A few monk questions from a non-monk player who's aspirant

Classes Monk
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Hoping the monks here can throw a poor old shaman a bone.

  1. Trying to figure out what Stagger is. Am I correct in saying that, lore wise, monks use the mists to absorb physical blows and stagger them? Or is it written than they’re just too drunk to feel the pain, and that’s what the stagger is?

  2. I’m not sure I’ll word this correctly, I’ll try. When I look at a rogue, I can’t make the race something that doesn’t look like it has innate invisibility power. Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Kul Tirans…no. When it comes to Monks, the mist-weaving feature, and the ability to wrap mists around themselves to absorb physical blows - I need to feel like the race has that element to it. Aside from the Panda, what Alliance race, Allied or Core, do you think has the most inherent misty profile?

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A bald human because it’s like an underdog’s trial of fate to see if they can master their martial arts. Also, their racial is a all around secondary stat bonus, so they are “One with everything or balanced”. Their other racial is a reputation bonus which makes sense if you think about it for the path of life they are taking. This is the way.

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  1. I’d stay it’s a combo of both of those.

  2. Humans are the most adaptive race, and the ones that would be the most likely to want to learn a “zen like” way of fighting, or not fighting in most cases. The regular space goats would probably be my second choice based on your criteria, though you could argue that if a Dwarf can become a Shaman, he can surely become a Monk.

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  1. What the guy above me said.
  2. I don’t play alliance a lot, but maybe Nelf or Draenei for the whole misty kind of aesthetic. And maybe Kul Tiran because you could rationalize a sea mist kind of theme for them.
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  1. I would say Brewmasters use performance-enhancing concoctions to bolster their survivability, e.g. hardening the skin or turning it to stone (Ironskin and Stoneskin Brew), with Stagger representing how easily a drunken brawler can just walk it off

  2. the ‘mist’ is less literal than it sounds; the mist is simply life’s essence, the fifth element (the Spirit of Life) which the Pandaren long ago named Chi. Same concept different name.

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  1. When I think of brewmaster’s style for fighting, I think of Yuen Wah [master of Taijiquan] from Kung Fu Hustle (movie). A combination of this and Jackie Chan’s character in Drunket Master (movie).

  2. I’d say this is up for interpretation as to how they work with a life essence (as was mentioned above) - similar to paladins, they have different methods of channeling life energy.

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Definitely the Chan Man…
That movie was great!
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You do realize though, Mag’Har is the master race.

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Horde, almost definitionally, can’t contain the master race. Did you know the Nightelfs flip?

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I mean technically tauren sims highest for monk dps