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The next World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria, introduces the new Monk class.^[1]

Background

When the Pandaren were subjugated by the Mogu centuries ago, it was the Monks that brought hope to a seemingly dim future. Restricted from using any type of weapon by their slave masters, these Pandaren instead focused on harnessing their chi and learning weaponless combat.

Monks are a hybrid class. Masters of bare-handed combat, monks choose to draw their weapons only for devastating finishing moves. Monk healers bring harmony and balance to every group, healing even the most grievous of injuries with ancient remedies and focused spiritual arts. And few can hope to out-last the unquenchable prowess of the Monk Brewmaster, whose empowering beverages and unpredictable combat style allow them to absorb incredible amounts of punishment.

Pandaren masters have chosen to share their ancient martial arts with young fighters in both the Alliance and Horde. Harnessing their inner strength and potent "chi" energy, Monks are extremely capable in every role: damage, defense, and healing.^[2]

Races

Main article: Monk races

The monk class can be played by the following races:^[3][4]

Race		Strength	Agility	Stamina	Intellect	Spirit	Armor	Health
	Human	21	21	21	22	20	37	113
	Ironforge dwarf	26	17	22	21	19	37	123
	Night elf	17	25	21	22	20	37	113
	Gnome	16	23	21	25	20	37	113
	Draenei	22	18	21	22	22	37	113
	Orc	24	18	22	19	22	37	123
	Forsaken	20	19	22	21	22	37	113
	Tauren	26	17	22	18	22	37	127
	Troll	22	23	21	18	21	37	113
	Blood elf	18	23	21	25	18	37	113
	Pandaren	21	19	22	21	22	37	123

Armor

Like druids and rogues, monks can only use cloth or leather armor and can't use shields, but can use off-hand items. Stats will be primarily based on Agility (DPS and tanking) and Intellect (healing).^[3]

Weapons

Monks are expected to rely heavily upon hand-to-hand combat, but will use weapons for their finishing moves.^[3]

• Hands and feet (unarmed?)
• One-handed axes, maces, and swords
• Fist weapons
• Staves
• Polearms^[1]

No melee classes will use ranged weapons in the Mists of Pandaria expansion.^[5]

Weapon tooltips will not show the damage or Attack power coefficients and scaling factors are still in flux during the beta.^[6]

Abilities

Some base abilities:^[3]

• Initially, the monk did not have an Auto-attack.^[5] After testing and design, however, auto-attack was included as part of the monk class.^[7]
• [Jab]^ω τ ϖ - primary chi builder.
• [Roll]^ω τ ϖ - roll a short distance (presumably like a Mage's Blink spell). Unlike similar abilities it can be used backwards and sideways as well.^[5]
• [Flying Serpent Kick] - fly through the air, leg outstretched, and then to slam to the ground, damaging and slowing anything where landing (the ability has a max range of about 40 yards).^[7]
• [Fist of Fury] - blurring multi-attack that stuns multiple targets.^[7]
• [Statue of the Jade Serpent] - summons a statue that heals nearby friendly units when the Monk deals damage. Up to 3 can be active at the same time.
• [Spinning Crane Kick] - AOE that damages every enemy within 8 yards every second for 6 seconds (5 sec cast).
• [Blackout Kick] - 2 Chi, Kick with a blast of sha energy, causing Physical damage to an enemy target. Only useable on targets at or below 35% health. If the target is killed by Blackout Kick, you are refunded 1 Chi.
• [Touch of Death] - instantly kill any NPC that has less health than you (1.5-minute cooldown and costs 3 chi).
• [Clobber,Club, Pike, Sever] -40 Energy Attack the target with your (Staff ,Maces ,Polearm ,axes), dealing damage and generating 1 Chi.
• [Paralysis] - 15 Sec cooldown, You cause the target's muscles to contract, incapacitating them for 30 seconds. If done from behind the target, the duration is doubled. Only one target can be victim to Paralysis at any given time. Any damage taken will cancel the effect.
• [Crackling Jade Lightning] -40 yard range, Channels Jade Lightning at the target, causing 4,116 Nature damage over 5.50 seconds. If the enemy attacks you within melee range while victim to Crackling Jade Lightning, they are knocked back a short distance. This effect has an 8 second cooldown.
• [Detox] - 40 yard range, Instant Cast, 8 sec cooldown, Eliminates ailments from the friendly target, removing all harmful Poison and Bleed effects.

Specializations and Talents

Monk talents are split into 3 categories:^[3]

• Brewmaster - Tank, reminiscent of the "drunken master" of martial arts films.^[5]
  • Toss their best keg of brew at their enemies with [Drunken Haze]. All enemies hit get drunk and have a 3% chance to hit themselves for 14k damage anytime they attack. The debuff stacks 3 times.
  • Avoidance abilities like [Shuffle], [Guard], and [Recoil] to bypass damage for short windows of time and can divert damage from group mates to themselves.
  • [Stance of the Drunken Ox], which causes all incoming damage to stagger: you take 50% immediately and 50% 3 seconds later.
• Mistweaver - Healer, wise man with fighting skills.^[5]
  • Mistweavers’ healing spells focus on bouncing between players and flowing all over the battlefield.^[7]
  • Mistweavers drink different types of tea for different benefits, like restoring mana or boosting heals.^[7]
• Windwalker - Melee DPS, martial arts master doing damage primarily with fists and feet.^[5]
  • [Muscle Memory] skill, which gives them a 1% critical chance buff every time they jab an enemy from behind, which stacks 100 times and lasts 30 seconds and gets totally wiped when you leave combat.^[7]
  • A passive called [Afterlife] (currently at level 26) that creates a Healing Shpere or a Chi Sphere on the ground anytime they kill an enemy that grants XP or honor, which looks like yellow mist, ^[7] but will only visible to the monk that created it.^[8]
• As with all classes in the new talent system, monks will get the option to pick a series of other talents as they level up. Here are some of the notable ones:^[9]
  • [Tiger's Lust] (currently at level 15) is CC breaking talent that also increases movement speed briefly.
  • [Power Strikes] (currently at level 30) allows any monk to potentially generate a Chi Sphere if their Chi is full.
  • [Leg Sweep] (currently at level 45) is an AoE knockdown and stun.

Choose spec at level 10 as in Cataclysm, will have multiple spec abilities as you gain levels with more to choose.^[3]

Suggested professions

•  [Leatherworking], due to their available armor types.
•  [Skinning], goes with leatherworking.

Useful Add-ons

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End-game expectations

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Media

Images

A Blood Elf and Human Monk.

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Videos

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See also

• List of monks - List of important NPC monks and monks from lore.
• Monk sets - Discussion of set items for monks.
• Monk gear guide - Information about choice of monk equipment.
• Pandaren

References

External links

Official World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria site (US) The Monk

Official World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria site (EU) The Monk

Guides

WoW Insider Leveling a monk in Mists of Pandaria, part 1 by Chase Hasbrouck Aug 10th 2012 at 2:00PM

WoW Insider So you want to play a mistweaver monk? by Chase Hasbrouck Jul 5th 2012 at 7:00PM

WoW Insider So you want to play a brewmaster monk? by Chase Hasbrouck Jun 25th 2012 at 8:00PM

WoW Insider So you want to play a windwalker monk? by Chase Hasbrouck Jun 18th 2012 at 9:00AM

WoW Monk Class Guide

News

WoW Insider 5 monk abilities that should have you excited for Mists of Pandaria by Josh Myers Apr 10th 2012 at 4:00PM

Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria Preview: New Scholomance and Monk Talent Calculator Updates by Ashelia 2012/03/25 2:21 PM

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