Ive seen a few people say that the wow version of monk is a bad iteration. If thats you, what do you want to see them add to Monk in WoW to make it better?
Im well aware lots of people love the WoW monk and thats great. But im curious what others think.
Spinning Crane Kick is just silly. My ww monk looks like a ballerina on speed doing that spell. Flying Serpent Kick can take me straight off a cliff or platform. Wish there was a way to make it smarter or have a very slight curve to it that makes you turn back towards your enemy.
I am not partial to Fists of Fury, it looks silly, but not sure how it could be fixed. Ww monk just feels awkward sometimes to play, but its a cool spec.
Where does Storm Earth and Fire come from? Was some iteration of this borrowed from another game and made a part of the monk arsenal in WoW? It’s always seemed a bit odd and out of place to me.
I’m cool with it. It has unique animations unlike Rogue, Warrior, Shaman, etc all using the same stuff.
Though that mistweaver stance is so lame. If that could get a revamp I’d be content.
Some kind of recognition for pre-panda monks like the Scarlets and Auchenai. It’s dumb pandas came in and essentially erased all other monks from the game.
Also having staff fighting style. Having staves just sit on their backs and never be used is dumb.
I always figured it was trying to invoke the hurricane kick from street fighter.
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Yeah but against a Kodo its absurd.
I dunno, I’ve seen Ken use it on a car.
I’m also not a fan of the Spinning Crane and Flying Serpent Kick.
My fix for the FSK would be to allow you to target a creature with it. So you would fly to your target creature.
For SCK I would introduce(re-introduce) fire blossom (step), when activated where every you step a Fire blossom appears then explodes.
These would be choices nods of course.
I don’t want to play my mistweaver since they took away essence font and she was my “main” healer… so it extra sucks.
Folks don’t know about that Akuma Tastu death.
Still baffles me folks hate the class so much. Is it really because of stuff like the animations? I thought it was just because it’s been bad for a while. Mistweaver was good for a minute. Brew has been butt (Or not broke tier) in M+ for a while. Windwalker just can’t seem to catch a break. Etc.
Tell you what animation I really hate, is Fists of Fury. They should change it to be like the diablo 3 monk’s seven sided strike. Which is not too dissimilar to demon hunters’ blade dance.
Also ridiculous, but that’s not the main part of the game.
I would be satisfied with better sounds. All punches and kicks sound like I’m hitting mobs with a rubber fish.
I use flying serpent kick as a speed boost, because I’m not responsible enough to use it as intended.
Transcendence gets me out of tight spots and is really helpful in delves.
Overall I love it. They made all three specs distinct from one another, even down to their fighting pose animations, and all the aesthetics look distinct. Monks are also the most mobile class in the game, which gives them a standout niche on speed-based fights like G’huun or Xy’mox, and they bring unique utility even on non-mobile fights through Mystic Touch, Ring of Peace etc.
My main criticisms of Monk are:
I guess 2/3 of these complaints are aimed at Mistweaver in some way, but they’re ultimately minor.
Personally I just want the ability to attack - on all my fist attacks - with my staff. I have glyph of jab but it’s not enough.
FoF and SCK I think are weird and immersion breaking. Monk to me has a lot of potential they refuse to take advantage of.
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Same with Shaman
If you want to do wuxia with actual weapons, your best bet unfortunately is to roll Pandaren for the weapon animations and pick a different melee class entirely, like Warrior, DK, Surv Hunter, or Enhance Shammy. 2H weapons on Monk are glorified stat sticks, and the 1H weapons aren’t much better.
What is wuxia? And what does Pandaren have that other races don’t?