ANNOUNCE NEWS #800
Date: 5/15/2007 at 18:04
From: Estarra, the Eternal
To : Everyone
Subj: Monks Coming Soon!

Congratulations to both Serenwilde and New Celest for being the first to
jointly complete one of the great quests of the Undervault! Zenobia, the
Queen of Queens of the Kephera, granted two prizes, the distribution of
which was determined through a scavenger hunt. To New Celest went a
scarab that when put into their nexus gave them 100,000 power!

For Serenwilde, they were granted the training and knowledge of the
kephera, which will be the first of the monk's guilds, the newest
archetype which will be released in Lusternia! The monk archetype has
NOT been completely designed and coded, though parts of it has been.
Rather than designing and releasing monks as we did bards, our plan is
to work with a monk committee in Serenwilde to help us design and test
monks before they are released. We expect this to be a multi-month
process.

Eventually, all cities and communes will be offered a chance to build a
monk's guild. To tell you a little bit about it, dexterity is an
important stat for monks, they use a form of martial arts called kata
which allows monks to design custom attacks, and upon a city/commune
specialization, they will receive a martial arts weapon.


Penned by My hand on the 17th of Avechary, in the year 176 CE.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*HYSTERICS*

EDIT: (Beat you to it)

Heheh I was waiting for someone to post this Neat-o! And everyone thought they'd be assasins/thieves. Hmm, makes me wonder what it would've been like if the illithoid quest had been done.

what

This is a joke, right?

Wow... just. Wow.

I never knew this quest was going to be so big!

I love the admins.

I suuuuupoooose I could deal with seeing another loti spore again...

But I wanted assassins! I WANTED TO STICK KNIVES IN PEOPLE'S EYEBALLS DAMMIT!

You can pluck people's eyeballs out of their sockets with your bare fingers instead! (Kill Bill anyone?)

Very cool.

Serenwilde, enjoy the alts!

We had like twenty Kephara alts. uggggh.

I'm probably mirroring a lot of others' sentiments right now, but here goes.

I have mixed feelings about this news. On the one hand, simultaneous (or near simultaneous) releases of so many features at once is a big, big undertaking, and I commend the admins on it. New features are always great, and it's nice how they caught us by surprise by not "waiting a year" as many suspected.

At the same time, however, I'm concerned that they're releasing another archetype when bards still need a lot of work. When will bards get race specializations, trade skills, guards, and discretionary powers? And from what I understand their combat is still meh, though I wouldn't know myself.

I also have a minor RP gripe about how well monks will "fit" with the existing archetypes, which are more general in function I think. But then again, that's what I said about the bards and was proven wrong.

Wow.

That is all.

Wait, so my 16 dex might actually be USEFUL?

I'm actually looking at my 18 dex...

Two things:

Just wow.

This better not turn out like Achaea.

EDIT: Volroc summed it up a lot better than I did.

I agree. I'm also a little disappointed that the architype is monks, which are pretty much in every mud ever made Hoping they're really unique somehow.

I'm stunned. I never thought that the quests, while unusually long and complex, would to lead something more than roleplay gratification and a few, choice honours lines - though, in retrospect, I probably should have!

It'll be interesting to see how the proposed Monk guild develops, and I hope that everyone involved in the testing enjoys the opportunity.

Me too. But gonna be along wait..

There better not be spore-fu.

The more content the better, imo.

Estarra, Roark, all of you - you get a bearhug.

I don't have mixed feelings at all. While I appreciate the work that has been done, why does the administration think now is a good time to release monks? The bard guilds have serious, serious issues. Not only do they have serious issues, they were released fairly recently and are still pretty empty. I can't speak for all bards, but I know I'll be switching to monk as soon as I can, unless they (somehow) have more problems than bards. Which seems unlikely.



I agree - when what we have works as it should.

Well Estarra did say it was a multi-month process, so I do not think it will be anytime soon that we all have monks ready.