5 Monks - levelling

[Lyonheart]

I'm waiting for results of the monk buffs coming in 5.2 . mine are all 85 and have finished the starting area JF quests. They are gnomes so was going to use them for some Khat fishing as well. I'm quested out though! Ill prob just grind them until rested exp runs out..rest them up again.

Btw..anyone else have non-panda monks?

[Multibocks]

Yeah mine are dwarf, kind of wish they were gnome for the lolz.

[smalltanker]

I am sitting at 4 x 29 and 1 x 30 Mist weaver moonks (the 30 is my gatherer Mining/Herb, so I have to keep getting BOA naked for quest turn ins to stay close). The first scarlet monestary instance with the archers suck. Other than that I think I have only had maybe 5 deaths total from questing/instancing. I retooled some of my macros and my DPS is around 130-200 at nearly level 30. Fun crew, easy to play and in anything but that gimicky SM instance it has been super smooth and cruise control leveling.

PVP has been more of a challenge for me.

Uggh.

[luxlunae]

I am sitting at 4 x 29 and 1 x 30 Mist weaver moonks (the 30 is my gatherer Mining/Herb, so I have to keep getting BOA naked for quest turn ins to stay close). The first scarlet monestary instance with the archers suck. Other than that I think I have only had maybe 5 deaths total from questing/instancing. I retooled some of my macros and my DPS is around 130-200 at nearly level 30. Fun crew, easy to play and in anything but that gimicky SM instance it has been super smooth and cruise control leveling.

PVP has been more of a challenge for me.

Uggh.

What I discovered works great with this instance (and remember you get chi wave at 30 so you might want to just level up first before you try again-instances are 900% easier with chi wave) is to have one toon go down with the arrow shield while the others stand at the back of the room channelling soothing mists on the walker. As soon as you get close enough to pull those healers at the back will get aggro and all the mobs will run back to them.


I also am using gnomes and its also because I wanted to khat-fish. (I got the ironjaw achievement getting them up to the level I needed to fish darkmoon fair waters and then my darkmoon pet soon after arriving, about 1.5-2 hours for both goals).

[luxlunae]

My team is in their late 40s now so I've added SCK and renewing mists to their rotation.

With spinning crane kick I've finally run into my first mana issues so I modified my setup in the following ways.

On my normal single target spam I added:

!if (character in "Monk Mist") /cast [stance:2] Stance of the Wise Serpent

to step one. This switches me back into wise serpent if I go back to single target dpsing during the tiger part of my stance dance. if already in the mistweaver stance it does nothing.

Likewise, I use mousewheel down for my primary hot on all classes, and so I had to adjust that macro from

/cast [@mouseover] Renewing Mist

to

/cast [stance:2] Stance of the Wise Serpent; [@mouseover] Renewing Mist

Finally, the macro I use to save some mana during SCK (and the reason for the stance swaps above). This was just my cheap implementation of the idea in the video someone else shared.

/castsequence reset=5 Spinning Crane Kick, Spinning Crane Kick, Stance of the Fierce Tiger(Stance), Spinning Crane Kick, Spinning Crane Kick, Spinning Crane Kick, Spinning Crane Kick, Stance of the Wise Serpent(Mistweaver Stance)

The only other adjustment I've made to my four step (shared in earlier post) is that I now cast renewing mist (on myself, which generally then jumps to the tank from the mistweavers) as part of step 2

/cast expel harm

has become

/castsequence expel harm, renewing mist, expel harm

I lock it between two expel harms so that it will only fire every 30 seconds because RM is a big mana eater.

[smalltanker]

I need to go back through the thread and see the macro. I hit 40 and am still plowing instances as five heals. Princess theadrin gave me alot of issues until I hit around 38-39 then she was easily farmable. I kepted doing random dungeon and got her fix times or so in a row so I would do every boss but her (gave her one try) and if I wiped I just requeued. Chi wave did make everything super easy at 30 and I don't think all five of mine bounce around. But no biggie. I am waiting for spinning crane kick... I promise you won't hear me saying "Spin to Win!!!" ... I have tried AB 2-3 times but my DPS sucks in there so hard and with 1/3 of the BG with just my toons it wasn't fair to the team I dropped. I am waiting for AV to open because then I think five healers with spinning crane kick will be easy sauce.

