Introduction
Hey everyone, I’m Nate, an Analyst and former main Tank for Method, and welcome to the Brewmaster Monk Guide for Midnight! I’ve been playing Brewmaster for many years, and this guide is here to help you master the specialization, from Stagger and damage smoothing, to your rotation and all the utility you have to offer.
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Brewmaster Monk Overview
In Midnight, Brewmaster has been simplified alongside other classes. There’s been a ton of changes from The War Within and in this guide I’ll walk you through everything and how to get the most of our beloved green class.
Strengths:
- Extremely Durable
- Strong Offensive Output
- Versatile Utility and Crowd Control
- Hypermobility
- Mystic Touch
Weaknesses:
- Complexity
- No spec unique utility
- Self-Sustain
What has changed
Midnight Pre-Patch Brewmaster Monk Changes
With Midnight, Brewmaster monk has seen many talent changes; many of these have been pruned to help reduce the complexity of the spec and more specifically, effects that were based on Stagger in the past have been tuned to be more consistent.
Here is a few examples of some core-abilities you may remember, which have since been removed going into Midnight:
All is not lost however, as a result of these removals the core themes of the spec have been maintained and the playstyle is easier to understand than ever. Now to go over some things that have been added.
Exploding Keg now functions as a more integral part of the Brewmaster’s kit, which is accompanied by two extra talents to help to give it even more value, which are:
Blackout Combo only interacts with Keg Smash and Tiger Palm, this helps to alleviate the rotational pressure surrounding using the combo correctly or incorrectly.
Hero Talents have also seen changes, with Shado-Pan having been almost completely revisited, and Master of Harmony receiving changes that help compliment the core playstyle a little more, instead of revolving almost entirely around Coalescence, which I’ll talk about more in the Talents section of the guide.
For the full list of changes, check out the official patch notes.