The Brewmaster Tanking Guide [5.4]

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Thanks for the tips on horridon all! Loving zen sphere, was quite nice to have it trigger when dipping low, followed by an expel harm. Xuen could tank all adds like a boss.
Going council tomorrow and got 2 questions: is it possible to solo-interrupt either sul or the priestess? And can they be disarmed (especially curious for sul)?

[Zonex]

No you can't solo interrupt them, they rly love to cast, you'll need 2-3 15sec CD interrupters if you wanna completely lock her out.

[Zambal]

Thanks for the tips on horridon all! Loving zen sphere, was quite nice to have it trigger when dipping low, followed by an expel harm. Xuen could tank all adds like a boss.
Going council tomorrow and got 2 questions: is it possible to solo-interrupt either sul or the priestess? And can they be disarmed (especially curious for sul)?

No you cant solo interrupt sul, need 3 I think to keep him perm interrupted. And disarm dont work either, pro tip is to make sure hou got a 15 stack of elusive brew for when the frost king does his Frigid assualt that way you can ignore tank switch. If you tank living sand be ready to roll out when they die..

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Still haven't gotten past Horridon after yesterday, but now it's no longer because I fall over, the tips really helped. Now we just need the hunter to wake up and get the Frozen Warlord off of me with MD on door 3 while I tank Horridon.

[Vasilisa]

No you cant solo interrupt sul, need 3 I think to keep him perm interrupted. And disarm dont work either, pro tip is to make sure hou got a 15 stack of elusive brew for when the frost king does his Frigid assualt that way you can ignore tank switch. If you tank living sand be ready to roll out when they die..

Do you guys have more feedback regarding Elders? Especially tips for me. Our setup is: brewmaster, prot warrior, rest shammy, resto druid, holy pala, rogue, warlock, hunter, mage, shadow priest.

[Zambal]

Do you guys have more feedback regarding Elders? Especially tips for me. Our setup is: brewmaster, prot warrior, rest shammy, resto druid, holy pala, rogue, warlock, hunter, mage, shadow priest.

Use cd dueing frigid assault, that was the only thing that hurt me, interrupt sul on cd, you should take the living sand and burst them down, dont forget leg sweep when they are about to die and roll out, also need a range to interrupt sul once after so he moves away. Your worlock should be able to slow all the adds from the priest but if not throw you barrels on them to keep them slowed.

Dont forget to move from the charge...

[Artaius]

Do you guys have more feedback regarding Elders? Especially tips for me. Our setup is: brewmaster, prot warrior, rest shammy, resto druid, holy pala, rogue, warlock, hunter, mage, shadow priest.

My guild also runs w/ a Brewmaster and Warrior. I tanked Mar'li and the warrior did Sul/Frost, because I could Leg Sweep/Keg Smash/Clash the Loa Spirit.
Warrior tanked Sul/Frost on the left side, Me on the Right, he would soak the first stun with major CDs, so we got more cleave damage on Sul, and from then on I would taunt off rotating my major CDs during Frost. I stayed on Mar'li interrupting as much as possible until she died, everyone else focused Sul. We managed to kill Sul before he got empowered, using Lust at the start. By doing this we completely avoided the Living Sand, although in previous attempts when we couldn't, I just treated them like normal aoe but strafed backwards more as they started to die.
We ended up 2 healing for our kill, with a hpal and disc priest.
Here's our logs:
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-5s...?s=2128&e=2622
Skarn being the Prot Warrior, Me being Badger.

[Biggety]

It's a shame because mastery stacking could be interesting? There was some person who was toying around (and posted the numbers on the Brewmaster tank thread on the battle.net forums) with the Rune of Re-Origination with mastery being the highest stat for the proc usage and it seemed different and/or interesting enough to look into.

I hate proc trinkets as a tank with slight exceptions for the "if you drop under 35%, here's a shield/heal/avoidance proc" variety. We don't get many/any of those as brewmasters. I have to think that RoR, which will be very nice for WW, would end up proccing exactly when I don't need it as a brewmaster, e.g. RoR procs killing my EB generation when I need crit for an upcoming dread thrash type ability. I doubt I would ever equip that particular trinket as a brewmaster.

