Introduction
Hey everyone, I’m Nate, an Analyst and former main Tank for Method, and welcome to the Brewmaster Monk Guide for The War Within! I’ve been playing Brewmaster for many years, and this guide is here to help you master the specialization, from Stagger and damage smoothing, to your rotation and all the utility you have to offer.
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In season 3 of The War Within, Brewmaster is great! There’s been a ton of changes coming from season 2 and in this guide I’ll walk you through everything and how to get the most out of our beloved green class.
Strengths
- Extremely Durable
- Strong Offensive Output
- Versatile Utility and Crowd Control
- Hypermobility
- Mystic Touch
Weaknesses
- Complexity
- No spec unique utility
What has changed
Patch 11.2 Brewmaster Monk Changes
For Patch 11.2 there’s been a handful of significant changes for Brewmaster Monk that I’ll break down.
Recent Changes in Patch 11.2
The Season 3 patch is here! For us Brewmaster enjoyers, a whole lot has changed in this patch. From revitalizing long dead talents, to a shake up of the talent trees themselves.
- Vivacious Vivification redesigned - Rising Sun Kick makes your next Vivify instant cast
- New talent: Zen State - Your stagger is increased by up to 20%, based on your missing health
- New Talent: Niuzao’s Resolve - Healing spheres now heal over 10 seconds, and their healing is increased by up to 80% based on your missing health.
- New Talent: Celestial Infusion - A strong herbal brew that coalesces purified chi escaping your body into a celestial guard, absorbing 20% of incoming damage, up to a percentage of your attack power. Purifying stagger damage increases absorption up to 200%. Choice talent with Celestial Brew.
- Face Palm redesigned - Tiger Palm damage increased by 100% and reduces the remaining cooldown of your Brews by 0.5 additional seconds.
- Invoke Niuzao redesigned - Summons an effigy of Niuzao, the Black Ox for 25 seconds that attacks your primary target and Stomps when you cast Purify, damaging all nearby enemies. While active, 40% of damage delayed by Stagger is instead by Niuzao, and Niuzao is healed for 20% of your purified Stagger.
- Walk with the Ox redesigned - Your damaging abilities have a chance to involve Niuzao, causing him to charge to your target’s location and Stomp. Additionally, it now also reduces the cooldown of Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox by 30 seconds per point allocated.
- Improved Invoke Niuzao redesigned - While active, Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox can be recast once to cause Niuzao to stomp mightily and knock nearby enemies into the air.
The following talents were removed:
- Celestial Flames
- Zen Meditation
- August Blessing