Hi everyone.
Last week, I joined a MSV 10m normal run to help out my friend, I don't really need anything from there. As usual, tanks were impossible to find so I agreed to go as Brewmaster.
The run was going quite smooth, I was having fun, until we made it to Will.
Fight starts, the usual stuff... we kill small adds, Strenghts, bla bla... big bosses appear, I pick mine, generate some aggro and start moving my boss to the usual tanking spot near the stai... WHAT THE HOLY FUCK?! my health bar starts swinging up and down like crazy, and Purifying Brew button lights up almost instantly, indicating I have heavy stagger on me. I clear it quickly with spare Chi I had.
Then, whole fight was an uphill battle for me, which I eventually lost. I simply died from taking more damage, than my healers could heal, and they were spamming me and going OOM.
This happened twice, then the pugs started raging "lol noob tank" "gg retard L2P" the usual shit that ppl in pugs start throwing around when smallest problem appears.
Eventually, a frost DK offered to go blood for this fight, and told me to go WW. The DK was a player who just returned from 2 months WoW break, he was in full 463 blue gear. We one shotted it with him as tank, his health barely moved during whole fight.
I don't remember the last time I felt so embarassed and humilitated, I barely touched my monk since.
I simply have no idea what was happening, what was I doing wrong, so I come here seeking advice. The ridiculous ammount of damage I was taking, I actually thought if I wasn't in my DPS specc, If I somehow didn't respecc to WW by mistake. It literally felt like dps class in dps gear, trying to "tank" a raid boss (but no, I was still Brm).
some points:
I didn't take a SINGLE hit from the big swings during the "dancing" phases. I performed each dance and following counterattack flawlessly.
The 10% nerf buff was active, nobody turned it off.
Usually when someone says monk tanks are bad or weak, ppl say its a L2P issue, that monk tanks are harder to master than other tank classes. But I feel quite confident at playing my monk. I had Shuffle buff 100% uptime. Used empowered Guard and Expel Harm pretty much whenever it was up (the Guard disappeared pretty much instantly). With my haste, my Chi generation was pretty good, I had enough Chi to keep removing my Stagger with Purifying Brew. Ofc used Elusive Brew and Fortifying Brew as well.
Here is my monk armory:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Silkfox/simple
495 ilvl, fully gemmed and enchanted, 2 maxed raiding professions. 16/16 heroic experience as you can see from my title. Food buff, flask, potions were used. Stomped into the ground by 10% nerfed boss (which was easy even before the nerf), which I overgear by more than 30 ilvls...
Please help, so this doesn't happen to me again -.-