When I tested this on the last beta build, it kept my %health constant when I clicked off the buff. I believe it has also kept my % health constant when I apply the buff, though I have not tested that as thoroughly.

For any that are curious, here is a World of Logs parse of some time I spent on the beta in Naxx today playing my 85 Brewmaster. Warning: I am in no way claiming that I am actually playing Brewmaster properly! Just hoping this might help some at the EJ crowd figure out what we're actually supposed to do.

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

Most of my time I was trying to just solo things, but later on I had a friend join me to bring some extra DPS to get through a few bosses. Solo, my best on Patchwerk was about 50% before he ended up enraging and killing me. (Premade monk ~378 ilvl).

I did find Jinyu's Cider to be much stronger as a tank, rather than Ascendence (+1 Max Chi) as Jinyu's on-demand Full Chi was great.

NOTE: I had to hack out a particular line in the log files because World of Logs (and raidlogs) were barfing on it. For reference, it's this type of line (MISFIRE):

4/1 10:49:45.184 SWING_MISSED,0xF1303E7500000E4F,"Sapphiron",0x10a48,0x0,0x0100000000000CBD,"Aspyronk" ,0x511,0x0,MISFIRE

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A couple other things I wanted to mention:

- Dizzying Haze works on some mobs+bosses, but doesn't work on others. For example, Malygos was immune, but Patchwerk was affected by it.
- The Tiger Palm buff (+5% to Guard) IS consumed as soon as you do your next Guard
- You DO still avoid attacks during Shuffle. Click the spoiler for a combat log segment against Patchwerk.

I have been thinking about our mastery. It has two components, it reduces the dot component of a staggered hit and it gives us an absorb shield. Let's take a look first at the staggering:
At first this sounds interesting and useful, but will we actually stack mastery for this?
If we take a look at the other tanks, we can see that they all have a chance to lessen the damage from a hit using absorbs/shield block etc. This means that a) over the long run, they will take less damage and b) flatten spiky damage.
In my opinion, b) is the more important, but our mastery doesn't help with that. As we always have a 25% chance to stagger, every fourth attack is flattened out already, leaving a dot that just drains a little bit more mana, but doesn't "surprise" the healer.
On the other hand, a warrior can increase his *chance* to block using his mastery, thereby turning full hits into lessened hits.

The second part of our mastery increases our guard shields. This could actually be useful against b). However, as we will often have a stagger dot running, the shields might be consumed just for the dot.

All in all, if b) is (again) the real problem, I could see ourselves stack dodge over mastery (given a similar long-term reduction effect for the current DR level).

When brewmaster will use one-handed weapon we can put 2 tank enchants.

What happend with tanking enchants. They will refresh or stack?

I know this is dated, but I know GC made the comment right after Blizzcon that Blizzard is designing Windwalkers to be using fists while Brewmasters would be using stalves. However he also mentioned that they could change that.

Blizzard Insider #42 -- Meet the Pandaren Monk - World of Warcraft

That sounds like the most logical step, too, since staves itemized for feral druids or hunters would then probably be good for brewmasters and the fist weapons could be used by enhancement shamans and rogues. This would help blizzard reduce the amount of items which can only be used by a small percentage of all speccs.

Hunters will lose melee weapon slots. So we probably looking for glaives and feral druid type staves.

Just tested Fortifying Brew a bit.
Activating it doubles your maxHP and Heals you by 100% of your normal maxHP. When FB ends you lose those HP you just got healed for, if you are below 50% HP (your normal maxHP) when it ends it puts you at 1HP.

Your own heals (Expel Harm, Healing Sphere) can be used while FB is active, still not a CD i'd want to use as a tank.

Guard now has a 30 second CD which is not mirrored in the tooltip or icon

Yeah, I didn't realize it until I logged in to do some 5-man dungeons with my Monk. Boy, was I in for a surprise...

It's like Death Strike, that doesn't heal, do damage, or stack. Now it's on a 30 second cooldown. I can still use my Ox clicks I guess, but now I have to tell people "Don't click on my Ox please".

I'm finding it hard to get into the class at this point. I feel like a DPS who is wearing a lot of Dodge/Parry gear that can't keep agro on groups on mobs (I know threat is broken) with 100 buttons staring me in the face that don't really make a difference as to which one I push. It feels like it doesn't make anything better or worse when trying different abilities.

Low HP, low armor, and low Dodge. High Parry. Mastery seems "Eh" so far. It just feels like an Alpha to me.

I also feel like there are so many abilities available to use, but none of them seem to be the champion of the class (like I thought Guard was supposed to be, but 30 seconds is too long. Maybe 15?).

(I put a * in front of the abilities I think are ok in their current form.)

Avert Harm - I killed myself with this, hah. Use with Meditation in big AoE phase?

