Is there a lore reason why Light Forged cannot be monks?
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My personal theory is one regarding representation.
Monks were not among the AotL unit types we saw, however all the other classes that LFD can be are. Presumably the player LFD is one of the soldiers of the AotL, thus the classes we have and don’t have for them.
There is nothing official, as far as I know. I suspect some might want to site a clash of cosmic powers but there has so far been no indication that Spirit, the source of the Monks supernatural abilities, is opposed in any way to the Light.
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Lazy dev work mostly
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Considering most of the supporting lore for AR class combos is so reliant on speculation and/or assumption I wouldn’t be surprised.
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I think they’re too angry, all that constant war lifestyle makes them too peeved to be calm monks.
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Truthfully, some class restrictions and non-restrictions don’t make much sense in the lore. For example, I believe it’s highly unlikely for an undead to be a monk, or an orc - it’s just not in their nature to become monks, given their cultural beliefs and practices.
I suppose the most logical reasoning for non-monk Lightforged Draeni is because of their full application to the Light. The only true way to play Lightforged Draeni is by playing either a paladin or a priest.
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Orcs?
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Peons are very docile.
The whole point of this game is to be the hero though. I doubt that our orc characters are peons because peon NPCs are smaller than average play orc size. Peons also chop wood, not kill Azshara
On Argus you see they had Jedhans. They had monks but it was supposedly a lost art or something silly. It was the silliest thing to make for a restriction instead of an addition. Dranei were capable monks in Draneor without the pandas.
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Jed’hin was a form of sportive ritual combat. It has nothing to do with the Way of the Monk.
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Right - what Yonara said. It was like a sport tradition to the draeni on Argus.
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It is a spiritual precursor. If you think of it as archeology. They have spectrals to show. Monk is about spiritualism as well. I don’t like how they made monk’s all about pandas. But it is shown that Vrykuls have there own unique monk-hood. The dranei would too. As they were shown to have monks in BC in outland.
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The Way of the Monk is very different from what other races would practice, especially those who are from different worlds. If they were to add the monk class to the Lightforged Draeni, their backstory would have to include training from a pandaren. Even the monks of Scarlet Halls have an extremely similar fighting style to that of a pandaren. This is because they were actually trained by pandaren ambassadors way before any of the other races were.
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Maybe it’s because the Lightforged were until recently all on Argus or thereabouts, and kinda had therefore a shortage of actual monks to learn from? That’s what I’m going with until I see Space Pandaren.
Many of these are fine points. The Auchenai Monks especially are an interesting point to site; though it brings to question whether or not that organization was part of Argussian society. I can’t say if there’s evidence either way.
While I’m not about rule out the possibility entirely (I’m not one to assume that Monks as an idea are Pandaren exclusive) there isn’t much to suggest that there was such a thing on Argus, as far as I recall. It is certainly possible but there isn’t much support. An unarmed fighting system is rather anecdotal as evidence or a connection on its own; especially when there’s no indication it was used in practical combat.
If I may return to your previous post I’d like to offer something of a counter in the form the Lightforged’s origins. They were composed of the Draenei’s most elite from Argus. Unless their version of Monks died out before the Legion’s arrival, I would expect there to be some found amongst the Army of Light.
Well it could be a different group of dranei. Many of them fled Argus. We thought all the dranei went with Velen. But it is a whole planet. They could be more dranei out there we don’t know about. We do not know the origins of Argus. They possess alternate universe travel. They could have met pandaren from another universe/time with there travel for all we know.
I feel like they give very little thought on this. Like draenei can’t be monks even tho theres one in the intro quests but zandalari monks are cool? Vulpera warlocks? C’mon blizz
Also highmountain tauren paladin, they mention an’she in their dialog and their about as close to the sun as you can get
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something something light secretly holding a tight hold on the lightforged despite their freedom
like a rotten adviser with massive sway to a king sorta thing
this tin foil hat is mine!
The Lightforged Draenei were not on Azeroth to learn how to become monks.
Even if they were. When you get “Lightforged” by a Naaru, it burns away all the shadow and darkness in your soul. Many people don’t even survive the process.
This makes the Lightforged into creatures of pure light. No Void at all.
Being a monk is about Balancing these forces within yourself as best as you can. The belief that Light and Dark must coexist, and that both must be used in order to achieve true strength. The Lightforged wouldn’t be down for that.