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Brewmaster Monk Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions
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08/08/2018 a las 00:29
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Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth Class Reviews and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Brewmaster Monk. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
We reached out to the Brewmaster Monk community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and current state of the spec.
If this spec appeals to you after reading this article, check out our
Battle for Azeroth Brewmaster Monk Guide
.
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Assassination
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Subtlety
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Outlaw
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Fury
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Arms
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Ret
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Windwalker
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Feral
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Enhancement
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Havoc
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Survival
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Beast Mastery
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Marksmanship
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Boomkin
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Demonology
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Destruction
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Unholy
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Frost
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Holy Paladin
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Disc
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Holy
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Restoration Druid
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Restoration
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Mistweaver
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Blood
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Brewmaster
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Guardian
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Protection Warrior
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Vengeance
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Protection Paladin
BrewingScribe
Peak of Serenity Brewmaster Veterans
Core Gameplay
Coming into the prepatch and while leveling through BFA, very little has changed. Your rotation will result from your action priority and center on maximizing casts of
Embate con barril
and
Patada oscura
, using
Palma del tigre
to avoid overcapping energy and keeping
Brebaje de piel de hierro
up when taking relevant damage while pooling/using excess brews on
Brebaje purificador
to reduce stagger levels right after physical damage spikes or to avoid overcapping your brew charges if you’re close to your maximum ISB duration (currently 21 seconds).
The Good
There is a higher amount of talent diversity when it comes to what to pick for which situation, as well as bridging some very notable gaps in effectiveness of some talents. To name a few examples,
Baja fermentación
is now actually within competitive range of
Brebaje del Buey Negro
if you can’t optimize your uses of
Brebaje del Buey Negro
for whatever reason, and there is now a tactical choice between
Viento de jade impetuoso
and
Entrega especial
aside from merely comparing damage output, due to the latter’s heavy slow.
While it isn’t that much magic defense,
Aliento de Fuego
has had the Hot Blooded artifact trait baked in, allowing us to retain one of our decent traits.
Brebaje de piel de hierro
has also gained additional duration time, in the vein of Potent Kick.
Our shared brew cooldown for
Brebaje de piel de hierro
and
Brebaje purificador
has been notably reduced, to help balance around our loss of additional brew CDR from our artifact. This has the nice side effect of making our brews slightly more quick to refill when not actively fighting things. Over the course of a dungeon, this should result in a bit more brews available to us.
Barrido de pierna
has been made a baseline tool, allowing us to have a far greater amount of utility, either via the aggro of Dave the Black Ox Statue or mob control via
Anillo de paz
.
We also now get
Toque místico
for a nice little addition of group damage utility.
The Bad
Our rotation still has zero meaningful differentiation in moment to moment play (such as via procs), making it quite repetitive. This will only grow more obvious when we can no longer benefit from legendary effects at 116. The
Escupir fuego
talent is the only current way to add any randomness to our rotation, but it is currently undertuned.
With the removal of Mystic Vitality, and the general nerf to all forms of magic mitigation across tanks, there is currently a lot of things that can feel fairly scary as a Brewmaster, as there are a number of bosses in Legion that still do a notable amount of magic damage. As we move into content that better fits the changes to this mitigation, this should improve however.
The Tunable
Both
Parálisis
and
Transcendencia: Transferencia
have had their cooldowns increased, reducing some of our snap CC and movement abilities, though not super significantly.
Combo impactante
’s most meaningful tool, the bonus to
Palma del tigre
damage, has been nerfed on top of us losing Face Palm, making a notable number of Brewmasters feel the opportunity cost of not having the damage reduction of
Guardia
or
Alta tolerancia
(which also has damage boosting components in the form of additional haste) is not worth it in most cases. Its
Brebaje de piel de hierro
interactions are still valuable in some ways, though they fill a similar, but slightly different role than
Guardia
. The core difference being pausing stagger in its entirety, instead of negating a big hit’s stagger damage. If the points where it can gain value happen less than once every 30 seconds, it might see use in those cases, though that is unlikely.
With the loss of Obstinate Determination in particular, Brewmaster self-sustain is quite low. Even when doing things perfectly fine on your end, your survival is very much in the hands of your healer(s). Obviously, good play will still matter, you will still need to do your job as a tank, but the self-sustain we had in expansions past is all but gone. There are several tuning knobs for this to be brought back up, however.
Ofrenda del buey
, our level 15 talents, and
Elixir de sanación
can all be buffed to help step up our self-sustain.
