Brewmaster Monk Tank Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Dragonflight 10.2

When you are first entering a fight and have access to every one of your cooldowns, you will initially need to focus on establishing Shuffle to bolster your defenses before continuing the main priority below. A simple single-target "opener" can be described as follows:

1. Activate Rushing Jade Wind before entering combat, and use Chi Wave as you are moving to your target.
2. Use Blackout Kick.
3. Use Keg Smash.
4. Use Blackout Kick.
5. Use Tiger Palm.
6. Use Breath of Fire.
7. Activate Weapons of Order.
8. Use Blackout Kick.
9. Use Keg Smash.
10. Use Blackout Kick.
11. Use Rising Sun Kick.
12. Use Blackout Kick.
13. Refresh your Rushing Jade Wind.
14. Use Blackout Kick.
15. Follow the main single-target priority below.

Reminder: This rotational priority is most helpful when you are in the middle of combat and need to decide what ability to use as your next choice. When entering combat, consider following the sample opening ability sequence above first before utilizing this priority system.

1. Activate Black Ox Brew — it is off the global cooldown — if your Energy is low and all charges of Purifying Brew and Celestial Brew are on cooldown.
2. Use Touch of Death on an enemy if it can be activated.
3. Cast Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox if you are taking heavy Stagger damage to deal damage with Improved Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox. Do not activate this ability if you have used Weapons of Order within the past 12 seconds.
4. Place your Summon White Tiger Statue if the enemies nearby will survive for 30 seconds or more.
5. Throw your Bonedust Brew to hit both yourself and your targets, even if the enemy is already debuffed by an activation of Bountiful Brew.
6. Use Rising Sun Kick if you have 10 stacks of the Press the Advantage buff.
7. Use Blackout Kick to trigger Blackout Combo or whenever the Charred Passions buff is present. Consume your Blackout Combo buff with Rising Sun Kick if you have 10 stacks of Press the Advantage, or otherwise with Tiger Palm. Breath of Fire is also acceptable for more defense.
8. Use Blackout Kick if the Charred Passions buff is present.
9. Use Keg Smash. Do not cast this if you have 10 stacks of Press the Advantage, unless you are in need of additional defense.
10. Use Breath of Fire.
11. Use Breath of Fire.
12. Activate Weapons of Order.
13. Use Blackout Kick.
14. Use Breath of Fire.
15. Use Breath of Fire if it was not empowered with Blackout Combo to gain the Charred Passions buff.
16. Use Rising Sun Kick.
17. Throw Exploding Keg at your targets , and ensure Rushing Jade Wind is active beforehand.
18. Use Rushing Jade Wind to maintain its buff.
19. Use a spare charge of Purifying Brew if you are taking very little damage for additional Special Delivery procs.
20. Use your second charge of Keg Smash to effectively "bank" partial recharge time when Keg Smash comes off cooldown in the middle of another ability's cast.
21. Activate Chi Wave.
22. Cast Chi Burst.
23. Use Spinning Crane Kick if there is nothing else to do and, you will still have enough Energy for your next Keg Smash.
24. Use Tiger Palm, even if the Charred Passions buff is present.
25. Use Tiger Palm if there is nothing else to do, and you will still have enough Energy for your next Keg Smash.
26. Use Spinning Crane Kick if there is nothing else to do and, you will still have enough Energy for your next Keg Smash. Do not use more than once in a row, as this prevents you from gaining stacks of Press the Advantage.

It is absolutely imperative that you have enough Energy to cast Keg Smash on cooldown, as this is a large source of damage and the main source of both cooldown reduction for your Brew-based abilities and Shuffle to empower your Stagger.

Against multiple targets, it is especially important to establish Shuffle to bolster your defenses before continuing the main priority below. A basic multi-target "opener" can be described as follows:

1. Activate Rushing Jade Wind before entering combat, and use Chi Wave as you are moving to your target.
2. Use Keg Smash.
3. Use Breath of Fire.
4. Use Breath of Fire.
5. Use Blackout Kick.
6. Use Tiger Palm.
7. Use Breath of Fire.
8. Activate Weapons of Order.
9. Use Keg Smash.
10. Use Blackout Kick.
11. Use Rising Sun Kick.
12. Use Blackout Kick.
13. Refresh your Rushing Jade Wind.
14. Use Blackout Kick.
15. Follow the main AoE priority below.

