I been planning a Druid tank to about 90 and like it so far so I dusted off this monk and wanted to try tanking with it but I stuck at it. Maybe cause I am coming from a Druid recently or like the Druid I didn’t tank from lvl 1 with it I’ve never been a monk tank do I need to start from lvl 1 too?
No. Just grab some buds and go smash stuff, or just random dungeons with total strangers.
- Keep Ironskin brew active. Download a WeakAura to help track its buff.
- Purify as needed
- Use Expel Harm on as Need to use base. The orbs are back to being uncommon / rare to occur since they “fixed” a bug with BrewMaster’s in 8.1.5 or 8.2. Anyone playing since then definitely feels the bug “fix”.
- Join Peak of Serenity discord for min-maxing and more things to read up on.
- I hear leveling a BrewMaster monk is horrendous. So, I don’t recommend off of that. I don’t do leveling, so I can’t comment on that.
BrewMaster getting reworked in ShadowLands. So, what you learn now, is going to be quite different then; because there’s a new buff and Ironskin Brew is not something we “actively” maintain now. That’s just from the reading I was doing but not very much reading. Basically, it ain’t going to play the same in SL.
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Having weak auras for monk tanking is kind of necessary if a player really wants to be good at it.
I would hit up their discord and see if some folks have some solid auras or you can make them yourself if you are familiar with the addon.
There’s just a lot of up times and short cds to track.
Brewmaster is extremely easy these days because Blizzard decided to make them almost completely passive!
Follow these steps to be good at Brewmaster…
- Take almost all of the passive talents because the Active ones are either awful or give no additional advantage. (Thanks Blizzard!)
- Use ISB when the buff is about to fall off.
- Press all your buttons on cooldown.
- Purify when stagger turns Red.
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Dont sweat it, Brewmaster is being very significantly overhauled in the next expansions.
Your abilities no longer share charges, Ironskin brew is a passive for using your abilities, and you only have 1 mitigation tool, Celestial brew.
My favorite tank is being dumbed down super hard, but it’ll be easier for everyone else.
Good luck.
I would almost fall asleep when playing BRM.
Stagnant gameplay along with no real oomph behind the audio just got kinda boring for me.
nope. You dont get the monk utility at start. I’m a firm believer that class learning is at the end game where you have azerite armour, essences and every utility available.
for some reason i can’t switch forum characters to my level 99 DI dwarf monk alt.
but she leveled up as windwalker and will switch to BRM once she has access to the borrowed power systems. thankfully, with the current exp buff and the monk daily training quest, getting to level cap is quite rapid
This is exactly what I do when I occasionally tank unimportant stuff, and it works great. Next xpac it’ll be this list except ISB will just be passive and you can just skip 2.
Is there a monk discord for the class?