maybe anime ninjas. Real ninjas are assassins by any means necessary
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Lies.
Actual ninja had no honor.
" Due to their unorthodox methods which contradicted the [way of the warrior](h ttps://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2127.html) (bushido), the ninja were not credited with the same honor as the [samurai]
(h ttps://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2127.html)."
And
" the ninja became greatly romanticized in popular culture, such as [kabuki](h ttps://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2090.html), which led to inaccuracies in the common perception of them. The stereotypes were subsequently exported to the West and further developed to entertain audiences there."
And samurai are literally Knights of Japan. More akin to 2h warrior and Ret Paladin. Plate Armour and bows with secondary of a 2h weapon.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGlusOfexw
And some historical evidence of Samurai being warriors not monks.
h ttp://mrcooperwh.weebly.com/uploads/7/3/8/6/73867581/samurai_vs_knights_packet.pdf
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I remember reading somewhere that back in the WC3 days the Pandaren brewmaster had a more samurai aesthetic originally but then China spat the dummy that their national animal was dressed in japanese garb. So they changed them back to a more chinese look.
If thats true i doubt we will see anything like what you are suggesting.
Chi explosion 100% fits monk and itâs crazy you donât think it does lol chi blasts and explosions are super prevalent in just about any media with monks in it. It doesnât have to be baseline for it still to be a talent option for those who enjoy that type of monistic play style no ones forcing you to play that and same with the two handers just because you donât like it doesnât mean others donât they may not punch with it but visually they still enjoy a staff or pole arm on there person like the panda in the Pandaria trailer. Your not the only player blizzard is trying to please and thatâs why choices and diversity even exist.
The ancient chinese warriors looks just like samuraiâs. Just look at the Terra Cotta warriors. China and Japan share the same cultural roots. Only the high ranking Samurai look a bit different because of their glamorous helm (signifies positions) that is further romanticized in movies and animes.
The Pandren even in WC3 was always ORIENTAL looking. Not necessarily Japanese or Chinese. Keep your hate on China to yourself.
The Pandaren on MoP was most likely influence heavily by the Kung Fu panda movies which were very popular at that time.
As for the topic itself. Samurai would be cool. Maybe make ARMS warrior spec into more samurai like. But the Problem I see here is that unlike FFXIV, which has awesome attack and skill animations, WoW has a very limited animations that could really capture the samurai aesthestics. In games the samurai is usually differentiated from western warriors for their flashy sword techniques.
edit: if they are able to make arms spec into samurai though it would be nice. we would have prot warrior. Western berserker fury warrior and Samurai 2hander swordsman.
I would love to see them make a range monk spec. Using stuff like this, lightning, spinning blossom
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Our special move will be chi burst where in we burst in power, our hair turns yellow then do a big kamehameha wave in a big wide straight line. Enemies who falls to zero hp gets disintegrated 
Good thing Blizzard does agree that it was more a mage feeling not a monk feeling and people who want that game play style should play arcane mage. The animation for chi explosion was even arcane bursts animation.
Chi balls are prevalent in Dragonball anime and once you leave anime world, monks are just like what we have in wow. Kicking and punching with a minor projectile chi move just like we have with crackling jade and chi burst. We do not need our only dps spec removing what makes us monks and turns us into kung fu mages.
h ttps://wow.gamepedia.com/Chi_Explosion
In the end if they made it a 4th spec then sure go for it. But making chi explosion a viable talent choice would turn a monk⌠the melee martial arts class⌠into a gimp mage⌠the caster class⌠and even blizzard said it was not the direction monks in wow are made around.
It it also not just me saying this, you can see the countless threads from 7.0.3 patch of people thanking blizzard for taking the abomination of chi explosion away.
Seriously you want it then go roll a mage and put on a cloth monk transmog.
Like this
h ttps://www.wowhead.com/outfit=61059/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD
What part of your not the only play style theyâre just tying to make happy donât you get itâd be talent options not something your locked into
Ya, this. Samurai would be itâs own class as it makes zero sense in monks.
FF14 is that a way
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China would kick up a bigger stink than if you called Ji Jinping âWinnie the Poohâ if Blizzard gave a Chinese inspired class Japanese aesthetics.
Itâs a really huge no-no. Blizzard had already been chastised for their original samurai Pandaren concept art years and years back during WC3âs inception.
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