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Brewmaster Monk Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions
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08/8/2018 em 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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Arms
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Ret
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Windwalker
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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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Unholy
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Holy Paladin
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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
Pancada de Barril
and
Chute Blecaute
, using
Palma do Tigre
to avoid overcapping energy and keeping
Cerveja Pele de Ferro
up when taking relevant damage while pooling/using excess brews on
Cerveja Purificante
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,
Luz Cervejeira
is now actually within competitive range of
Cerveja do Boi Negro
if you can’t optimize your uses of
Cerveja do Boi Negro
for whatever reason, and there is now a tactical choice between
Vento Impetuoso de Jade
and
Entrega Especial
aside from merely comparing damage output, due to the latter’s heavy slow.
While it isn’t that much magic defense,
Bafo de Onça
has had the Hot Blooded artifact trait baked in, allowing us to retain one of our decent traits.
Cerveja Pele de Ferro
has also gained additional duration time, in the vein of Potent Kick.
Our shared brew cooldown for
Cerveja Pele de Ferro
and
Cerveja Purificante
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.
Rasteira
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
Anel da 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
Cospefogo
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
Paralisia
and
Transcendência: Transferência
have had their cooldowns increased, reducing some of our snap CC and movement abilities, though not super significantly.
Combo de Apagão
’s most meaningful tool, the bonus to
Palma do 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
Guarda
or
Alta Tolerância
(which also has damage boosting components in the form of additional haste) is not worth it in most cases. Its
Cerveja Pele de Ferro
interactions are still valuable in some ways, though they fill a similar, but slightly different role than
Guarda
. 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.
Dádiva do Boi
, our level 15 talents, and
Elixir Curativo
can all be buffed to help step up our self-sustain.
Guarda
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
Olho do Tigre
and
Onda de Chi
currently have similar numbers as they did in legion.
Onda de Chi
needs to be cast perfectly on cd to benefit from picking it over
Olho do Tigre
, which currently is not worth paying attention to.
Estouro de Chi
remains the alternative, outperforming the other two as soon as you can consistently hit two or more enemies at current tuning.
Estouro 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.
Celeridade
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.
Luxúria do Tigre
allows you to speed up any friendly party/raid member, dispelling snares and roots from the target.
Level 45
Cerveja Pele de Ferro
currently lasts 7 seconds with a 14 second cooldown, reduced by
Pancada de Barril
/
Palma do Tigre
usage.
Luz Cervejeira
reduces the cooldown to 11 seconds, making it the best choice whenever you're not sure to benefit properly and reliably from
Cerveja do Boi Negro
. There is also the energy regen factor.
Cerveja do Boi 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.
Cerveja do Boi Negro
had its cooldown increased to 2 minutes on paper, currently resulting in an effective cd of roughly 75 seconds. With the reduced
Cerveja Pele de Ferro
/
Cerveja Purificante
cooldown and higher impact of
Luz Cervejeira
, we will likely alternate between those two.
Cospefogo
has been brought in as a replacement for Gift of the Mists. While it appears like an offensive choice,
Bafo de Onça
is currently too weak to justify using.
Level 60
Rasteira
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
Anel da Paz
or
Evocar Estátua do Boi Negro
.
Level 75
Elixir Curativo
s will remain the default for leveling, questing and PvP.
remains the default talent for challenging group content, with
Movimento de Cabeça
bringing back the effect of the
Joia da Abadia Perdida
, also known as the stagger ring from Legion.
Movimento de Cabeça
results in roughly 20% more stagger pooled at a certain time, increasing the effectiveness of
Alta Tolerância
,
Treinamento de Niuzao
(Azerite Trait) and most importantly
Cerveja Purificante
.
Atenuar Ferimento
or
Movimento de Cabeça
will be decided by whether or not you can get away without
Atenuar Ferimento
.
Level 90
Entrega Especial
is now our only source of significant slow effects, making it a premier choice for M+ kiting on harder keys.
Vento Impetuoso de Jade
maintains its usefulness as an enhancer of our normal rotation and for DPS in situations which call for consistent AoE damage.
Evocar Niuzao, o Boi Negro
has effectively been unchanged, making him useful for damage throughput when you can maximize cast / uptime efficiency.
Level 100
Combo de Apagão
's important
Palma do Tigre
interaction was toned down, leaving it the premier offensive choice by just a tiny margin.
Alta Tolerância
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.
Guarda
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,
Guarda
will likely be used to bridge moments of heavy physical tank damage coupled with threatening group damage. It’s also worth noting that
Guarda
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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