OK if you had to pick a fourth teammate for your group and you had to choose from a monk or a barbarian and keep in mind that they both know how to play there character. Based on team utility and the ability to help keep your squishy peeps alive who would you pick? and please explain your answer thank you
I am assuming your team is a witch doctor / wizard / demon hunter....I would personally go with monk only because you said keep your squishy people alive. Barbarian (although he has skills to help) doesn't really provide any support...and most classes don't. He has the ability to quickly get back to your support (via dashing strike) and if needed pop his heals or an aoe invulnerability. Although this all depends on playstyle because in PVE there is no way i would take those skills and would most likely just go mass nukes with 1 or 2 self survival skills...
I think we'll be able to have great teams with any combination of four characters since all classes should be balanced for DPS. That said, I'd rather have a monk because I will also be playing a monk. I know you can't stack mantras of the same type, but having two mantras (or more!) sounds amazing. Mantra of Healing plus Mantra of Conviction? And then you throw in runes and get even more buffs? Monk groups are going to kick ass.
Honestly, I'd prefer to have BOTH in a group, they both bring great buffs that are multitarget.
But like Ieatroflwafflz said, if I had to choose between the two, I think its a pretty easy choice and I would also pick a Monk.
bones pts ftw!