For the next expansion I would like monks to transition away from Chinese martial arts movies to Japanese anime style fighters.
Like, who doesn’t want to go ultra instinct?
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This is what I’ve been saying for a long time. I don’t know how Blizzard managed to make monks so lame in comparison to other classes.
The design of the class is all over the place without a solid theme. You’ve got a martial arts class that utilizes chi energy and somehow they managed to design around that in the lamest way possible.
All of our attacks are so unimaginative and the animations lack any impact. The combo system should actually be more meaningful apart from a simple damage boost.
You look at other games with fighter classes and they have awesome attacks, black desert online is a great example of that.
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even project BBQ has a better looking monk in it with like 10 seconds of gameplay. the game isnt even in internal alpha yet and its better than wow monks.
and yeah, FFARR, tera, BDO, hell even diablo monks are all infinitely better than what we are dealing with in wow.
theres just no visceral impact to wow monk abilities. and thats probably because we are the only class in the game that DIDNT GET A VISUAL OVERHAUL IN LEGION. im really getting over blizzard and there extreme mismanagement of this class in this game. i think im about done with this garbage company if we dont see anything before shadowlands. i still havnt bought it yet, because im still waiting for the monk overhaul let alone ANY kind of overhaul or even bug fixes yet.
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It really is infuriating. Whenever I play my monk I can’t help but think about how awesome this class could really be if they didn’t completely get lazy with the design. It’s a joke.
All of our animations are horrible and our abilities are so randomly chosen. For example, you have abilities like crackling jade lightning that just feel so randomly picked. When you look at chi burst and chi wave you expect it to actually be some cool chi attack but instead they’re 2 of the lamest attacks we have that barely do any damage. They couldn’t even bother to update SEF which plops that terrible looking outdated MoP gear on top of your character.
Then you’ve got classes like demon hunters where they went all out to make the class look/feel as cool as possible. You can really tell they’ve made no effort at all to try and develop monks any further or give them a strong class identity. We’re called wind walkers and the spec has nothing to do with the wind at all. It’s as if we were supposed to disappear after MoP once the panda theme was over.
Why do we even have multiple summoning abilities like invoke xuen and sef? We’re a fighter class. Instead of creating minions we should just enter an elevated state of being where our attacks change.
Whirling dragon punch has this awesome sounding name and then when you actually cast it, it looks completely disappointing.
I know I’m rambling but I’ve been waiting since Legion for them to finally revamp monks like they did with the other classes and give them a solid class identity but they never did. It’s a slap in the face that the devs said expect changes LAST week and not a single word was spoken about it after that. You can expect any cool ideas for revamped monk abilities to end up going to the next class they introduce instead just like they did with demon hunters.
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I don’t ever heal with my monk because I’m not a fan of playing healers but it obvious to me we need a 4th spec that is also a heal spec. One spec for fistweaving and one for spellcasting. Then we can have 1 spec for each celestial too.
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Mistweaver and cranedancer
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I only disagree with you because I don’t want to be greedy and ask for more than simply making the class work and giving the class to the remaining races that are barred from it.
But I also gotta say that is a really sick idea.
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It seems like there is ample room for four specs both in lore and in practical gameplay. I love the mistweaver/cranedancer notion.
Maybe the reason we can’t get proper mistweaving and fistweaving is because the team is trying to mesh two fantasies that are starkly different and, like the August Celestials they are named after, are actually two different things.
In lieu of simply bringing the class back to where it was in MoP, developing two distinct healing specs would be absolutely amazing. (And perhaps easier than meshing mistweaving/fistweaving into one spec.)
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Been under the weather since Saturday but lets hope for some uplifting news today.
#KungfuStruggle
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Is it corona or just the monk flu? Hoping to see some uplifting changes too.
According to the self check thingy might be corona might just be normal early fall illness. Stay home til fever gone get rest and call DR. if symptoms worsen.
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I hope you feel better soon, and I hope we get some monk news to cheer your spirits.
#KungfuStruggle
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I’m expecting bug fixes mostly today. I don’t think anymore changes will happen at this point in terms of ability stuffs. Plus more changes will result in more bugs. I hope Blizzard’s internal build is miles ahead of the beta build.
Also! Vote for caterpillar 
Will we start a new monk riot thread in general if we get no fixes this week?
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Either start a new one or wake up the old ones
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wait wait waiting 
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I will burn this mother f’er to the ground.
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WE READY TO HAVE A “MOSTLY PEACFUL” RUN AT GD!!!
Or at least another thread of dissapointment.
#KungfuStruggle
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Welp, Mana Tea is now off GCD. We can all go home now, #1 raid healer.
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Was there a new build today with some bug fixes?