I am really disappointed that Windwalker monks no longer have Xuen, the White Tiger.
We earned our animal spirits in Pandaria as we leveled up and have had access to our spec animal until now.
I played 2 windwalker monks. Now I am not sure if it is worth continuing.
Conduit of the Celestial still has it, shado pan does not.
Thank you! Although Conduit of the Celestial was not recommended at all. Luckily I am not a raider nor do I do mythics.
Mists of Pandaria came out in 2012, sad to lose it now in 2026.
I will give it a try.
Kelkel is my monk. Made the reply from my hunter. 
I just started rolling a Windwalker Monk and got up to lvl 50 and was really confused about this. I have talents which literally give perks when Xuen is active but I couldn’t figure out why I don’t have the ability.
Any reason why they took it away?
They didn’t. They moved it to the hero talent “Conduit of the Celestials” it’s still there. But at level 50 you won’t have access to it yet.
They didn’t take it away. Xuen is the Conduit hero talent for WW. I honestly wish they’d give MW Xuen too, but I think he needs a buff in his current state for WW. Not like Conduit is awful, Xuen just feels limp right now
making xuen a HERO TALENT (wtf) and made celestial conduit only be activated when xuen is up and didn’t rework talents that works with xuen to be usefull with shadow-pan also, it’s seems so messy, even the position node to get celestial conduit its strange.
I also noticed that and didn’t understand the decision but I guess it was always kind of a weird cool down, because of the cd time. I believe we had seasons where your bis trinket didn’t line up with Xuen. Idk if SEF lined up with it consistently either but that might be because of my lack of skill on WW.