Brewmaster Monk Rotation Guide - Shadowlands 9.0.5

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猛虎掌 (be sure to save enough Energy to cast Keg Smash when it becomes available)

神鹤引项踢 (be sure to save enough Energy to cast Keg Smash when it becomes available)

Covenant Abilities

神鹤引项踢 (be sure to save enough Energy to cast Keg Smash when it becomes available)

Keys to Being A High Damage Tank

Keep 醉酿投 and 幻灭踢 on cooldown. This is critical!

猛虎掌 is a terrible offensive (and defensive) skill, so using it as little as possible is a good thing.

Maintain 碧玉疾风! You can still use it while dealing with mechanics that force you away from a boss, so letting it fall off is nearly always a mistake.

移花接木 is a better offensive keybind in single target than 猛虎掌 if you have 5 Healing Spheres and the heal won't just be overhealing.

神鹤引项踢 is better than 猛虎掌 in 3+ target AoE.

轮回之触 and 玄牛下凡 are your offensive cooldowns, so try to make as much use of them as possible.

Brewmaster Monk Opener嚎镇八方

Drink a 幻影火焰药水/幽魂敏捷药水 as you begin the pull, if you deem it necessary (yes for raid and Mythic+ bosses, maybe not for trash pulls in Mythic+ dungeons)

Cast 碧玉疾风 before pulling the enemy.

In raids, 嚎镇八方 the boss to lock down initial threat and positioning if you are tanking the boss first. In Mythic+ dungeons, save 嚎镇八方 to grab stragglers.

Cast Covenant abilities (if you Kyrian/Venthyr/Necrolord) while closing distance with the boss.

Use trinkets and cast 醉酿投 once you are in range.

Continue the rotation as normal!

Brew Management, or Drinking Your Way to Safety铁骨酒

Try to keep 天神酒 and 活血酒 on cooldown at all times.

Baseline Brewmaster Monk AbilitiesOffensive Skills

醉酿投 is the core offensive skill for Brewmaster Monks. It's your main source of damage and generates your defensive resources. It's your one and only.

幻灭踢 is the #2 offensive skill for Brewmaster Monks. It deals decent single-target damage and generates defensive value in the form of Mastery stacks. Simple, but effective.

火焰之息 is the secondary AoE damage skill. It doesn't deal very good damage, and the 5% damage reduction debuff is also pretty minor. It isn't great, but it is better than nothing!

猛虎掌 is the basic single-target filler. It's not really a great skill, but it does add a tiny bit of damage and defensive value. Its primary role is to prevent you from capping on Energy.

神鹤引项踢 is the basic AoE filler. It's also not great, but it is a decent little AoE damage skill. It suspends your autoattack while kicking, so it's not generally worth using against fewer than 3 targets.

Defensive Skills

活血酒 is your primary damage reduction skill. It's powered by Keg Smash and Tiger Palm, it's fairly effective at removing damage, and it empowers your next Celestial Brew.

天神酒 is a great big shield on a relatively short cooldown. It's very strong and can be a great counter to many boss mechanics, although you generally do not want to let it sit on cooldown for very long.

醉拳 passively smooths your damage intake. It doesn't actually grant direct damage reduction, although Purifying Brew does to a somewhat-diminished degree, but it does make your health pool much smoother, and easier for healers to keep above 0.

酒醒入定 increases the value of your base Stagger. Despite being applied by rotational skills, it's effectively passive. If you play the spec even half-decently, it will be up 100% of the time.

精通：醉拳大师 is the Brewmaster Mastery. It's another source of consistent, passive damage reduction. It's pretty good.

Healing Skills

移花接木 is the most reliable self-heal available to Monks. It's not particularly powerful, but it is better than nothing.

玄牛之赐 grants reactive self-healing as a reward for taking damage. Pooling a few orbs can be very helpful as a reactive heal you can quickly walk through when you take burst damage.

活血术 is the cast-time, targetable heal available to Monks. It's not really usable during combat, but it can be useful for topping up between pulls or during intermission phases, or if you have to kite during a particularly tough Mythic+ pull.

天神护佑 is a passive increase to healing intake that scales with your Critical Strike chance. Nothing more to say about it, really! It's good!

Mobility Skills

滚地翻 is the most basic mobility skill in the game, and it's very, very good.

魂体双分 lets you set a spirit, then transfer to it with 魂体双分：转移. It's a short-range teleport effect with some setup required. It's strong, it just requires some planning and a lot of situational awareness.

