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==Equipment==
Only a few details have thus far been revealed about the Monk's equipment needs. He will specialize two types of weapons; staves and "fist" weapons, which are something like a cross between brass knuckles and the Assassin's claws from Diablo 2. He will also be able to wear heavy armor of all types, defying the tradition of lightly-armored Monks seen in many other RPGs.
===Monk Weapons===
[[File:Monk-weapons-fist-concept.jpg|thumb|350px|Monk "fist" weapon concepts.]]
Most of what we know about the Monk's weapons was observed while playing the character in the Blizzcon 2009 demo build. How far those observations will translate to the final game is unknown, but it's fairly clear we were only shown a small fraction of the character's talents and abilities.
That issue was explored in a Blizzcon 2009 interview with Kevin Martens and Leonard Boyarsky.[http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/31/blizzard-interview-leo-boyarsky-and-kevin-martens-on-diablo-3/]
::''Joystiq.com: The Monk has a very limited weapon set. In the demo, nearly every weapon the Monk picked up had a big red X on it because he can't use it. Is that how he will be in the final game?''
::Leonard: Not quite as limited as it is now but yeah.
::''Joystiq.com: Right now the staff he comes with is the only thing I've been able to use.
::'''Leonard:''' He's got fist weapons too, like fist knives, pretty cool-looking stuff.
::'''Kevin:''' But it's just not all done yet. So we wanted to make sure what we did have on the demo is of the same quality as the other classes. We had to limit that.
::'''Leonard:''' And the difference between him and the other characters is that his stuff will probably take a lot longer to percolate into the game because his skills are very much based on his weapon choices, kind of like how the Assassin in D2 was very much defined by her weaponry. That's kind of how he is. When he has a staff, he has a lot of skills available to him. If you've picked them and bought them I guess, they're very sweeping. Whereas if he has fist weapons, his skills are based on quick hits and stuff.
::So that's kind of the way we're going with him. So as you can imagine, it's not as easy as just putting a sword in a character's hand that disappears when he does all his skills and stuff. With the caveat, of course, that if we decide that's not the way we're going to go, we're going to give him 20 weapons, you know. [laughs]
====Monk Weapon Skills=====
Further information about the Monk's weapon skills came from Jay Wilson, in an October 2009 interview: [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-exclusive-full-transcript/]
::''Diii.net: The Monk has a staff and the fist weapons. Will he have any weapon specific skills? Like dual wielding with just the fist weapons?''
::'''Jay Wilson:''' We're talking about that. One of the things we’ve talked about with the Monk is that a lot of his skills don’t really use his weapons. So he’s doing melee skills with his weapons almost holstered. For instance, Debilitating ... I think it’s called [[Crippling Wave]] now. We change them a lot and I get mixed up on the titles. Anyway, the Crippling Wave skill seems like it should be a staff skill. It’s kind of AoE, he does it and affects a lot of guys around him. So it’s a possibility that we’ll do skills and redefine them based on combat styles and have those styles have a weapon preference.
===Monk Armor===
In terms of armor, the Monk is set to be just like all of the other characters in the Diablo series (aside from the disavowed {{iw|Monk Hellfire Monk}}, whose defense was boosted in light and penalized in heavy armor). The D3 Monk will wear the heaviest armor possible to achieve the most defense possible, an approach that runs counter to the usual RPG trope. Jay Wilson confirmed this in an October 2009 interview. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-exclusive-full-transcript/]
::''Diii.net: A question from our forums; can the monk use heavy plate mail and still do all of his high motion combo attacks?
::'''Jay Wilson: '''Well we do different versions of armor for every character. The Diablo II Sorceress could use heavy plate mail without actually looking like she was covered in heavy plate mail. For us, our focus is to make sure that every character has armor that they look cool in. So the Monk’s armor isn’t going to look like heavy plate armor. It’s going to look like a shirt, what our imagination of what the Monk’s armor could be. It’s definitely going to be equipment, but he’s not going to look like he’s covered in metal, like the barb is likely to look.
::''Diii.net: One other question on the Monk’s armor. Traditionally in RPGs, Monks have bonuses to light armor and penalties to heavy armor. Is that something you guys are looking at? ''
::'''Jay Wilson: '''No. We’re an item based game. The idea of a character that doesn’t use items is foreign to our basic game philosophy. So one of the things we decided when we were creating the Monk was that we were not going to explore that aspect of the character. We’re going to make a Diablo Monk, and the Diablo Monk uses items.
==Philosophy and Religion==
::They're really religious holy men, they are raised from childhood in secluded monasteries where they are taught to be pure expressions of their deities through perfection of their fighting techniques. They have 1001 gods and they go so far as to tattoo a symbolic representation of them all over their backs, it's this intricate design and it takes their whole life to complete... When they're not fighting they're training to fight, they spend their time in deep meditation to cleanse sin from themselves... They're equally feared and respected, even by their own citizens, because they are a little bit - you know, they dedicate their whole lives to this. The guy who dedicates his whole life to fighting in the service of God is not a guy you want to see coming down the street for you.
==Development==
