Monk

[Farconn]

Is a lvl 70 wind walker monk even worth making ? If so should I go for 55% resil and 25% pvp power? Or should I just stack pvp power? Is output damage good? How's the CCing on a scale of 1-10 for Arenas. I do realize monks get no brutal main set wrists belt or boots.

If you have or know of any BiS or close to BiS WW monks feel free to link them.

 

[Dreams]

Damage is terrible but gonna be alright next patch. The cc is amazing. Don't know about the build.
... Ask Meat if he's not dead >;

 

[dogform]

damage is shit and the buff they're getting 5.2 is not gonna make a huge difference anyway. its quite annoying as a range to have a monk tunneling you tho, guess thats the best part of playing one

 

[Farconn]

I would have to run with a disc or Rshaman then... So my damage would be worth something. Yeah if meat sees this I'm sure he will have some feedback

 

[Chey]

Windwalker @70 first impression (average player POV)

I find the class fun to play and first up I will say if you don't find it fun then you will be better off playing another class. Everything a WW brings to a BG at 70 another class can do better. The only exception being a good resource to damage AOE, it is more of a scoreboard move then a viable way to kill another player however.

PVP Power vs Agility
My gear is not BiS but is close to it. I have tried a mix of agil and power, full power and full agil. At full PVP power I was at a bit over 40% but my actual damage on a target dummy was very low.

-On Target Dummy-
Highest RSK crit in PVP power was however 9k so....
9000-65% = 3150 +40% = 4410player damage (not including armor or damage reduction ability's)

Highest RSK crit in Agility was 13k so...
13000-65% = 4550 + 0% = 4550player damage.

You can see it is very close but agility is still slightly in front.

I also gained another 20% crit from stacking agility however so the total overall dps is noticeable higher and fun factor increased! The change was obvious in the BG before I even checked the numbers. PVP power dose not even come close to agility as the primary beneficial stat to stack.

Resil as WW
I have tried mix sets again with this having 62%resil with average damage. Some what viable but in the end if I am stuned I can be taken from 100% to zero with trinket down from a average geared player. I can mitigate or escape damage easily when not stunned at low resil so can not see the point in having more then 45-50% as it makes no difference when I am stunned at all. I will still die.

Just a bit of info for anyone planning on trying the spec. Fun and viable in random BGs, yet to try arena. I am average a best and have not tried my luck with engineering yet. Would like to hear how others are finding WW as this is just my opion.

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Shaolin @ Frostmourne - Community - World of Warcraft

 

[Valencia]

Thanks for posting it on here too Shao.

 

[Farconn]

Shao awesome post and awesome WW monk would still love to hear others opinions though !

 

[Turkish]

If you are interested in doing 70 arena then my advice is wait till next patch, or roll Mistweaver and stack resilience. The lack of Resilience gear that monks have to suffer with makes pvp hard at 70. You pretty much have to have your BIS gear socket with resilience to even meet the 60% safezone (to avoid global killers like fire mages, Boomkins, spriest, and ppallies) My monk does great damage, and is socket full resilience, but I am level 71 with dual nef axes. As for lvl 70, you could run two Hands of the D and socket them with resilience, then play 3s as control, or just stick to BGs.

here is a PvP video of my WW monk in BGs one day
Turkish, 70 Monk Twink PvP pre 5.2 - YouTube

here is my armory.
Turkìsh @ Illidan - Community - World of Warcraft

-On Target Dummy-
Highest RSK crit in PVP power was however 9k so....
9000-65% = 3150 +40% = 4410player damage (not including armor or damage reduction ability's)

Highest RSK crit in Agility was 13k so...
13000-65% = 4550 + 0% = 4550player damage.

You can see it is very close but agility is still slightly in front.

As you can see in my cover image, I get crits around 13k on players with resilience in BGs, when I have a bunch of buffs.
One thing about PvP Power and agility wearing classes is everyone forgets that Agility doesn't JUST give attack power, it provides crit as well. I would suggest using full resilience gems in your gear over either of the other stats, but if i had to choose agi or pvpower, i would choose agi due to the near similar damage output, and agi provides extra crit rating.

 

[Pattie]

But your not a 70 twink though.

 

[VictorGiovanniAvelino]

Tapanoku @ Azralon - Community - World of Warcraft this is my monk healer (missing sunwell gloves) i enjoy this lot of CCs its best played with a dispell class such Spriest.

 

[Archy]

lvl 71 Windwalker Monks with double nifflevar axes are pretty strong.

 

[Wrathmor]

Could you guys tell me if monks are strong enough in pve to solo bosses?I'm wondering between making either a dk or a monk twink to try and solo bosses.What do you think?