I haven’t played my monk since WOD and I never really wanted to either.
I just got the itch yesterday and race changed mine to a void elf, swapped to MW for bg’s and man oh man am I having fun.
I am really getting into the character lore too. The mobility alone would make even an under performing class more fun.
I used to always tank but haven’t done much lately, and from what I hear monk tanking isnt too hot right now.
Does anyone ever quest as MW? I could do that on my holy palidan but not sure I can pull off solo content as mw
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Just saying from what I read off the forums!
Brew was OP last patch and they needed a nerf. Still good tanks. Especially raiding, literally will always be top raid tank or top tier.
I would still say we are still dynamite
That’s how I was too.
I made this Monk just for funsies. Before I knew it I was level 45, 75, 90… I was like oh :o. Took me 1 day, 18 hours to hit 120. And it didn’t span over weeks like normal, I made this Monk a few days ago. I was and am addicted to Monk.
Now I’m 120 with 440 ilvl and a new main. I’m actually quite good at WW rotation, so I’m pretty stoked. 
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Monk tanking is very strong in PvE. It’s kind of turbo trash in PvP though, unless you want to focus mostly on annoying people.
I’m in the same boat. I finally made this monk and I can’t believe I waited so long to play this class. I love fighting games and MMOs. Monk feels like I can combine the two.
I’m on my 5th monk leveling… two leveled as BM through MoP, back before the massive changes to BM which made it “less fun” (imo)… now on my 3rd MW leveling monk. Love it.
I level all of my allied races as monks. For one thing it’s way faster, and WW is also just a lot of fun to level.
Funny enough, this guy was not leveled as an AR… He started his life as a Draenei, then a Tauren, then finally Alliance again.
Yeah MW is my favorite so far and this is the first time I’ve ever healed. Well maybe in 2010 i healed as a priest for a few days… lol. This is a blast. bg’s are so easy
I leveled this character 1-120 as mistweaver when I came back to WoW a bit after BfA launched—it went fine.
Only later, once I took on windwalker as an off spec, did I realize how much faster it was, but I was never in any huge hurry and so never had a problem questing as mistweaver.
Now, if I want to solo a rare with more than 2M HP in Vale/Uldum, I’ll switch to mistweaver—it’s not the fastest, but most rares don’t do enough DPS to out heal a healer.
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You hear wrong. Monk tanks are top. Not sure where you get your information from.
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I was thinking the same thing. Monks are a ton of fun, especially in pvp healing. Enjoy it!
Yeah, no.
Get your facts straight.
Monk tanking was nerfed, but it needed to be. It is still more than fine.
Monk dps is extremely fun, but also pretty poor (except in M+, where I think monk is underrated).
I have never healed on my monk. Maybe I should!