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Well, all this discussion made me curious that I had missed something when I had a martial arts monk in my party.
So I decided to test it out. I made a game with 1 monk, 1 samurai and 1 priest ( for healing ) on normal difficulty. The test was to see just how good a martial arts monk is vs a sword weilding samurai in the beginning - mid game. Since they both have critical strike I thought this was a good comparison.
Both characters were human, and basically had the same stats. The monks stats were 54, 50, 50, 45, 57, 64, 55 ( strength to senses ). The samurais stats were 56, 55, 45, 50, 62, 62, 45.
For both I put 3 in strength and speed at every level up.
For the samurai I put 3 in dual weapons, close combat and swords every level.
For the monk I put 3 in martial arts, close combat and critical strike every level.
When I started in the monastery they both did about the same amount of damage. As I got near Arnika the monk was inching ahead of the samurai.
However, once I got to arnika and gave the samurai bloodlust, the samurai quickly made the monk look inferior. He was regularly doing 30+ damage while the monk was only doing 10. Also bloodlust gives an extra attack.
Both the monk and samurai were at 1 swing 1 attack ( not counting the extra swing from bloodlust ) at level 7 with 80 speed and about mid 30's in their skills ( not counting bonuses ).
I am not sure how the above author got 6 swings at level 7.
This is about the same as I remember it the last time I tried.
When does the monk become the "3rd most powerful melee combat damage-dealer" ????? What level? What stats?
Maybe I am doing something wrong but I don't see how.
Seems more likely the people that rate the unarmed monk higher aren't using their other characters properly.
At this rate I would go so far as to say the samurai could keep bloodlust the rest of the game and still outdamage the monk.
[ 06-16-2005, 08:10 PM: Message edited by: TinyMage ]
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