You'll want to sub in Expel Harm instead of a Jab when you can. Expel Harm This ability trades energy for Chi like Jab, but also heals you as well. Jab This basic attack gives you 1 chi in exchange for 40 energy.Here's the most critical abilities you need to generate resources and stay alive. You'll need to balance your usage of Purifying Brew with your Shuffle uptime for best results. Unfortunately, the primary way to get Shuffle is via Blackout Kick, which is hard on the chi. This short-duration buff gives you 20% parry and 20% more Stagger (the damage split becomes 60/40, instead of 80/20), which is a very good thing. So why aren't brewmasters purifying machines? Well, Purifying Brew costs Chi, and you need that Chi to Shuffle. A second Staggered attack resets the DoT timer and increases the DoT's damage, and this continues until you die, stop taking attacks (which allows the DoT to run its course) or you remove the DoT via Purifying Brew. At base stats, all physical attacks will only hit for 80% damage the remaining 20% is added to a DoT that ticks for 10 seconds. Instead of blocking, self-healing, or dodging like the other tank classes, Blizzard designed a new mitigation mechanic for Brewmasters, called Stagger. Once you've built up a few points of chi, it can be used to power stronger abilities that do significant damage, provide self-healing, or make you more resilient. Chi is a static 4-point pool, similar to a rogue's combo points, that decays when out of combat. These abilities don't do much on their own, but they build up the brewmaster's second resource: chi. This energy regeneration can be increased with haste, and is used to power your basic attacks. Like all monks, they have two resources that must be managed energy and chi.Įnergy functions identically to rogues and feral druids, as a 100-point pool that regenerates at a constant rate, in and out of combat. Any race, except for worgen and goblin, can play a monk. Themed after the classic Drunken Master, your job is to keep the enemies busy trying to hit you while your compatriots take them out. This week: brewmasters!īrewmaster is the tanking specialization for the monk class. While a few things may still be tweaked, the design and abilities have now stabilized enough that I feel comfortable presenting you with a series of guides for each specialization. With Mists of Pandaria nearing release, the monk class is rounding into its final form. Interested in trying out the new monk class, but can't tell your Tiger Strikes from your Tiger Palms? Written by Chase Hasbrouck of World of Monkcraft, WoW Insider's new monk coverage will get you kicking in no time!
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