Brewmaster Monk is a somewhat unique specialization in that your rotation will mostly stay the same whether you are in single-target or multi-target combat. As a reminder, this rotational priority is most helpful when you are in the middle of combat and need to decide what ability to use as your next choice. When entering combat, consider following the sample opening ability sequence above first before utilizing this priority system.

1. Activate Black Ox Brew — it is off the global cooldown — if your Energy is low and all charges of Purifying Brew and Celestial Brew are on cooldown.
2. Use Touch of Death on an enemy if it can be activated.
3. Cast Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox if you are taking heavy Stagger damage to deal damage with Improved Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox. Do not activate this ability if you have used Weapons of Order within the past 12 seconds.
4. Place your Summon White Tiger Statue if the enemies nearby will survive for 30 seconds or more.
5. Throw your Bonedust Brew to hit both yourself and your targets, even if the enemy is already debuffed by an activation of Bountiful Brew.
6. Use Rising Sun Kick if you have 10 stacks of the Press the Advantage buff against 3 or less targets.
7. Use Blackout Kick to trigger Blackout Combo or whenever the Charred Passions buff is present. Consume your Blackout Combo buff with Rising Sun Kick if you have 10 stacks of Press the Advantage, or otherwise with Breath of Fire.
8. Use Blackout Kick to trigger Blackout Combo or whenever the Charred Passions buff is present. Consume your Blackout Combo buff with Tiger Palm. Breath of Fire is also acceptable for more defense, and will provide more damage against 3+ targets.
9. Use Blackout Kick if the Charred Passions buff is present.
10. Use Breath of Fire.
11. Use Keg Smash. Do not cast this if you have 10 stacks of Press the Advantage, unless you are facing 4+ targets.
12. Use Breath of Fire.
13. Activate Weapons of Order.
14. Use Breath of Fire.
15. Use Breath of Fire if it was not empowered with Blackout Combo to gain the Charred Passions buff.
16. Throw Exploding Keg at your targets , and ensure Rushing Jade Wind is active beforehand.
17. Cast Blackout Kick.
18. Cast Blackout Kick.
19. Cast Rising Sun Kick.
20. Use Spinning Crane Kick if the Charred Passions buff is present. Do not use more than once in a row unless fighting 3+ enemies, as this prevents you from gaining stacks of Press the Advantage.
21. Use Rushing Jade Wind to maintain its buff.
22. Use a spare charge of Purifying Brew if you are taking very little damage for additional Special Delivery procs.
23. Use your second charge of Keg Smash to effectively "bank" partial recharge time when Keg Smash comes off cooldown in the middle of another ability's cast.
24. Cast Chi Burst if it will hit at least 3 enemies.
25. Use Spinning Crane Kick if you will have enough Energy available by the time Keg Smash is available. Do not use more than once in a row unless fighting 3+ enemies, as this prevents you from gaining stacks of Press the Advantage. Use Tiger Palm instead if more Brew cooldown reduction is desired.
26. Activate Chi Wave.

Although Spinning Crane Kick deals enough damage to normally justify being a high-priority ability, it is too expensive on Energy to use when there are plenty of other abilities that are free. It will also cause you to gain stacks of Press the Advantage more slowly due to pausing your auto attack timer during its channel.

Brewmaster Monks rely on a specific ability ( Stagger) to smooth out the damage they take throughout fights. This is a somewhat complex ability, and is explained in-depth in the sections that follow.

In addition to dodging and parrying attacks, Brewmaster Monks have an additional means of mitigating the damage that they take, called Stagger. This is a key element in your survivability as a tank, so it is important to understand it correctly.

Stagger causes all attacks made against you to have their damage split into two portions:

• An instant portion will immediately deal its damage to you in the moment of the attack.
• A Staggered portion, which does its damage to you every 0.5 seconds for 10 seconds (or 13 seconds with Bob and Weave talented).

The amount of Physical damage Staggered is based on your Agility, and 45% of that amount applies to Magical attacks, including any other DoT effects. While you are Staggering damage, you will have one of three debuffs to represent how intense its DoT is: Light Stagger (green), Moderate Stagger (yellow), and Heavy Stagger (red). If you are in Heavy Stagger, then that means you are taking at least 60% of your Maximum Health as damage over its duration. However, you are likely to regularly exceed this amount in some forms of content.

