Any idea why they seemingly nerfed black belt's defense?

I mean I always liked him and all, and getting to level 50 his 50 defense was ok. getting to 99 on origins it was real good, made him seem very useful... Now with 1 defense every 2 levels it seems, he's even worse.

I'm wishing I took a ninja. His fists are still strong, but i'm going to have to keep him in a ruby armlet and proring for a long time, maybe forever.

**edit**
Ok, after leveling 32-43 on the Eye.... Blackbelt/monk does 10hits for 330~ damage.
He has 45 damage listed for fists vs I think he would have 90 in origins.
In origins he would be doing around 1000 damage at this level.
His defense is 24 when unequipped, not 43.
I think I will have to pass judgement on black belt in DoS... he quite frankly... and I'm sorry for saying this... sucks. Unless he just magically starts to gain super atk power or defense later on.. his attack will never outpace warrior's at this pace, and his defense will barely overtake mages at 99.

In origins he could hit 20 times for 6000 damage or so, and have a 99 armor.
Now he's gonna hit 22 times~ for 800 damage or so, and have a 56~ armor.

/vote no for black belt in DoS.
/vote yes for Ninja... who probably would be hitting 300s vs my master's 350s now. And who would have 60 armor I believe with ice armor and ice shield and mithril helm?

Oh well, lessons learned.
Time to go for the sea shrine and the waterfall and that faerie.

Well in the mid 60s, and playing on my cousin's DS.

Beat Whisperwind Cove once so far.... pretty hard in the 30 levels, tho the first 25 were cake... except the bosses.

Its an ok version.. the normal part of the game is very easy. They took the silver sword out of elfland I see.


I'll go back over and beat Fire and Water extra dungeons, then I'll be done I guess. Not sure if i'll buy a GBA or just keep sharing the DS yet.

Fi, BB, WM, BM
and don't bring a BB.. Fi is better in this game. At best at 99 BB might do 2x fighter's damage... and still won't beat his armor. They really gimped him.

Please don't double post, use the edit/delete button instead.

~Void