Title says it all, can we get a glyph or something so that we can use our weapons? Would like to see my monk have the choice to either use his weapons or fists.
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I could definitely see them making a glyph that does this.
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The problem with this was Blizzard was too lazy (go figure) to make animations for Monks to use weapons, which is why they immediately snap to the sheathed position after an attack. Luckily, we can now use staves, which at least gives us an option that doesn’t look as silly 
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We had unique weapon animations from the beginning, but they removed them.
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Except there is one that already exists, from the launch of the class
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It only worked with specific weapons, and only a few abilities, which people immediately complained about and thus it was removed. Sort of like how Zen Flight for about 16 hours on the MoP Beta was an instant cast flight form equivalent to Druids. Every Druid in the game whined, it went away.
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worked every wpn, the only animation problem was if you had a fist wpn in your main hand it wouldn’t use it.
However I use to love using 1h sword in mh and novice fist wrap on offhand, I would swing the sword off my back and it looked natural.
It doesn’t need a bunch of animations, just the one back would be enough.
Who complained? Because it wasn’t monks, only thing I remember about animations was fixing the fist wpn problem and adding more variations to our martial arts so different races had different martial art animations
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We thought it was to warlock, but it was really directed at Monk: “We really wish you didn’t.”
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Anyone know if there has been any plans to bring the wpn animations back?
There are no known plans to bring back any animations to the monk class that involve striking with a weapon. Right now, we are expected to punch or kick everything.
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It was monks. They didn’t like that the animation would snap to the back between attacks that actually used it. If you google with the parameter for that time period you will find post after post after post about it.
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I remember those arguments. Lots of people who don’t even play monk today kept advocating for every auto attack and every animation to use weapons. I found it as repulsive then as I do now.
It is so strange to see people choose a class that the entire fantasy of the class is perfection of body, so you do not use a weapon, then cry when they don’t use said weapons.
I’m not here to debate anyone, I can see a few people are passionate to play as Jade class color warrior that wears leather. I just find it so strange, we are always described as being weaponless and masters of hand to hand… if you don’t like that, then why play monk? (if your only reply is because seeing your weapons on your back and not using weapons doesn’t make sense to you… well my friend, you are a warrior not a monk.)
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Make a glyph for weapons then best of both worlds imo.
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Masters of bare-handed combat, monks never rely solely on the need to have a weapon in their hands to defend against their enemies. Although most widely known to the outside world for their fearsome jabs and flying kicks, they refuse to limit themselves to a single method of combat
Idk seems you are limiting them in ways the lore doesn’t
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I looked for your quote but can’t find anything from official blizzard that says what you quoted. Please provide your official blizzard source.
As for your “seems you are limiting them in ways the lore doesn’t”
Officially we have:
“Bare-Knuckle brawlers”
“No Weapon Style”
“these pandaren instead focused on harnessing their chi and learning weaponless combat”
“Whatever their combat role, monks rely mainly on their hands and feet to do the talking”
A martial artist without peer who pummels foes with hands and fists.
And before you make up your own cannon again, do not reply with “they vowed to never be weaponless again after their slave revolt” unless you have a official source for it. Because no where does blizzard say that.
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I didn’t say it was an official post from Blizzard. I said that during the time period you literally had nothing but Monks whining about only using weapons for 1/4 of their attacks. Seems like you don’t know how to use Google search functions correctly.
I was here when monks wanted everything to use weapons. I think you are looking at my reply to someone else and not the reply I posted supporting your post.
Yep, you are limiting them, assuming you are arguing that they shouldn’t ever use a weapon. I can’t quite tell if that’s your point, or that they shouldn’t use weapons for all of their attacks, but some are fine. i would agree that weapons for all attacks would be odd for a monk, but I would support the idea of Blizzard making a different glyph for each of our attacks, so we could pick & choose. More choice is good, and I doubt many monks would choose to use all of them.
This is just a quick blurb to provide a quick impression of the class. Having something like a Glyph of Blackout Kick would mean that monks that use it are still using fists & feet for their other attacks, which doesn’t negate this quote. Additionally, the quote doesn’t state that they are “only” bare-knuckle brawlers and don’t use weapons. Why? Because it’s a quick blurb, as I said.
Again, 1 ability using a weapon doesn’t mean they aren’t using fists & feet, and they are capable of using only punches & kicks if they prefer, which some monks (yourself?) might like. Having a no weapon “style” could also imply that they have other styles: with a weapon. It could also mean other classes use those other styles. It’s vague because it’s a short blurb.
Does it say that they refused to use weapons ever again? No. Just because you learn weaponless combat doesn’t mean that you never use a weapon again.
Matter of fact, isn’t it highly interesting that the pandaren monk in the image on that page is using his staff. It’s not sitting on his back passively. Blizzard can communicate with more than just text.
“Mainly.”
Not “only”. Not “exclusively”. “Mainly”. That sounds exactly like punching/kicking with most of your attacks and using a weapons for 1.
You stopped quoting at an important point. Go to the next bit of text and you find:
Preferred Weapons: Fist Weapons, Axes, Maces, Swords
So… they use weapons! Note that as of the last patch, that’s out of date. What a crying shame that Blizzard is unable to ever change their descriptions, right? I guess because it’s not listed here, WW monks should stop using staves & polearms.
Exactly.
Again, I can’t tell exactly what you’re arguing for, but I don’t think the cannon Blizzard has provided says that monks never use weapons. Because of that, and because giving players customization options for their characters is pretty much always a good thing, I don’t see any reason to not add a Glyph of Blackout Strike (& others, if Blizzard is inclined). The animations already exist, so they just need to be “hooked up” to a glyph, so there shouldn’t even be all that much development effort for something that would make a bunch of monk players happy.
I just saw this & realized you were probably arguing against weapons for all attacks, rather than for no weapon attacks at all.
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See you got what I am saying.
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Great example would be a Vault kick with a staff, it’s a powerful move using gravity to add extra power for no extra cost, which would be helpful fighting a race like the mogu who are a bit bigger.
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