Beyond that, the division between the instant and Staggered portions of damage your damage taken depends on other factors, namely whether or not you have the High Tolerance talent — which increases the Staggered portion — and whether or not you have Shuffle or Fortifying Brew with the special Fortifying Brew: Determination talent active. There is also the Bob and Weave talent, which increases the duration of the Stagger DoT by 3 seconds, slightly reducing the amount of damage dealt to you during each 0.5-second tick.

As you might have already noticed, Stagger does not by itself provide any form of damage reduction, mitigation, or avoidance. This is where Purifying Brew comes into play. Purifying Brew has 2 charges with a 20-second recharge time, and using it instantly Purifies 50% of the Staggered damage (the damage you are due to take over the next 10 seconds).

A simple example, assuming a Stagger amount of 40%, is as follows:

1. An attack of 10,000 Physical damage is performed against you.
2. 6,000 damage is dealt to you instantly.
3. A Stagger DoT is applied to you, which deals 4,000 damage over 10 seconds — essentially, 200 damage every 0.5 seconds.
   • With the Bob and Weave talent, this is instead 154 damage every 0.5 seconds over 13 seconds!
4. You cast Purifying Brew after 5 seconds, removing 50% of the Stagger DoT's 2,000 remaining damage: 1,000.
5. After 10 seconds, you have sustained 6,000 instant damage and 3,000 in Staggered damage, for a total of 9,000. You avoided 1,000 damage of the original hit with the help of Purifying Brew!
   • If you had cast Purifying Brew after only 1 second, you would have instead avoided 1,800 damage of the hit, or even 1,846 with the Bob and Weave talent.

Beyond this basic loop of Stagger and Purifying Brew, there are a number of additional effects that interact with how much damage you can delay, along with how to reduce that amount. The most important of these abilities is a passive called Shuffle. This buff increases the amount of damage you Stagger, and you are given 5 and 3 seconds of it when you Keg Smash or Blackout Kick, respectively, along with up to 4 seconds when casting Spinning Crane Kick. Shuffle can be extended until it reaches 15 seconds. Note, however, that Shuffle has no impact on "old" damage you have already Staggered, instead affecting new damage you take while the buff is active.

Shuffle is not the only effect that rewards you for actively making use of your other abilities when it comes to Stagger. There are further effects that can be used to additionally remove some of your delayed damage, such as the Staggering Strikes, Tranquil Spirit, and Quick Sip talents, or even heal you for a portion of the damage with Gai Plin's Imperial Brew. These talents exist alongside additional options that provide you with benefits for reaching ever-higher levels of Stagger as well, including High Tolerance, Training of Niuzao, and Dragonfire Brew.

There is one more ability that indirectly works with your Stagger: Celestial Brew. Although the absorb it provides for only 8 seconds may seem small at first, it can be increased to up to three times its original size with the Improved Celestial Brew talent! This is caused by the Purified Chi buff, which you will gain stacks of with every use of Purifying Brew: one stack is gained from Purifying while at Light Stagger, two stacks from Purifying in Moderate Stagger, and three from Heavy Stagger. Each stack increases the size of your next Celestial Brew shield by 20% per stack, going up to +200% at the stack cap of 10.

Finally, it is important to remember that the recharge time of Purifying Brew — along with the remaining cooldowns of Celestial Brew and Fortifying Brew — are reduced by 1 second each time you use Tiger Palm and by 3 seconds each time you use Keg Smash.

The hardest part of playing a Brewmaster Monk is remembering to maintain 100% uptime on Shuffle while trying to find the best time to make use of Purifying Brew and Celestial Brew. The latter two abilities have extremely valuable effects, but they have long initial cooldown periods between uses; however, as you continue to perform your rotation, their cooldowns will be substantially reduced. As such, you have to find an appropriate time to use them without letting the abilities sit off-cooldown and waste the cooldown reduction effects your rotation is naturally providing.

Fortunately, Shuffle is not too hard to keep up, nor is the decision on which Brew to use and when too complicated. So long as you are following the Single-Target or AoE priorities above, you should generate plenty of Shuffle time. As for your usage of Purifying Brew, there is a fairly simple set of rules to follow:

• Do not have both charges of Purifying Brew off-cooldown.
• Keep one charge available for an emergency to use right after taking a big hit.
• Use a charge as the second charge is about to come off cooldown, or if you are about to lose your Purified Chi buff from Improved Celestial Brew.

You may notice that this set of rules more or less involves you pretending that the ability has only one charge instead of two. This is intentional due to how frequently Purifying Brew will be available during your standard rotation. What this also means is that there may be times when you end up having to purify in only Light Stagger or Moderate Stagger rather than heavy, and that is okay so long as you still have that second charge ready for a sudden spike of damage.

