Zen Meditation
Channeled (8 sec cast) 5 min cooldown
Requires Monk (Brewmaster)
Reduces all damage taken by 60% for 8 sec. Being hit by a melee attack, or taking another action other than movement will cancel this effect.
This is hot garbage. Imagine being a tank and having your entire defensive cooldown negated by a single hit or your own autoattack.
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Zen Meditation
Channeled (8 sec cast) 5 min cooldown
Requires Monk (Brewmaster)
Reduces all magic damage taken by 60% for 8 sec.
That’s it. Pure magic reduction CD. Helps us where we need it most. take away the physical reduction and the no-hit garbage.
Right now, there are only two ways to use this skill.
You are able to negate ONE single physical blow by 60% on a 5 min CD. But unless you are careful, you could cancel it with your own autoattack, or get hit with an autoattack instead of aiming for the one tankbuster ability.
You are kiting ONLY casters. Which is nonsensical, since casters are usually the ones to die first in trash packs since they hit harder and have less health.
Give us an actual magic reduction CD so we can shore up our massive magic weakness.
And yet the tank spec doesn’t have the magic reduction cooldown We have dampen harm, which is a maximum of 50% reduction, min 20%. Zen med could actually be good, it’s just trash right now.
From the top of my head, cheesing the explosion on the broker boss on dos - useful if someone messes up and use one of the traps before the right time
Still on de other side, there are two very hard pulls on the rings that are mostly magic damage. You can position the mobs, get firm agro, ring of peace then away, roll to get a little more space and zen meditate. Lots of damage prevented.
DOS again, zen meditate on the rage cast of the big red mob.
Sanguine depths third boss, you help your healer a lot by zen meditating on the aoe phase.
Last boss of necrotic wake, you can zen meditate when the boss starts to do frozen damage on the party.
Theater of pain lich may be hard to heal on some weeks. Tank doesn’t take a lot of damage, but you can still help you healer further by zen meditating on one of the harders parts so he doesn’t have to worry too much about you.
Theater of Pain guardian add that does a massive aoe channel. You can almost negate that with zen meditation too.
I’m sure there are more opportunities to use it that I’m not remembering or just don’t know about.
We have dampen harm, which is a maximum of 50% reduction, min 20%. Zen med could actually be good, it’s just trash right now.