I’m enjoying playing priest, but I’ve wanted to try tanking as well. Are monk tanks decent, and would it be overly complicated compared to warrior for a new player?
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Currently its a high spam rotation, however it’s a solid tank spec right now and has actual decent self sustain again.
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You have to speak slowly and use small words when you talk with me. By spam, do you mean you only spam a few skills in the rotation, or that it’s a very busy class with a rough learning curve.
Prot war has a higher skill ceiling but lower skill floor.
BrM has a higher floor but a lower ceiling.
Just play it and see how you go. You’ll probably find BrM more fun.
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This isn’t going to answer your question before I heal-monk but right now is a perfect time to get in there and try new class combos for yourself. Everything has been reworked so right now it’s expected that things aren’t perfect (for players). This means people won’t be nearly as impatient with you should you mess up. Use this time as an opportunity to try new things out and see what you do and don’t like.
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no as in your fingers will hurt because you can use attacks inside the channeled ability of spinning crane kick, so to maximize dmg you will be spamming that while hitting your normal rotation as well.
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That’s a good point. Thanks for y’alls answers.
BrM is a very active spec. You’ve got several things to watch, while also keeping track of several cool downs and making sure you’re doing your rotation to be able to reduce those cool downs. You’ve always got something to do or watch.
That being said, I also find it the most fun spec for tanking. It’s unique in both play style and class mechanics.
They are actually much more complicated with the SL changes. They’ve become more of a CD rotation tank like the DK over what they were in BfA which was basically just hit ISB every few seconds and then PB when stagger got too high.
Now stagger is a lot weaker (was around 80-85% in BFA, in SL it’s about 65-70%) which means you can’t rely solely on it to tank. You have to use your new main defensive, Celestrial Brew along with PB. You also have new CDs to use like your covenant class/signature abilities, Dave pet, as well has old CDs like FB/ZM, and possible HE now too.
That’s 5+ defensive CDs you have to use and keep track of now. Where as in BFA, they were useful, but any newb BrM could just steam roll medium-difficulty content (+15s/H raid) by just hitting ISB.
From some of the metrics I’ve seen where monk tanks are the tank of choice for everything, I’m expecting to see a brewmaster nerf before the years over
Followed by a windwalker nerf because that .oooooooooooooooooooooo1% rising sun kick buff is way too much in the mind of the “devs”
Brewmaster is really fun to me. Very active and very good at surviving. Yes, we have a LOT of buttons and a lot of cool downs like pb, celestial brew etc… But, if someone who suffers from peripheral neuropathy and myoclonus can play it decently, I know anyone can get use to it.
Its the most fun Tank spec imo. Its also very strong. The problem with pretty much all Tanks is that darn Active Mitigation concept that basically fills your rotation and basically makes every Tank a spam concept. Whether its Purify, Shield Block, Shield of the Righteous, or Iron Fur, its something you can for 90% of content just sort of spam. Its something that “should” be engaging, but because they have such low cooldowns and constantly recharge its more of something you just spam and it makes every Tank feel like you are “mashing” constantly.
I wish one Tank would kind of step away from this concept tbh. I like more the concept of a Tank being Tanky by its nature, with very specific, niche cooldown uses. Most Tanks have something for niche situations atm, but the overall spam of the active mitigation just puts me off to it. It feels like busy work that could honestly be made baselane and little would change, its just that mindless in general.