By having access to an abundance of Purifying Brew usage, and making use of it directly after taking large amounts of damage, you will also have built up plenty of stacks of Purified Chi from Improved Celestial Brew to give you larger Celestial Brew absorbs. As a result, this ability is also often used on cooldown. It will usually be better to create more shields over time rather than possibly wasting Purified Chi stacks and cooldown reduction. There is one small thing to consider, however. You may not want to Purify any Staggered damage if you will not take enough to eat away at the entire absorb. Since Celestial Brew's shield only lasts for 8 seconds, any amount of absorption afterward is effectively wasted. As this absorb can soak up any damage — including Stagger — you can think of it as a stronger form of Purifying Brew.

If nothing else, you only need to remember to never let your Purifying Brew or Celestial Brew be unused and off-cooldown.

There are potentially 10 or more active abilities and passive effects that need to be considered in the rotation priority among your chosen talents, and many provide very different effects.

• Rising Sun Kick should essentially be used on cooldown. Although it does not directly interact with the defensive parts of the Brewmaster kit beyond the Spirit of the Ox talent, it deals plenty of damage and has no cost, making it an excellent ability to help you avoid running out of Energy.
• Chi Wave is another ability with no cost that will only be used when there is nothing else available. Its "smart" nature will choose to bounce to injured allies over those with full Health.
• Chi Burst also has no cost, but a longer cooldown than Chi Wave and exists as a secondary choice. While less useful in single-target, it has decent value in AoE and still allows you to dodge while casting.
• Summon White Tiger Statue allows you to place a statue anywhere within 40 yards that will pulse damage over a 30-second period. Due to this ability having a massive 2-minute cooldown despite its somewhat low damage, you should aim to place it near enemies that will survive for at least 30 seconds to maximize its damage potential.
• Rushing Jade Wind allows you to passively deal damage around you and has no Energy cost to maintain, so long as you remember to regularly activate the ability due to its low cooldown.
• Exploding Keg operates as one of the few tools of burst available to Brewmasters. This is due to its secondary effect of dealing bonus damage on direct hits to targets that were originally hit by the ability over a 3-second window. Due to how this ability interacts with both Rushing Jade Wind and Spinning Crane Kick, it is possible to achieve 10 or more additional hits to an enemy during this time.
• While Weapons of Order does reset the cooldown of Keg Smash, bear in mind that it only resets the cooldown of one charge if using the Stormstout's Last Keg talent. In addition, there is functionally little difference in how you apply the bonus damage debuff. So long as Keg Smash and Rising Sun Kick are being used on cooldown, you can largely ignore the bonus damage effect, as it will not cause a major change in rotation, nor will it buff the damage of trinkets or consumables. At most, you should aim to cast Bonedust Brew and Exploding Keg while your enemies have four stacks of the increased damage taken debuff.

Although it is a passive talent at its core, Press the Advantage substantially alters the flow of your rotation as a Brewmaster Monk and features massive opportunities to maximize its potential. This is primarily achieved through simply consuming your 10 stacks of the Press the Advantage buff on Rising Sun Kick whenever you can, even if it means leaving Keg Smash off-cooldown for a few seconds at a time — though it can still be useful if you are in need of a large amount of Brew cooldown reduction. Done correctly, roughly every third Rising Sun Kick will trigger Press the Advantage's extra attack!

Where the real potential of this talent comes into play is when its interactions with other talents are considered. The bonus attack of Press the Advantage works with all talents that affect Tiger Palm or Weapons of Order. These talents are:

• Face Palm — A 50% chance to deal 50% additional damage and gain additional Brew cooldown reduction.
• Counterstrike — After dodging an attack, gain 100% increased damage to your next Spinning Crane Kick or 50% to your Press the Advantage ability.
• Eye of the Tiger — Consuming your 10 stacks of Press the Advantage applies a small DoT, healing you for the same amount over time.
• Blackout Combo — Casting Blackout Kick immediately before consuming your 10 stacks of Press the Advantage on Rising Sun Kick increases its damage by 50%.
• Chi Surge — Consuming your 10 stacks of Press the Advantage applies a massive DoT, split among all targets hit. This DoT is only 50% as strong as when cast by Weapons of Order.
• Call to Arms — Consuming your 10 stacks of Press the Advantage has a chance to summon Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox for 12 seconds.

