I am thinking of levelling up a Vulpera monk for the heritage but I’m used to classes that are pretty damn tanky solo (Lock being my main).
Are monks durable? Decent self-healing or defensives as WW, or alright enough damage to get group WQs done solo as a BM?
Brewmaster is quite durable, aside from a gap between ~35 and 45, if you want to tank in dungeons.
Windwalker has a nice self heal, too.
Oh hell yes
Specially if you run conflict & strife major
Unfortunately windwalker is one of the weakest specs in terms of survival. We have incredibly low self-heal and very few and limited defensive cds. If you want survivability i’d suggest you play brewmaster, or skip monk as a whole until we get more info on class changes for Shadowlands and monk looks better than it is now.
WW monks durability comes from mobility rather than being able to take large amounts of damage.
You will use leather so your armor is not high, but with 4 mobility spells it would be hard for anyone to catch you.
No they aren’t durable at all unless you are brew master. If you are looking for a durable melee then you want to roll a dk all specs are durable.
I find that Windwalkers are okay compared to other classes that I play.
If you can use mobillity to get some distance then heal in addition to our other healing abilities you’re quite durable.
I levelled a maghar orc monk for the heritage.
During the levelling phase I found it easy, I felt quite thanky able to take abit of a hit.
At 110+ I found this slowly took a nose dive off a cliff however, and at 120 your self healing dwindles.
So just to obtain heritage gear it’s a good option. As a end game main I’d say it isn’t so Tanky.
the enlightenment buff is reason enough to level if it’s just for heritage armour 
More than durable enough for levelling and solo content. The early footspeed of monks is not to be underestimated, and you’ll find you have not a lot of downtime.
Once you get your full toolkit, you’re not fragile, but nor are you particularly tough. It’s important to understand that mobility is part of your defences, and flying serpent kick, heal, chi torpedo, heal, is a useful combo 
At low levels I sometimes think my mistweaver does more damage than my Windwalker… and still have all the heals…
TBH i’m leveling monk atm and i prefer mistweaver than ww for solo content, 3 tiger palms, 3 blackout kicks in a row and change the mob ^^
Wow… You are getting so many different answers 
so I will give mine too.
From MY experience:
WW is from a scale of 1-5 at surviving in solo content (world bosses, solo raid runs, etc…) probably a 3.
WW has many different types of healing spells and defensives, but to survive you will need to rotate through ALL of them 
Where as a Paladin for example won’t even need to use any major defensive CDs unless he is really in trouble.
BM on the other hand… well… DOES survive better than WW… but unless you specifically talent into a “solo build”, you won’t survive for that long. This is because BM is more of a “healers friend” than a “solo runner”. Of all the tanks in the game it feels as one of the worst at surviving solo.
MW is a healer, but it is very good for solo runs. It has good consistant damage and good passive healing. But a BM that has been talented into a “solo build” is just about as good, if not better.
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