No offence or hate on me but , you add a new class yet the curent classes are not corectly balanced ? you said you will do some changes and balances and they did not come , maybe do something to the curenct classes then focus on the Monks? :P this way you will have more time to sort out the curent classes ... like i said no hate on me this is just my 2 cents , i actually like the ideea that there will be a new class comming i just feel that the server needs other things sorted rather then adding monk , like some drops EG , lvl 50 WEPS that are not droping yet you guys said they are in drops ... never seen a 50 Warr / Archer / Sin / Tao wep just 1 wizz lvl 50 wep in so many months , no new spells that are suposed to be in drops since months ago , StrongDragonRing and StrongKnightBracelet are not droping in numas but they suposed to be droping them , and many other things ...Great job on the server but please focus on fixing things first :P
Class balancing happens all the time... The main classes that could do with a little boost are Archers and Taoists and we recognize this and I suspect Archers will be first inline for their boost... I don't think the classes are as incorrectly balanced as you are suggesting (my 2 cents).
I am not sure what the expectation is for level 50 weapons... There are 5 (which include 2 wiz weapons, 2 taoist weapons and a sin) in game across multiple classes, bosses that can be killed without a large number of people of an adequate level won't drop them... BH is currently going over drops to ensure of spelling mistakes of certain items, maybe raise a thread so he adds these to his list, but from the statistics... I again, think your making a bigger deal out of it than it is.
The spells are part of BH's list of things to look through, some were recalled after being announced as I said in another thread, I would like to see a "yes these are in/now in" or "no these are not in yet" before the next reboot.
Who dictates what Numas should and shouldn't drop? Unless BH has said Strong items should be in Numa drops, then I don't see why Numas should drop anything valuable very often because of how good their exp is. And I am not saying Strong items are not in Numa drops, because without checking I really don't know...
Sam