It’s in the toolkit now, but it’s literally just a single target free damage button that interrupts your rotation. Please just have it do something small like spawn a healing sphere, reduce stagger by an amount, grant a shield, give brew CD, etc to make it feel like it is interacting with the monk’s tanking
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It’s an optional button that was never meant to interact with BrM.
Brewmaster can also talent into Soothing Mist, do you want that to have Stagger interactions as well?
But the real answer is that it does a lot of damage so people think they have to take it but it doesn’t do anything for BrM.
You saying it’s unnecessary for the rotation? I been leveling a brm monk and every guide says it’s mandatory, but always felt off to me
Nothing’s necessary if you aren’t trying to be competitive. If you are trying to play in a way that remotely resembles competitive, then yes it is required
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As far as talent philosophy goes, if it is an option it should have some form of interaction inherent; otherwise it begs the question of why the option is available.
Looks like it’s considered required just for the single target damage it grants, but some small defensive benefit would be nice just to help the ‘feel’. Otherwise it’s basically a DPS button we push because weeee damage. Which, y’know, it’s not the end of the world but still.
Even Soothing Mist produces healing, can be talented into damage mitigation while channeling, and can stack with the healy statue if you want to take that (which no one will because icy veins says not to, but eh).
The option is available because it is.
RSK is mandatory for WW.
RSK is optional to MW as it interacts with ATotM but is not necessary to the spec.
RSK is optional to BrM because they didn’t want to make it a base line ability for WW and MW.
Whether you should take it (must likely because some guide or YouTuber told you to) is another thing.
Incorrect actually, RSK interacts with 3 different talents and produces interactions between many more. It’s only optional if a person decides to not interact with the melee support at all.
This does still produce the issue that there is support for it in two of the specs whether immediately or through talent choices whereas brewmaster has none.