So I’ve been playing around with BM both in normal raid and low level keys. I feel like I understand the rotation, but I’m concerned because my stagger is generally high to max very quickly after pulls (boss and trash). I’m keeping ironskin up nearly 100% of the time but still find myself regularly with red stagger. Obviously I try to purify when I can…
Is there something I should be doing to avoid this, or is this normal?
In dungeons you can kite, ring of piece, leg sweep to help with damage and have dps aoe stun, silence adds.
The default stagger bar is not super helpful and you should look into the normalized stagger bar/weak aura. Head over to the monk site (peakofserenity) and read a bit about stagger there - it’s very informative. The blizzard bar will have you worried when you shouldn’t be.
In a nutshell you want to always be near 100% uptime on Ironskin Brew; purify based on the normalized bar or if you have spare brews (after Ironskin) and moderate stagger.
Monks are great at kiting so make use of your tools to stay mobile when damage gets heavy (ring of peace, mobility, transcendence, leg sweep …)
Yeah I’m using the visual UI and then a stagger bar that shows a numeric value attached to my z-perl unitframe.
I’ll check out that WA string
You should purify based on brew availability and expected damage. For example if I’m in a low key I’ll purify even when light because I’ll simply never have heavy stagger.
Similarly I might not purify when heavy because I can’t let ISB drop and I know I’m going to be taking even heavier damage.
Last night in WCM +17 I took the tree boss to 40 stacks. For this reason purifying whilst heavy but at 15K per second was not a good idea because ISB would drop. In another moment I would purify the same because I could purify whilst maintaining ISB.
Balancing ISB vs purifying is an art form. But many, MANY BrM do not purify enough. And yes being a mana sponge matters. Oom healer = impending death!
The heaviest stagger I’ve had was 55K/second on Zul trash