Fortifying Brew - LOL? Can't be used with Touch of Death on bosses, very situational. Would prefer if I never have to rely on this.

*Expel Harm - I use it on CD. It's almost like the missing component for Guard (making it essentially Death Strike for 2 GCDs and 15/30 sec CD)

Dematerialize - Haven't gotten this yet, but this seems like a good cooldown except that you lose all threat when used...

Ring of Peace NYI - If it can't be used on bosses, it is worthless. Exploitable in its current description.

*Elusive Brew - Use on CD.

*Dizzying Haze - 9% additional chance to not take an attack with 3 stacks.

Guard - 30 sec CD is too long for 38k absorb.

Purifying Brew - only worth using with Shuffle?

Shuffle - could be a double-edged sword. Need a parse of equal level raid situation to see how easily stagger damage + non-staggered attacks can create a huge mana dump for healers.

* Tiger Palm - use Above 50% boss health

* Blackout Kick - use Below 50% boss health (or during procs)

Leer of the Ox - Statue has about 46k HP, worthless unless there is a predictable single attack coming that will kill you. But then you lose your "Guard stick". The alternative is to put it 40 yards away from the boss and have the raid follow while beating on it, but that seems less than ideal.


My normal "rotation" (I know we are using a "priority system" but this is an example) starts like this:

(0 Chi) (Summon Ox Statue)
Provoke (Pull)
Dizzying Haze (1)
Clobber
Elusive Brew (45 sec CD)
Tiger Palm (1)
Dizzying Haze (2)
Tiger Palm (2)
Dizzying Haze (3)
Tiger Palm (3)
Tiger Palm (3)
Tiger Palm (3)
Dizzying Haze (3)
Clobber
Clobber
<Elusive Brew Effect Ends>
Guard (30 sec CD)
Expel Harm (15 sec CD)

At this point it's normally rotating Dizzying Haze/Clobber/Tiger Palm (Blackout Kick proc) for 15 seconds until Expel harm is up. Then 16 seconds later Guard is up (with Expel Harm) and finally Elusive Brew again shortly afterwards.

Clobber for Chi
Dizzying Haze (3 stacks for 9% "Missfire" effect)
Tiger Palm (3 stacks for 15% increased Guard effect
Expel Harm (increased by 30% while under the effect of Guard)
Use Blackout Kick on proc.
Shuffle followed (3 seconds later) by Purifying Brew for Big Cooldown (45 Sec CD)
Dematerialize for Big Cooldown (45 Sec CD)


Questions I have unanswered/unresearched:
1 Missfire (Dizzying Haze, Keg Smash) = 1 Attack you don't take? If so, then Keg Smash also should be worked into the priority as well.
Energy Dump? I feel like I only use energy for Dizzying Haze at this point and it seems like a waste having a resource pool of its own.

Monk - Skills

• Blackout Kick - Additional damage now over 6 sec, down from 8 sec.
• Expel Harm - Now costs 6% of base mana, up from 2%. Now has a 10 yd range, up from melee range.
• Fortifying Brew - After Fortifying Brew ends, you will be healed for the amount abosrbed.
• Jab - Now costs 6% of base mana, up from .5%.
• Stance of the Fierce Tiger - Text removed: Allows use of abilities under jurisdiction of the White Tiger, such as offensive damage abilities.

Monk - Talents

• Charging Ox Wave - Now knockbacks everyone in a 40 yard range, up from 5.
• Dampen Harm New: You dampen the damage from the most harmful attacks done to you. The next 3 attacks that deal damage equal to 10% or more of your total health are reduced in half. 1 Chi, Instant cast, 30 sec cooldown.
• Healing Elixers New: Anytime you drink from a Brew or Tea, you gain 10% of your total health. This effect cannot occur once every 15 sec.
• Momentum - Everytime you Roll or Chi Torpedo, your movement speed is increased by 25% (was 30%) for 10 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.

Monk - Brewmaster

• Breath of Fire - Now does 1,400 to 1,786 damage, down from 2,001 to 2,552.
• Brewmaster Training - No longer makes Tiger Palm cost no Chi.
• Clashing Ox Charge New: You and the enemy target meet halfway, stunning the target for 2 sec. 40 yd range, Instant cast, 35 sec cooldown.
• Dizzying Haze - Deals a high amount of threat.
• Guard - Now has a 30 sec cooldown.
• Keg Smash - Now costs 40 Energy instead of 1 Chi. Generates 2 Chi.
• Purifying Brew - Now has a 6 sec cooldown, down from 45.
• Shuffle - No longer has a cooldown.
• Stance of the Sturdy Ox - Now also increases your total health by 30%.

Great changes. Now monks have high aoe treath ability. I suppose Purifying Brew with 6 sec cooldown would be use always on cd, and maybe make macro for all skillis. And 30% more health.