It just feels right that way. A knockback effect that would act like a fire wave but on the targeted aoe. It would be more fun, add brewmaster a bit more utility especially in dungeons and keys, and if anything, it is “explosive”!
No.
We already have ring of piece to seperate mobs if anything happens. The matter of fact is that damage abilities with knock-back effects are just annoying as you want to keep packs together for AOE damage. The only time knock back is used is for defensively purposes if you pulled too much and need to kite the mobs.
Think about what you just said. You’ve just gathered up a bunch of mobs to start nuking, and then you wanna knock them out of melee range…? That makes no sense to me…
Would be way more useful if it did something like interrupt spellcasting.