New Monks

[zohlor]

Hello, could someone paste the new mastery infos and stuff like that here? Also any info about them would be nice

[zohlor]

Oh come on you lazy bastards, don't make me reinc into the guild!

[solar]

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,-------------------------------------------------------.
|  Your masteries in the Initiates of Temperance        |
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+
|   Name of the mastery            | Percent | Learning |
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+
| Absolute aegis                   |         |          |
| Hand of gods                     |         |          |
| One with nothingness             |         |          |
| Runic enhancements               |         |          |
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+
| Grandmaster of crane style       |         |          |
| Grandmaster of dragon style      |         |          |
| Grandmaster of eagle style       |         |          |
| Grandmaster of leopard style     |         |          |
| Grandmaster of snake style       |         |          |
| Grandmaster of tiger style       |         |          |
`----------------------------------+---------+----------'

Crane style is graceful, effortless and fluid. While technically a
defensive style the power of this style comes from the enlarged striking
zone granted by the user's leg span and how his constant movement and
reposition of his entire body forces his opponents to stay at a certain
distance where the crane user wants his opponent to be so that he can use
minimal effort to deflect the strikes of his opponents while giving himself
the maximal power and strength behind his own kicks to end the fight in a
single decisive strike. Crane style is extremely powerful among the staff
fighters as the staff doubles the effectiness of their style when their
hands practically become a second pair of legs to be used against their foe
and partially freeing their own legs to deliver even more devastating
strikes.

Dragon style is a highly defensive style that focuses on buying enough time
for the monk to pinpoint and exploit weaknesses of their opponents until
they gain an opportunity to use that weakness and strike. Providing no
opening without first letting your opponent open each time the dragon
master avoids their opponent's attacks they gain ground and grow in power
to the point that their single strike is enough to decide the outcome of
the fight.

While crane style relies on constant movement and reach to keep the foes in
bay the dragon style focuses on evasion through as little as possible
movement. Many opponents rejoice too early that they have managed to land a
fatal blow to the dragon user just to be disappointed for a brief second by
their near miss before their jawbone makes friends with their brain tissue.

Eagle style is all about speed and precision. User of eagle style attacks
his opponents with his fists at amazing speed without losing accuracy and
can deliver the tremendous strenght behind his blows into a very small area
causing massive damage. This uncanny accuracy allows a master of eagle
style to instantly subdued his opponents with a series of lightning fast
precision nerve strikes to vital spots in their body.

Leopard style is powerful, firm and aggressive. Masters of this style
strike directly without hesitation, utilizing speed, agility and power to
shatter opponents' defenses. They are the foremost supporters of the idea
behind the striking the lightning and believe that a block is wasted energy
and movement that could be used to strike fast, strike hard and strike to
decide the battle before it even has started. When your opponent dies in a
blink of an eye there is rarely need to defend yourself against their
attacks. Although if he doesn't then the leopard style will lose its power
fairly rapidly and changing to some other style is a good idea.

Snake style is a defensive style that uses both hands and feets equally to
attack the user's opponents. The fighting style is very rapid and fluid and
able to mold and change as is needed. Snake style user's ability to react
to any attack makes him nearly impossible to hit. Also this rapidity of
unexpected movements allows the snake style user to wait for perfect moment
to strike, most usually right after a well-performed strike and use his own
whole body to strike at the opponent. While the snake style itself might
not be the most strongest of styles masters of other styles seek to master
the snake style also as they wish to incorporate this fluidity of movement
into their own techniques.

Tiger style is renown from its extensive footwork that includes for example
very flashy acrobatic kicks. When a tiger user engages into a combat he is
a total opposite of a leopard user who strikes immediately with everything
he has. Tiger user starts slow and slowly builds up in strength and speed.
Like a tiger who can track pray for days until its strength is gone, the
tiger style user becomes the more dangerous the longer the fight drags on.
Tiger master often use leopard style or dragon style in conjunction with
the tiger style to either give them explosive start while quickly building
up their strenght, in essence never losing that explosive power they had in
start or to build up their own strenght and speed even faster by avoiding
and blocking their opponents attacks with the dragon style.


There aren't yet any specific helpfiles on those four masteries.

Each stance has its own bonuses, but once they're high enough, you start getting their bonuses also in other stances, making it uber rule to have them all at 100%.

[uzriel]

http://conari.se/icesus/wiki/index.php/Monks