The number of charges generated depend on the speed of the weapon you use. The charges stack up to 15, and each charge consumed grants you 1 second of the buff. Elusive Brew is a nice mitigation ability that increases your chance to dodge physical melee/ranged abilities by 45%. Your auto-attack critical strikes generate charges of Elusive Brew. If it sounds confusing, that’s because it is. Purifying Brew allows us to clear that Staggered damage, effectively negating the damage that we converted. To give a brief idea what that does, it converts a percentage of incoming damage into a physical DOT, named Stagger. I’ll give a quick rundown now but we’ll be going in depth later.īrewmasters have an ability to “ Stagger” their incoming physical damage. Our main mitigation abilities are Purifying Brew, Elusive Brew, Guard and Blackout Kick. It’s decent (when glyphed) for 5 man content (and certain encounters), but it will get you killed in a raid if you’re pumping all your chi into it. A thing that I would like to mention is to avoid using Breath of Fire in your rotation.For multiple targets, maintain the same, but try to take Rushing Jade Wind if you know you’re going to be tanking multiple targets for a long duration.
For 3 targets, you can swap out Jab to Spinning Crane Kick/ Rushing Jade Wind, and follow your normal rotation.At 2 targets, there is no need to change your rotation Keg Smash will cleave enough to keep aggro on both.Make sure you maintain 100% uptime on Tiger Power (the buff that comes from this ability). It doesn’t cost energy, it’s free, and does a ton of damage. Keg Smash on cooldown, unless Expel Harm is off cooldown.Ĩ. Keep one charge of Guard on CD at all times when actively tanking.ģ. Guard in order to apply a large damage absorption shield. Expel Harm on CD to reduce the cooldown of Guard by 5 seconds.Ģ. Use Jab when at around 80 energy to prevent energy capping.Ĩ. Purifying Brew to clear Heavy Stagger, or during Serenity.ħ. Blackout Kick or Chi Explosion to maintain high Shuffle uptime, especially during Elusive Brew.Ħ. Elusive Brew either when Guard is down or to prevent capping stacks.ĥ. Keep one charge of Guard on CD at all times when actively tanking.Ĥ. (This is changed to 50% with the Tier 18 2 Piece bonus)ģ. When you’re under 35%, Expel Harm has no cooldown and should be prioritised. Your rotation differs depending on whether you have your Tier 18 4 Piece bonus or not. Simply spam Expel Harm for about a minute before you pull in preparation, and you can start the fight with 4 Chi, allowing you to get a head start in mitigation.) Note: If you take Power Strikes you can actually pool Chi before you pull the boss. It revolves around getting Chi and spending Chi. This is a very basic overview that will go into detail in the later sections. Our single target rotation is relatively simple. The Brewmaster toolkit is incredibly versatile, and our Tier bonus makes us a very solid pick for main tanking this tier. However, with careful play a Brewmaster can be just as, if not more viable than any other tank this tier. Going into 6.2, Brewmasters have received a hefty dent to our survivability from a sizeable Stagger nerf.
It’s a game of both reacting to and preparing for incoming damage, whereas most tank classes do one or the other.īrewmasters bring a lot of utility to the raid, in the form of kiting, very efficient boss positioning, and AOE threat to help pick up incoming adds etc. A negligent Brewmaster will take more damage than any tank out there a talented Brewmaster will be nigh on invincible. It’s not a tank class of “Mash A B C to take less damage” there’s a lot of involvement and it’s not something you can just faceroll. Spec Overviewīrewmaster is the poster child of Blizzard’s “Active Mitigation” tank model that truly debuted in Mists of Pandaria. You often hear people talk about how much you need to keep track of on a Brewmaster, and it’s true. Misume has been raiding on his Monk since Siege of Orgrimmar, but has become quite influential in a short period of time. This guide was previously hosted on his own WordPress site, and he is a vocal contributor to the Monk community on the MMO-Champion forums. This guide is written by Misume, a prominent theorycrafter and guide writer for Brewmaster Monks and a raider in WHATEVER WERE AWESOME.