Zen Sphere is pretty much only good if you're a dedicated tank healer, and even then I feel like Chi Wave might still be better. ZSD does equal healing to CB with twice the effective chi cost and cast time, so post-bugfix under no circumstances should you use it purely as an AE heal.

RJW is also never a good choice, since the bonus SCK healing post-nerf is less than the healing of a CB, and if you're using SCK enough that RJW is a consideration than you should be specced into CB anyway. I haven't done much TC on chi torpedo, but as far as RJW vs. Xuen goes the right choice is going to be Xuen 99% of the time.

As far as Feng-like "raid is stacked in one spot and getting facefucked in glorious unison" situations go, your priority is ReM > CB if you have it, Uplift or CW if you don't > SCK

Even post-nerf, building chi with jab in that situation will be an hps and hpm loss over building chi with SCK.

ReM can be dropped to below your chi spender or even below SCK if damage is intense now but will drop down to jack shit well before it can distribute all of its healing (which isn't really the case with Feng.) On paper it is a higher hpct than SCK or CB, though.

Uplift can also slip above CB in hps if you've TFT'd yourself to a sufficiently high number of targets (ie 10+.) TFT-Uplift with 6-8+ targets is also theoretically more hps/hpc than CB, but the ReM caveat applies there too.

But the tl;dr is that for Feng-like situations where damage is even and the raid is stacked, you build chi with SCK/ReM and spend it with CB.

So when running numbers on the new T45s it hit me that my valuation of 1 chi's mana gain is entirely wrong.

Assuming Jab is your main generator, 1 free chi is a saved jab. That means instead of spending 9000 mana and getting 3k back later from tea, you're spending 0 mana and getting 3k back from tea (on top of saving a GCD, of course.) This means the effective value of 1 chi is 12k mana, not 3k like I was thinking about it before. This goes up if you're simming some other generator, of course.

So this means that the value of the BE racial is 12000 / 120 * 5 = 500 mp5.

As far as the T45s go in 5.1-

-Power Strikes is 1 free chi every 22s (assuming you time your jab flawlessly, which you probably won't,) or 12000 / 22 * 5 = 2727.3 mp5
-Chi Brew is 4 free chi every 90s (assuming you use it on CD, which you probably won't,) or 12000 * 4 / 90 * 5 = 2666.7 mp5
-Ascension is +15% mana. This is an additional 450 mana per mana tea charge used, plus 45k mana added to your starting pool, which you calculate as (45k / fight length * 5.) This is really hard to fully quantify as it varies on both fight length and chi/mana tea usage but looking at a couple of my logs the range can ballpark to 1100-1400 mp5.

At first it looks like ascension is hands-down worse than PS or CB, but you also have to remember that it gives you a higher chi cap. The value of this can vary wildly depending on style and situation- a higher chi cap can reduce the chance of wasting chi due to mistakes in play, and it can also increase your potential burst hps.


Finally, datamines from the latest build are confusing on mastery changes. If all they did was add the "consolation prize" heal, the stat is still garbage. If they doubled the healing done like some tooltips suggest, secondary stat priority becomes haste to 1345 > mas > crit > haste and I have to change my BiS list.

Is the duration really 3 minutes? I don't logically see why they'd make it heal on expire and then increase the duration...making it meh again.

Getting 2.5x haste from items basically compensates for the fact that outside of breakpoints the majority of your healing doesn't scale with haste at all. I'll have to do more number-crunching to be sure on this, but with this change haste might even be the top stat if you're building chi primarily with soothing or SCK, since if you're building chi with those spells haste indirectly increases the throughput of your chi spells via faster generation. If you're building chi with jab or glyphing uplift I would still adhere to the existing "haste to a breakpoint, then crit" rule.

ReM breakpoints with this change are 538 for the first tick and 3234 for the second.

The crit mana tea thing is a little weird, seeing as it's already the best secondary for us. But maybe the idea is that it makes crit the best secondary because it actually does something interesting for us, rather than it being the best secondary because it's the least bad one?