Originally Posted by
teek37
I think they're a cross between paladins and combat rogues. between chi/energy and orbs/combo points, i think the combat abilities are very similar, dps wise at least, apart from the huge difference that monks don't have an auto attack or stealth. But the monk also has healing and tanking as well, like the paladin, and I think philosophically they are similar to paladins: martial, disciplined, ideological, but I don't think Pandaren can become paladins because they have no concept of the light, by the sound of it. Priests have always been a bit more flexible in their doctrines, like with trolls or forsaken or gnomes, but Pallys are all about the light and the Naa'ru, so Pandaren really don't fit with that.