Do You Ever Just Forget Monks are in the Game?

I do. Another poster was saying that for Vulpera (filthy furries I’ll kill and skin them all!) Blizz just copied and pasted the available Goblin classes.

It was true, except for monk.

(A little off topic, remember when they said Worgen and Gobs couldn’t be monks because “the animations would be too expensive to make”? Well a Pandaren using the Orb of Deception can in fact get Worgen and the monk animations are all there.)

Back on topic, this made me realise I’m not the only one who just randomly forgets monks are in the game. I do this little quiz thing with a fellow high-IQ buddy and we’ll ask each other the silliest things, such as what’s on the back of the Wyoming state quarter, or, in this case, name all the classes in WoW.

I forgot monk.

…And it’s one of the three classes I play seriously.

In fact, my monk is sometimes my main.

I do NOT forget Pandaren when asked to name all the races.

However, I forgot monk when asked to name all the classes.

Explanations? The one I can think of immediately is that as the only new class that hasn’t been a hero class, monk is sort of in this odd place of perpetual shelf dust. However, there’s been such turnover since Cataclysm (the last expac where there were not monks) that I can’t think new players don’t routinely select the class which then becomes their main, resulting in close to balanced numbers with the other non-hero classes.

If I’m just going to talk from my own biased self, it might be the splitty ability, which changes your mog and portrait to something horrid for the duration and sometimes it stays after. It’s a huge turn-off of the class for me. I hate that we can’t glyph this to make it just copies the character with maybe a slight coloured aura for each copy.

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It’s because you rarely see us.

Bruh…
/10 char

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I haven’t enjoyed my monk since wod granted I didn’t play through legion but I feel I’m missing too much since my stances were taking. I feel bad for the art department since changing stances changed your auto attack and basic attack even animation wise. Along with fire blossom being gone its hard to get into. I will play again if I can roll a goblin monk but that I dont see happening. Unless they get desperate and allow all race class combos to try and appease some factor to increase subs.

I’m at the pay now button right now, itching to press accept on this boost so I can play a mistweaver monk in pvp. They look fun and I enjoyed the class trial, mehhh. Only thing stopping me is the thought of having to grind the esscense and cloak again for the 5th time…shudder

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Monks have better stealth than Rogues.

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Monks are amazing, I adore my Monk! :four_leaf_clover:

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What’s a monk? I’m not familiar, but it sounds amazing. I’m sure it’s the best class.

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Goblins work fine as monks too. Use Gurboggle’s Bauble as a monk… Everything works just fine.

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Goblins can’t be Monks due to story reasons (since their were no Pandaren on Kezan during its fall).

And even if a race can’t be a certain class, all races have the animations prepped for the (in case they want to reuse them for a quest or you use a item/toy to swap your race/gender). Worgen and Goblins have had the animations since MoP’s release. Same with Night Elf’s and Draenai having Warlock animations among other examples.

As for the lack of Monks, it boils down to 2 things:

1: It’s the first new class added to the game that wasnt a hero class, making the prospect of rolling a alt (or a new main) as one more daunting.

2: Their overly themed around Pandaren, and their one of the only classes in the game that have such excessively heavy racial theming (the other being Druids, but not as heavily)

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waves hand slowly in front of your face
These are not the monks you are looking for…

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Vulpera can be monks.

I liked when they came out when MoP released, but they have changed slightly over the progressing expansions. Every time I watch Ironfist videos or episodes, it makes me want to play one again lol.

If you listen to Ban-fu, he tells a story about how he once took a Grandmaster to Kezan, complaining the whole time about how his paws got wet.

Also, there is already a Goblin Monk named Gakkiz Blusterblast!

:four_leaf_clover:

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No,monks are amazing,do you ever get tired of making pointless troll threads? O.o

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Do you ever get tired of posting in them? O.o

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I notice monks all the time. And Brewmaster is pretty fun.

DO YOU EVER JUST FORGET MONKS ARE IN THE GAME?

Nah, I see them all over the place. My current favorite heals is monk. WW however is one of my least favorite specs in the game. BrM was so fabulous in WoD. All that, and if Blizz decided to remove the whole class, I’d probably be just fine with it. :confused:

Best fail class hands down!

If MW returned to MoP, BM returned to WoD, and WW returned to Legion, there wouldn’t be any class close to comparable to how amazing monk would be.

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