Thanks for such a comprehensive guide, love it. Going to try out your builds for sure. I'm a little disappointed that Shado-Pan is just strictly better than MoH after the brute force numbers buffs since I was really looking forward to playing MoH.
Started playing Retail WoW in S4 of DF and your guides were incredibly helpful, I was able to to get top-5 M+ Rating on my server because of them! I don't think I can swap off of Brew as long as long as you keep making content, I've gotten too accustomed to how thorough these are. Thanks a ton!
I'm planning to return to tanking with Brewmaster after along time away from it in War Within, this guide is great and will be an immense help! Thank you!
Any tips for a learning Brew in low content. Doing my delves and i am constantly having to EH and Viv myself whilst kiting because stagger just doesn't go above green?
I noticed lots of Brewmaster players not using Ox Stance. Is it that bad? Or Is it better for more defensive play? I personally like to play super defensively so I just curious.
Unless you're getting one shot by tank busters, putting points in HT and A&S is more defensiveness over the course of a key, that's why you don't play Ox Stance at least for now
Great video ^^, have a quick question about brew. What’s your opinion on how pug friendly brew gonna be if everything goes live as they are right now? Mostly asking about high end of pugs. Like key levels of 19s-20s right now.
How does the aoe rotation look? Do we empower tiger palm or breath of fire? Do you not SCK after exploding keg anymore? How does energy regen feel like with all the keg smash and tiger palm spam?
SCK is such a weak button, not worth to use it even with EK except maybe very high target counts. We are flooded with Energy because of SP 10% haste + all the free keg smash from 4p, it's pretty much impossible to empty your energy bar unless you're playing completely wrong
with 4p set you might as well take SCK off your bar, there is simple no time to use it you will most likely just end up delaying your BOK or KS to fit it in
So I know you will disagree. And I'm sure I'm wrong. But I'll ask.. At 14% haste Keg smash CD is 7 sec. With Mastery of Harmony we have 2 Charges of Celestial brew. Every Purify and Celestial we get special delivery... Could the dmg profile of constantly having brews be higher or no.. I know BOK from tier gives more keg but my brain goes more access to brews more special delivery more DMG mitigation. Thanks as always for your guide
do have a good macro or anything like that for Vivacious Vivification? I was looking around to see if anybody had something that will prevent me from hardcast it if I dont have the buff to make it instant cast. Thank you
Opener is set in stone at least on the first pull of a key, after that it's kinda just playing it by circumstance. After your first opener of a key you just play the prio
the opener looks complicated but it makes a lot more sense once you get into the class and figure things out, to answer your chi burst question its a really large portion of your damage
Always looked to you as a tank even when I haven't been playing brewmaster. For TWW it's finally time to try it out. Just being a bit heldback by majority of streamers/youtubers saying brewmaster is lesser good than the other tanks. How do we look for this new expansion?
Very nice guide, both the video & the doc! I have 2 questions regarding rotation priority: 1. With Shado-pan & Face Palm talented, is Tiger Palm the better spender of Blackout Combo than BoF even in AOE? 2. In AOE what's the priority of Rising Sun Kick? Thanks so much!
In the Google sheet, you wrote that tiger palm is only used in single target if you don't need to absorb orbs via SCK. But it's used in AOE? And when is SCK used in AOE then? Thanks for your guide!
For someone just starting out a BM tank, what WA and addons if any should I look into? I’ve been a tank for all of DF but never tried brew, so thanks for the guide
Find a weakaura to track stagger and purified chi stacks for your celestial brew and also a weakaura that just shows you your important buttons (blackout kick, keg) so you hit them off cd
Hey man you still running shadopan? Just thought I'd check coz a lot of wowhead builds are running harmony and i didn't know if something had changed in week 1
Been playing brew since Panda, love love love the class, you're always the guy I watch. I'm really excited for S1 as brew is looking some of the best it's ever been. What are your thoughts on Ox Stance? Just for the super hard hitting bosses at high level yea? (12-15's against Edna or speakers)
Not useful until you start getting 1 shot by tank busters and most of them are just liveable raw or with CB or with a defensive so its kinda pointless unless you're just eating them with no cd
From watching Brew beta gameplay it seems that the damage in m+ is very high but with the main complaint being the durability / dependence on the healer, particularly in the huge trash pulls. It seems general consensus for m+ to avoid all the Niuzao & Ox stance nodes in the BrM tree in favour of all the dmg nodes. Is Dave so bad that it wouldn't be worth trading some dps for the added durability? Is the problem that the durability benefit wouldn't outweigh the dmg loss? thanks.
Assuming you want to push title, how much does it actually matter that you play a phys or magic comp? Just wondering if warrior or monk are forced to play with predominantly phys damage dealers, or if it doesn't really matter than much.
Do we have to use 1h’s? I use the artifact weapon tmog so id like to stick to 2’hs so i can use it (im willing to use 2h if its just a slight downgrade)
Love the guide but few questions when is it better to use black out combo for breath of fire I would think the +5% dr would be a all was keep up also ever time I try to use the community discord link it does not work ty for all the hard work on this
@Equinoxmonk I really enjoy when you put out content. I got my ole panda reared and ready for TWW - rip stoneskin (but still) - very excited to dig into brew pretty heavy this season. The gearing path seems a bit stifling this time around, but plan to at least get the brew into max hero gear. Main VDH, off main pwarr, brew, and Bear. Gonna be a blast of a season :)
@Equinoxmonk Yeah there is a lot sitting up in the air. The changes to 8s/10s for M track, the crest awards, the 6/6 mythic instead of 4. Then the overall dungeon tuning comes into play. Extending the grind, idk if I quite agree. Like you said, not much to do besides see how it goes.