Just saying.
Best class fantasy. Dripping in flavor like it was dipped in the essence of Pandaria. Best feeling gameplay. All 3 specs are fun to play. It’s zen.
It can do all 3 roles. It rolls.
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But does it…wash yer back?
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Unless chi can somehow also wash, then no unfortunately lol
I might agree if monks could use two-handed swords or polearms, because at least then they could be like samurai or ninja.
We can use polearms
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We have a class fantasy? Could of fooled me considering how much the class changes and how inconsistent monk tier design is.
What does this even mean? 
Debatable.
Class has been a mess since Legion and Blizzard has no idea what to do with Monk now, no proper reworks back to a pre legion state and the only thing constant in tier is inspiration from ancient Asia givin us a Mongolian Warrior armor set in season 1.
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That’s a pretty subjective opinion you’ve got there. Wanna hear mine? Arcane Mage is dripping with style, and when swapped to fire, they can get into any M+ run or raid purely for the spell power and flair. I spent 3 weeks building a spreadsheet to determine which race and class had the most utility and versatility, and Mechagnome Mage with Engineering won. Only things I can’t do in this game are tank, heal, pick pockets, or use certain armor/weapons/shields. Otherwise, I am 99.6% self sufficient.
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Okay. I forgot. All I notice is a rolling ball of green energy whenever I see a monk.
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Lol bro, you misspelled “paladin”
Eh, my main two issues with the Monk class is:
- It’s so intertwined with the Pandaren aesthetic that I really struggle to play any other race for the class. No matter how many times I try, I just end up deleting any Monk that isn’t a Pandaren
- I’m not a fan of Fistweaver. If there was a way to play full on caster Mistweaver again and not be deadweight, I’d probably pick the class up. But, the spec is just not built that way.
A proper samurai should have an archer spec - mastery of sword, spear and bow is contained in Hunter though.
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Tried Holy paladin. Not as fun as Mistweaver Monk!!!
My Monk is Blood Elf? Why? She turned to meditation to help her overcome the pain from withdrawals from the Sunwell. She had a substance abuse problem (lol) and went on pilgrimmage to Pandaria where she learned the ways of the Monk and eventually brought it back to Eversong Woods where she started the game as level 1.
Blizzard has this thing where they try to cram way too many fantasies into 1 class. Think about it. Every class has at least 3 (for the 3 specs), but there’s way more than that. Have you seen Hunter? It has like 11 distinct fantasies in it and they’re all competing for the same space. Monk might feel the same way.
Monk Class fantasy is pretty much non existent and they have been ignored by blizz the last 13 yrs outside of MoP. What you do see is mostly Pandaren fantasy too btw. There isnt been any class representation in the form of important NPC’s and events/themes/visuals/etc in any way since MoP.
As for gameplay:
-they literally ignored Brewmasters and their terribad toolkit/playstyle, been the worst tank by design for some time now and is also underwhelming and brings no unique utility outside of RoP in m+. Stagger is bad and people have hated it forever but they keep it in the game to the specs detriment.
-WW is boring, underwhelming, and brings nothing of value
-MW is in a bad place tn and still brings no major buffs/utility, less flexible talent tree as things go on which make it unfun to play because you are shoehorned into 2 highly specific and different playstyle/builds for different content, not everyone likes one of the two, we should be able to chose one or the other. Devs only cater to like the top .1% of people who enjoy the most polarizing m+ build ever and love to spam SCK over and over. Tons of dead/undertuned or just useless talents and a community plagued by people who should probably be playing a dps class. Should have added better and more balanced playstyle/theme defining options with the hero trees ( like disc priest ) so both sides could be happy.
Monk class needs a shakeup and redesign.
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Darn right monk is best. No matter how awesome other classes think they are, after a long night of dragon slaying with super magics and ultra swords. Yet only one class is cool enough to win against these mighty foes with their bare frickin hands. Bear hands too.
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BM is my favorite tank spec. They BETTER NOT change it from how it is now and into something undoubtedly worse.
NOPE 
ehh I feel like WW needs to be less Rogue inspired at least, and just have chi as the passive resource not energy otherwise the other two are good still.
FWIW of the classes that can be every role monk is definitely my favorite.
I miss BFA mistweaver. Vivify being a 3 target cleave was super unique as being the only cleave heal. Now it’s just a weaker Uplift.
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I miss all previous iterations of Mistweaver. The “flow” is gone and the spec is trash… by design.
Cool. Glad you found something that works for you. Doesn’t do it for me, no matter how hard I try to justify it through backstories. None of them click with me and I just default back to Pandaren.