Brewmaster Made Easy | The War Within Beta
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Ever since Dragonflight, a common complaint is that the class is too complicated, or has way too many active keybinds - which is a very fair criticism. I’m always sad to hear that my favorite tank inherently turns players away from the class because it’s an extremely enjoyable tank.
Well… good news folks. This class has gotten an easy mode build, and I want to talk about how it works. Let’s dive in.
Brewmaster Changes:
• Brewmaster Beta | Firs...
⚫Cast Sequence Macro | Blackout Kick⚫
/castsequence reset=3 Blackout Kick, Tiger Palm
⚫Cast Sequence Macro | Keg Smash⚫
/castsequence reset=8 Keg Smash, Breath of Fire
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I just started playing a BM (I main MW) and found managing my stagger to be a learning curve with trying to remember rotation. This looks promising! Thanks for taking the time to make this vid.
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.
Thank you so much for making this! Just hopped on the Beta to try the macros and between those and the class/spec changes the reduction in the number of buttons feels so good (and so weird, I keep wanting to push my RJW button)
Considering switching from prot pal to brew for main in tww, looking forward to all of your content! 😄
Awesome video as always! Are you able to make a Short showcasing what the Monk roll -> midair dash looks like? I've been trying to find a clip of what it's like but still haven't seen it yet.
Edit: Jk I see it's in your other Brewmaster video, I didn't recognize that you were dashing when I first saw it. You're for real the goat. Thanks!
Been testing Brew a little bit on Beta, what confuses me is not the base rotation I think I got that one down but more like compared to Prot Pally (the tank I'm used to) on the Pally I have a ton of defensives to rotate trough but on the Brew I just don't know what to press for defensive whenever I'm going into a new pack for example.
Exploding Keg has a short CD and I'm using it all the time but lasts only like 3s and after that Fortifying Brew has a long CD, and diffuse is very speciffic for magic damage. Is it like much passive on the Brew? just naturally tanky and using purify and celestial brew? Celestial brew didn't seem to absorb much but not sure if that's because it was only Heroic so my stagger wasn't getting too high either?
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"
Awesome guide ty!
These macro's are top tier! Do you think they could be used for feral druid? Cause i also struggle with the button bloat on that spec.
thanks for the great video. the reason for me to shelve brewmaster in DF was that I felt extremely squishy compared to most of the other tanks. I am not convinced that elixir of determination and ox stance are enough to close the survivability gap to the other tanks. would be grateful for your assessment on this.
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.
Hey Sha how did you get the icons to switch in your marco?
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!
This looks fun i hope it dosent change before release, I wish more classes had cool rotational ways to work in castsequence macros like this
only shitty thing is spin to win is fun xD
I just started playing Brewmaster about 9 months ago. I loved the concept, but didn't understand the class, so I never played it. Now that I tried it out, it's easily my favorite tank in the game and I will be my main in TWW.
How is chi burst so high? Did it get gigga buffer or something
92% buff a while back and and additional 100% boost from the Hero Talent tree
Do you have a video on those macros? I havent seen these sort of things actually work before
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)
Just tested it against a more defensive setup with the new ox talent (bottom left of the tree) on the first pull of rookery HC and could not survive the pull at all. There might be a pretty low ceiling for this play style
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.
I'm a big fan of RJW cause I can aggro while walking with no need of target any mobs. It is a huge loss If I choose it over Special delivery?
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.
Which race do you play for BrM and why?
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
Do you wanna play around blackout combo
If you can make a guide on pills be nice… like how to place rop or grouping mobs or when to los pull be neat, also in beta having issues with dmg it seems so low
The only question I have, is if your using a cast sequence macro for Blackout kick into Tiger palm, then why would you spec into Blackout Combo. I understand your just increasing your next tiger palm's damage by 100% which is also for AoE if i understand the hero talent. I just fear your wasting the points utility if your not going to use anything else besides tigerpalm afterwards. I almost wonder why you dont use that 1 point for the new Ox talent instead.
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.
I went Vengeance DH.. and just never went back lol
I love the brew style and lore but i felt always less as an tank more an dps. I am normally doing 10+(20+) and felt like i have to put in so much more work to an bear or blood. That why i play blood more. I feel like have to press 20+ in the right order while doing everything tank stuff is a lot for most people.
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.
How do u have details working?
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!
Before Dragonflight, people complained that brewmaster was either too complicated, too much work for the same outcome as other overperforming tank specs, and in some stretches of the game's history, it's been called a paper tank. People are always gonna find issues with brewmaster, because they want to play it but don't want to learn how brewm mitigation works.
what youre saying about dragonfire brew is nonsense and you should absolutely take the point from hit tolerance for it. its free dmg. if your stagger is low in the first season that means youre more likely to have a higher uptime on higher stagger rather than lower stagger and if the tier piece gives us more usages of keg smash its even more free dmg from the talent
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.
I disagree with some of the talents. Especially since this title suggests you can get rid of hotkey bloat.
1) Dampen Harm instead of Dance of the wind? Another keybind and a huge loss of passive mitigation. Sure, at highest keys you need that active defensive hotkey, but otherwise it's just another waste of keybind AND big loss of avoidance.
2) Weapons of order instead of Press the Advantage? WoO is a good CD, but hey it's another hotkey that could have been a passive instead AND could remove tiger's palm entirely AND free up 1 talent point in this build. 2 hotkeys and 1 talent point that could have been saved here. I see you have solved tiger's palm with a macro, that is nice for sure.
3) Black ox brew. Indeed a good defensive, but if you wanna save hotkeys, bob and weave is perfect, smooths out incoming damage even more.