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Windwalker Monk Review - Battle for Azeroth Class Community Opinions
Publicado
22/07/2018 a las 02:12
por
Squishei
Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth State of the Class and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Windwalker Monks. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
We reached out to the Windwalker Monks community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and current state of Windwalker.
If this spec appeals to you after reading this article, check out our
Battle for Azeroth Windwalker Monk Guide
.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
17:
Assassination
18:
Subtlety
19:
Outlaw
20:
Fury
/
Arms
21:
Ret
/
Windwalker
22:
Feral
/
Enhancement
23:
Havoc
24:
Survival
25:
Beast Mastery
/
Marksmanship
26:
Fire
/
Frost
27:
Arcane
28:
Boomkin
/
Elemental
29:
Demonology
30:
Destruction
/
Affliction
31:
Shadow
1:
Unholy
/
Frost
2:
Holy Paladin
3:
Disc
/
Holy
4:
Restoration Druid
5:
Restoration
/
Mistweaver
6:
Blood
7:
Brewmaster
8:
Guardian
/
Protection Warrior
9:
Vengeance
10:
Protection Paladin
Peak of Serenity is the online community for Monks.
Website:
http://www.peakofserenity.com/
Discord:
http://www.discord.gg/peakofserenity
Babylonius is a former moderator on MMO-Champion; current owner and administrator of the PeakofSerenity Monk class discord; founder and Windwalker author of the Monk Class site, PeakofSerenity.com and those that came before it; raider in
Occasional Excellence on US-Turalyon
; Windwalker main since early Mists of Pandaria, guide writer/theorycrafter/teacher for several years.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BabyloniusMonk
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/babyloniusmonk
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/babylonius
Kuya aka J-Funk is a Theorycrafter, Guide writer, Windwalker author on the Monk Class site, PeakofSerenity.com and a raider in
Humble on US-Crushridge
.
Twitch:
https://twitch.tv/JFunkGaming
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JFunkGaming
Wizard Dog - Raider in
Imperium on EU-Nagrand
; theorycrafter; moderator on the PeakofSerenity Monk class discord; Windwalker one-trick.
Famo is a raider in
Club Camel on US-Stormrage
; theorycrafter; veteran on the PeakofSerenity Monk class discord; melee-only player.
The Good
Viento de jade impetuoso
is back to being the best ability ever for running old content, letting you literally just run through mobs and kill them without ever having to reactivate the ability.
Patada oscura
cooldown reduction passive creates interactive gameplay and ensures you are never overrun with resources.
Barrido de pierna
is now a baseline ability instead of a talent, allowing one to bring both
Barrido de pierna
and
Anillo de paz
to any fight. This alongside Windwalker's signature mobility (2 rolls +
Patada del dragón volador
+
Transcendencia
+ level 30 talent), decent defensive options (
Toque de karma
+ level 75 talent +
Buen karma
talent), the
Toque místico
5% physical damage increase, and smaller utility like
Parálisis
and speed taunt, means that the spec's utility toolkit is better than it has ever been, especially in Mythic+ dungeons.
While Strike of the Windlord was removed, it has a spiritual successor in
Puño del Tigre Blanco
, filling that role of giving you a feel good button to press every 30 seconds.
Puño del Tigre Blanco
even uses a very similar animation.
Ráfaga de chi
now can generate chi per enemy damaged up to 2. Where previously we relied solely on
Elixir tonificante
for burst Chi in AoE Situations we now have a new tool. Just be careful not to pull extra mobs with it.
Gale Burst artifact trait has been baked into
Toque de la muerte
baseline giving us better scaling in our burst cooldown.
The Bad
Because
Viento de jade impetuoso
requires a small amount of energy to sustain itself, it can be accidentally turned off if you are spamming an ability that costs energy like
Palma del tigre
or
Puño del Tigre Blanco
, you can find yourself turning off RJW due to not having enough energy in a split second.
Just like during Legion with pre-nerf Cenedril,
Buen karma
creates very toxic gameplay - standing in bad stuff to do damage or even going as far as taunting a boss for maximum
Toque de karma
efficiency.
