Why Windwalker Monks are the best Melee class

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We can be every race we wanted, (sorry worgens/goblins/LF Draenei)

We fight with our fists, we don’t need no weapons, our hands are the weapons

We have lots of mobility utilities for getting in or out of a fight

Warrior disarms you? Lol keep fighting, abilities still do damage just lower, if needed, root him and roll out till it wears off

Paladins bursting DPS on you? Lol diffuse magic, then right after that disarm him with grapple weapon

Survival Hunter’s during Mongoose bite burst? No problem dampen harm is your friend, once again use grapple weapon, CC pet, half his damage and focus regeneration gone

Enhancement shamans? Grapple weapon and all abilities gone. Capacitor totem? Just attack it or roll out of it, he now has no stun on you

Feral druids? Let his burst cooldowns go to waste, touch of karma and touch of death will make him stop

Death Knights? Lol they can’t chase you, roll once, let him death grip you, flying serpent kick till his bursts are gone

Demon Hunter’s? Silence his eye beam, his main damage gone, touch of death and karma during his burst. Grapple weapon if you have to

Reason why ww monks are least played because our mastery is based on not spamming a button over and over, hence why few play them

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And any smart melee dps will just wait to pop their cooldowns on you until you’ve blown your load. You forget that almost every other melee class can cc, buy time and escape/engage like you just described.

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But nobody else looks so cool doing it :sunglasses:

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They literally can’t…

Death Knights can’t escape, their only mobility is deaths advance, maybe wraith walk but then they lose other beneficial talents

Druids sure

Warriors… Flying serpent kick can chase that warrior down no problem after his heroic leap

Shamans… CC him and even his ghost wolf form won’t save him

Hunters, leap backwards and maybe aspect of cheetah but that burst speed is only for like 2 seconds or something

Demon Hunter’s yes but eventually the monk will reach him cuz he has more on demand mobility

Monks don’t really have a burst cooldowns, their counter is using their cooldowns on them (touch of karma, touch of death)

You never use touch of death until they burst first, it combos with touch of karma along with storm, Earth and fire

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Who said the warrior needs to run? They can just idle dps you down faster than you can dps them, which will force YOU to run to heal, in which case, you cannot reliably escape the warrior. Even if you pop your offensive cooldowns, piercing howl+fear, problem solved. You will waste your CC to get away, they will catch back up and pop enraged regeneration, bam, full health again in seconds. I don’t think I’ve ever died 1v1 to a monk in rbgs or wpvp on my fury warrior.

Same goes for almost every other melee class. Monks, outside of their one-trick pony cooldowns, are super squishy and die fast. If they time their escape correctly, they can get away, but that’s it.

EDIT: Nevermind, I don’t know why I’m even bothering explaining any of this to you because you’ve gotten like 2k HKs and have never done any arena.

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TIL judging people over PvP kills

Ever heard of an alt? Look at my gear, you know I can’t even win with this

But…

To humor you

Old post but still very valid as 8.2.5 still didn’t bring big changes

So the monks you see… Aren’t good monks that’s why

It’s hard to be a good monk

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So you have more than one monk, sure… Nah, realistically, you’ve been grinding on them and have gotten into some WPVP battles with 116s and think monks are godly.

Umm a post with 10 replies in it isn’t definitive.

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To be fair, WW monks are still easily one of the best 1v1 specs as of rn, especially in wargames. I believe Venruki won a recent 1v1 invitational tournament as WW, beating out many of the best pvpers in the game. Fury is very strong as well but to say that WW have no chance against one is a bit of a stretch imo. Still, DHs who stack azerite traits specifically for 1v1 with double tank trinkets and Guardian druids can probably still easily beat everyone else in wpvp.

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I agree with this post.

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Nice to see monk love. :ok_hand: good on you

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What a player in the top 0.01% can do with a class is not always representative of what the bottom 99.99% can reliably do with them.

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Thunderstorms Monk off a cliff

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Well first line and already i’m doubtful, and looking at Hunters and Warriors and soon DK’s, but go on.

Well can you explain the Fists of Fury ability requiring a one handed weapon in order to just punch with our bare fists?

It’s not particularly hard to take down a Demon Hunter really.

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Your animations are visual cancer. Main reason I don’t play despite liking the theme and lore of the class/spec.

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I do low key love when I WPVP as my WW monk and I get disarmed.

I’m like uh…well good effort. But I’m still gonna keep punching you.

:croissant:

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:thinking:

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A good monk wouldn’t let that happen as Transendence is a thing. The moment you get blasted, pop transfer and presto. Safety!

:croissant:

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I still think that WW monks are pretty strong overall, even among casual duels. If you go to goldshire or durotar, WW monk is probably one of the more successful specs in terms of 1v1 regardless of skill level. I don’t think Windwalker is an easy kill like you’ve implied at any level of play relative to other melee classes. I have a much easier time dueling rogues, rets, ferals, other DKs of similar xp than I do monks.

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Just here, being a rogue. Bet yeh didn’t even see me until I let you.

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I don’t see a mention of Paladins.

Stay funky monk.