This is simply the way they announced monk. Using JC hall show. Later there will be some official screenshots and that’s it - female monk revealed. Too bad, i hopped for a video ):

I’m not sure about this one. first of the chars/genders I’ve been dubious about. Possibly since we’ve been leading up to the reveal and we’ve all thought about it and seen concept art, and possibly since I’m not a fan of blondes, but she seems fairly bland. Facially, I mean. Her outfit is okay, though she should either be sexy bare belly, or have on some chest armor. Just a shirt over her boobs is the worst of both worlds. Not sexy and not battle functional.

I’d say she’s too young and innocent looking, too. Doesn’t need to be old, but the male monk looks 40+, and he’s got some seasoning to him. Like he’s been through some trials and ordeals. This girl looks fresh and untouched by life, and while that works for the female wiz and her lore, I don’t think it’s as appropriate for the monk and his/her backstory. Unless hers differs radically from his.

Armor wise, I really have nothing to complain about. I’m glad to see a female protagonist that isn’t showing a lot of skin and the armor she’s wearing in some of the pics actually looks pretty heavy. You could obviously argue that a martial artists in heavy armor and what appears to be a skirt wouldn’t be very effective, but who cares: it looks good and it’s just a concept shot anyway.

The blond hair color was a bit unexpected. I think most of us subconsciously expected the unannounced ranged class to be the blonde, since D2’s amazon was. I’m probably reading into this too much, but if the female monk is blond then that would suggest the female ranged class is not, since two blondes seems unlikely. A dark-haired, middle Eastern scoundrel class would fit the bill nicely, though.

I have no issues with the hairstyle beyond it would have been cool to keep her bald as the monk. Short hair is good nevertheless.

The armor, while it looks awesome, I think there’s gonna be a conflict to identify a female Wizard apart from a female Monk in PvP as both use similar clothing.

A way to differentiate could be female wizards wearing long tunics, or long skirts.

Female Monks to wear pants.  I mean, unless they have underwear they don’t want to be flashing people with their kickboxing ... lol. It’s a bit hard I think to kick in real life using long skirts like those in the screenshot. Specially Seven Strike.

Peroxide blonde, I did not see that coming.  How cheap.

I actually like how she looks… I mean, she doesn’t look that young, and actually looks like a rather serious woman… (You guys really think all blonds are dumb? Come on!)

I also love the fact that she isn’t an almost naked stereotypical kunf-fu fighter. I mean, she’s a monk! She has to be reserved mostly…

And those heavy armor stuff look amazing, they give us an idea of how a heavy armored male monk could look like too…

I guess they’re not going for mysticism with her afterall, rather a more modern look. I didn’t expect to see a full heavy fringe and hair style doing the rounds right now in a town near you and certainly not out-the-bottle blonde.  WTH am I supposed to find the time to do my roots every four weeks!!!

They’re definitely trying to appeal to the younger gamer with this character because they’ve dispensed with the notion that she’s learned, well traveled and in any way experienced.

Thing is, they covered that base with the wizard, the monk, I was under the impression, was slightly older, the male monk is at least so why change it for the female?

She was designed by someone who worked on last gen consoles female characters.

Whatever happened to the cultural differences the D3 teams was suppose to push? I thought each class was suppose to be a different race than the others. All the other characters are fine, but this Monk looks damn Caucasian, and we already have one of those.

Yeah, censorship.. mysteriously my post did not show up after bringing up a point about the female wizard *not* looking asian, contrary to the mod’s post in an earlier news article..