Quote Originally Posted by Jaykos View Post
Not every class needs to share every ability.

One thing this game has going for it right now is how different each class feels and plays from one another. Lose that and each class no longer feels "unique or special" which in an rpg is a very big loss.
How would giving Monk a ranged attack in any way affect its uniqueness? We're about as unique as you get. After all, no other class uses anything close to resembling our stance system. However, it's currently the only DoW/M class in the game that can't (efficiently) tag targets from a distance and there doesn't seem to be a good reason for it other than the developers seem to have forgotten to add one.

I'm still surprised we were never given Chi Blast or something similar. It's not really a big deal that we're the odd man out, but it still strange.