Meat-Head wrote on May 1
st, 2015 at 1:34pm:
Are monks pretty much 2nd and 3rd rate now?
Is there any truly legit monk builds?
Pure monk BladeForged like Munk likes? Are there others?
ALSO: Do barbs have something that makes mobs helpless? (I've barely played them) Do pallys have something make mobs helpless?
Which is better at taking out groups?
Also, how does the Bard stack up?
It's not that monks are bad, per se, but the others got buffed up way past them, like a proxy nerf. Nothing much has changed with monks that I know of.
Stunning blow is very effective on barbs, there is also Knockout from the Occult Slayer tree (but it doesn't look great) and a knockdown effect from Berserker. There's stat damage, too, but you'll kill stuff far too quickly for it to be effective.
Paladins have several stuns in the Vanguard tree, but they require an equipped shield.
I'd say barbs are better at taking out groups, if only because their healing is auto-on-kill, but both have improved cleaves. Pallys have a defensive edge, though.
Bards have that awesome freezing ice CC ability, fascinate, an insta-kill ability, but less hp and defense. Not that you need either when nothing is moving.