#BREWMASTER MONK ARTIFACT CHALLENGE FULL#

This will be a cool, unique way to reduce overall damage taken, but it suffers from the classical problem of avoidance tanks: you lack the capacity to control damage intake. Even if there is an ability which pretty much mimics Elusive Brew, you're still going to have that issue. You have no control over when you are hit and when you dodge. Even though this mastery is actually designed to help eliminate some of that RNG, it's still going to be really bad at burst smoothing. but awful at reducing burst intake, because of its RNG nature.

On the one hand, I do like that we've moved away from stagger mastery as that was going to be stupid hard to balance well as I mentioned before Blizzcon, but at the same time, dodge has always classically been great at reducing overall damage intake. It's now called Elusive Brawler and we get additional dodge until our next dodge whenever we are hit. Our Mastery, as I mentioned earlier, has also received a significant change. Our base damage reduction and our new active mitigation is just going to have to be really solid in order for this change to not be too icky. That being said, it wasn't ever really too big a deal back when I actually did do hardcore raiding (or even bosses in Warlords), and as long as the movement fix is good, it shouldn't be too big an issue, I think. Perhaps it's an overly-sensitive worry, but as a tank, when you say that I need to move around in a fight where I am positioning a boss in order to get heals. You don't have to worry about screwing up positioning. There's something to be said about the security one has when using Expel Harm to heal one's self. I am not sure if I like Gift of the Ox being the only self heal available to us. The one big concern I have is that even though boss movement is being fixed very soon. It's more reactive to your principle focus of tanking and unlike today's Gift of the Ox it actually improves when dealing with more than one enemy, so it naturally scales. Gift of the Ox's changes actually sound pretty neat. We also know that Soul Dance is being baked into stagger at 50% effectiveness, so this is going to make Brewmasters far better at handling magic damage. Not sure if Ironskin Brew will have the stacking duration of today's Shuffle, though. You're probably still going to favor Ironskin Brew more often, but you can't just spam it in its entirety. This strikes me as a good way to handle that, at least on paper. It's all going back to what I originally said about the shuffle / purify dynamic during Mists beta, where you have to make a real choice between maintaining high stagger, but not so much that you're overwhelmed by the staggered damage. Both have a 20 second cooldown for each charge, with a max of three charges shared between both abilities. So for starters, Ironskin Brew and Purifying brew. That's definitely an interesting mastery, though I suspect that we're going to largely be going haste, for maximum shuffle and purifying potential.īut anyway let's get right down to it and discuss EVERYTHING that's here. This is actually kinda what I had in mind for Elusive Brew, but it looks like that ability got turned into our new mastery, where we get an increased chance to dodge whenever we are hit.

Your energy spenders reduce the general cooldown on your significant active mitigation abilities (Ironskin Brew, which increases stagger amount, and Purifying Brew, no significant change mechanically. The long and short of it, for those of you who just want the quick and dirty version, is that Brewmasters are now about cooldowns.

#BREWMASTER MONK ARTIFACT CHALLENGE FULL#

If you want to take a full look at the changes, you can find them here. These changes are definitely interesting. I've seen it develop, I've seen it changed, I've played through buffs, nerfs, and all manner of tweaks. The Brewaster specialization has gone through a lot in the three years they've been playable. When an opponent actually manages to land an attack, it’s often unclear how much the brewmaster feels it . . . if at all.' Most opponents barely have time to process the erratic nature of the brewmaster’s fighting tactics before they find themselves laid low-possibly the result of a keg smash to the head. Brewmasters may seem to struggle with balance as they chug their concoctions in the middle of a fight, but this unpredictable behavior is far from foolhardiness. ' The brewmaster is a quirky character, though dangerous when underestimated.

Brewmaster monk artifact challenge