WoW TWW 11.1 Development Notes - Monk Changes
We will go over all of the latest class changes for World of Warcraft The War Within.
With 11.0.7 now live, Blizzard is steadily working on the next major patch for World of Warcraft The War Within. Given that 11.1 will mark the start of Season 2, we can expect some massive overhauls to gear, class philosophy and overall PvE and PvP balancing.
Having said that, we will go over the Monk changes in the recent The War Within 11.1 PTR Development Notes. Keep in mind that these changes are subject to change as more players provide feedback to the dev team.
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Monk PvE Changes
- Paralysis now breaks based on a small damage threshold instead of any damage.
Mistweaver
Developers’ notes: We’re making several updates to Mistweaver focused on smoothing out their healing output on varying target sizes and shifting rotational damage priority to a more intuitive space (when players should optimally use each offensive spell should be more obvious).
- New Talent: Emperor’s Favor – Sheilun’s Gift’s healing is increased by 150% and its cast time is reduced by 100%, but it now only heals a single ally.
- Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Now reduces physical damage taken by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you receive a physical attack.
- Jade Empowerment has been redesigned – Increases Crackling Jade Lightning’s damage by 2000% to its primary target and cleaves 4 additional enemies at 25% effectiveness.
- Yu’lon’s Whisper healing increased by 100%.
- Blackout Kick damage increased by 75%.
- Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 30%.
- Awakened Jadefire now causes Blackout Kick to cleave 2 additional enemies at 20% effectiveness (was 70%).
- Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane now causes 3 Gust of Mists per target (was 1), but only activates once per Blackout Kick and Rushing Wind Kick cast.
Developers’ notes: Teachings of the Monastery Blackout Kicks will continue to function to activate additional gusts but not from their cleave damage.
- Sheilun’s Gift’s talent location has been moved up to above the final talent gate and now connects with Focused Thunder.
Windwalker
- New Talent: Slicing Winds – Envelop yourself in razor-sharp winds, then lunge forward dealing Nature damage to enemies in your path. Damage reduced beyond 5 enemies. Hold to increase lunge distance. Replaces Flying Serpent Kick.
- Mastery: Combo Strikes effectiveness increased by 35%.
Developers’ notes: We’re increasing the value Mastery: Combo Strikes for Windwalker Monks with the goal of pushing it as a stat.
- Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Now reduces physical damage taken by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you receive a physical attack.
- All damage done reduced by 2%.
- Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 80%.
- Courageous Impulse now increases the damage of Blackout Kick by 350% (was 200%).
- Shadowboxing Treads now increases the damage of Blackout Kick by 10% (was 20%).
- The following talents have been removed:
Conduit of the Celestials
- Heart of the Jade Serpent no longer reduces the cooldown of Rising Sun Kick.
- Heart of the Jade Serpent now reduces the cooldown of Flying Serpent Kick.
Monk PvP Changes
- Absolute Serenity (PvP Talent) has been updated – Now prevents all crowd control (was incapacitate, disorient, snare, and root effects).
Brewmaster
- Alpha Tiger (PvP Talent) has been removed.
Mistweaver
- New PvP Talent: Feather Feet – You may now cast while moving during Lighter than Air and it now lasts 4 seconds.
- Alpha Tiger (PvP Talent) has been removed.
Windwalker
- Reverse Harm (PvP Talent) has been removed.
And that covers all of the changes posted so far for World of Warcraft The War Within 11.1. Once Blizzard releases the PTR patch for players to test, we might see even more updates to the class balancing. You can check out the official development notes, here.
