I’m playing since TBC seen a lot change but never felt the need to post, but the time arrived.
I’d like to share my personal opinion on monk state. I played ww/mw/bm on all lvl of content except high rated PVP. So mainly m+ and mythic raiding.
I felt lost on my ww monk, where I’d like to point out for a specific issue where I felt lost. - lvl 100 talent raw for WW monk “whirling dragon punch”. This is the third expansion (SL - I played(ing) beta where you still use talent to have fun+output) where this talent is baseline.
In Legion: There were specific fights and scenarios where Serenity was an option but manly whirling dragon punch was the baseline. In BFA whirling dragon punch is the baseline. In Shadowlands whirling dragon punch is the baseline.
Why this is not a spec related baseline skill?
The lvl 100 talent raw is not a choice I just feeling left alone with this issue …
(My other personal opinion and feedback is the MW monk.
In WOD the spec has its own niche with uplift what brought flavour to the spec, was unique, felt good, needed some skill and soo much, but since the spec mechanism was changed it’s not founding its place and struggling.)
I really like the monk fantasy and the unique playstyle it supposes to be but probably due to the lack of players interest (I mean a low portion of the playerbase plays monk) I don’t see real support behind also lack if ideas that changing the specs. Doing the same thing (4-5 years now) with whirling dragon punch is just … you know…
Thank you for the opportunity to share my opinion.
I cant understand really your issue with WDP, yes it should be baseline as you say but… If its not the problem is?
In Beta, the very few time ive spent with WW it felt a tad less energy starved. Seemed promising but did not did to it im afraid.
As about MW, its a very long and hurtful story.
MW gets OP for a couple of months, pala/priest(blizz favorite healers) whine on forums HOW ON EARTH monks even dare to outheal them, and then mommy blizz listen to the favorite children and nerf MW to the ground.
So it happened in S4, some theorycrafters pushed a top tier max corruption build with BiS corruptions that people spent TONS of gold(tokens) to obtain, then as MW was outhealing pala/priest by 30-40 percentile they got nerfed to pala/priest will eventually be able to outheal monks by a 30-40 percentile.
I gave up hope to MW no matter how much i love it, i rerolled priest at the end of EP and im calm. I press 3 buttons, i dont care about my mana and i can outparse a monk by even 50% more output sometimes, just because blizzard considers this “fair”.
MW need an option to be viable for raids like getting MW the buff legacy of the emperor back and make fistweaving actually heal in raids, Priest and palas also need to have the damage to heal removed because it is a stolen monk trait
They need to be brought down to 3-4 pos for a few years like MW was and that comment comes from a main priest nowadays.
Its only priest/pala when it comes to healing, their favorite kids.
