Limited PvP -> PvE Free Character Transfers
The Cataclysm Classic Pre-Expansion Patch Arrives April 30
What game first sparked your interest in gaming? Was it World of Warcraft?
Hide "earned by" on Achievements
MMO-Champion
With the introduction of allied races, we see pandaren monks stationed in places like suramar and highmountain, teaching these new races the way of the monk. Not sure where the monks were teaching voidelves however. This made me think if the pandaren were so eager to spread their martial arts to other races, why don't we have worgen and goblin monks after 3 expansions? Do these two races just not accept the teachings lorewise, or blizz just don't want them to be monks (throw back to when humans can't be hunters)?
Recent Blue Posts
Recent Forum Posts
Thread: Worgen and Goblin Monks
-
2018-02-04, 03:54 PM #1Grunt
- Join Date
- Dec 2017
- Posts
- 12
Worgen and Goblin Monks
-
2018-02-04, 03:57 PM #2Deleted
Kung-fu worgen... with those legs...? Good luck!
-
2018-02-04, 04:01 PM #3Scarab Lord
- Join Date
- Nov 2014
- Posts
- 4,281
cows can be monks and gnomes so goblin and worgen should too
Originally Posted by Mortarion
Originally Posted by Tennisace
-
2018-02-04, 04:02 PM #4Epic!
- Join Date
- Sep 2009
- Posts
- 1,640
Why not? We saw a kung-fu crane, praying mantis, snake, tiger, some badger thing, later on, an alligator, some ox, among other animals. Why not? I mean, if a stupid bug can do kung-fu, I would think a werewolf could too! Originally Posted by Mortarion
Oh wait, this isn't kung-fu panda... or is it!?Yes, I draw my own avatars.
-
2018-02-04, 04:02 PM #5The Unstoppable Force
- Join Date
- Jun 2008
- Location
- Where Thrall and the Horde needs me to be
- Posts
- 23,565
Tauren and Draenei says hi. Originally Posted by Mortarion
Amazing sig, done by mighty Lokann
-
2018-02-04, 04:03 PM #6Mechagnome
- Join Date
- Aug 2013
- Posts
- 731
Monks are like a disease that spreads to everyone. I'd be happy to know at least Worgen and Goblin weren't affect by it.
Would be better to have Worgen Demon Hunters anyday than that generic meat slapper of a class.
-
2018-02-04, 04:05 PM #7Titan
- Join Date
- Dec 2017
- Posts
- 13,339
Given the fact that there are Sin'dorei in Telogrus, it's possible that the playable Ren'dorei Monk is a Sin'dorei who was trained in Silvermoon by the Pandaren during Mists of Pandaria but decided to travel to Telogrus recently to study the Void.Not sure where the monks were teaching voidelves however.The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
-
2018-02-04, 04:29 PM #8DeletedThis. Originally Posted by Ren-dorei
They come prepackaged with their class as a Blood Elf.
-
2018-02-04, 04:30 PM #9DeletedThen there should be void elf death knights. Originally Posted by Ren-dorei
-
2018-02-04, 04:31 PM #10DeletedBlood Elf Death Knights are Knights of the Ebon Blade, not Silvermoon citizens. Why on earth would they 1. Even want to use the void and 2. Be exiled from Silvermoon when they live in Acherus. Originally Posted by Andoras
DK's are just as much as their own race/faction as they are a class.
-
2018-02-04, 04:35 PM #11Deleted
Death knights arent single hivemind. By this logic every monk lives in the mountains of pandaria, training the whole day. Also i doubt any monk would want to study void powers.
-
2018-02-04, 04:37 PM #12DeletedMonks aren't a hero class. Originally Posted by Andoras
DH and DK's have their own home bases, their own faction and their own leaders.
-
2018-02-04, 04:39 PM #13Titan
- Join Date
- Dec 2017
- Posts
- 13,339
Indeed, which is why i even opened a thread dedicated to Ren'dorei Death Knights in the past. Originally Posted by Andoras
But then one of the Horde Allied Races would also be able to become Death Knights for balance's sake, and neither the Shal'dorei of Suramar nor the Highmountain Tauren of Thunder Totem have even interacted with the Scourge of Arthas.Last edited by Varodoc; 2018-02-04 at 04:48 PM.
The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
-
2018-02-04, 04:41 PM #14Deleted
There does not have to be balance, as people say about horde having 4 druid races and alliance 2.
-
2018-02-04, 04:45 PM #15Brewmaster
- Join Date
- Jul 2010
- Posts
- 1,396
There is -and never was- any lore reason for why those races cannot be Monks. There's actually good ground for RP as a Worgen Monk (not least of all since Monks are just bad Druid in lore and Worgen can be Druids). It was always due to the Monk using hand-crafted animations on the new skeleton system they added in Mists. Goblins and Worgen use a newer system than the legacy models but an older one than the Pandaren. This makes them incompatible. We'll get new Monks alongside the model updates, I'd imagine.
-
2018-02-04, 04:48 PM #16Herald of the Titans
- Join Date
- Aug 2011
- Posts
- 2,740
They're not even remotely similar. People are afraid of Death Knights. You wouldn't be wary of an undead standing next to you if you're on the Alliance? Originally Posted by Andoras
Blood Elf Death Knights don't return to Silvermoon, just like DKs of any other race don't return to their home cities in the lore. They return to Acherus.
-
2018-02-04, 04:49 PM #17Deleted
As much as I love Monks, I really dislike how the class is introduced to each race with a mere Pandaren teacher in the starting zone. Boring.
-
2018-02-04, 04:49 PM #18Pandaren Monk
- Join Date
- Apr 2011
- Location
- South Wales, UK
- Posts
- 1,830
Probably waiting to update their models before going to the effort of animating monk abilities for them. Just makes sense to not waste time like that.
-
2018-02-04, 05:18 PM #19The Patient
- Join Date
- Jan 2015
- Location
- Europe
- Posts
- 236
Real question is why void elves can be monks, and lightforged can't...
-
2018-02-04, 05:20 PM #20DeletedOne was trained before they were exiled, the other is a space goat who has literally just arrived in Azeroth. Originally Posted by GSN
Reply With Quote