对冲 is back from Mists of Pandaria! It's the same buggy, broken skill it always was, so don't expect it to work right most of the time! It is supposed to function like an equal mixture of Charge and Death Grip, but it generally leaves you out of melee range of your target even when it works correctly. Additionally, it has a tendency to not work at all, but still go on cooldown. If your target is immune to grips, it will sometimes only charge you halfway to them, while they remain stationary. Other times, it won't move you or the target, but will still go on cooldown. If your target can be gripped, but you cannot path to your target (such as if you're on a ledge), it will sometimes grip them halfway to you, while you remain stationary. Neat, right? Ultimately, it can still be useful as a grip, but more often, it's useful as an AoE root when you need to kite in Mythic dungeons.

迅如猛虎 is a talent, and a very good one. It grants an extra movement speed keybind on a short cooldown, and it even clears roots and slows. It's terrific.

Offensive Cooldowns

轮回之触 is a simple, hard-hitting offensive cooldown. Use it to deal extra damage to low-health bosses, or to quickly kill off adds.

玄牛下凡 Is another simple offensive cooldown. You summon him, he comes out and deals AoE damage and siphons off part of your Stagger damage. Thanks, buddy.

Defensive Cooldowns

壮胆酒 is the ultimate Brewmaster defensive cooldown. It increases your health, decreases your damage taken, and increases your Stagger conversion rate. It will stop you from dying. It has a long cooldown, but it is reduced by 醉酿投 and 猛虎掌, just like 天神酒 and 活血酒.

禅悟冥想 is an extremely situational cooldown. It greatly reduces your damage taken, but is broken immediately upon being auto-attacked and requires you to remain stationary. It is useful for reducing damage from a telegraphed boss ability with a large delay or cast time, but it is otherwise a dangerous DPS and defensive loss, since channeling 禅悟冥想 means you cannot generate Brew charges or deal damage in any way. It was an extremely powerful cooldown against Argus’ scythe attacks, which brings up the hardest component of using 禅悟冥想: timing it after auto-attacks and before the enemy cast goes off. If the cast timer is relatively long, it’s not too bad, but as was the case on Argus, his scythe cast was very quick. 禅悟冥想 rewards quick reactions with a short, extremely powerful survival cooldown.

躯不坏 is a talented defensive cooldown. It scales up in effectiveness based upon how much damage is dealt by each ability that hits you. It’s a very solid defensive cooldown, and very easy to use, but it does require sacrificing two more readily available talents. If you need a potent defensive cooldown on a moderate cooldown, 躯不坏’s the go-to.

Utility Skills

玄秘掌 is the most effective piece of Brewmaster utility. All Monk specs have it, but Brewmasters have the easiest time applying it to all enemies within range. It’s a simple but effective 5% damage increase for all physical damage-dealers. It’s awesome!

玄牛雕像 is a niche value talent. It generates significant threat on all enemies within its radius. While it doesn’t generate enough threat to hold mobs off of a tank, it will pick up constantly-spawning adds and keep them off of your DPS and healers, giving you or another tank a few seconds of breathing room to pick them up. It can also be used to AoE taunt by casting 嚎镇八方 onto it.

嚎镇八方 is Brewmaster’s unique tank utility. Targets affected by 嚎镇八方 move 50% faster. This can be tremendous for quickly repositioning bosses, particularly those with important positioning requirements. It’s strong.

切喉手 is the Monk interrupt. There are many like it, but this one is yours.

清创生血 allows Monks to remove Poisons and Diseases from friendly targets. The applications are rare but highly useful on occasion in Mythic dungeons.

轮回转世 is the Monk single-target resurrection spell. It’s not fancy, but Monks are a tank with a rez. Like 清创生血, that can prove invaluable on occasion in Mythic dungeons.

禅宗朝圣 allows Monks to teleport to the Temple of Five Dawns on The Wandering Isle. It has a minimal combat value (although it can be used during combat), but gives all Monks the ability to return quickly to Legion-era Dalaran on an extremely short cooldown.

碎玉闪电 is a ranged tool that Monks can use to tag targets from long range. It’s virtually never worth using for damage or threat.

Brewmaster Monk Covenant Abilities

精序兵戈 is the Kyrian Monk ability. It's a big offensive/defensive cooldown that provides a lot of all-around value. It's very good, and very versatile.

骨尘酒 is the Necrolord Monk ability. It's a modest offensive/defensive cooldown, that like the Kyrian ability, provides a lot of all-around value. It's also very good and very versatile, but it is a shorter effect on a shorter cooldown. This makes it available much more often, which is good for Mythic+, but its reduced duration makes it weaker as a major burst cooldown in raids.

