MONK: The forgotten child, the homogenized class

It wasn’t slow.
You needed 10 stacks for a full burst, and you could get 4 instantly on demand just by pressing Chi Brew: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Chi_Brew
The remaining stacks were generated quickly by just spending Chi: every 3 Chi spent generated 1 stack.

What you describe is a non-issue.

Yes.
Having unique mechanics that differentiate a specialization from others help people get interested in said specialization.

Sounds gimmicky but I will wait for the rework and reroll if it’s bad. Devs must have had a reason to remove tigers brew in the past.

You have a point, but you are exaggerating.

Yes, Fel rush and rescue are somewhat rejected monk abilities reworked. But, that is a very loose definition. The abilities look and feel different. Chi torpedo still exists and travels longer than Fel rush does.
Tigerseye brew was honestly cumbersome to use. You wouldn’t have it available at the start of fights when your raid bursts. Serenity is not Avenging wrath though. It does different things and looks different. Just cause there is a damage increased by % doesn’t make it the same. AW increases the crit chance of the paladin and allows the use of hammer of wrath. Serenity removes chi costs of your spenders. But you can always take the clones if you prefer.
Rescue is not so much a teleport as a group heroic leap/double charge if i’m honest. To be frank i don’t like it. More than a Rescue it’s more “abduction”. :joy:

I love monk. I think the problem with monk is community perception cause Blizzard left them weak several times.

Healing elixir passive comes with expel harm buff. These are important to fix a problem with mistweaver being squishy compared to other healers. Now, they are much improved.

As for uniqueness, there is much on monk.
Ring of peace
Song of chi ji
Summoning a spirit (chiji, yulon, ox, tiger)
Roll
Chi cocoon
Fist and kick moves
Shadow clones
All sorts of brews and kegs

It’s honestly my favorite class after paladin. I think if they make it strong more regularly players will return. A talent tree revamp wouldn’t hurt. Monks could use a bit more in the utility department and WW needs to be fixed so it’s scaling doesn’t fall off a cliff everytime a new patch rolls in.

I disagree the class is homogenised. If anything it’s the fact it’s not that has been holding it back. But, it’s a solvable problem which Blizz is slowly solving.

Nerf. It’s a nerf.

Expel Harm is no longer usable through Soothing Mist to heal allies. It was the only spell you could still use on them while they were behind a pillar as long as you had Soothing Mist going.

It’s not a nerf. It’s passive survivability and expel harm takes the place of the old healing elixir.

I am trying not to laugh at the idea of casting expel harm while channeling soothing mists. It healed for nothing.
Most mistweavers didn’t even have it on their bars. Oh god… a pvp exploit? I can see why they changed it. Clearly wasn’t meant to work like that.

Seriously they should bring back pre-legion BRM, you know the REAL BRM with Chi mechanism and the other cool moves.

Most monks not having it on their bars does not mean it did not have its use.

It was healing more than a single Vivify, and as it was said above if you used it during soothing mist it healed the target as well.

I guess the same can be said about healing elixir. Never really seen any monk use it in PvE since atleast Shadowlands. Even in its passive form I see little reason to waste a single point on it.

O.o You weren’t looking very well then. Healing elixir was part of the meta m+ build for the last 2 seasons. It was off the GCD. Why wouldn’t you take it? I doubt pvp’rs didn’t take it as well.
It saw a lot of use. I am surprised you didn’t know that. Do you play mistweaver?
Ah i see. You only raid on him. That would be why. In raid you don’t need it.
This wasn’t a raid oriented change. It was a m+ one.

My first ever alliance character was a gnome monk

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