I have to admit blizzard made melee heals fun with this class.

[Wentor]

No activity in this thread since 1/22/13 - but as a long time lurking need some help.

I am running a 5x Monk set up 1xBrew/4x Mist just hit 46 - Spin to win... right?
However, I can't seem to get it figured out right. Spinning Crane Kick by itself isn't doing the damage necessary to kill elites, what are people using to chi dump?

Any refined macro's would be appreciated.

[luxlunae]

Try my macros from early in the thread, although you'll want to modify for less chi wave now that they've given it a timer. chi dump with blackout kick

[honeypot2011]

*Also for 5.2 *armoury link for talents etc

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kilrogg/Shaddòw/advanced

At level 89 now,these are my final windwalker macros..will take "invoke xeun, the white tiger" as the last one to add..

Will work for single player or multiboxed..

This macro i have on my middle mouse button

*Requires a macro extender ( i use bindpad )

/targetenemy [noharm]
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,3,chi wave
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,leg sweep
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,jab
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,diffuse magic
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,tiger palm
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,touch of death
/castrandom blackout kick,leg sweep,disable,grapple weapon,rising sun  kick,touch of karma,touch of death,blackout kick,storm, earth, and fire
/castrandom rising sun kick,leg sweep,grapple weapon,disable,tiger palm,quaking palm,blackout kick
/cast Energizing Brew
/cast touch of karma
/cast fortifying brew
/cast leg sweep
/cast rising sun kick
/cast expel harm
/cast blackout kick
/startattack
/targetenemy [noharm]

And this is the alternate macro on my F key binding

/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,rising sun kick
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,spinning fire blossom
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,3,4,5,tigereye brew
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,3,touch of karma
/castsequence reset=0.3 blackout kick
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,2,3,spinning crane kick
/castsequence reset=0.3 1,touch of death
/castrandom jab,grapple weapon,leg sweep,rising sun kick,tiger  palm,grapple weapon,touch of death,quaking palm,storm, earth, and  fire,storm, earth, and fire
/castrandom tiger palm,blackout kick,leg sweep,grapple weapon,rising sun kick
/cast fortifying brew
/cast touch of karma
/cast rising sun kick
/cast blackout kick
/cast tiger palm
/cast grapple weapon
/startattack

1st Macro builds chi and i spam this as an opener,then spam key F macro...which will favour blackout kick to build back some health,then just spamming both together..like a 2 step macro ish..

This also will fire off "spinning fire blossoms"..if there is enough chi,can press expel harm to add 2 instant chi..if no chi is present..

This way you can also "kite",sideway strafe or roll away etc and spam spinning fire blossoms for damage from a distance..

I use fists of fury,paralysis,spinning crane kick,storm, earth, and fire,storm, earth etc on there own keys.situationally when reqiured

works well pve or pvp



Example video..using these macros...not normally a back-peddlar :P..but just showing the spinning fire blossom etc

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PS..couple of late notes( i was late posting this,way,way past my bedtime)

Why no spinning crane kick? i forgot to add..that if you want to aoe you can either change spinning fire blossom to spinning crane kick..or have a third macro that just replaces spinning fire blossom...

Randomly..really do like the monk,rolling about is cool,flying serpent kick useful,love the effect on the paralysis spell
Expecting one day to see they nerf fists of fury,i know its a monk thing,but as it cant be trinketed etc..
I know from experience,you stand there( ala stunned locked like from a rogue) and hope you have enough health to survive :P
Wish we converted to mail at say a higher level,still feel a bit squishy..in leather..but its ok..

I forgot to set recount when i recorded this..oops..
Only wearing blues and greens,no gemmed or enchanted..apart from the weapons..waiting until im 90 to spend my gold on enchants,gems etc :P
any questions.ask here or pm me

Random over

Another video here showing how it normally works..nice spot this too to grind..small monkeys spawn back quick..theres 1 big monkey with 1.44 m hp..but hes ok this area is in kun lai summit..not far from the kota base camp
with guild banner up and some rested..small monkeys were 80 k exp..big monkey 200 k
this is the video..

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http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kilrogg/Shaddòw/advanced

[Multibocks]

I'm so shocked you were able to find that rare elite up with no one camping it... that dude is dead within 10 secs every time he spawns on my realm.