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Introduction
Hey everyone, I’m Nate, a former analyst and main Tank for Method, and welcome to the Brewmaster Monk Guide for Midnight! I’ve been playing Brewmaster for many years at the top level, and this guide is here to help you master the specialization! From Stagger and damage smoothing, to your rotation and all the utility on offer, this is your one stop shop.
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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
- Lack of Defensive cooldowns
What has changed
Midnight Brewmaster Monk Changes
With Midnight, Brewmaster monk has seen a lot of changes to help reduce the complexity of the spec and make Stagger feel more consistent than previously. Most of these changes revolve around talents, and below will be a comprehensive list of everything new, removed and reworked!
New:
- Reinvigoration = A 30% movement speed buff after successfully dispelling an ally with Detox.
- Silent Sanctuary = While no enemies are within 15 yards, heal for a small amount.
- Stillstep Coil = Enemies stunned by Leg Sweep are now slowed after the stun by 50% for 5 seconds.
- Chi Transfer = Touch Of Death now heals you for 50% of its damage dealt.
- Improved Blackout Kick = Blackout Kick deals 20% increased damage.
- Swift As A Coursing River = Drinking Brews gives a movement speed and attack speed buff for 15 seconds.
- Jade Flash = Crackling Jade Lightning hits 4 targets, has a lower channel time, costs 75% less energy, but has a 60 second cooldown.
- Celestial Flames = Drinking brews has a chance to grant you additional fire damage on Special Delivery and Rushing Jade Wind.
- Awakening Spirit = Casting Purifying Brew causes you to absorb Stagger ticks, up to a cap.
- Vital Flame = Heal for 50% of your fire and nature damage dealt.
- Fuel On The Fire = Casting Exploding Keg empowered Keg Smash to summon whirling flames.
- Empty The Cellar = Exploding Keg can be reactivated within 20 seconds to throw additional kegs at enemies that provide brew cdr.
- Heart Of The Ox = Gain 5% Mastery, doubling while your Ox is active.
- Shado Over The Battlefield = Flurry Strikes deal extra nature damage to enemies.
- Combat Stance = Roll cooldown reduced by 10%.
- Initiator's Edge = Gain temporary movement speed when entering combat.
- Stand Ready = Summoning Niuzao instantly grants 10 stacks of Flurry Charges.
- Weapons Of The Wall = Flurry Charge generation increased and Flurry Strikes trigger more often during Niuzao.
- Harmonic Surge = Casting Celestial Brew or Celestial Infusion causes your next 2 casts of Tiger Palm or Vivify to deal bonus Nature damage split among nearby enemies.
- Potential Energy = Casting Keg Smash causes your next cast of Tiger Palm or Vivify to trigger a Harmonic Surge.
- Meditative Focus = Empowers Blackout Combo and Press The Advantage. Blackout Combo further empowers Tiger Palm and Keg Smash, and Press The Advantage deals increased nature damage.
Reworked:
- Fast Feet = Increases Blackout Kick and Spinning Crane Kick damage (was Rising Sun Kick damage).
- Vivacious Vivification / Chi Wave = Triggers from Keg Smash (was Rising Sun Kick).
- Ferocity Of Xuen = Changed to a 2 rank talent (2%/4% respectively).
- Diffuse Magic = No longer an ability. Grants Fortifying Brew the dispel and debuff reflection effect.
- Fatal Touch = Only reduces Touch Of Death cooldown now (also provided a damage increase afterwards before).
- Keg Smash = Now deals additional damage to your main target.
- Staggering Strikes = The amount of Stagger cleared with Blackout Kick now scales with your missing hp.
- Spirit Of The Ox = Now only triggers from Blackout Kick (was Rising Sun Kick too).
- Purifying Brew = Now clears either 50% of your Stagger, or a minimum of 8% of your max hp.
- Celestial Brew/Celestial Infusion = Baseline absorb massively buffed, but Purified Chi no longer exists.
- Fluidity Of Motion = No longer reduces the damage of Blackout Kick
- Pretense Of Instability = Now triggers from any brews (was only purify and celestial).
- Bob And Weave = Increases the duration of Stagger by 5 seconds (was 3).
- Walk With The Ox = CDR for Ox was removed.
- Dragonfire Brew = No longer scales Breath Of Fire damage with Stagger, but buffed to compensate.
- High Tolerance = Haste buff removed, grants brew CDR on top of the Stagger delay.
- Exploding Keg = Now also resets the cooldown of Keg Smash.
- Press The Advantage = Now uses a Tiger Palm as the bonus attack (was Keg Smash or Rising Sun Kick).
- Blackout Combo = The buff can only be consumed by Keg Smash or Tiger Palm. (Breath Of Fire and Brew interactions removed).
- Ox Stance = No longer scales with Stagger level.
- Invoke Niuzao, The Black Ox = Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes and now stomps when you cast Blackout Kick (was Purifying Brew).
- Stormstout's Last Keg = Bonus damage is now only to the main target, but has additional range.
- Flurry Strikes = Flurry Charges are now generated from Auto Attacks at 2 or 1 per auto, depending on whether you use 1h or 2h weapons. Flurry Charges are now also all spent whenever Keg Smash is cast, with a cap of 30 charges (up from 10).
- Veteran's Eye = Simple Haste increase
- One Versus Many = Auto Attack crits now generate twice as many Flurry Charges and the damage of Keg Smash is increased (was bonus charges on Keg Smash).
- Efficient Training = Additional 25 seconds of CDR on Niuzao (was Weapons Of Order when spending energy).
- Against All Odds = Passive Agility buff (was temporary when you spent Flurry Charges).
- Vigilant Watch = Blackout Kick critical damage increased (was a Flurry Strikes increase when casting Blackout Kick).
- Wisdom Of The Wall = While Niuzao is active, Breath Of Fire triggers three bonus Flurry Strikes (Was granting one of 4 buffs with every 10 charges spent).
- Overwhelming Force/Way Of A Thousand Strikes = No longer includes Rising Sun Kick.
- Coalescence = Kegsmash spends Vitality to increase its damage done and vitality generation from other abilities increased (Was Aspect Of Harmony increasing damage from your abilities to enemies).
Removed: