If you're thinking about rolling a Monk for Shadowlands, reconsider

[Maladàth-crushridge]

Requesting Your Input - Windwalker Community Feedback for Shadowlands

I have created a survey for the Windwalker community that will help me to provide aggregated feedback on many concerns and desires that Windwalkers have been discussing. The goal is not to do the design work for Blizzard, but to make sure our thoughts are consistently represented and conveniently available. The survey looks at how the Windwalker specialization feels overall, which abilities are core to the Windwalker identity, and what sacrifices the community is willing to make to get the resu…

[Ryfe-frostmourne (Ryfe)]

It’s been interesting to see the MW discussion change so drastically in the past week or so since the announced and now implemented Rising Mists change.

• The devs thought MW throughput was lacking and RM was a dead talent so they buffed it.
• The devs who made this change have no understanding of how MW works or where the power of the spec lies so they didn’t see the rather obvious broken scaling when building around maximizing RSK’s.
• The devs then announced a change was coming that would nerf the throughput of RM by ~90%.
• The community responded by pleading for a more balanced fix that would bring MW back in line but still give them a buff over being the lowest raid throughput healer in the game without any DR/utility to justify it (cough Hpal/Disc/Rsham).
• The devs took a few days to go back the drawing board and figure out a way to reign in MW without killing it. After trying nothing and being all out of ideas the devs just tacked on a hard artificial limit to RM and called it a day.
• MW is back to being the lowest throughput raid healer without the utility of Rsham/Hpal/Disc.

It’s not nearly as satisfying being right as it would be for Blizzard to spend some development time on MW rather than sticking the interns on it every now and then for a few hours.

I don’t expect this kind of half-hearted monk attention to change for Shadowlands, either. If you’re planning on rolling a monk for SL, strap in.

[Yüyí-kelthuzad]

Here are my thoughts on potential changes I’d like to see for Mistweaver in Shadowlands:

Potential Mistweaver Rework

After watching a lot of Shadowlands Alpha gameplay for Mistweaver, I feel a bit let down. I thought this expansion would bring a lot of fantasy back every class. Yes, I know it is still alpha, however, at this point in time it doesn’t seem like the developers have a clear idea what to do with monks. Especially Mistweavers. Here are some ideas that I would like to see added into Shadowlands: The return of Chi as a resource - Mistweaver spells are mana heavy. Adding back the Chi resource would a…

[Jezok-malganis]

I agree. I have played all the other classes but Monk for me in pve and pvp is so much fun. I can play some other classes, but playing Monk is what gets me to play WoW hardcore. If i played the other classes I might get bored.

[Drunkpriest-proudmoore]

Everyone I’ve heard talk about monk is SL seems to find it fun, and that really should be what’s most important unless you’re a world first raider, which most people aren’t.

[Maladàth-crushridge]

@Drunkpriest-proudmoore

seems to find it fun, and that really should be what’s most important

This is the reason I never stopped playing a monk, even when they were no good, always playing them.