Recently, MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood had the opportunity to sit down for a tour of Module 7 for Dungeons and Dragons Online. In part one of this feature, Wood talks about the addition of the Monk class to the game.

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down for a guided tour of the newest module for Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach. Known as Module 7, this new addition not only adds new content and areas, but also sees the introduction of a new class, the Monk.

For those who may not be familiar with the history of Dungeons and Dragons, Monk is a character class that arrived in an early edition of the pen and paper giant, but then faded to a kind of obscurity until the launch of Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition where it was re-introduced into the consciousness of the game.

Read the full article here.

Cool stuff (first comment, lol)

I think the way this game started off was horrible, I think it was rushed to market to soon, and was just to "Plain" at launch.  Some of the recent news coming out of mmorpg lately though have me thinking about picking it back up and giving it another shot.  (keep in mind i have not played since beta so I would think there are a thousands of improvments since then. 

The big draw for me though is my all time favorite class...the monk.  If they implement it even half as good as they make it sound in this article it should be a very nice treat. 

Quick note: The monk class was re-introduced in 3.0 not 3.5. And was removed in 4.0.

I've been playing on Risia, and it's pretty fun.  I don't like the implementation of Flurry of Blows (instead of being the monk's alternative to two weapon fighting, it just turns the monk into a full BAB class - I see the reasoning, but I hate that it can be used in conjunction with the two weapon fighting feats), but they are very fun to play in spite of that.  The stances and special attacks given by learning different styles are fun, and setting up (and using) finishing moves is absolutely great.

I'd say that my monk is at least as fun to play as my barbarian, and my barbarian pwns the funness of most of my other characters.  I don't know if the monk will be as fun to play as my rogue (which is str-based, and therefor tends to out-kill most barbarians), but he's definitely giving my rogue a run for his money.

If I didn't want to use unarmed combat so much, I'd go for an 11/5 monk/rogue, but monk unarmed damage increases with level, so taking rogue levels would mean that I'd almost have to start using kama or a quarterstaff to keep up with the damage I would be making otherwise.  Kind of.

I might make one, anyway, just to see what happens.

Originally posted by shaon94

I think the way this game started off was horrible, I think it was rushed to market to soon, and was just to "Plain" at launch.  Some of the recent news coming out of mmorpg lately though have me thinking about picking it back up and giving it another shot.  (keep in mind i have not played since beta so I would think there are a thousands of improvments since then. 

The big draw for me though is my all time favorite class...the monk.  If they implement it even half as good as they make it sound in this article it should be a very nice treat. 

 

to me it has a very unique position in the market feeling and playing a lot diffrent then the other 3 mmo i played so far (wow, lineage2 and conan)

When module 7 comes out, i bet theres going to be tons lvl 1 monks running around.

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