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Post by Demurral Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:28 am

I don't know how many of you have seen this, but there's a great article on the Roleplaying section of the Official WoW Forums, on Monks.
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What are your guys thoughts on this? Does it inspire your roleplay, or could you care less?
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Post by siegmund Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:17 pm

I got a Pandaren monk but haven't really checked any guide out. Not an expert on monks and so so can't say anything about this guide even if i check it out.

Only one thing is that like in the guide i shortly looked trough the word monk can be used in many ways, for the Pandaren it's always that kung fu chi user for other races can be a bit diffrent.

I'll check it out least I supose, but never felt the need to read one up when i made my Panda monk.

I did get some inspiration from one link and that is this:
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Post by Darilas Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:12 pm

I have scanned through it, but most of it seems to be skils and abilities based. I'm way more interested in the spiritual part of playing a monk, really. My monk is quite the spiritual hippie type Smile
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Post by Izzifix Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:44 pm

The spiritual side of Monk-ing is really intriguing, tbh. I've started finding all the Lorewalkers-books just to get more into it.

Then again, I'm a sucker for the overlaps between Paladinism, the Church of the Holy Light, the concept of discipline priests IC, Naaru-ism, Titanology, Elunism and all that. Adding the Monk perspective to the list would make for a pretty amazing holistic faith.

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Post by Thelos Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:36 pm

You can't write a guide about the 'Spiritual Side' (tm) of monk role-playing because there's not much about it in the game, sans what you can extrapolate from what little mordels of ethics you get from the Shaohao and the Shado-pan. It's a all up in the air, basically.
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Post by Izzifix Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:51 pm

I found the Celestials good sources too. It's not like their philosophies are really exposed to us that much, but it helps a little for getting into the pandaren mindset.

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Post by Thelos Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:09 pm

The 'wisdom' of the Celestials can be summarized in one stock sentence of incredible ham:

"Believe in yourself".

Yuck! Too Disney for me!
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Post by Izzifix Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:05 pm

Note that it is very in line with the core beliefs of a shadow priest.

Elaborating slightly, the whole deal about Respect, Tenacity and Power could be legitimized by the wisdoms of the Furious Four. The whole belief in your right to be the alpha is quite amazing.

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Post by Thelos Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:44 pm

That's... -

That's not...

Oh, forget it.
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Post by Heirio Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:27 pm

One theory I have for monks is that they are able to form their chi into things resembling the elements. For example, I remember that there are monks who can turn their chi into fire (Can't remember exactly), and there's jade lightening (the Wind element, obviously), there's mistweaving (Water), and then there's imbuing yourself with your chi, i.e. making yourself faster and stronger, which I think personifies the Earth element.

This is just my theory crafting of how it all works. Feel free to criticize (but give reasons for it).
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