can someone link these patch notes where I can read about this?
While Blizzard may treat the Monk class more like a cold cadaver forgotten in a morgue, the “hot” in “hot garbage” is intended only to evoke a certain disgusting smell.
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I think mass tire fire is a better description.
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Who all is still gonna main monk regardless of if anymore changes are made?
I am but I got swapped to one of our MTs during the last few weeks so I’m impacted less by whats going on. Even when I was our 3rd healer I wanted to keep my monk going but was getting worried if I was gonna hurt our progression
I will be. I tried other classes, especially in BfA, but nothing gives me enjoyment like a Monk.
It just sucks playing a character whose glory is a fading memory.
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Considering that I always play through the entire expansion at the start with my best friend who has and will always main balance druid, no. I can’t let the game be miserable for both me and my friend, I plan to main unholy dk unless this situation changes before pre patch.
Probably main BRM over MW now. MW is a sad disappointment on the beta.
I haven’t tanked since 5.0
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It’s not even about buffing our class or making it scale better to bring it in line with other specs (both healing and DPS - and this is an entirely different issue that needs to be addressed too)…
…at this juncture, all I want is some bug fixes so that I can make an INFORMED decision come Shadowlands about which Covenant to choose. Right now, covenant abilities doing fractional damage during SEF due to bugs, for example, makes it really tough to understand what throughput was actually intended.
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Shadowlands is a unique release where we haven’t been given a prepatch date yet.
My theory of this is it is because Blizzard know they are behind schedule and are trying to give themselves as much time as possible to figure things out.
Internally, Blizzard are probably ahead by 2 builds so it is possible we could see some large changes coming still. That said, I think as current our biggest unaddressed issue are our 90 and 100 talents and seeing as though we have received 0 talent changes (excluding dance of chi ji which was a change due to Xuen) thus far, it does not look pretty for WW.
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I am going to play my monk as my main and have an alt. As long as WW are middle of the pack to a little above I think it will be okay. Obviously if they are bottom of the barrel in dps like the total bottom, probably not.
As long as they keep damage similar to BFA it will be alright. I have kept up because of the way touch of death worked in BFA plus additional spells added with corruptions and azerite traits. If I see conduits and legendary powers keep WW monk competitive I will be happy despite not being top top.
You say
And then say
Don’t you think that’s odd when all tiers of BFA we were near the bottom. Pretty much the worst in EP / Nya.
I don’t know if WW could be any worse than in BFA.
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Are you still going to main a monk Pyroptosis? Like I said yes monks wish for more but most like their monks so much they won’t ditch the class. That’s the bottom line.
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Only blue Monk post I’m expecting is one stating there are no further changes planned for MW/WW and that the previous blue post unintentionally set higher expectations than the devs wanted.
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yeah I’ll probably main monk. I don’t know if I’ll main MW tbh. The only part of MW I like is Tear of Morning Legendary. I wanna go Night Fae as well but that covenant ability is trash tier for healing. 1 essence font bolt for 2000mana lol??? I’d put it down only for the look and that’s about it. I might main BRM but that’ll get boring super fast. Trying to main WW is like asking for a bad time.
I just wont go necrolord because it doesn’t fit the monk theme.
Also! I wanna get 5 monks or more in a group/raid all with stomp. I think it could look pretty. Maybe we could all stomp in the city to make a big tree! However I don’t know if i’ll ever see 5monks in 1 spot again after this garbage beta.
I as well have been waiting for the blue post to say they plan on addressing monk problems in 10.0
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Hmm. I thought last week’s patch notes were disappointing, but then I see this week’s patch notes. Apparently WW is too powerful, so they’ve seen fit to nerf the spec.
Still no bug fixes or changes. Why did they bother to make a blue post saying they were looking at monks? They clearly are not.
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Still hoping for another blue…
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Should of seen the fat nerfs MW got as well lol.
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Monks were no were near top DPS either.
They nerfed the inner fury conduit from 20% damage increase for FoF to 4%. If they didnt want us to use they should have just taken it out of the game.
I guess they buffed Touch of Death, but since its a once per fight ability that gives a damage buff for 10 seconds…its pretty much a wasted change.
I know Im replying to my own post. But I had to throw this into the conversation as well.
Yesterday Icyveins put out their DPS rankings from the 1st raid tier and the monk review was:
Windwalker Monks have a pretty fun toolkit and are enjoyable to play, but they simply do not have the numbers to be competitive right now in raids. With a solid tuning pass Windwalkers could easily be excellent with their current toolkit, but until that happens, they will be staying in the C-tier. There is just no reason to bring a Windwalker other than for damage, and they do not bring the damage necessary to justify taking up a melee spot.
And then today the nerfs come. Really blows my mind.
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