Havoc or Windwalker for long-therm-only-dps main?

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I tend to go for achievments, general content (more PVE of course), tend to be a completionist and in long therm I pretend to have the max number of achievment points as possible. I only play dps 99% of times and don’t miss tank/heal in any aspect. This season i got 3k with 6 toons, 6/8M, but, I just want to focus on one toon for the next few years to avoid wasting time doing the same thing on different characters instead of getting free to do old content. Wich of those you think are funnier and more all-around for this? The 3rd and 4th options would be Survival Hunter wich I love and Enhancement Shaman wich I love too. But I’d say that right now they’re not a priority compared to the other 2 from the title. Do not delete them from your mind when asking my question if you will.

I feel that WW is just a bit funnier than DH in mythics but not a big deal like 5%, DH a bit funnier on maps and exploring but just a small bit too, plus both with very cool spells, maybe DH a bit more realistic in that aspect (ww became a carnival during times with 3 colorful clones doing kung fu, a colorful tiger and a static snake floating on your side (?) but at the same time, fun), what do you suggest? I don’t care going for Night elf instead of my female pandaren monk so the racelock from DH is not a big problem for me. Both are leather and leather sucks anyway compared to mail, so a lost cause in that aspect, just a few cool xmogs are cool to me for both of them.

Something I hate in DH is that a lot of cool stuff are just not used, like the glaive AOE spell that stays on the ground wich is very cool and does very good dmg, and I miss one button more when you have nothing up in the rotation, the bad part of WW in rotation is having to move with the new spell, wich is a job more to do (repositioning), even Havoc going out and in is “easier” on that aspect, but these are just details.

Both have no lust. Both have considerable good impression from comunity. Windwalker is a bit more rare to see wich is awesome, but not a big deal, of course.

So, what do you think it fits more my playstile, personal preferences and game routine (doing everything possible every patch, raiding and m+ as high as possible and then going for new and old achievments)?

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Havoc is always good because it provides a great debuff and most of the time has good dps. WW can have great DPS or really bad and it never seems to be in the middle.

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Havoc’s magic damage boost is generally more useful than Windwalker’s physical damage boost. Other than that, its really just personal preference and tuning in the moment. It sounds like you think DH is cooler and Monk is maybe a bit silly.

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I feel like Havoc is just a consistently good spec. Like I have never seen havic as a C on a DPS tier list for a tier. Havoc is normally always a A- or B+ class, which I think is a good balance between performance and not having to be worried about getting nerfed.

I dont like to play S or A+ tier classes because those get nerfed after the patch, so havoc has been pretty consistent in the low A to high B territory

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I agree that DH is more likely to be future proof for being if not meta at least good enough to always get invites. WW monk swings wildly from very powerful to very meh in the meta a lot.

For soloing old content DH is a little better imo, but monk is good enough to get by.

but it seems like you might like hunter or shaman better, though if you are dead set on a melee dps both those risk being stuck with a sucky melee spec compared too their ranged options.

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That’s actually a sort of hard choice

Both are hyper mobile
Both provide a damage type boost
Both have decent utility

Guess its if you wanna be an elf or other races

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This is true. DH is consistently better than monk in general, so it is a better long term choice by far

But I just hate zooming around as part of my DPS spec. Got pretty jaded from flying off edges in Legion and could never pick DH back up again.

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I’m switching from my horde Panderen monk to my female Nelf DH for next expansion, but only if they get that 2nd dps spec.

Otherwise ill just play my monk (main since Legion) or this shaman (my main from 2005-2014)