Mastering tanks, one boss at a time.
I planned to post this yesterday, back when it was timely. But I got a fancy beer instead. We have miraculously few changes this patch. A dps nerf, a tankiness buff, some talent buffs. Most of what you might have seen in data mining is simply tooltip updates for hotfixes that happened a long time ago.
Sticking to brewmaster changes to keep things simple.
This guide is the distilled essence of what is needed for tanks to jump into their first few attempts of bosses in Blackrock Foundry. You won’t find any in-depth strategies here (though you might find them here). Instead, you’re going to get just enough information to wrap your head around the encounter; a trickle of strategy, not a firehose. This guide is ideal for those attempting LFR, Normal, and Heroic BRF.
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This guide is the distilled essence of what is needed for tanks to jump into their first few attempts of bosses in Highmaul. You won’t find any in-depth strategies here (though you might find them here). Instead, you’re going to get just enough information to wrap your head around the encounter; a trickle of strategy, not a firehose. This guide is ideal for those attempting LFR and Normal Highmaul, though the mechanics are identical to Heroic Highmaul (if only requiring a more in-depth knowledge of what’s going on).
This guide is essentially the same one that I posted to Wowhead, except with more Brewmaster-specific information.
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A few months ago I wrote about Shuffle’s position as a maintenance buff, and the positives and negatives of it being up all the time. Some changes in Warlords will further decrease any remaining complication that came with maintaining shuffle, while also reducing the necessity to keep it active. In turn, Purifying Brew usage will only increase.
As we drive closer to actual release, we want to know more about what stats we’ll actually need to look for. The tank squish messed some things up, and we still don’t know how hard bosses are actually going to hit, but we can still make some educated guesses.
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Stance of the Sturdy Ox now also provides the benefits of Brewmaster Training and Desperate Measures.
– Brewmaster Training has been removed.
– Desperate Measures has been removed.