If I were to have one wish granted in this game, it would be to return Windwalker back to its MoP roots. When Monks dropped in MoP it instantly became my favorite class, specifically Windwalker, there was nothing like it. The entire playstyle of the class was wholly different from any other class and was executed so well, from building and spending chi to building up your tigereye brew for big damage/healing/defensive windows, having Xuen to summon for extra damage that could keep you in combat against rogue, the rushing jade wind for maintainable aoe damage, the healing spheres that are to this day the best iteration of Monk self healing, to the spinning fire blossom, it didnt do much, but you could tag people into combat to prevent drinks, rezzes, stealths. The class was great, it had great damage but only if you had the skill level to take advantage of the capability. They were squishy but could get around that with their control and defensives and the ability to self heal with your orbs on the move. I don’t think theres ever been a spec of any class that has been quite as involved and unique, or as fun. MoP Windwalker Monk was peak design. I wish I could have that back.
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a casted heal as mobile melee class makes absolutely no sense and never did. Healing spheres were perfect and especially after the removal of tigereye brew there was no reasoning for vivfiy to still be a casted heal.
Which version of MoP Windwalker? There were at least 3 because there were 3 different Masterys that changed how the class was played.
5.4 version, was much fun, actually a really well designed class, and maybe a touch over tuned, those RSK’s were hilariously busted, but man so satisfying.
But the OP is right, Monks in Mists, hell CLASSES in Mists were 10X better than anything blizzard has developed in WoD, Legion or BFA, and Blizzard is going for the streak because Shadow Legends is looking kinda bad too.
My 1 wish would be to just return all classes to a general design of how they were in MoP. Everything was so much better back then.
5.3 and 5.4 era, windwalker was perfect at that point
It actually hit harder than Tiger Palm so you could use it while you had your Tiger Palm buff up.
I honestly miss Tigerseye Brew’s old design the most. It felt nice.
most classes were way better in mop… If class design was like mop, i would be playing my demo lock. most fun spec in game.
Yo no lie using the apotheosis glyph on demo was fun as hell leveling