So you buffed every tank by 20% except brewmaster and paladin, who got 15%.
At this rate and with the MW buffs I fully expect Brewmaster won’t even be played in RWF, top mythic guilds, or m+ at all.
Meanwhile VDH has seen a buff every single patch notes. Are you ****ing kidding me?
It’s looking like DH won the meta raffle this time around. Gotta make sure the choice is obvious. Hope you’ve been gearing one lol. (I haven’t).
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Oh yep. Its definitely VDH.
So basically having 2 back to back seasons of being king less than a year ago was too long of a wait.
i wouldnt say that yet, its still prot pala
meta doesnt solidify until the first .5 patch anyways.
In any case, it feels like they actively despise Brewmasters. I don’t understand it.
Which is odd. Brewmaster does what they want — smooths damage out, but 100% requires a healer. You’d think they’d start with that and then work outwards from there.
We don’t even smooth damage out. Brewmasters have some of the spikiest health bars of all tanks and they play like a DK with a single charge of Death Strike.
I’m really looking for reasons to play Brewmaster next season. I can’t find any.
I mean they still bring mystic touch for the 2 or 3 specs that still do physical damage. That’s something right???
Hey they remember us this time!
Remeber to give us a reason not to play
Prot Pally is still very strong, but VDH is nipping at their heels.
How it will shake out will be interesting, but from the looks of it, bear/monk/war will not be in the running.
It’s going to be almost identical to last season.
S: Prot Pal
A: Prot War, VDH, Bear
B: Brew, Blood DK
Only difference will be that DK and VDH swap places.
i think its more like, the community as a whole has a issue with brew. brew has issues but those issues cant really be fixed by a aura buff without pushing highend to insane levels.
brew is a very hard spec to go into and even if your a seasoned brew player theres still quite a bit of mistakes you can make that reduces your overal damage. i think the fix for brew would be a simplification on alot of things including that kick ability that takes up alot of your apm
i wouldnt discount them just yet, again meta doesnt solidifies until the next .5 patch and weve seen crazier tank picks appear out of the wood work. like bear in df season2
I swear Blizzard will see Brewmaster and bear underperforming in M+ and raid and they will do the same thing they did in 11.0.5 but with Bear this time.
im going to be really real with you friend.
theres gonna be more tuning obviously
second, im sure all tanks will be somewhat even with each other next season like they have been for every season since the last seasons of SL. its going to boil down to once again.
which tank has the lowest skill floor for maximum potential with a sprinkle of utility. more than anything. like it was for each season since sl season 2
And even those 2 or 3 specs do more magic/poison/etc than physical anymore.
I actually lol’d when I saw Brew getting 15% instead of 20%.
I swear Blizzard is still living in season 1 of dragonflight where they think Brew is like another DPS.
These tuning passes honestly have me question just how close of attention they’re paying to things.
I appreciate the 15% buff but should’ve been 20. Brewmaster is almost a dead spec in mythic+ in terms of representation.
I’ll be playing my prot pal if I tank
its hard to justify anything when Pally is so oppressingly dominant this season.
But in top 200 tanks in all regions the second most represented tank is Brew i mean yes that number is 2 compared to 195 for pallies and 1 for the other except Bears who have 0 representation in top 200 for all regions.
it would be interesting to have a better data set where 1 tank isnt just stupidly ahead of the pack.
Brews dmg will still be ahead of DK, Warr, Bear - might be in line with VDH now, with pally still ahead. But you have more utility than the 3 you are ahead of etc. end opf the day all of this only matters in the cutting edge of keys, for the general players doing anywhere from 8-14 all tanks are shown to be viable.
I would say not necessarily because I feel brew is a high skill floor tank that in the lower keys you probably see less of it because tanks would rather play something easier