Quote Originally Posted by Kurald Galain View Post
It's not really that they increased the frequency and decreased the potency.

Rage in P1 was already effectively unlimited, because the limit is so high that in practice you'll never run out (except at level 1 maybe). So it didn't need the nerf it got (from +2 hit and damage in P1, to +0 to hit / +2 to damage in P2).

Monk stunning fist in P1 has a daily limit, but in P2 it is instead limited to once per round and cannot be used in conjunction with other effects (like Power Attack). That's a lateral move, not a real increase. So this, too, didn't need the nerf it got (in P1 you lose a turn, drop your weapon, and take a defense penalty; in P2 you lose one action with no further drawbacks).

So yeah, both are weaker, and I don't see a good reason for that. It's not like those abilities were overpowered in P1.
Stunning fist is also an incapacitation effect, making it that much harder to land on enemies of a higher level than yours. So yes, it's hard to argue with that.