Druid, Monk, Shaman, the "nature" classes. Which one?

[SwizzleTweets]

Which one of them do you think has the best backstory or lore?
And which one has the prettiest spell effects when healing?

[lolcatabeta]

Id say its a tie between shamans and druids.

[Tirilka]

Best lore - shaman probably.
Prettiest spell effects - definitely Monk.

[Seditian]

Shaman has by far the best healing spell effects. Not even a contest.

[Temp name]

Druids for most nature-like nature class
Shamans for best lore
Monks for best animations

[Sierra85]

druids are more natural.

[muto]

I like Druid healing spell effects, and Shaman dps spell effects. Lore wise, Druids.

[Wyrt]

Monks are a nature class?

[Teriz]

Monks have the best backstory, and they're better than Shaman because they can tank. They're better than Druids because they don't need to turn into crappy looking animal forms to do their roles.

Also punching an enemy in the face in order to heal your ally is the best healing concept ever.

[Wyrt]

Monks have the best backstory, and they're better than Shaman because they can tank. They're better than Druids because they don't need to turn into crappy looking animal forms to do their roles.

Also punching an enemy in the face in order to heal your ally is the best healing concept ever.

But only 1 race has a monk backstory.

[Teriz]

But only 1 race has a monk backstory.

No one's stopping you from playing a Pandaren Monk.

[Deleted]

Only the druid is a "nature" class.

[Deleted]

monks are not a nature class

shaman was a nature class but their spells are now "element"

so druid

[Deleted]

Only the druid is a "nature" class.

Pretty much this. Although Shamans work with nature per se its all to do with the elements. Even their healing would be more water based than actual nature like druids

[nameis2]

monks are not a nature class

shaman was a nature class but their spells are now "element"

so druid

I agree with you on that, but between those 3 on lore & spells.
Lore would have to be druid for me.
Spells would be monk.

[Deleted]

monk lore haha that was a good joke

Druid.

[Wyrt]

Only the druid is a "nature" class.

Shamans also work with nature.

http://wowpedia.org/Spirit_of_Life

[SwizzleTweets]

I used the " " ... not ' '

[Jengals]

monk lore haha that was a good joke

Druid.

Could not be more true lol

[Aleksej89]

Shamans are about the primordial elements and spirits, air/water/fire/earth/life - things that shape the core of azeroth and anything in it. Shamans work tirelessly to create balance between all the elements.

Druids are about nature, the plants and the animals and all the living creatures. Druids worship all life on azeroth, and revere the natural cycle of life-death-rebirth.

Monks (mostly windwalkers and mistweavers) are, in my opinion, a kind of shamans of the Pandaria. Due to the very special nature of Pandaria, the pandaren developed a special kind of shamanism that, in it's roots, very closely resembles the regular shamanism - accents on balance and equality that brings order and stability.