Whereas windwalker feels a bit mindless and unoriginal, mistweaver seemed to opposite extreme. It’s difficult to target, but it’s incredibly satisfying to land on a target just right.īetween the bugs, the random DCs, and the fact that monk tanks are incredibly squishy right now, my first experience of monk healing was quite a trial by fire - made all the more difficult by the spec itself. Roll is just insanely awesome on so many levels, and I was also quite fond of flying serpent kick - which shoots you forward at rapid speed until you choose to land. I kept the trash stunlocked through most of the instance with fists of fury and leg sweep, and I prevented at least one wipe with zen meditation. I did, however, love the utility and mobility. It didn’t really feel like a new class, though. It’s a bit mindless - use rising sun kick and fists of fury on CD, then just bash whichever button is glowing - but it’s fast, and slaying dragons with your bare fists is pretty cool. Windwalker was pretty fun considering the rotation is not yet finished. I also created an 85 Pandaren monk and tested the windwalker (DPS) and mistweaver (healer) specs with a few runs of End Time. We’ll throw this on the already massive list of conceptually awesome rogue abilities that do exactly nothing outside of PvP. This makes it mostly useless in PvP, and completely useless in PvE. It seems our passive damage sources now contribute an even greater percentage of our total DPS than they do on live, which is the last thing rogues needed.Īlso, it turns out our AoE stealth cannot be used in combat and only lasts fifteen seconds.

I haven’t bothering testing rogues, since there aren’t that many changes, but I don’t like the sound of the few there are. Dark apotheosis is now just a ridiculously elaborate way to look cool while AFK in Orgrimmar. I tried warlock tanking, but it seems that’s finally been nerfed to death. I don’t want metamorphosis to be the “lol slash spam” stance. I don’t understand why Blizzard wants us to have fewer abilities in our more powerful form. Gotta love that.ĭemonolgy is still too basic. Also, I can hit for 400,000 damage with a single spell. I still like destro, though the nerf to fel flame does make it a bit on the simple side.

On the plus side, they got template characters working, so I made an 85 warlock to make sure mine being a few levels lower wasn’t giving me an inaccurate impression of things. Over the past few days, I’ve been continuing to tinker with the Mists of Pandaria beta, despite the constant crashes, DCs, and bugs. Okay, seriously, there are no good puns with “beta”:

Diablo 4 spell trailer