Hi,
As of the 26th of August we received a bluepost on Monk as a call detailing some minor changes and promises about fixing current bugs.
I would like to know whether this is just a misunderstanding or a pretty bad joke from the developers. The promises were as stated:
We’ve been working hard to address the many bugs that have been submitted, with a focus on those bugs that are impacting testing, and we expect to have Monk testing in a much better place with next week’s build of the Shadowlands Beta (the first week of September).
However the only fixes that we got are the covenant abilities, which we dont want as they are counter productive to our spec design. All the abilities work quite well now, except I think Venthyr having reduced damage during SEF which is just silly (it happened AGAIN and AGAIN). BUT our spec is still severely broken. The bugs we had 4 years ago still exist, we got a lot of new ones and some abilities need a clear redesign/rework. Our talent trees barely changed over the last 4 years, despite us having some of the least fun abilities like Hit Combo, Rushing Jade Wind (???) or Energizing Elixir.
PLEASE! Focus on fixing the class, not the outside systems.
I’m not going to try to come up with ideas how to fix them, as it’s pointless, I’d like to just give feedback on the most broken things that I’d like to see fixed.
It’s mostly going to repeat what every other monk is saying, but okay, nothing’s changed so far.
SEF Needs to go. I can’t imagine having to play another time with this utterly broken cooldown. I promised my raid team the very first time my clones will not repeat my fists of fury I’ll quit. I’ll seriously delete the character at some point. Currently on the beta I’m perfectly able to reproduce a bug 100% of time making my spirits to NOT REPEAT ANY ABILITY OVER THE DURATION OF SEF.
Empowered Tiger Lightning of Xuen is insane. It deals crazy damage and is pretty cool i have to admit. However again, deals only 45% of its damage during SEF (AGAIN, HOW?!). Also it pull all the mobs around you on a like 40yds radius… Whoa!.
Our Rising Sun Kick deals so little damage currently that it’s so inefficient we will probably not use it ever (apart from the burst windows and to use Whirling Dragon Punch). It’s currently more efficient to spend the 2 chi on blackout kicks as it’s more damage + 2s cooldown reduction on FoF. We’ve had that situation already in BFA and RSK was buffed by 25%. This is happening again and again too.
Touch of Karma is degenerate, nothing more to add. I’m just sick of standing in fire to be competitive. It’s not fun, I’d rather not have any damage attached to this ability than this.
Touch of Death deals incredibly frustrating amount of damage to bosses and “Elite” minions i guess, around 1/3 of what it’s supposed to deal.
Whirling Dragon Punch not usable with FoF and RSK on CD. This is the most frustrating bug of all i think. Waiting for that perfect moment to press WDP and it somehow goes blank. It’s not so often seen in the beta currently since our haste values are low… But I can promise that it will come back as soon as we get some more stats, always does.
SEF Outside of GCD feels quite bad and will always lead to even more abilities missed by the spirits. It’s happening all the time in beta and will continue to be a buggy mess. It’s removal from GCD actually adds to the frustration, i didn’t mind the GCD at all (especially with TOD going away from the rotation).
I don’t mind WDP and it’s root, I’m okay with it and okay with Crackling Jade Lightning legendary and not being able to move during the channel, I can live with that, it adds a bit of complexity i guess.
SCALING! (with TOD and Karma Fixes we might be decent at that, but still.
These are my most visible problems with windwalkers currently.
PS. I probably forgot about some, as the list is VERY VERY long already.
It’s been years for some of those, some really need a redesign and some would need to be refreshed to actually be in a playable state.
AGAIN, PLEASE, FOCUS ON THE CLASS, NOT COVENANTS.
I’d also like to promote a post from Peakofserenity, where Babs touches similar things and proposes his solutions. It’s a good read and it kind of shows what we expected going into Shadowlands. Comparing that to actual changes is just silly.
https://www.peakofserenity.com/2020/09/09/if-i-ruled-the-world-of-warcraft/
Thanks for listetning to my TED talk.