For the love of god. WW Monk is pretty much the least played class/spec in pvp 5.1. Do you guys think that is a coincidence, or is there a reason behind why so few people decide to even PvP with a WW monk? What about arenas? Why is WW monk the most underrepresented class in high end arena rankings? Coincidence? Can we all agree that monks need something more than what they already have to become more balanced? Thanks.
OT, on paper, I can understand how people think that monks blanket silence looked OP, but in reality WW monks have been blessed with it since release of MoP, and still sucked. Now, all these glorious buffs we were promised are slowly turning into nerfs. No WW monk with half a brain will dump a 5 sec aoe stun with 45 sec cd for our supposedly new imba talent - ring of peace. If we look at what monks actually are getting next patch, the new cleave ability looks meh. New mastery looks decent, but you have to sacrifice some of the dps (stacking mastery instead of crit for example) in between charging up 10 stacks. To summarize, how the 5.2 changes actually affect the ww monk is:
*Less ranged DPS because of spinning blossom nerf
*A cleave ability that will be used rarely
*Worse survivability because of healing nerfs
*Less melee DPS in between tiger eye brews, more DPS (for 10 secs) during tiger eye brew
*A cc-breaker on 2 min cd
*A cc that cant be dispelled, that more often will be used as a gap closer rather than controller due to duration nerf and unreliable positioning requirements.