I want to level a monk alt but I’m unsure of the race to pick, I think I wanna play one of the 2 races above but I’m open to other horde suggestions.
Would appreciate pros and cons to each race as a monk
As soon as you consider blood elf, blood elf wins.
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What i can think of is belf racial actually being beneficial for a windwalker as a nightborne only gives a caster class anything at all.
Otherwise i like both of their looks so its whatever really.
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Blood elf definitely!
With racial u can remove BoP and innervate! Also the +1 % crit is a nice treat
My main character is a blood elf female and those are one of the only ones where i feel the voice actor put in some immersive and passionate work. If you do a /charge ingame, she will actualy scream out, unlike most others wich will just talk calmly as if noone will hear.
I dont know if that is something you care about, but i figured i would mention it.
Blood Elf. Nightborne looks too ugly and their racials are bad compared to the Blood Elves.
If you care mostly about performance, then belf without a doubt as their racials actually benefit a WW (and are generally considered meta anyway) whereas a Nightborne’s don’t really.
If you don’t care too much about performance, Nightborne. Don’t contribute to the blight that is belf monks seemingly out numbering pandaren monks (unsure if this is true on any given server but it sure as hell feels like it).
My first allied race to max was a NB monk. Their frame works nicely for a WW. Bit too scrawny for a brew master though (male NB are abnormally scrawny, skipped leg and arm day)
From this two I’ll choose be.
How about orcs? Are they any good monks?
Orcs and gnomes are both good.
Chose this because of the looks, came from orc which looked too clunky to be a monk. This one suited the snappy playstyle better in my opinion. BE was my second choice.
Monk is an acquired taste no matter what race you pick. The fact their animations barely suit some races says enough, and I can’t help but cringe every time I hear that annoying ‘slap’ sound anytime you Tiger Palm, as if you’re whipping mobs upside the head with a dead fish.
I’m levelling a ZandaMonk (Mistweaver). The punches look silly but the kicks with their obnoxiously long legs make it look like they’re doing Capoeira (like the male-troll dance), so it’s not ‘as’ bad, plus bonus points for having (mostly) good combat sounds and screams, except that one cheesy ‘rawr’.
I hear Undead actually work pretty well animation wise. Nightbourne use the NE skeletons/models and already had Monk-like combat stances by default, so they’d flow quite well as a Monk, plus FemNB also has good combat sounds. Their racial isn’t as useful, but an AoE damage/slow to compliment your AoE stun during kiting moments isn’t to be sniffed at.
Belf is Belf - if pretty is what you want, they’re the go-to for pretty much everything, and their racial is still useful despite the rework.
I’ll be levelling this Zanda for the heritage armour and then considering a race-change - probably Highmountain for luls, or Undead Female.
Orc for sure
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