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What do we think of the new Monk?
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I dunno, I'm not sold on it. I feel like it got less interesting and still doesn't seem super strong. I might be underrating the forced movement, perhaps.
Forced movement + the flying ability= air juggling enemies and letting them drop to the ground. Could be pretty fun and potent
The flying ability is pretty sick, I'll admit. The thing is abilities above 10th level are realistically hardly gonna get used, since most games don't go that high, and even if they do they're probably close to ending. I do think the high level abilities of the Elemental Monk are cool, but the lower ones look worse to me than of the other subclasses.
I do think Shadow looks pretty great now.
Yeah, high level abilities are always dicey to talk about due to no one ever really using them.
That said, I do think both the shadow monk and elemental have had a significant boost compared to 2014 phb. Also, they fixed the shadow monk being unable to see through their own darkness, which was always my biggest issue with it.
I guess I'm disappointed with them turning Four Elements, which was flavorful and interesting but seriously undertuned, into a pretty generic-looking Monk subclass that isn't really doing anything new or unique, even if it is stronger. Just isn't how I would have liked it to be handled, really. There are a lot of cool homebrew reworks of the subclass that are balanced and still interesting.