妖魂踏 is the Night Fae Monk ability. It provides a steady AoE DPS and healing increase, and occasional boosts to effective health. It's an interesting concept, but it's relatively undertuned given the major opportunity cost of having to constantly monitor your position and try to fight on the Faeline to get ability resets.

陨落僧众 is the Venthyr Monk ability. It's the simplest of the four options, a fire-and-forget DPS cooldown. Not much more to it, really. It deals a lot of burst damage.

Mastery

精通：醉拳大师 is the Brewmaster Mastery - the Brewmastery, if you will. When you are hit by a melee attack or deal damage with 幻灭踢, you gain a stack of 精通：醉拳大师, which increases your dodge percentage equal to your Mastery percentage. When you dodge an attack, all stacks of 精通：醉拳大师 are consumed.

The design creates soft breakpoints at which you gain a slight theoretical defensive advantage. For example, if you have a base dodge chance of 10% and 29% Mastery, then with 3 stacks of 精通：醉拳大师, you will have a dodge chance of 97%. This means you still have a 3% chance to be hit. With everything else the same, at 30% Mastery you would have a 100% chance to dodge, meaning you cannot be hit by more than 3 attacks in a row before guaranteeing a dodge. This sounds great on paper!

In practice, breakpoints are not that important. 精通：醉拳大师 stacks being completely consumed upon dodging a single attack undermines the value of breakpoints. Going above the number of stacks you require to guarantee a dodge puts a “hard cap” on 精通：醉拳大师’s value. If you get unlucky with dodges and cast 幻灭踢 at the “wrong” time, you can easily push yourself over the hard cap. Because dodges are beyond your control, planning your ability usage around 精通：醉拳大师 stacks is a fool’s errand and will result in you taking substantially more damage in the long run.

Because Mastery stacks are consumed when you dodge and only when you dodge, you can intentionally turn your back to an enemy to guarantee you are incapable of dodging while continuing to generate Mastery stacks.

Why would anyone ever intentionally increase their damage taken? To guarantee a dodge against a hard-hitting dodgeable boss ability.

This is rarely useful. Nevertheless, for the handful of hard-hitting boss abilities that can be dodged, this is a useful, weird tool that Brewmasters have in their kit.

Advanced Brewmaster Mechanics天神护佑天神护佑天神护佑醉酿投猛虎掌醉酿投猛虎掌玄牛之赐玄牛之赐醉拳玄牛之赐玄牛之赐玄牛之赐Energy, Brews, and Brewmaster Resources猛虎掌

Think about Brewmaster like a bowl of cereal: The rotation is the cereal, Brew Charges are the milk, and Energy is the bowl. The bowl’s important, you couldn’t have a bowl of cereal without it, but the stuff most people care about is the cereal. Some people might prefer the milk, but if you find someone whose favorite part of cereal is the bowl, that’s an alien (poorly) impersonating a human. Run. Away.

醉酿投醉酿投猛虎掌

Rule 1: Never let 天神酒 and 活血酒 sit on cooldown for long while tanking.

Rule 2: Use 活血酒 at the right times to throttle damage intake.

Rule 3: Generate as many Brews as you can.

活血酒

The number of enemies you’re facing can increase your damage taken, which would result in higher 活血酒 usage rates when tanking in AoE, but one dangerous enemy can be just as deadly (often moreso!) than a pack of adds.

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评论来自 Llarold

Unfortunately, Rushing Jade Wind does not scale with haste, and Serenity is still locked in BrM's 1.0 second GCD that cannot go any lower, so neither cooldown benefits from Heroism/ Bloodlust at all.

These statements are problematic. A rudimentary examination of RJW will reveal that Haste improves its damage interval and CD. Moreover, because Serenity doesn't scale with Haste at all, it should be used outside of Heroism/Bloodlust/Time Warp windows in order to avoid squandering the increased energy generation they provide.

评论来自 Zoard

What about Blackout Strike?

评论来自 Susat

By far my favourite guide on here for one reason. The strange paragraph that makes me laugh out loud every time.

Amazing.

评论来自 nemoJoe

"There are many like it, but this one is yours."

Thank you for putting a huge smile on my face. I remember...

评论来自 xxsebbo

(“Use Keg Smash on cooldown!” used to be the Brewmaster’s Golden Rule. Now? Eh, not quite as much.)

What has changed?

评论来自 Fexiz

I recently started a monk and plan on tanking in BFA. So I started reading up on it through your guide.

It really is a nice guide you've put together with lots of information and made it quite informal which makes the adoption of information so smooth!

Thanks for this, highly appreciated! /bow

评论来自 monkmanpig

Error report: Zen Meditation does not require you to be stationary.

Brewmaster Monk Rotation Guide - Shadowlands 9.0.5

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