[Kisho]

I hate proc trinkets as a tank with slight exceptions for the "if you drop under 35%, here's a shield/heal/avoidance proc" variety. We don't get many/any of those as brewmasters. I have to think that RoR, which will be very nice for WW, would end up proccing exactly when I don't need it as a brewmaster, e.g. RoR procs killing my EB generation when I need crit for an upcoming dread thrash type ability. I doubt I would ever equip that particular trinket as a brewmaster.

But your crit is probably going to be your highest stat, if it isn't already, so you'll boost your crit to silly high levels. You'll lose mastery, which isn't an issue, and you'll lose haste, which as long as you have Shuffle uptime banked won't be an issue either. And judging on the bosses I've tanked so far, Shuffle uptime is easy to save up, so the Rune of Re-origination isn't going to have any serious negative effects when it procs.

[Eijy]

Considering you full tier 14, it work out you get, like, Idk, a shoulder not tier piece with ilv 522 and change? considering you gonna lose your set bonus

[Gondlem]

I don't know if I'd like Rune of Re-Origination as a brewmaster if I wasn't keeping mastery as my #1 stat. While obviously a huge boost to any secondary would be theoretically nice, the reality is that reducing your mastery to 0 for 10 seconds does mean you'd just flat out take more burst damage during the proc. Combining a Rune proc with a bad avoidance streak could easily get you killed, so you'd want to make sure you always used EB when your trinket procced or whatever if you were actively tanking. Seems like having to CD through your own trinket proc isn't an ideal scenario. May only apply to 25 mans/heroics or whatever, but I'd certainly not use the trinket if I wasn't prioritising mastery.

It's absolutely amazing if you're stacking mastery though, probably the best mitigation proc trinket I've ever seen in terms of its impact on survivability, and it's also great with crit if you're off-tanking or in a situation where you're not likely to die as it's a massive DPS increase.

[Brian23]

I know this is a really dumb question, but I just can't figure it out.

How do I tell what kind of damage is incoming? Is there a site where I can read what kind of damage a special is (physical or magical) or an Addon I can use? Its my biggest weakness and I am just drawing a massive brain phart on the whole thing and have been for ages. :/

[siccora]

In the Dungeon/Raid Guides there are all spells and skills with a detailled discription what kind of damage source every spell has.

[Deleted]

I know this is a really dumb question, but I just can't figure it out.

How do I tell what kind of damage is incoming? Is there a site where I can read what kind of damage a special is (physical or magical) or an Addon I can use? Its my biggest weakness and I am just drawing a massive brain phart on the whole thing and have been for ages. :/

Generally if it's not actually smacking you, it's magic. The Dungeon Journal tells you all though.

[Kisho]

I know this is a really dumb question, but I just can't figure it out.

How do I tell what kind of damage is incoming? Is there a site where I can read what kind of damage a special is (physical or magical) or an Addon I can use? Its my biggest weakness and I am just drawing a massive brain phart on the whole thing and have been for ages. :/

Combat log tells you, as well as World of Logs.

[Noventforme]

Hey guys,

I am not sure if this is a correct place to ask. But I know that there was a rolling restart to fix the Monk's DPS bug. I actually had to pretty much tell my team to call the raid two hours early few nights ago when I alt-tabbed to read up on monk forum and found out about the bug. I was doing Thrones of Thunder, whoever, I have checked the WoLs on our Horridon Kill, I don't see anything about RJW actually buffing the Spinning Crane Kick by 3000x instead of 300. So I am just asking for the clarification on what was the original bug? Was it bugged for WW, or BrM as well? I just want to be so sure that I did made a right decision by asking my team to stop raiding because I do not want them to exploit the bug unintentionally.

So I am thinking that this bug has been limited to T14 and Heroics, instead of ToT, or am I wrong on that?

Edit: I posted in this thread because I am a brewmaster and this is the most active thread for Brewmaster.

