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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 9056390" data-attributes="member: 52905">They broke out the Monk bit of the longer video.[MEDIA=youtube]Hfj0Daa2EGU[/MEDIA][spoiler]we've got some pretty significantchanges to the monk let's deal with thisa lot of people have been asking thiswhole time where's the monk where's themonk so let's talk about it so the monkhas been in our internal play testingfor quite a while now and one of ourmain goals with the Monk Is to get itsoutput right because we have beenconcerned for a number of years that themonks damage output has not been whereit should be relative to other classesand so to me one of the main thingsabout the monk is that your Martial Artsdie progression has all moved up one dieand so rather than starting at a D4 younow start at a D6 and it goes all theway up to a D12 so in a way we couldjust say that and that's enough for forexciting changes for this class becauseuh monks now are really going to be ableto punch at the weight that they shouldhave been all along but of course we'vedone more uh we we have uh brand newfeatures in this class the monk now getsweapon Mastery so in addition to theirenhanced unarmed combat bunks also nowget to play around with the fun optionsin weapon Mastery and get to thenexplore some amazing tactical comboswhen you start thinking about combiningcertain weapon Mastery properties withthen also certain features in monksubclasses as well as in the base classwe also have a a new feature in the monkcalled deflect energy this is an oftenan often requested thing in the class soin the in the past of course uh monkscould deflectlike arrows you know catch them throwthem back that kind of thing well athigh level now the monk can go evenfurther and like that fire bolt thatcomes in that monk can bat that fireballaway uh and super fun super cinematicyeah and really leans into uhthe monk having this sort of finecontrol not only of themselves uh but ofthe battlefield around them right andthat that fine control is a theme hereuh it's why you know we now call theirmain uh resource discipline pointsbecause uh monks are all about thisself-discipline that allows them to pulloff these sometimes Supernatural effectsuh and the first time I get to grab amagic Missile out of the air or Eldritchblast andI'm not just going to deflect it I'mgonna like theme it that I just likethrow it back like I hold on to him fora second look at it and then toss itback at someone I'm gonna laugh so I Ihate to break it to you no I waswondering about magic Missile is it'snot gonna work with magic oh come on metlike one of them nopebecause there are multiple multiple arehitting here once no so no it's becausemagic Missile is that special thing inthe game well always hits for the monkto deflect something it has to be anattack roll that hits you and magicMissile part of its core identity isthat it bypasses such things I meanthat's why magic Missile is so iconic uhbut I like the idea of grabbing Eldritchblast and throwing a bat back at awarlock that's hilarious to me there'sother stuff for the month uh yes uh inaddition to a lot of fine-tuning in thecore classuh we havecompletely redesigned the subclass thatwas formally known as The Way of thefour elements so that subclass was thelowest rated subclass in the 2014Players handbook and looking at thefeedback that we've received over theyears on it and sort of faced with do wesimply refine it or completely go backto the drawing board we completely wentback to the drawing board and so whatyou see here is a subclass that is ableto use their discipline points in a waythat I think is going to be supersatisfying as they create explosions ofelemental power on the battlefield areable to power up their unarmed strikeswith elemental energy extend their reachYep they're able to extend their reachmany of the capabilities that in 2014were embedded in some of the spelloptions what we've done instead is takenthose move them into the subclass itselfand allowed you to get a lot of the samefeel but without looping through spellsand also without spending such apunishing number of points becausebecause the 2014 that spell casting oneof the reasons why it was unpopular isthe options are simply too expensive andso the the monk was often running out oftheir pointssuper fast and then felt like they werethen reduced to just punching or hittingsomebody with a weapon while other monkswere able to keep going longer with someof their subclass distinctivecapabilities so nowthe way of the four elements now calledWarrior of the elements is now able toessentiallystand side by side with other monkclasses subclasses rather and be just aspotent as they are we also have we havea variety of subclasses in here we'vegot Warrior of the Shadow yes we have awarrior of Shadow and also Warrior ofthe hand and then the fourth subclass isWarrior of mercy and for that you justgo to Tasha's and use the way of Mercythat is there now of course in the 2024book any subclass that we're currentlyjust pointing you to a book for willappear in the player's handbook soWarrior of Shadow has been more refinedlike you can move the darkness aroundthe battlefield yeah tactical that'sthat is a big a big change in Warrior ofShadow and that is uh you were able tocreate Darkness as you could in 2014 butnow you can move that darkness and youcan see in it yes so that combination ofthings is fantastic we've also lessenedthe subclasses Reliance on spells and itgets more of the capabilities thatbefore came through spells just directlythrough its features that is uh it'slike a very simple change that changesthe battlefield quite significantly yesyeahforeignEnglish (auto-generated)[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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