Brewmaster Made Easy | The War Within Beta 

WeakAuras can help you with managing when to purify stagger off!

You should be purifying roughly every 6 to 10 seconds regardless of level of Stagger. You are rewarded with large Celestial Brew shields or healing through Gai Plin's Imperial Brew. There are nuanced times you can hold off Purifying, but I don't recommend until you are comfortable.

@@Miller1107 I should have thought of this. Thanks!

@@Sha_IRL Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate that.

@@Miller1107do you have a suggestion for a stagger weakaura? I can’t seem to find a good one

No problemo!

What’s a 2X4 farm? I see it a lot in LFG but I have no idea what it is

Thank you!! Very helpful

@@JohnQ85 no profession will have an impact. Do whatever you want!

RJW is fine still, it has just lost value since the removal of the resonant fists talent. People like SD because its 1 less button to press in an already button bloated spec. Damage-wise they are pretty much the same as far as i know so you can keep using RJW with no issues my friend

@@HB-qu8dm whew thank god, I had gotten so used to pressing RJW to refresh it just feels like second nature to me now

Assuming on Beta it's still correct for Brew to take the increased dodge instead of Dampen Harm, Fortifying Brew is the only traditional, longish cd defensive. Keep in mind that the four minute (with talent) cd on the tooltip is not the actual length of the cd in practice, however. Fortifying Brew is a "brew" and benefits from any abilities that reduce the cd of brews, so Keg Smash, Tiger Palm with Face Palm talented, and whenever you dodge with Anvil and Stave talented. Celestial Brew is a serious defensive though, despite its short cooldown (again made shorter by the abilities above), and in TWW we'll have access to two charges with the Harmony hero tree. I would imagine with the cd reduction and two charges, it should be up for most pulls. It's also better when you're taking more damage, thus staggering more damage, thus purifying more stagger. Exploding Keg, afaik, should not be thought of as a defensive cd. It's a dps cd with some defensive upside. As you pointed out, the three second window is very short. Plus, the damage reduction only works against auto-attacks, anyway. You should able to more or less use it on cd to get the most out of it, lining it up with whatever damage multipliers are appropriate so that it does the most damage. Like any other aoe dps cd, hold it if there are soon to be more targets. It's going to be at its best defensively at the same time. Otherwise, yes, Brew has a lot of passive damage reduction and is not a tank where you pop a big defensive on most pulls. You dodge a ton of attacks. A huge portion of the damage of the ones that hit you gets staggered. A lot of your stagger gets purified, and purifying also heals you some (if talented). On beta Brew also has the new Elixir of Determination, which passively puts a minimum 20% max hp absorb shield on you when you drop below 40% health once every 15 seconds. This absorb scales based on recently purified damage, so like Celestial Brew, it will be bigger in more dangerous content. We also are getting Ox Stance, which increases the amount of damage you stagger against hits that are large relative to your remaining health. The effect is passive but the charges of the buff required for it to trigger are applied when you purify, so you should have a charge every 8 seconds or so.

Unlike Paladin Brewmaster isn't designed on using a big defensive CD on basically any pull but instead really utilized short-cd stuff to support the stagger gameplay (celestial brews for hardhitting moves on a short CD & expel harm as a strong selfheal that is both off the GCD and on a ultra short CD). So its not so much about managing Cooldowns, but has an engaging defensive "rotation"

Depends on the level of keys you are doing, but I would say this is fine until the level 10 range with current gear.

​@Sha_IRL I'm at like 611 with 4 set and have been really struggling in like 5 or 6 keys so if I can get to 10s with this set up then count me in 😅

I'm a Rushing Wind enjoyer myself. You do whatever you prefer! The damage difference is minimal

@@Sha_IRL Oh gotcha! Thank you for the reply. I am not in meta or min/maxing anyways. So this is perfect. 😊

Just because the macro is a cast sequence doesn't require you to use that next ability - it just converts that keybind into the next ability for a period of time. You can really cast any of the other abilities affected by Blackout Combo quite easily. The High Tolerance point is flexible, and so is Anvil & Stave with this set-up, so if a player wants to opt in for the Ox Stance nodes, they can easily pick them up; though I don't believe they are worth unless doing more difficult content. Lastly, this build is not "the best" but an option for players wanting to learn the spec without an overwhelming rotation.

