Originally Posted by
Nalorakk
There is a difference between having a niche and having a well designed niche.
Stagger is overpowered at doing something that isn't very effective. It smooths out damage, but most of that damage still hits you. It puts the stress on the healers, not on you. Blizzard has said they want every member of a group/raid pulling equal weight to kill a boss.
Brewmasters hardly pull any weight because everything they do wrong is more or less at fault of your party.
Can't pick up clusters of mobs fast enough? You're a brewmaster, it's not your fault you don't have much in the way of multiple AoE threats.
Can't sustain yourself above a healthy threshold of hp? You're a brewmaster, it's not your fault your healer can't keep up.
The spec forces stress onto the members of your group to pick up a brewmaster's slack. The niche is awfully designed and just garbage to play because you only do the same thing over and over, which is pretty much pressing buttons off CD and drinking brews as needed because there is nothing else to do. It's bad design.
Almost passively, brewmasters avoid a ridiculous % of instant damage, and it's not on them to cope with it. You can purify 50% of it, great. It's your healer who then has to deal with the other 50% unless you have plenty of healing spheres up, which you won't unless you're dipping below 35%, at which point it's even more stress for your healer regardless.
Brewmasters are stressful for everyone except the brewmaster.
In its current state, brewmasters are a scourge upon parties. It's time to pick up the slack and actually DO something about the total damage you take.