Or how Legion destroyed the unique flavour of so many speciaizations in the game.
Truly the most vile expansion to ever release.
In the 6 years since this tragedy, we still haven’t recovered even half of what was lost.
In this thread, we’ll take a quick look at how Monk used to be played, and how Blizzard have taken away most of its unique tools and mechanics to make it as bland and generic as humanly possible.
Hopefully, someone who cares even the slightest bit eventually looks at this thread and brings Monk class design back to a pre-Legion state, saving the class for Dragonflight.
BEFORE LEGION: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Brewing:_Tigereye_Brew
AFTER LEGION: Gone.
BEFORE LEGION: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Brewing:_Mana_Tea
AFTER LEGION: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mana_Tea
BEFORE LEGION: Actively swap between a healing stance and a fistweaving stance at all times: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Stance_of_the_Spirited_Crane
+ https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Stance_of_the_Wise_Serpent
AFTER LEGION: No more stance, just a generic cooldown: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Way_of_the_Crane
BEFORE LEGION: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Spear_Hand_Strike
AFTER LEGION: Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer available to Mistweaver monks.
And the biggest victim of them all, not just an ability, not a talent, but an entire ressource system and therefore all the mechanics and abilities that were built around it:
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Chi
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer available to Mistweaver monks.
This caused the removal of abilities such as Chi brew, the disgusting overhaul of Mana Tea, the removal of Pool of Mists which allowed you to have 3 stacks of Rising Sun Kick - a talent balanced around the fact that RSK had a Chi Cost.
The list goes on, I haven’t even touched on everything.
But as you can already tell, Legion was a total disaster and destroyed the Monk class.
This god-forsaken expansion must never again be praised in my presence.