I played windwalker for open world and mistweaver for finder dungron/raid
I noticed players dont much play brewmaster. I read google, said brewmaster really hardest tank? Why players refuse play it?
Btw, I played other classes as tank. But never tried monk tank
I honestly haven’t seen a single brewmaster in M+ this whole season. Though maybe people just don’t want 2 monks in a group.
I heard it has higher DPS and less survivability than other tanks, but that it’s still perfectly able to do higher keys.
Selfheal is so low that you really dont feel like a tank. And tanks that only shine when they can rely on a healer are not fun to play.
I made a post down below about tier 8 delves with my brewmaster and prot warrior.
It was basically face-tank for the prot warrior whereas brewmaster had to kite and heal.
Monk is a less popular class, and tanking is not a popular role. Hence you see few Brewmasters, despite the spec being a lot of fun, and stagger being arguably the most unique mitigation.
I play all 6 tanks to some extent, mostly for M+, delves and open world content. My #1 frustration with Brewmaster is their self sustain is terrible compared to the other 5 tanks. I don’t see an easy fix for this because of how their mitigation mechanic, Stagger, works.
For those unfamiliar with Stagger, it basically converts around 70% of a direct damage into a 10 second DoT, so getting hit for 100K means you’re taking 30K directly, and the remaining 70K over 10 seconds. New hits will simply refresh/add to the dot ticks. To combat this Brewmaster can cleanse 50% of their current dot, but the ability has 2 charges on a 20 sec cooldown, so you can’t just mindlessly cleanse yourself.
Now if you have a healer, stagger is great because while your damage intake is high, it’s also very predictable. If the dot isn’t ticking too hard, it can simply be outhealed and you can save your cleansing for when it becomes larger. In M+ this can still be an issue if you’re taking a lot of damage, and there are mechanics that also require a lot of group healing.
But if you are soloing, the stagger mechanic becomes a weakness instead. As I said before, you can’t spam cleanse yourself which means you’re constantly taking way more damage than any other tank. The other 5 tank specs either stop a big portion up front with high armor, shield block, etc, or they heal it back up later.
You do have some self healing as a Brewmaster, but it’s not as reliable due to a big rng component. This means that you’re constantly taking dot ticks from stagger on top of any new incoming damage. If the incoming damage is mostly melee hits, you can survive fairly well because Brewmaster has very high dodge chance.
However taking any magic damage or bleeds will quickly overwhelm you.
TL;DR: Brewmaster is much weaker than the other 5 tanks for any solo content, and they generally require the most external healing to survive.
Now with that being said, I’ve been able to do T8 delves just fine as a 560ilv Brewmaster, but it requires way more effort and attention than my other tanks. You need to have Brann as a healer, and constantly check where he throws his potions.
I also find the dmg rotation for Brewmaster incredibly smooth and engaging. Unlike the other tanking specs, you don’t need a ton of haste to have a smooth experience (in fact, it’s your lowest prio stat).
Stagger is dogs… take a warrior and you have ignore pain that you can spam all day long. Warrior is from my 3 classes that can Tank (pala, monk, warrior) by far the easiest with also best damage.
When stagger only take advantage in very high m+ keys where abilities can oneshot you then in 90% of the time it is crap compared to the mechanic other tanks provide all the time. Self sustain is much to low and also aggro generation is a thing where i have the feeling it is lower than on other tanks.
I play brewmaster in raid and m+… I’m on +7 +8 I have no difficulty tanking except! aggro and personal healing… and even healing is enough to kite slightly and it works, aggro is for me the most frustrating… and I also have the impression of having a bug on our burst strikes with hero talent, I have the impression that all my hits do not hit… I am 608ilvl, concerning the chasms, I soloed level 9 with great ease, by having the right focus/kick and brann he is permanently dps and a point that seems important to me, I find that as a tank monk we really have no dps! but despite all that, the brewmaster is a treat to play and it is a tank that is not for everyone, it remains elitist as a class/spec and we love it!
Once you get high crit brew feels amazing, I have really high healing and damage.
Doesnt matter what your “feeling” tells you. I trust the warcraftlogs more and there the brewmaster is dogs…you can even read in other threads related to m+ where people say things like “i queue only for groups without brewmaster”.
Dunno mate im 2.5k and having no issues at all.
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