I think Monk has a lot of potential to make for a really neat caster class. We already have Crackling Jade Lightning (which is mostly useless across the board, and could serve as your basic channeling ability), 3 “pets” that are minimally utilized, and plenty of other neat elemental things to back up a mage type Monk spec.
I haven’t put a great deal of thought into what exactly that skill kit would be, but what do you guys think?
I also think it would be awesome for this spec to command the elemental spirits from Pandaria (I’m not a lore junkie, forgive me if there is some blatant reason why they couldn’t, its all just fun-talk).
P.S. This is a hypothetical idea. Do I think Blizz is going to make new specializations anytime soon? No. It’s just fun-talk to see what kind of ideas other people would have.
Am not one to shut down ideas… but this would need a lot of creative work.
As you probably know, monks are for now in a place where they are very melee oriented, even MW melee… The MW is the monk caster… it’s just that it’s casting heals.
You’re thinking for a damage casting… it’s gonna be challenging to distinguish it from a mage… think about it, a monk dps caster would be doing what? Force lightning… shooting hadokens, chi balls… maybe poison mist? Is there such a thing?
I think the biggest obstacle is that when people think monk, they think martial arts of some form.
For now the closest thing to what you’re describing is a shaman with fist weapons…
Nothing’s impossible, however, there is the Sha… maybe something along those lines could be used? I dunno…
I mean 2 of ww old abilities were range, chi xplos and spinning fire blossom. So it wouldn’t be a huge stretch.
I mean you can argue this with boomkin and lock too.
Am not against it, am curious how it would be like and how’d be received.
I mean we have 4 celestials. So it would make sense thematically to get a 4th spec, which would be naturally a range.
I think I remember reading that one of the earliest monk class iterations had energy and two bars of chi, dark and light.
So yeah… it’s not totally without precedent.
Edit: Maybe the monk would perform abilities animations as melee attacks, but the dark chi would extend beyond making them ranged? Maybe then one can still do martial arts and be ranged.
Look at like avatar last air bender, they still do martial arts but can throw range
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Valid point. You’re right it can be done. I wouldn’t mind range dps as long as it still feels like a monk and fits well.
Could do like the generator you are punching air or something at them.