Try to keep 40 energy on hand when it nears the end of its cooldown so you can cast it immediately. KEG SMASH : Use to pull, and continue using on cooldown to generate brews and AoE threat. If your orbs are out of range, use Expel Harm. GIFT OF THE OX : React to low health by shuffling side to side for golden Gift of the Ox orbs, if they’re there. This ability is necessary to reduce damage in conjunction with Ironskin Brew, and you’ll be very difficult to keep alive without it. Typically, that means you should purify a Heavy Stagger, leave Moderate Stagger up to your judgement, and ignore Light Stagger. PURIFYING BREW : Use when your Stagger debuff is high. If you have other defensive abilities available, like some Gift of the Ox orbs or high stacks of Elusive Brawler, you probably don’t need to use Ironskin Brew.

IRONSKIN BREW : Keep active when damage reduction is needed. You usually need damage reduction early in a pull, to counter an enemy’s special attack, or when your health is unstable. Here is your basic active mitigation rotation now: We have hardly any armor or passive damage reduction, instead depending on a large passive and active Stagger to smooth and prevent damage.

Guard is gone! Expel Harm is dramatically changed! Shuffle is back in the form of a cooldown-limited active ability called Ironskin Brew. Stance of the Sturdy Ox: now default with spec.Cooldown is now reduced by Keg Smash and Tiger Palm. Fortifying Brew: Like all big defensive abilities, damage reduction was reduced and cooldown was increased.Expel Harm: No longer a heal in its own right, but heals by drawing distant ox orbs to you for a large heal.Purifying Brew: Now shares charges with Ironskin Brew, only reduces stagger by 50%, down from 100%.Gift of the Ox: Now heals for roughly 12% health, no longer increased by multistrike.Ironskin Brew: Brand new, increases your Stagger amount by an additional 40% for 6 sec, shares charges with Purifying Brew.Breath of Fire: No longer has a chi cost.Keg Smash: Now reduces the remaining cooldown on your Brews by 4 sec.No longer has a chi cost or applies active mitigation. Blackout Kick: Renamed Blackout Strike.Tiger Palm: Merged with Jab, now costs energy, reduces remaining cooldown on brews by 1s.Haste now reduces the cooldown of Keg Smash, Ironskin Brew, Purifying Brew.Chi is no longer a resource for brewmasters.You won’t get your artifact weapon or unlock your class hall until Legion is officially launched. Broken Shore Scenario: Not be immediately available at the launch of 7.0, but if you’re starting later you can get a 685 weapon, Stormwind Vanguard Polearm.The weapon to look out for is Fel Barbed Spear. Demon Invasions: If you’re lucky, any chest obtained from these events might include a unique 700 weapon.Tanaan Jungle: If you have 10,000 Apexis Crystals to spare, you can buy a 650 weapon, created by Baleful Armament when your loot-spec is brewmaster, from Ravenspeaker Thelnaas in Tanaan Jungle.Here are some easy sources for weapon replacements, should you need one before you unlock your artifact after Legion actually launches: Well, you can technically wield a single one-handed weapon, but you should try to get a two-hander asap if you were previously dual-wielding. On an immediate level, you’ll only be able to use two-handed weapons, staves and polearms. Warlords Brewmaster depended on Guard and Expel Harm to survive anything, and all their other AM, like Shuffle and Stagger, was neutered enough to be safely ignored. Legion Brewmaster plays very differently from Warlords Brewmaster, though surprisingly similar to Mists Brewmaster. I’ll get into the specific changes in a bit, but there are some high level changes that you need to be aware of before diving in. Instead, heal and absorb abilities scale through attack power or health or some combination of both. Active mitigation uptime and potency reduced across the board.Gone are the days where you can keep Shuffle up all the time and your entire mitigation depends on using an extremely powerful, cheap absorb every time you feel threatened. Tanks are supposed to be weaker now, and active mitigation has changed significantly, such that you have to time it well. It will feel more natural in Legion, and for now our limbo in Hellfire Citadel or whatever content you’re doing for the next few weeks will be temporary.īe cautious and prepared to take things slow. Most Warlords content has been nerfed to compensate for this. It’s probably going to hurt at first, but for a number of reasons it’s for the better. Universally, the tankiness of tanks has been reduced. For all tanks, staying alive is going to get more difficult.

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