Um, I have not played a bruiser so I don't really know what you guys get, maybe you can enlighten the rest of us... (someone said traps, I thought that was rangers) But I have got a 70 monk, so let me enlighten you on a few points.
Invis - when soe last made changes to invis/stealth they made about 40% of the mob population (higher if you just count heroics) see through invis... as was mentioned up there ^^ FD is much more reliable.
Tsunami- was a great ability... WAS a great ability... it only protects from auto-attacks, combat arts just go straight through it, and you now need a master 1 to get the full duration.
Aviodance- you mentioned this was what made us 'Raid-desireable', um last i checked both of the brawler classes were avoidance tanks, and it is widely acknowledged that avoidance is [Removed for Content] vs epics. I really can't understand what point your trying to make here.
Group FD- Yep, nice ability, gives me 1 thing to do on a raid aside from mediocre dps, but then it is only usefull in a sure-wipe situation if all the group are out of reset range and only every 15 minutes. In a group situation its kind of more like an emergency evac without the travel perks and a 15% faliure rate.
In your complaint about bruisers weakened solo ability due to the CC changes you failed to acknowledge that monks also rely heavily on CC abilities to solo, namely stunn and stiffle, of my monks abilities 2 of my stunns are goind to be hlaved in duration, the tird im not sure on cause its not a KB stunn and the notes aren't clear on how there affected.
Personaly, I don't want a mez ability for my monk, I just want to be able to solo even con encounters, or group tank heroics without dieing on a consistant basis due to having limited ability to reduce incoming damage. I have no idea if these CC changes will make soloing or tanking harder, but if they make it less fun then I won't be happy.
Lastly, being upset about a nerf is fine, but blatanly misrepresenting the facts by sugesting a "disparity" exists without impartialy showing both sides of the story is not going to get you much respect from a mature forum community. As for class envy, if your so sure monks are "better" than bruisers wait for LU24 and betray freeport, then you too can play the "best" Brawler class.
Message Edited by Code2501 on 05-14-2006 10:01 PM