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Ultimately, we expect our gameplay loop will look something like this: However, that isn’t how the kit really fits together right now. The intention seems to be for us to play around Purified Chi, stacking it up to get HUGE shields from Celestial Brew. If it does not, then we will have it once every 3-4 Purifies and 120-160% increased effectiveness per cast. If Celestial Brew has its cooldown reduced as well, we will be able to cast it roughly every 18 seconds-once every 2 Purifies, giving it an 80% increased absorb on most casts. For context: we currently Purify roughly once every 20-25 seconds-less than half of the current Alpha rate. This gives about one Purifying Brew every 9 seconds in combat without any talents or haste bonuses. This is basically our current situation, minus the extra button presses for Ironskin Brew.Īs a byproduct of maintaining Shuffle, we’ll reduce the cooldown of our brews by about 40%. Keg Smash grants 5 seconds per cast and Blackout Kick grants 3 seconds, which results in 11 seconds of Shuffle for every 8 seconds of your rotation. On a single-target fight, you’ll maintain Shuffle by performing your rotation.

Taken as a whole, we can get a fairly complete picture of the mitigation playstyle Brewmasters can expect on the current Alpha build.

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A full 10 stack cast is very potent-so we are reasonably confident that this is a bug. At this time, the buff is bugged and is not consumed by Celestial Brew, giving a permanent 400% increase at 10 stacks. Purifying at Light grants 1 stack, while Moderate and Heavy Stagger grant 2 and 3 stacks, respectively. This is particularly relevant because Purifying Brew casts now grant Purified Chi, a 40% increase to the next Celestial Brew cast that stacks up to 10 times. Otherwise, we are looking at 3-4 per Celestial. If it ultimately does benefit from Brew cooldown reduction, we will get 2 Purifies per Celestial. Unlike Ironskin Brew, Celestial Brew does not share charges with Purifying Brew. However, given the name change from Guard, this may be a bug. Note that as of this writing, CB does not benefit from the cooldown reduction tied to abilities like Keg Smash. Celestial BrewĬelestial Brew grants a large absorb for 8 seconds on a 30 second cooldown (reduced by talents). Thankfully, we have a new toy to deal with this limitation. Second, Stagger now only affects Physical damage, leaving Magic damage totally un-Staggered. Importantly: the amount of Shuffle granted by these abilities is high enough to have 100% uptime on the buff with our current rotation.

It is replaced by the return of Shuffle, which is granted by casting Keg Smash, Blackout Kick, and SCK. Functionally, these remain very similar to their Battle for Azeroth incarntions-with two major exceptions. Two key pieces of our existing kit remain in Shadowlands: Stagger and Purifying Brew. At a high level, our new mitigation toolkit breaks down into three main pieces. We covered the high-level changes we knew about in our previous post, but now we have numbers and details from Alpha to know how it works in much greater detail. Brewmaster’s mitigation toolkit is changing going into Shadowlands.

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