Sadly it is just very weak for multiple reasons. Spinning Crane Kick nerfs, button bloat reduction, Hero Talents buff Weapons of Order but not Press the Advantage along with other clashing talents. I'll make a video soon going over this topic but I'm hopeful that Blizzard makes changes to make PTA stronger because I personally prefer it.

From my testing I'm noticing about a .5% DPS variation between the two but my sample size is very small. Probably a preference choice at the end of the day.

I will say that Elixir of Determination along with other talents like Flow of Chi are extremely powerful and give the Brewmaster many more health catches. Ox Stance is unique and depends on the level of content the player is doing. I'm not sure how I feel about it currently, but the tank is definitely sturdier due to the aforementioned talents.

Surprise the Ox Talents are that effective for you in Heroic content. You can swap out Anvil and Stave for Ox Talents. Brewmaster will always struggle at self-sustain as well. There are more suitable talent set-ups, no doubt, but this definitely lowers the bar to entry for the class / spec.

With the macros, they should automatically show. Everyone once in a while it does bug out a bit but should work most of the time.

If you use the red ? icon when making a macro, it usually will change icons to whatever the /cast is. And you can add #showtooltip above the cast if you'd like it to still have the tooltip

@@FunkyToe369 Thank you for this!

I typed in thr macro exactly as in the description. Doesnt work. Is there something im doing wrong? ​@Sha_IRL

@@FunkyToe369 Thank you! This worked for me. macro changes icons now.

92% buff a while back and and additional 100% boost from the Hero Talent tree

Replace skill's names with german version

Use the "?" as the icon for the macro :)

My 500 ilvl monk out dps my 526 bear, but I fear for my life constantly. Fun to beat the dps in my pugs tho :D

@@moldgrim1 Thats my point exactly, no tank should dps out an normally with same skill and ilvl. I rather be an unkillable monster pulling 3-5 packs of 4 mobs than worry about beating an dps in 1-2 packs. I don't like that feeling i have to work 10x harder to do as bear can as big pulls.. thats form spec design and weakness and strengths. Its should be how much you/your group can handle not how much dps you as tank is doing. I always think an dungeon dps should be dps doing 70%-80% of the overall damage to everything. 15%-20% the tank and 10% the healer overall. I know alot changes those. each role matters and once you don't need one than all the walls falls and no one has fun just dps is king. aka mdi without healers into the new meta. don't give me wrong big number is cool but pulling bigger and don't die to time a key is cooler than your overall damage.

it´s not WA but macro (in description)

@@danielbajger3103 it's defo a macro and something else, my abilities don't visualy change after 1 press, so there is something we are missing. EDIT: use the "?" icon and it should work

thank fuck man lol so sick of pressing it

Not a weakaura for the macro, simply use the "?" icon while making the macro :)

They are extremely straight forward. When you press Blackout Kick for example, that keybind will change to Tiger Palm for the set amount of time. In this case, it's either when Tiger Palm is cast or after 3 seconds. I've been using these macros for years to help alleviate button bloat.

@Sha_IRL ok sweet. Might need to add these to a few other classes

@@Sha_IRL how do you manage to make the icon change as well? for me it always stays the same (i.e. keg smash or BOK, but it never changes to BoF or Tiger Palm)

@@Sha_IRL Wow tnx man been playing brew for a long time but didn't know about these macros these are amazing.

@@Looken13 1 month late, but use the "?" icon while making the macro

I like to play whatever race I feel looks best. If you are looking to min/max; Dwarf for Alliance and Tauren for Horde. Night Elf has unique advantages in Mythic plus, and Mechagnome heal is a nice alternative defensive but only if you get over the fact you are wearing a diaper.

panda is the real answer still

@@sebxsu facts

yes and you can have 2! (one with the CD and one as a proc )

select "?" as your icon

@@xxtrachromosome6773 Thank you

@@xxtrachromosome6773 You are the goat man holy shit so many people were looking for the answer

The Alpha version of Details from Curseforge. In the Curseforge App: 1. Select the Details! addon and download to your Beta Folder 2. Select the "Three Dots" menu 3. Find "Release Type" in the options 4. Select "Alpha" I hope that helps!

Both Dragonfire Brew and Charred Passions are much weaker for different reasons. Dragonfire Brew loses damage because of lower stagger and Charred Passions loses damage due to contradicting prioritization with spells. If you want extra damage, Dragonfire Brew is fine, but won't net you as much in lower keys or content. I just happened to have the point in High Tolerance when recording.