[SurrealNight]

It's absolutely amazing if you're stacking mastery though, probably the best mitigation proc trinket I've ever seen in terms of its impact on survivability, and it's also great with crit if you're off-tanking or in a situation where you're not likely to die as it's a massive DPS increase.

You still only gain 1% shuffle for every 960 mastery and I'm clearing content just fine with 1500 mastery right now. Even if you swapped around all of my stats that would still take me to 7.8% shuffle (which would double at the trinket proc) but at a massive hit to the haste and crit #'s I have now.

Now factor in getting the 2P bonus which runs exclusively based on crit and gives you 12% shuffle in return for stacking crit and it's almost as good as the double mastery scenario without sacrificing all your other secondary stats. If I was going to use the trinket I would probably continue to run a crit heavy build just like I am today.

[kaiadam]

You still only gain 1% shuffle for every 960 mastery and I'm clearing content just fine with 1500 mastery right now. Even if you swapped around all of my stats that would still take me to 7.8% shuffle (which would double at the trinket proc) but at a massive hit to the haste and crit #'s I have now.

Now factor in getting the 2P bonus which runs exclusively based on crit and gives you 12% shuffle in return for stacking crit and it's almost as good as the double mastery scenario without sacrificing all your other secondary stats. If I was going to use the trinket I would probably continue to run a crit heavy build just like I am today.

1% shuffle every 960 sounds low but when that trinket procs you 15-20k worth of secondary stats, it's amazing to go from 60% to 80% shuffle - it's like half of fortifying brew. Basically that trinket is a shieldwall whenever it procs.

While there's no fight (on normal at least) that really screams for mastery stacking, having cleared 45 (yes, 45 - 12/12/10/9/2) bosses in throne of thunder last week, I feel that it definitely helps. I know there were at least two or three separate occasions that stand out in my head when my brm would've died if she had 50% stagger and most likely would've wiped when it was a kill.

Sadly, the 2p was nerfed. Instead of just flat +12% shuffle, it's +12% of what you currently have. So 50% -> 56% instead of 50% -> 62%.

[SurrealNight]

1% shuffle every 960 sounds low but when that trinket procs you 15-20k worth of secondary stats, it's amazing to go from 60% to 80% shuffle - it's like half of fortifying brew. Basically that trinket is a shieldwall whenever it procs.

My 1544 mastery is showing +1.61% so that conversion rate is correct. So I have about 16k allocated towards those three stats so lets say 5.5k Haste, 6k Mastery, 4.5k Crit would result in 5.5k + (10k*200%) = 27.08% shuffle with an actual gain of 20.83%.

That is a big boost to passive "block" mechanic but at the same time your dropping out of haste to clear the extra stagger (which may not be an issue if you have Chi banked already or the 4P) and running with only 0 to 4500 crit rating which will drag your EB (RNG blah blah) uptime down (and 2P uptime). Maybe someone wants to chime in on what EB uptime difference between like 4000 vs 8500 crit looks like.

AMR seems to sim the trinket at an 11% uptime which basically drags the effective crit/haste ratings down by that much if you want to look at fight length averages. The other thing I don't like is the mastery "version" of this trinket provides zero benefit once the other tank taunts which is basically every fight in most cases for 5.2, at least the haste/crit varieties provide off-tanking benefits (Yes I know it's our job to survive just pointing this detail out).

I'm still undecided on this one until I get the 4p probably or hit a fight where EH is all that matters or is an issue. Trying to balance a Haste = X, Crit = Y, Mastery > X & Y combo just doesn't seem that hot for normal mode.

Sadly, the 2p was nerfed. Instead of just flat +12% shuffle, it's +12% of what you currently have. So 50% -> 56% instead of 50% -> 62%.

^#@%@#@!

[Deleted]

Hmmm the rep trinket from shado-pan assault.. any good? The hit with the agi proc isn't bad...

Is it better than LFR Terror in the Mists/ Relic of Xuen?

Hit isn't really I have a problem with as other people most likely don't