Anyone else think monks seem to fit well with spears?

If monks do end up having some spear related skills, that should eliminate the possiblity of the last class being spear/javalin/bow like the amazon.


On the topic of weapons in general... has anyone seen skills that ONLY work with certain weapons? I cant think of any.

No skills that are weapon specific would be a huge change from diablo 2. (Melee skills requiring "melee" weapons doesnt count)

Currently our list of weapons the monk class can use is one handed swords, polearms, combat staves, and fist weapons. That could potentially change, but its probably pretty likely those will be the weapons the monk can equip.

The flavor of the monk we're working on now is a very strong connection between a small and focused group of weapon types, and the skills that use them.

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has anyone seen skills that ONLY work with certain weapons?

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I don't think so... not yet...

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Particularly, without weapon swap.

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Heehee. I was waiting for it! Thanks RR.

I talked to Jay a bit more about weapon restrictions last Friday and there are actually going to be some changes over all the classes to increase the weapon types usable by each by a small bit. Reason being that it looks like we probably have the bandwidth to handle it, and people just really like being able to use a lot of different weapon types to experiment with. One example he gave of an addition people were asking for (and someone here mentioned) was 2h swords for wizards, which is planned to be added now. Work hasn't really begun on these changes so its not set in stone, but it's likely this will affect the monk most substantially.

Which isn't to say everyone can use everything, there are still some fairly specific restrictions. Most restrictions with this new plan would be for 'flavor' reasons. Wands will probably be wizard only because they're very 'magicy' feeling, and their projectile component is somewhat unique. Wizards probably won't be lugging around 2h maces because it just doesn't feel like they should be smashy-smashy characters. etc.

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Maybe he meant "personnel bandwidth?" That's the most logical conclusion I could come up with.

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mhm

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Huh. Never heard it referred to like that before.
And I was totally down with just pretending that I knew what you meant to sound cool and smart. Plan ruined?

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Hrm. I hear it and use it all the time. Thought it was pretty common. Maybe it's just something our nerd culture here has expanded to more general use.

"Do you have the bandwidth to take on X project?"
"The team doesn't have the bandwidth to finish this request by the deadline."
etc.