Guild Wars 2

Title says it all, write down your opinions

I think it would be cool to have the monk back

I’m not one to say no to new classes, but I don’t feel like the Monk would bring anything new. Guardians pretty much replaced Monks in GW2, imo.

You mean as a dedicated healer or a dps type monk like a smite monk?

If as a dedicated healer, no. They can do what they’re already doing and setting existing professions up to heal groups. As a new profession such a a smite monk, no, except maybe as a new elite spec that allows some healing and some dps.

Then what kind of class do you want to be introduced in the game?

Anet has talked about reintroducing tomes to the guardian but as kits rather than as their previous incarnations, I can see that working on an elite spec called ‘Monk’.

As an elite spec, I don’t see why not. As a whole profession, I doubt Anet will ever do it, not for monk, not for anything.

I’d prefer no new class, personally. With new specializations coming out there’s really no need for it. Monk itself is made redundant by the guardian, which has usurped basically all its attributes and some of the paragon’s as well.

If we’re going to have ‘new’ something I’d prefer a new race to reduce the balancing quagmire. It would be impossible to play in story content from LS3 and earlier, but at least that has no side effects for everything else.

Monk as in the healer class would never make a return, because ANet specifically wanted to avoid a pure healer class in the game. Most of the things that was left got placed in Guardian, which is supposed to replace Monk and add more of a Paladin style to it (Or Cleric style if you’re familiar with D&D etc).

Guardian already got a good bit of the Smite and Protection style abilities from Monk, so there wouldn’t be much left to add other than healing, and a bit of the last one (forgot name, Divine Favor?).

If you want to play a Monk though, closest you get is probably Elementalist with Water traits, and Staff.

Also Revenant sort of stole the Upkeep system (sorta, it’s different but closest thing we got). But it might be interesting to see a Revenant Spez new legend based on an old Monk style, and give us access to some of the old upkeep spells (That is what I miss the most about Monk myself). And despite how much I’d love to see it, I really don’t think a Rev legend Bonder-Monk style would be good for the game :p