I loved my WW monk in Legion. In BfA it feels so stripped down and boring without its artifact that I can’t stand it.
Theres also a buch of mistweavers right now too. Its mostly just WW.
Because non-pandaren monks are like weebs that like to cosplay.
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MW is honestly the funnest healer to play in this expansion right now. Decent dungeon heals, disgustingly high thoroughput in raids. It is it’s best iteration since pre-SoO MoP! It is my main currently. I play BrM quite well too, it has a nice rotation good AM, tho a lil healer dependant. My hubby’s main is WW this expac too, I find it a little clunky and hard to learn but I am finally trying my hand at it too. The damage is good but hard earned compared to DH in the same niche.
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I see only monks in PvP. Barely any shamans
To be 100% fair, kung fu pandas have existed in the warcraft universe far longer then the dreamworks movie
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I think if there had been Blademaster instead of Wind Walker, and it was more like a samurai, where we used the different stances and swings, and used the weapons in their hands, you may have seen more monks. Other things about them are as silly to me as the pandas are. For example, since I play only troll toons, I would never be a brew master tank, because the idea of my troll running around tossing barrels of beer sounds too far out of character for me.
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First off, shamans are better than monks. Let’s get that out of the way.
As for why, I can only really say my reasoning. I loved playing a Monk in MoP. Not only did it fit the expansion perfectly, but the fact Brewmasters took less damage because they were too drunk to feel it was hilarious, and all around their lore was nice as well as how they felt when being played.
However, after MoP, it slowly went down hill. I have no idea why Windwalkers got Storm, Earth, and Fire when it was a Brewmaster ability in Warcraft 3. Keg smash was turned into a ranged ability, stagger was nerfed, just all around the class felt like it was catered towards mechanics rather than class fantasy which is what first drew me to the class.
Again, this is all my view on the subject. After MoP, monks felt less like monks to me.
Dude. Yes! A Kensai would f’in rock. I’d be all about monk if they were more about actually using their weapons instead of the mess they are.
And yes, Pandaren are too cuddly/cute. It’s honestly distracting.
Blizz does hate them some shaman.
Remember Poochie? Monks are the Poochie of WOW.
WW is incredibly boring to play, and that’s saying something in an era of class simplification and homogenization, and it’s all because of having-relative to every other class/spec for the most part-such long CDs on the abilities that actually do any damage in their rotation.
I leveled one recently. Already AP40 and 390 MW. Gearing up tank as well.
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And yet said expac had some of the strongest and most creative PVE content wows ever seen, and it had a pretty mature tone once you got past the leveling content. Don’t judge a book by the cover 
Same goes for the demon hunter comparison you made. Dh is an abomination of a class with about as much depth as a cereal bowl. It’s a bit better now but my god in legion it was quite possibly a class made for toddlers. Monks lost a bit of its depth over the years just like all the other classes but it’s still miles ahead of Dh.
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Loud minority does not equal what the majority wants. It like people asking for safe space or claim certain races have privilege. It was all propagaded by the loud minority and when blizzard listened it killed the game. Remember the Loud minority clapped cor Diablo Immortal.
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Then you were not paying attention. People we’re hoping for pandaren as a playable race since the collectors edition of classic that gave you a panda pet.
When BC was 1st announced there were plenty of people asking for pandaren. So I dunno what to tell you. But people stopped asking for them after bc.
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Might want to learn the lore because Pandaria (the pandas) was in the lore well before Kung fu Panda. Also, it doesn’t sound like you know what the word “literally” means because you used it incorrectly.
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I’m still very disappointed that Lightforged can’t be Monks, but my personal fanon is that it’s because Monks are basically just Shaman who punch things and use totems less frequently.
I also have a hard time believing that anyone who says that MoP turned WoW into a “kids game” actually played MoP. That expansion got pretty dark (and is definitely in my top three expansions, if not my absolute favorite).
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Got me both an alliance and horde monk in the works both being windwalker though my horde one might go mistweaver. What I’d love to see is Worgen monks with the upcoming new models with a genn graymane heritage type set wow.
If someone wanted to buy D&D back in the day, and they chose “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” (instead of the basic Dungeons & Dragons game, which didn’t even have paladins until the Rules Cyclopedia, if I remember correctly) they’d get the PHB and maybe the DMG, and MM. Those three books clearly state that only humans were allowed to be paladins.
Anyone who was a serious D&D player knew that anything in Dragon was optional content for home campaigns, and also knew that none of the D&D rulebooks, settings, modules, RPGA tournaments, or anything of the sort would include Dragon content.