Even when monk was at it’s funniest, we were still lowest played.
Because it was new, and ruined shortly after. It didn’t last long at its most fun and Blizzard made it clear they don’t care about the class. I think they regret making it at all.
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Had nothing to do with it
Having to start at level one and not being a hero class had a lot to do with it.
It’s hard to convince people to start over with a never before tried class at the start of a expansion when people are getting raid ready.
So yes, being new was a huge factor.
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At the start
“Outlier”. Yes, because when it’s been repeatedly mentioned over and over on various sites, forums, and reddit posts just how badly the pathing is with SEF (If the Clones aren’t facing the mob they just FoF the air pointlessley lowering your DPS/just getting the clones to the target can be a hassle lowering your DPS/if the clones are running to their target they are dealing zero damage lowering your DPS even more/If your target dies they can just stand there doing nothing lowering your DPS), it’s totally an “outlier” when the pathing goes bad after all the repeated times where pathing breaks the ability.
So no, when the cooldown has been repeatedly documented as having these pathing issues which only compund the already asinine decision to make it lower our DPS, it is anything but an outlier when the cooldown decides to just abandon the player.
And as to pet classes pathing? None of them lose DPS when summoning their pets or using their DPS cooldown, now do they? Nor are they forced to rely on pathing alone to get their pet to the target when they have a Pet Bar that can command a pet to go to a specific spot right next to the target, now are they?
Hell, not even Mages have to put up with this issue with their similar spell because
1A) Mirror Images spam ranged attacks ignoring pathing because they can instantly start attacking the target instead of wasting time flying to the target
B) Mirror Images doesn’t lower your damage when used, thus letting you do 100% damage even if the Mirror Images suddenly decide to stop spamming spells.
That’s a problem with positioning and with fof specifically, not pathing. They can get to the mob just fine, that’s pathing.