"We’ve been working hard to address the many bugs that have been submitted, with a focus on those bugs that are impacting testing, and we expect to have Monk testing in a much better place with next week’s build of the Shadowlands Beta (the first week of September).
Our goal is to make use of the feedback we’ve received here and elsewhere, with respect to Covenant class abilities, core class abilities, and legendaries. Thank you for your commitment to providing us with so much valuable information. Please look for more updates next week!"
Well, the new beta build is up and the monk changes are minor at best. I personally wouldn’t even call them changes, just some minor tweaks. Do you guys think this is what they were talking about, or are they still working on it? Because this is disappointing to say the least.
If this is in fact all that is coming, Blizzard must think the monk community is a joke. Just delete our class already and stop leading us on Blizzard.
Could there have been more changes and improvements? yah. But these are some pretty good changes/tweaks. Unless we know the full numbers pass they do, we don’t know how the class will perform on launch of shadowlands.
Also, need more clarity on the touch of death change where it increases “damage” by 0 for 8 seconds.
They didnt even fix all the beta bugs to let testing happen. RSK still nto doing damage. Covenent abilities not working. Legendaries kinda work. This is ridiculous.
It’s pretty hard to have feelings about it considering nobody has any idea of how it will actually function, since it has no values assigned to it and cannot be tested. It’s the running gag.
They’re cutting it fine for launch but the positive thing is they are clearly working on class changes right now and still making improvements…the GCD cooldowns being a very nice update 7 weeks out from launch.
We want hope, but we also want information. If Blizz has a plan or direction they want to take with these specs then please let us know. Even a simple state of the Monk and where we want to go post would be nice. I know they ususally don’t because then people expect what was talked about but the silence is deafening.
There’s a simple reason why you’re seeing doom & gloom mentality from the monk community. We were in this exact same state right before legion. We had faith that things would be addressed. Nothing happened. Monk shipped out in a broken state patched together to be manageable with artifact traits. They took artifacts away and the glaring issues with monk returned.
There’s panic about being left in the dust because it’s already happened once, and with such small tweaks that fail to address the core problems, it’s likely to happen again.