Can we get a party buff?

Classes Monk
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Mystic touch is nice for like a very hyper specific group and we may not be very appealing for keys I’m feeling. This is a problem that’s persisted since last season but at least our healing is better than last season.

But we used to have auras like avoidance aura that we don’t have now.

No bres, no lust, no party buff, etc.

And when I think about it like

Shaman - Skyfury, lust
Disc Priest - PI, Fortitude, Barrier
Holy Priest - Conferable cheat death (wings,) fortitude, PI
Druid - Motw, Symbiotic Relationship, Innervate (4raid ig,) battle res
PresEvoker - Rewind, lust, 15% cdr on mobility, 50% stagger external, Zephyr
Hpal - 3 different auras, conferable immunities (freedom, sac with talent, bop,) wog 20% armor talent, lay hands, bres

Something about all of these is that they fit into like every single group comp. Mystic touch does not really.

I think we should get 3-4% crit buff, personally. Or at least get our avoidance aura back. Or any novel idea, honestly. Maybe mystic touch can be swapped for 3-4% crit (node choice for either) so that caster comps get better value out of monk (though i’m sure a lot of them main line mastery instead.)

I also think that Counteract Magic from the PvP talents would be nice/good. Or peace weaver. I wish i had like 2 more talent points so i could get overflowing mists. Could we just have Calming Coalescence be cooked into cocoon itself and get a talent point freed up? It feels mandatory to the point that idk why it’s a " choice."

Uplifted spirits could also just be combined with rising mist imo or just anyway to make it accessible. Even if you pressed RSK every 3 seconds it would take 30 seconds to get 10 seconds off the cd of revival’s 3 min cd.

A new ability that lets us throw a conical sun hat that bounces around hitting enemies and just have it replace chi-wave/chi-burst? And then at the end of its bounce a swirly appears and if we stand in it to catch it, it resets the cd and gives it a stack that increases its damage by like 1% so the more you juggle it the more damage it does. I know this ones random but chi wave doesn’t do a whole lot and chi burst feels kinda…well boring.

Tl;dr
plz give mw more group utility ty and also let us throw disc shaped hat at people that we dance around with while fist weaving so we have something cool to do besides reset rsk

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Its not only MW but monk overall that need Buff/utility were behind by a lot compared to any other class. The best would be getting Lust we would be the only Leather class with it which would be neat and maybe replace Phys buff to crit

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I don’t think we need to replace mystic touch at all. I should have pointed that out in my OP.

Look at the other healers they can have multiple stat buffs. Mw only has mystic touch. No PI, no lust, no cdr

Heck i forgot to bring up that hpal can give anyone CDR or put a giant heal amp on them or whatever. Put blessing of summer on dk i wonder what it does. Someone tell me if it’s OP.

MW can have mystic touch AND another stat buff, literally every other healer has multiple group buffs mw has one and it’s the worst one for keys (outside of a hyper specific niche comp you rarely ever see.) We should be able to have avoidance buff or crit buff or whatever and get to keep mystic touch.

I don’t know if we need bres, conferable cheat death like pres and hpriest have, or lust or what I just know that we are lacking in desirable reasons to be in content. It’s pretty much entirely is mw’s dps/hps overpowered? No? Blizzard buffs that until it is then nerf it without fixing underlying problem. We got to be good for like 3 weeks and disc has been coasting on 2 seasons.

It get tiring to see same thing 2nd season in a row and they’re not doing anything about it every day, week, month, patch, that goes by. They fixed our single target which was remarkably bad and then down-tuned us and didn’t address utility at all.

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We used to have a group buff but they took that away from us. Think it was called legacy of the white tiger and was a 5% crit buff.

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I honestly think it would be cool if we got a party buff depending on what spec we chose, for example:

Teachings of Jade: Gives 5% Mastery

Teachings of the Ox: gives 5% Stamina

and Teachings of the Tiger: 5% haste

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Why’d they take it away?

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This was during a time where far more classes and specs had group buffs. Heck, we had a 5% crit buff and a 5% primary stat buff.

At some point, I think during the Legion reworks, a whole bunch of these buffs were pruned away. I think the stated reason was to give raid groups more freedom in their comps, rather than inviting 5 token buff classes.

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DPS used to be our utility… then they nerfed that hard. Now Conduit is right there with Holy Priest in dps… It’s rather sad.

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We used to have one. I forget when they removed it (I wanna say WoD or Legion), but most classes had at least one party buff for much of the game’s history.