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Here at WoW Insider, we"re somewhat known for our crock pot, tin foil hat theories. Anne Stickney and Matt Rossi are definitely the best-known for this, as both of them possess levels of lore knowledge that can only be bested by Red Shirt Guy. Personally, I"m not a lore buff. My tin foil hat theories have relatively little to do with wondering if Elune is secretly a Naaru but instead with class balance, generally within the DPS role. With last week"s announcement of the monk class in Mists of Pandaria, I"ve kicked my brain into overtime to figure out just how this class -- and specifically, the windwalker spec -- might come out.

What do we know about monks?

We know that monks will be agility-based melee DPSers (and tank and healer, but I"m focusing on DPS today). We know that they"ll be able to use staves, polearms, fist weapons, and one-handed maces, axes, and swords, which means they"ll need to be balanced with both two-handed weapons and dual wielding in mind (that is, unless Blizzard restricts dual wielding to DPS and two-handers to tanking, which is a possibility).

Continue reading Insights and observations on early Monk DPS mechanics

Insights and observations on early Monk DPS mechanics originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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