Flying kick question

[Trungep99]

I just got my monk to 30. The wiki doesn’t give tons of information. Is flying kick the only skill I should use and level up to maximize my damage? Or is their value in the previously learned attack skills?

[Kich867]

Not a monk main so someone correct me if I'm wrong but, there's a few non-flying kick skills that are used in some disciplines for monks later on, like a powerful version of eagle strike or whatever, I have no idea how useful these are but they exist.

But besides that, no I think its just flying kick from here on out, it hits the hardest by quite a lot if I'm not mistaken.

[Sizar]

Flying Kick is the best yes, others are now useless, as well as the disciplines associated with them

[sammoHung]

Monk main here. Flying Kick is the only attack you should use, and yes the other discs for the other skills are broken on p99.

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by sammoHung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Monk main here. Flying Kick is the only attack you should use, and yes the other discs for the other skills are broken on p99.

Why are they broken here and how are they supposed to behave? Makes no sense ashenhand is on a 72 mins timer for a lesser special attack but you get thunder kick at 52 on a 9 mins timer. I read on live it boosts a bunch of specials for 10 ticks but was that implemented at a later date?

[Mortdecai99]

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why are they broken here and how are they supposed to behave? Makes no sense ashenhand is on a 72 mins timer for a lesser special attack but you get thunder kick at 52 on a 9 mins timer. I read on live it boosts a bunch of specials for 10 ticks but was that implemented at a later date?

Some things just don't work right yet. 16 years seems like a lot of time to work on the project, but you have to remember it's always been like 1 or 2 guys trying to track down information and fix stuff as a hobby.

[Goregasmic]

Originally Posted by Mortdecai99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some things just don't work right yet. 16 years seems like a lot of time to work on the project, but you have to remember it's always been like 1 or 2 guys trying to track down information and fix stuff as a hobby.

Yeah I get that I just don't know the timeline for those, as if they were broken in era or if they gave them arbitrary values on p99 and never got around to fixing it. There's a 2014 bug thread for silentfist/ashenhand but it was closed with no reply.

[plzrelax]

Thunder kick sucks

[TheBlob]

My monk is level 54 and I have tried Thunder kick many times. It feels like it either does nothing or actually make the Flying Kick less powerful. I have seen a Thunder kick for 5 points of damage vs a blue mob. I think the highest Flying Kick I have performed was with the discipline but the probability seems insanely low.

[Cecily]

Thunder kick is for announcing to other monk players you're kind of a bad ass.