To not get wrecked by named plague monks, you need to prepare your blessed sword and wait for them to get close enough to strike. Meanwhile, the Elgi shot the other eighteen that were coming by pressing F, or just by using her Longbow.
Visually pleasing the GK might be, but that’s about 90% of his pro list.
Wouldnt even count them as a pro. Its entirely random if you get buffs that do something for your team. 10% more damage and the 10% CD reg have the impact of a wet noodle.
On Cata GK performs like Sodium. Everything is alright until it gets wet and explodes in your face. Not bringing a Shield plus Joust is a one way ticket into “get poked to death by specials” hell. Monster damage being fine is a great point until you realize two out of the five monsters leave AoEs behind you have to slowly walk around or out of the start hitting the monster again. Using your Blessed Sword always has to be a calculated decision, since a Panic F will cost more life than you can recover with the hit, or the wind up might even end you. Talking monster damage again. Its only in somewhat close proximity to Shade if you toss the much better horizontal slash for the double strike.
His base life might be high, but no DR means that his EHP is equal to a Shade with his DR Talent.
The worst about him for me is that not bringing a shield equals disaster about to be happening. It might aswell be fuzed to his second slot. A reworked Virtue of Stoicism, which does ease GKs AoE and special weakness instead of doubling down on it, would do wonders for that issue.
I get that he is probably alright on Legend, but him being weak to everything that Cata tosses at you gets old rather quickly. Even the qualities that he gets called out for, Monster dps, and Elite culling, is particularly amazing compared to careers like Shade, WHC, Waystalker, or any Sienna.
There is also this bloody bug, which needs fixing since day 1.