Originally Posted by
Avalya
If I was healing, I'd rather heal a paladin or a warrior over a monk though. We take rather spiky damage, we have almost no tank cooldowns. Sure, overall we take less damage, but those times we take insane damage without being able to use cooldowns, and without mitigating it with block or high armor - those are the times I'd want to play another class. Those moments don't happen very frequently, and I absolutely love tanking as a monk, but the unpredictability can easily mean a wipe, but good RNG can also easily lead to surviving that hit that would've killed a warrior, or any other tank. There are obviously ups and downs of it.