Blademaster would be interesting for monks from an aesthetic point of view but otherwise the lore between Blademasters and Monk are completely contradictory and separate. The idea of a Samurai-theme can already be done with the Shado-Pan.
The thing is the shadopan are an organization of multiple classes, yes they’re lead by Taran Zhu but you see rogues, Monks, rangers all depicted in the shadopan faction on top of the faction being 1dimensonal their only goal is to defend the wall, they would steal pandaren children train them from birth to be elite fighters.
A let’s say troll being a shadopan makes no sense, but a troll monk being trained to become a troll blademaster seems just more understandable.
Blademasters were an Orc unity only and theie signature move has been with Warriors for a long time.
Shado-pan and monks are not connected only due to the fact of being oandaren oeganizations but IIRC they are both connected to Xuen, the white tiger, so a monk learning the techniques the shado-pan have in their curriculum is not a jump in logic.
Yeahhhh but the Shado Pan are not all monks. That’s where my gripe with it comes in personally. I’d personally prefer to see something else but I don’t know what yet.
Monks are primarily based on chinese martial arts, BUT, due to the inspirstion being mostly martial arts movies, there is some japanese influence here and there like some karate kid references in the pandaren starting zone, fists of fury assumes a very traditional karate stance and form, some moves also seem to come from fighting games, like Rising Sun Kick and Spinning Crane Kick.
But, this is minor in the grand scheme of chinese references to pandaren and monk lore, though there are a lot of japanese references sprinkled in minor ways in WoW, like Night elven structures and some.minor design elements, Orcs with blademasters, Waveblade ankoans with their huge katanas, even pandaria has some samurai themed sets, the shado-pan has some ninja themes.
Storm Thane or whatever hero class is 100% Muradin dwarven warrior which is fury/prot hybrid even thematically. So non dwarven warriors can get the hero class. Think it’d make sense for non orcs to be blade masters for consistency’s sake.
Just a matter of choosing if warrior or monk should get the hero class. Tricky.
I think it would make sense for Monk to get it and use polearms. The signature blade master sword is actually a polearm if I remember correctly.
It the basis for the Slayer warrior archetype hero talents but people keep trying to force blademaster onto monk. Even though it’s been a arms warrior thing from the start.
Given that blade masters wear neck-beads similar to some shaman and monks, and some possess elemental (Blazing Coil, Molten Weapon) or supernatural (Wind Walk, Mirror Image) abilities, it is possible that they also utilize their [spirit] to empower themselves or [draw from] the elemental spirits either by command or request.
the thing that makes blademasters stand apart from a simple arms swordsman is these supernatural feats that they are able to do, not their mastery of swordsman ship. Which they are well versed in but the blinding speed, the guile of trickery from their clones and the blades of fire.
Your link doesn’t work so I have no clue what your talking about.
But I do know their entire lore is about being master SWORDMAN not unarmed monks.
*edit Honestly besides being lore nerd and besides seeing this offending my lore nerdness I honestly could care less.
Blademaster is a arms warrior and is called the “Slayer” hero talents for warrior. If you want to RP as one then cross your fingers shado pan for monks allows weapon animations but your not getting the 2h fire sword that makes a blademaster the actual blademaster part. I don’t see the need to keep replying to this thread since it is a solved issue already. Warriors are getting blademaster as “Slayer” because blademaster has always been a warrior hero class, literrally blade storm is the warrior skill they get from blademaster in wc3