World of Warcraft: Is Monk Just the New Druid?
With Mists of Pandaria on the edge of release, a lot of World of Warcraft players are looking to create a Monk, one of the most iconic of all character classes in the MMO-niverse. See what we think of the Monk and how it will fare against the other classes. Read on!
So my question stands, is the Monk the new Druid for the game? The reason I say this is because the class can truly spec three entirely different ways. Not a bad thing necessarily, but I have to call into questions a few WoW trends that people may or may not agree with. First is the diluting down of the game into a very base format, especially in regards to character format. Has the game been dumbed down from its 2004 roots? Some say yes, I think more than anything it has been streamlined to offer players the best choices for their characters in the easiest way possible. I don’t think the phrase dumbed down is fair. I do believe that the days of faction only classes like the Paladin and the Shaman are long gone, unless Blizzard suprises us with the next expansion which will hopefully take us to level 100 as well. But I sure miss those days.
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Well, Garret, I think you aren't understanding what Monk is here. Blizzard are trying for a new sexy class and there are two trains of logic guiding them to their destination.
1. Diablo monk.
2. Kung Fu Panda young person movie. Now Shaolin Kung Fu ties into the monastic tradition of the far east, but it has been used as a blockbuster setting for cartoon movies recently.
But in the end we are talking a lot of Panda Kung Fu monks in this expansion.
Kung Fu Panda - 2008
First Official Appearance of Pandaren - 2003 (Warcraft III: Frozen Throne)
I'm sick of the Kung Fu Panda nonsense. Pandaren have been around longer. Plus, there is nothing kiddie about them. They love to get drunk.
If we are going to complain about Kung Fu Pandas, we should complain about Orcs and Humans. They have been used in other places too, except Blizzard used someone else's idea for them. Pandaren were actually Samwise Didier's creation, not Hollywood's.
Leveling more than one toon is a grind for most people. If you like leveling then great, in this day in the age of instancing, make leveling instanced and normalized the entire rest of the game for capped players. Yes since level cap is going up to 90 make every zone nook and cranny for lvl 90 and since your giving away lvl 80's already to disloyal customers, why not just make it so, so long as you have at least one lvl capped toon you can create instant lvl 85 toons on that server of any class.
Many WoW players (not necessarily you though, Revnik) speak as though WoW was the first MMO. When brought up on this they have been known to respond that ah, yes, but WoW brought it to the mainstream!
Now many people speak as though Kung Fu Panda was the first black and white bear to do martial arts. And when people bring them up on it guess what? Right back at ya!
Forget Kung Fu Panda (I had one sentence about that).
When writing this I realized that the biggest issue with the new class is starting at Level 1.
After the Death Knight started at 55, honestly I see this as a step backwards for Warcraft.
Veteran players should be able to start Monks at 55.
well, as reason for the lvl 1 blizz named the fact that monks are NO hero class (in oposite to the DK).
also i guess they just want people to see the new content they introduced with cataclysm - surely not every cba to play a new character till now ( i couldnt for example hehe)