Death knights, demon hunters, and evokers are hero classes, but monks aren’t. Why is that?
There’s nothing heroic about drinking booze and getting into a fistfight.
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Because narratively they didn’t need to be. Hero classes are more about having a special prominence and starting point in a story. They’re not just beginning their journey. They’re already powerful.
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I thought that was the dwarves.
There’s everything heroic about taking on bosses with nothing but a keg and your bare hands, where other tanks need armor and shields /scoff
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Because monks are a regular class.
All hero classes necessitate you play a character with a certain background, history, and traits.
You dont get to make up your own story with them. You strictly are what you are with a pre set history and goals.
Your character entered the story in the expansion the class was introduced and came in pre levelled.
For me, this is a revelation that my lizard is heroic.
If I make a dark iron monk, starting at level 10, does it then make it a hero class or is it the race only that is heroic? We’ve already known about dark irons for a while.
Shado-Pan would have been the Hero class based on the Warcraft RPG (dnd style).
I thought it would be tough to make some distinguishable features on Monks compared to Death Knights and Demon Hunters. 
More like there’s nothing MORE heroic