Guardia
is a strange beast, and while one could argue it is self-sustain, buffing it has a high likelihood of making Brewmasters extremely overpowered, largely because of just how much sheer damage it can basically allow us to ignore when timed well and used properly.
Some talents are not as competitive as others in their row. See the next section for specifics on Brewmaster talent health, beyond the aforementioned significant players.
Talent Changes
Level 15
Ojo del tigre
and
Ola de chi
currently have similar numbers as they did in legion.
Ola de chi
needs to be cast perfectly on cd to benefit from picking it over
Ojo del tigre
, which currently is not worth paying attention to.
Ráfaga de chi
remains the alternative, outperforming the other two as soon as you can consistently hit two or more enemies at current tuning.
Ráfaga de chi
also offers moderate healing to your party and can be used to generate threat on multiple enemies without slowing them. Reduced effectiveness when healing 6+ targets invalidates it as a significant defensive help in raid encounters.
Level 30
This talent row remains unchanged.
Celeridad
will let you roll more frequently and freely,
Torpedo de chi
increases the range covered by each roll while increasing your movement speed, which has been handy throughout legion for dungeon content.
Deseo del tigre
allows you to speed up any friendly party/raid member, dispelling snares and roots from the target.
Level 45
Brebaje de piel de hierro
currently lasts 7 seconds with a 14 second cooldown, reduced by
Embate con barril
/
Palma del tigre
usage.
Baja fermentación
reduces the cooldown to 11 seconds, making it the best choice whenever you're not sure to benefit properly and reliably from
Brebaje del Buey Negro
. There is also the energy regen factor.
Brebaje del Buey Negro
’s energy regen is generally more powerful in long-term engagements, as over time it basically ends up being on average a massive, passive gain. In quick, short-term engagements, it has less value as you spend more time not doing anything, thus it does not benefit from brew CDR, and you need to rely less on its energy gain since you are letting your energy refill naturally.
Brebaje del Buey Negro
had its cooldown increased to 2 minutes on paper, currently resulting in an effective cd of roughly 75 seconds. With the reduced
Brebaje de piel de hierro
/
Brebaje purificador
cooldown and higher impact of
Baja fermentación
, we will likely alternate between those two.
Escupir fuego
has been brought in as a replacement for Gift of the Mists. While it appears like an offensive choice,
Aliento de Fuego
is currently too weak to justify using.
Level 60
Barrido de pierna
became a baseline spell for Brewmaster, putting us in a comfortable situation of having one of the few remaining AoE stuns available together with the utility granted by either
Anillo de paz
or
Invocar estatua del Buey Negro
.
Level 75
Elixir de sanación
s will remain the default for leveling, questing and PvP.
remains the default talent for challenging group content, with
Fintar y esquivar
bringing back the effect of the
Joya de la Abadía Perdida
, also known as the stagger ring from Legion.
Fintar y esquivar
results in roughly 20% more stagger pooled at a certain time, increasing the effectiveness of
Alta tolerancia
,
Entrenamiento de Niuzao
(Azerite Trait) and most importantly
Brebaje purificador
.
Mitigar daño
or
Fintar y esquivar
will be decided by whether or not you can get away without
Mitigar daño
.
Level 90
Entrega especial
is now our only source of significant slow effects, making it a premier choice for M+ kiting on harder keys.
Viento de jade impetuoso
maintains its usefulness as an enhancer of our normal rotation and for DPS in situations which call for consistent AoE damage.
Invocar a Niuzao, el Buey Negro
has effectively been unchanged, making him useful for damage throughput when you can maximize cast / uptime efficiency.
Level 100
Combo impactante
's important
Palma del tigre
interaction was toned down, leaving it the premier offensive choice by just a tiny margin.
Alta tolerancia
keeps its defensive value, while the offensive value has risen significantly compared to legion due to a drastic increase in melee damage, further increased by haste.
Guardia
has been tweaked sufficiently to stand as a niche choice for dungeon and raid content, negating a large chunk of incoming stagger. Judging from interactions between healer and party and damage patterns,
Guardia
will likely be used to bridge moments of heavy physical tank damage coupled with threatening group damage. It’s also worth noting that
Guardia
might not appear as enticing to some due to its lack of benefits towards our damage dealt.
Conclusion
Brewmaster at its core really hasn’t changed much at all since 7.3.5. Some of its problems have been fixed, while other problems have arisen from changes. Most of the negatives should not generally impact you too significantly, however. The spec will feel very familiar. Overall, Brewmasters are still an extremely solid tank, becoming a bit better in our M+ game and definitely worth considering if you are planning on pushing raids in BFA.
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