Report 77

Report #77
Skillset: Kata Skill: Forms
 Org: Shofangi Status: Rejected Nov 2008
Furies' Decision:
Since there's concern in the equality of this change, we'd like this to be part
of an overall monk report (if it's still deemed necessary with other changes).
See the envoy post.
Problem: As monk afflictions cost more than ka, it's almost impossible to get a
full weapon/weapon/kick combo for damage and wounds (which is not that
significant on its own) along with an affliction or skive at lower forms),
unlike warriors who can both get damage/wounds and do a highly significant
affliction like knockdown or wind. This essentially makes the first three or so
forms a required 16+ second timewaste for some monks. Also, some ka costs for
things like ninjakari modifiers are harder to balance because the spread of ka
windows is so wide
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Increase the ka windows for momentum level 0, 1, 2
 and 3 to 300, 300, 400 and 500 (instead of 250, 250,
 350 and 450) respectively. This is a fairly minor
 increase but allows use of, say, a 125-ka attack
 instead of a basic shofa form 1.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Remove "momentum level 0": monks would start on
 momentum level 1. This doesn't help with the ka costs
 but at least shortens the time-wasting window.
Player Comments:
---[Gregori on 11/24 @ 23:53 writes]:
Doesn't this make the strong stronger while doing very little for the weaker
monk guilds, overall?
---[Shuyin on 11/25 @ 04:07 writes]:
There are bigger things to address than momentum, this does seem to make the
strong stronger, especially given that certain moves were designed with the
original ka amount per-level in mind, also on the other hand, some already too-
cheap ka moves will be made even earlier to do. And lastly, poor monks will have
to readjust their 1 billion katas to compensate
---[Xiel on 11/30 @ 03:43 writes]:
I echo Shuyin's concerns as above.
---[Lanfayr on 11/30 @ 17:09 writes]:
The high-momentum ka costs should also be lowered (to for example 650 and 800),
thus even though monks could do more at low momentum, they would also do a
little less at high momentum.
---[Nejii on 12/2 @ 02:09 writes]:
It's a valid concern, but things like the ability of ninjakari to stack billions
of mods is problematic with or without this, and doesn't get substantially more
broken with 50 more ka. They're also harder to balance with the ka bands as
broad as they are. The concerns in the problem section are real so it's just a
matter of priorities and no other solutions make themselves obvious.