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[Classes] Monk Impressions?

My monk is level 61 and leveling as a tank at this moment, love the spec a lot so much fun smashing beer kegs on mobs faces, haven't tried the healing or dpsing specs.
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reply to I AM
Everyone that I know who has played a monk has loved it. Personally I've not played one for any significant extent.

From what I hear, Brewmaster (the tank spec) is the best of the three specs right now (as in the other two (healing and deepz) have been nerfed a little roughly).

reply to I AM
Since you start at level 1 it is a bit of a bite when you've been playing max level toons. I'm leveling mine on the side, one or two instances every other week. Running with max heirloom gear and monk XP buff I get about two levels an instance. I don't bother questing as que times are less than 5 minutes. Leveling could be done completely in instances with no problem.

Playing as DPS you cause a lot of damage and have very good survivability.

Can't really say much more because I'm still in the 50s and the game really doesn't start until max level when you have all of your abilities available.
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reply to I AM
{{ Leveled one to 90. The mobility that the class offers is unlike any other especially in WindWalker (melee dps) spec. Mistweaver (healer) is pretty fun as it can offer you a couple different ways to heal, either straight up healing in the back or "in the thick of it" melee healing. Brewmaster (tank) is pretty fun too at lower levels. I never tanked post level 80 so I didn't experience the stagger/purify.

The only is, I don't play it anymore. Like a week after I hit level cap, I stopped it. That's only due to my percieved requirement to do dailies, maybe.
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reply to I AM
Monk is a really fun class overall. I havent tried Mistweaver healing yet, but both brewmaster and WW are very good, fun, and viable specs to play. Brewmaster tanking is the most fun I have ever had tanking. You feel so useful and with the new active mitigation tanking model it is very easy to seperate the bad tanks from the good ones. WW DPS is rly fun to play. Only drawback to WW DPS is it doesnt have any niche to fill. It has no cleave or execute so you dont really get to shine on any fights. It still does good DPS and it is good at fast target switches. It also has some of the best sustained AOE in the game. In pvp WW is ok. It has some good surv and control. Just takes some getting used to. They do lack initial burst which can hurt certain comps.

reply to I AM
I boosted mine straight to 80, so leveing experiences may vary.

I had leveled my monk with intentions of only healing on it. Did a fair bit of pve and pvp healing on it. The initial monk playstyle was completely over powered. They wee simply untouchable. Currently they are decent, require a more active and structural healing rotation to be optimal. In regards to other healing classes monk are middle of the road atm, but the play style is refreshing and the pvp is pretty fun, albeit they have soem holes for cd's that are being addressed.

Currently though due to some in guild unforseen circumstances I am casually doing monk dps. DPS monks are definitely a different playstyle from my rogue days. Monk scale really hard with gear so aat first it was a bit disheartening seeing my poop dps, but once gear starts rollni in they are legit.

If you enjoy melee then definitely give monk a shot. Monk level extremely fast with their 100% xp buff that you can get daily and every 10 levels that lasts 3 hours? At level 85 you can run the end of time instance and the bronze dragon boss can reset that buff into infinity and itll last all the way to 90

Monk kind of feels like a warrior in Tera with the mobility and plays like a rogue/warrior hybrid. Give it a try 10 day pass it at the very least when you actually have time to play more than an hour a day.

reply to I AM
They can be any race correct?

reply to McBrain
Yeah, I fought the power. I quit raiding and quit the game for a bit, since Thanksgiving. I pop on only for about 30 mins at a time to quest on my 62 warlock.

Notice I haven't been trolling the raid thread with dumb comments lately... well, except for the Arcane mage difficulty "debate."
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Reading your post made me want to punch a kitten in the jawbone.

reply to Arsinic
Rogue warrior hybrid sounds fun. Do they have heals as well? Sorta like a pally?

reply to I AM
I like Brewmaster and WW just fine. I am sure Arch can talk to the healing aspect. He does pretty well with it. It is all about the player, as it always is. I feel like a Rogue/Druid/Enhancement Shaman all tied together.
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reply to I AM
They have heals, but as dps they work a bit differently. They can drop healing spheres, that you would pick up liek a mystic in Tera, they use their chi(think rogue combo points/paladin holypower) to shoot a chi wave(basically prayer of mending that damages enemies and heals friendlies its a talent) and one of their dps abilities expel ahrm, heals and does damage to enemies(more damage the more healing it is capable of so better when you have less health).

reply to Ginjer

thanks. What kind of weapons do they use/or can equip? Leather, Cloth? I picture a monk being shirtless.

Leather armor.

Staves, 1h swords, 1h maces, fist weapons, 1h axes.
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Reading your post made me want to punch a kitten in the jawbone.

I've always wanted Bloodfang or Nightstalker armor with a stave!!

reply to I AM
Been leveling as Brewmaster, and I chew through everything. I haven't tried WW or MW. I like the resource system better then my DK as well.
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