This is not a supposed to be an in-depth guide, but i wanted to share/discuss WW pvp nuances i have found out. Feel free to correct/contribute.
Gearing:
Our main nukes scale with weapon damage, not so much agility, so you want to stack as much pvp power as possible. Gem agil/pvp power in red, resil/pvp power yellow, pure pvp power in blue.
Macros:
I personally use this macro for disable:
#showtooltip disable
/cancelaura spinning crane kick
/cast [target=mouseover,harm][harm] disable
This allows me to mouseover root someone still in paralysis without it breaking if i'm not targeting them (I have targetlasttarget bound.) This lets you pull off a similar old trick that rogues could do with cheap shotting w/o breaking sap.
I highly recommend you guys use this macro for touch of death:
#showtooltip touch of death
/targetlasttarget
/targetlasttarget
/cancelaura spining crane kick
/cast touch of death
It removes some of the delay by forcing the server/client to realize your target is <10% hp when you spam it. It works for warrior execute and priest swd too.
Burst:
It takes Xuen about 5-8 seconds to switch to whatever you're attacking. If you're plan is to hit a healer and then paralyze, let him sit low, --> hard swap to a dps, then you don't want to pop Xuen too early. You don't want to blackout kick before hard swaps because that leaves a dot too.
Spinning Fire Blossom and PvP Use Trinket: That bonus 4k+ agility from the trinket actually increases the damage of this skill by close to 40%. By comparison the bonus agility only increases our physical dmg by ~15% (loose estimate.) Thus, don't be afraid to use this skill if you're being kited with your bonus agility up.
Misc:
- Fists of Fury will stun for full 4s to anyone hit, regardless of which tick they were hit by, or if they weren't hit by any subsequent ticks.
- Flying serpent's kick provides a snare for disable root.
- You can and should detox spriests devouring plague. It does a lot of damage and heals them.
- Chi torpedo travels a little bit farther and faster than roll. 350% move for 1s vs 375% for 1s. (Flying serpent's kick is 400%.) You can be cc'ed while rolling, stopping your roll; be careful.
- Glyph of spinning fire blossom is very good at stomping shaman totems. It will also be very good at killing priest psyfiends in 5.1.