Hello,
I’ve been playing all three specs of monk this season (Taerinn on stormreaver if you care to look them up). And with the upcoming tuning it seems like lighting for mw and ww is dead.
For windwalker, slicing wind was very competitive with lighting and it’s getting a 20% buff. It always lines up with strike of the wind lord and our cooldowns so will we be dropping lighting for slicing winds?
For mistweaver, the spinning crane kick talent was also competitive with lighting and were getting the same thing, lighting nerfed and sck is buffed. This one I’m less sure about but will we be dropping lighting for dance of chiji?
Not 100% sure on this till it goes live, but i feel like we will be taking last emperors capacitor and slicing winds for WW.
Now for mistweavers sck talent is a random proc and isnt dependable, while you can save charges for your CJL when you need to use them for being out of melee range or predictable group damage.
Good point about sitting on a charge. I’m still curious if the damage will shake out to be more on average.
I’ll have all the guides updated this evening, but right now it looks like we’ll use Slicing Winds in all content and use SW and Emp Cap in AOE/Cleave situations. We have some sims to double check tonight to make sure.
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Thanks for the work put into guides
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If we’re using both I really hope we’re not giving up Xuen’s bond. Having everything line up on intervals of 30s is so nice!
I timed MotS with DOCJ on +15 last season as well as +14 SV. So idk I’m probably gonna revisit it again. I’ve never liked JE but it was just better. I’d like for them to just remove it tbh. I don’t think there is anywhere for them to take the spec as long as it’s so overwhelmingly good. Def gonna try Dance when the change comes.
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The ppm of flight of the crane is the same as dance of chiji too
What guides?
Icy and wowhead remain the same
What slicing needs is to not be one way travel skill.
Instead
It should make you travel far enough to hit a full pack and spring you back where u came from
Ie
Travel inches forward and back to where u came. From, doing 1/2 daamge. Each way.
Or
Make it similar to blade dance.
It just. Feels very clunky atm
The person you responded to is the one who maintains the windwalker guides on IV and wowhead. The m+ builds you’re looking at didn’t change because we moved away from the Power of the Thunder King build some time ago, well before the most recent tuning was announced (more than 2 weeks ago).
Honestly, with some refinement, that’s not a bad idea for Slicing Winds. Maybe it could read like this:
Envelop yourself in razor-sharp energy, then lunge forwards dealing x Nature damage to enemies in your path. Damage reduced beyond 5 enemies.
Hold to increase lunge distance.
Slicing Winds can be recast within 5 seconds to jump backwards.
(I also changed “winds” to “energy” because I think it fits into windwalker’s fantasy better.)
I’ll check again, but it still looks like the left side of the monk tree is taken
If we’re still talking m+, the Shado-Pan build still goes left. SotWL isn’t strong enough to justify the talent point cost without Heart of the Jade Serpent, and the buff to Slicing Winds didn’t tip the scales enough. The Shado-Pan build isn’t generally recommended for m+, although the difference in overall damage isn’t staggering.
Wow-- so conduit is used for all types of content now?
Yes, Conduit builds are recommended for all types of content at the moment (as far as I know, since I don’t play pvp). Shado-Pan is currently merely viable, and really only in m+.
Conduit is suggested for pvp as well.
Being able to line up all our CDs every 1.5 mins is so nice!
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they should buff shadopan/palpatine.
everyone’s conduit/slicing now D:
im starting to get side eyes for being shadopan lol
im addicted to flurry strikes audio, cant switch.
Wisdom of the wall is just lame. And it’s hard to beat another cooldown on 1.5 mins.
I do like the hero spec otherwise.
This should have focused more on FoF and less on random little buffs.
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Bit hard to focus on FoF (especially thematically) when it also has to work for brewmaster. Perhaps you’d enjoy my rework suggestion on the EU forums 