Windwalker in multi-target situations has been significantly scaled down from Legion, Mark of the Crane now can only affect up to 5 targets and its damage bonus per target has been reduced to 10% from 40%. This causes you to rely more on talents such as
Viento de jade impetuoso
for your multi-target damage.
Combo de golpes
is still broken by design because if it is tuned too highly it becomes too situationally dominant and becomes the go to in every situation. If
Combo de golpes
is tuned too low it becomes effectively defunct. It doesn’t feel rewarding as a talent but instead punishes if you make a mistake. Surprised to see it unchanged mechanically in BfA.
Your opener as a Windwalker in BfA will take some getting used to with Storm, Earth, and Fire,
, Invoke Xuen the White Tiger, and
Toque de la muerte
being on the GCD. Speaking of abilities that are on the GCD,
Elixir tonificante
is now on the GCD which makes it more difficult to use in majority of situations because you are going to waste energy unless you
Palma del tigre
immediately after using it.
Buen karma
doesn’t seem to fit in the talent row it was placed. It is a throughput talent in a utility talent row which makes it the default choice unless you can make good use of
Anillo de paz
such as certain dungeons in M+.
Viento de jade impetuoso
can be snapshot with mastery which may result in people switching to a super high mastery set before a fight starts then using
Viento de jade impetuoso
and afterwards switching back to their “regular” gear and trying to keep that snapshotted
Viento de jade impetuoso
up throughout the fight.
Puños de furia
doing 50% damage to secondary targets means you constantly have to cast Fists on the target with the most HP if the mobs are near death.
Suggestions
Removal of Inner Peace makes capping energy and wasting resources very easy and practically unavoidable - you’re being forced into inefficient gameplay; an easy fix would be to increase the total energy pool by 20-40 energy
Adding a Chi Spender to our talents (the return of Chi Explosion?) would fill the void that Strike of the Windlord left behind as a Chi Spender.
Patada del sol naciente
got pushed down the priority list to the point where you nearly never cast it outside of
or
Puñetazo giratorio del dragón
windows due to it doing less damage than 2
Patada oscura
s in a row. Since it’s very contradictory to Legion Windwalker gameplay and confuses newer players
Patada del sol naciente
should be buffed. Even a slight damage increase would put it back on top of the priority list.
Other Comments
I would like to raise a point regarding the “ahoy
Patada oscura
beats
Patada del sol naciente
” that was mentioned above. While this is mathematically true for a simulation or for a fight that is mostly patchwerk with barely any time away from boss(say, Varimathras), things change drastically in a realistic raiding scenario. Execution window matters and when the difference in output is so small but the amount of extra gcds it throws into your rotation is substantial, many times you would waste resources by going the
Patada oscura
spam way. This is simply due to the fact execution time is a resource of sorts as well, “I look at my logs and replace
Patada del sol naciente
with 2
Patada oscura
s -> damage increase!” is not really a good way to look at it because there is an additional cost tied to this replacement - extra time required. This becomes even more prominent the worse a player performs(as it gets harder to efficiently use all their resources in a given time frame), so I think it’s safe to assume that for the vast majority of players, replacing
Patada del sol naciente
s with 2
Patada oscura
s would be a net loss in a realistic encounter where they have more to do than just poke at the boss from start to finish.
To summarize, I think the fact you have a flexible component to your rotation between two variants - “gcd-heavy” and “resource-heavy” - is only a good thing and can lead to some pretty interesting decision making process. This creates a very special resource management gameplay, more complex than what energy specs usually get in the form of “to cast a spell or wait for energy”(ahm, feral druids, ahm), because you need to balance out your time/resources in a much more active fashion. It partially solves the harsh T21-style extremely punishing result of being away from the boss for a few seconds, since you can simply spend your resources more aggressively before/after said downtime.
I don’t think we should request changes that only make sims align more nicely with reality. Remember the actual game is not simcraft, and that’s a good thing!
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