monks in that game got bonuses to unarmed fighting and they could do roundhouse kicks and other moves.
...but, this isn't Everquest.

Why do people insist that every game should be another game that they already played?