Good Afternoon!
I would like to start this off by saying that, I have played the monk class for nearly every Diablo rendition out there that has something of the sort. Hand to hand combat has always been such a great experience for me and I enjoy the rush of dashing in, doing something exciting and escaping by a hair!
Monk in Diablo Immortal has continued to be that sort of class. Lots of dashing around, catching the backline offguard or interrupting a warrior in the middle of chasing my own backline by dropping a slow circle or a quick stun.
Monk had its hayday quite awhile ago. Shield of Zen was “broken” and we really did wonders in pvp AND pve. We managed to stay close to what I would consider “A Tier” or even, at times, “S Tier”. Then, we got nerfed. Monk dropped down to “B Tier” and eventually, down to “C Tier” or lower.
I still held onto hope. Seeing some cool essences come out and praying some of the more recent ones would be the “fix” we need on the class. However, no such luck.
THEN! We saw what we thought might be a glimps into the future of monks push back up into a “higher tier”. The Mainhand Wave of Light essence.
The initial bug in this skill made me feel like monk had some power again.
I could jump into a fight, bomb a bit and then jump out. The power was nice but we were still without our shield of zen to protect us so if I didnt time it JUST RIGHT, I would get caught and killed just as easily as before. But if I got the timing right, boy did that feel good!
But then, not two weeks into that, boom! Fixed with a hot patch and monk fell back into its hole.
Since then, we have seen one more set of essences come out and although I do enjoy the damage the Flying dragon combo does now, the rest of the essences fall flat.
The idea behind the Imprisoned fist combo (having inner sanctuary aura then using the imprisoned fist buff and the “anti dash” mainhand) looked promising but with the immunities that almost all classes have right now, its pointless.
Monk has been in a hole now for a very long time. Every single “tier list” posted on youtube, reddit, these forums or honestly, anywhere else, puts monk in a tier of its own, far below every other class. Even at almost 7k resonance I struggle to do much in battlegrounds, vault, or even fun 1v1 duals in westmarch. But I continue to play Monk because I continue to have hope that one day, one of these patches, Monk will see some love.
Please devs. Read this post. Take a look at some of the issues monk has (especialy shield of zen having not enough shield to even make us immune for 1 hit) and give us something! Not even asking to be back up with the gods (Barbarian and Tempest). But just up closer to the impact that all the other classes have.
Make us a support class if thats what it takes! Give us a passive mantra skill (similar to how tempest has a passive skill!) that we can bring to the table. Give us a reason to be in pvp groups. Give this class a reason to exist!
PLEASE!