I haven’t played since WoD, but brewmaster was my first tank back then and it felt like it had a huge skillcap with massive potential where I could legit solo heroic encounters and it felt great.
I really miss the healing orbs + double healing at low health passive. You could time the orbs and Guard shield for low health and get massive value.
BM has been a staple on almost all progression guilds for like 6 tiers in a row. BM being so strong is one of the biggest reasons WW & MW have been overlooked. People just don’t care, since they can get their monk buff from BMs.
There are some significant changes to BM coming in Shadow Lands.
Iron skin brew is going away and the additional stagger is essentially changing into a passive ability.
Second is the addition of Celestial Brew which gives you a damage bubble every 30 seconds.
Now essentially you will passively build stagger, use purifying brew to cleanse it which makes your damage shield from celestial brew stonger.
BM is also getting access to touch and death and spinning crane kick amoung the many other changes happening.
BM has gotten plenty of love.
p.s. Its super weird to hear you complain about not needing to use tank cool downs in 'easy" or open world content. No tanks specs have to use their damage reduction abilities in easy content!
I don’t want that to change.
But your M+ completions say you’ve never tanked a +15. You tanked a +2.
Your only 15 completion was as a dps so thats an outright lie. I did tank a 9 yesterday and I am better geared than you and absolutely wetnt yellow when pulling big.
edit: it was an 8.
Imagine lying about your carry.