Between all of these effects, it is possible to massively inflate the damage of the extra attack from spending your 10 stacks of Press the Advantage, though it will also require incredible attention on your part to do so and still not be able to rival Weapons of Order's power. However, due to stacks of Press the Advantage buff only being generated from auto attacks with your main hand weapon, it is a substantial damage gain to receive the Windfury Totem buff from an Enhancement Shaman or even Power Infusion from a Priest when talented!

However, there is a hidden downside to this talent removing access to Tiger Palm. Without this ability, you will need to incorporate more casts of Spinning Crane Kick into your rotation, even in single-target. Ordinarily, this would not matter much, but because Spinning Crane Kick is a channeled ability, you are unable to perform auto attacks while spinning. This means that you will delay building up your stacks of Press the Advantage, and significantly so if you cast Spinning Crane Kick multiple times in a row. To get around this, make sure that you do not repeatedly use this ability unless you are fighting 3 or more targets.

Bonedust Brew's effect to replicate damage and healing effects also applies to your own self-healing, such as Expel Harm, Gift of the Ox, and even Celestial Fortune. Because of this, you should try to hit yourself with the ability on each cast to provide a nice source of additional healing. This replication also applies to abilities that deal damage over time, like Rushing Jade Wind and Breath of Fire.

When making use of the Bountiful Brew talent, be aware that you may still safely cast Bonedust Brew at any time, as its duration will simply be added to the current debuff's, up to a total of 20 seconds. By doing this, and with a little luck, it is possible to maintain Bonedust Brew for over 30 seconds at a time!

If you have chosen Black Ox Brew, you should always make sure to have consumed both of your Purifying Brew charges and that Celestial Brew is on cooldown before using it. Remember that you will also need to use another Purifying Brew charge afterward to avoid wasting any cooldown reduction and will likely put up a Celestial Brew shield that does not have many stacks of Purified Chi improving it. Since Black Ox Brew also refills all your Energy, you may also wish to cast Keg Smash or Tiger Palm/ Spinning Crane Kick at the same time. If your priority does not allow for this, however, then it is okay to waste a little bit of Energy regeneration.

Ordinarily, Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox will fall under a defensive cooldown in your kit as a Brewmaster Monk and will not require much additional thought. However, this entire perspective shifts if you have opted to talent into Improved Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox alongside Walk with the Ox. With this combination of talents, you will instead need to focus on maximizing the amount of damage you can Purify with Purifying Brew to create larger Stomps.

To do this, there are a couple of "rules" to remember regarding how Improved Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox works:

• Stagger damage Purified within the previous 6 seconds is considered for buffing Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox's Stomp. This includes the 6 seconds before it is even summoned!
• Only Stagger damage Purified with Purifying Brew counts for increasing your summon's Stomp damage. Other sources, such as Quick Sip, Staggering Strikes, Tranquil Spirit, and Touch of Death will not count.
• Stomp can critically strike and will have its bonus damage split in AoE; it can also trigger the bonus damage of Bonedust Brew.
• Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox will cast Stomp immediately upon being summoned, and up to an additional five times afterward before disappearing; a copy summoned from the Call to Arms talent will only be able to stomp up to three times instead.
• If two copies of Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox are active due to the Call to Arms talent, they will both draw from the same pool of Purified damage and reduce the effective Stomp damage of each.

With these rules in mind, some guidelines become pretty clear, such as aiming to have as many casts of Purifying Brew available as possible during each activation of Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox. In addition, if you are making use of the Call to Arms talent, then you need to make one small adjustment to your playstyle: you should not cast Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox if a copy of your celestial is already present from Weapons of Order or Press the Advantage.

As a Brewmaster, you have a number of talented defensive abilities with long cooldowns. You also have two offensive cooldowns that also provide some defensive effects as a bonus. Compared to the reactive nature of Purifying any Stagger you have built up with the help of Shuffle, these cooldowns are best used before you have taken damage in the first place.

• Fortifying Brew increases your current and maximum Health by 20% while also reducing all damage taken by 20% for 15 seconds. You can further alter it with the Fortifying Brew: Determination and Ironshell Brew talents to increase your base Stagger amount by 15% or provide you with 25% Armor and Dodge chance while active. Note that its 6-minute cooldown is reduced by 1 and 3 seconds when you use Tiger Palm and Keg Smash, respectively. This cooldown can also be reduced with the Expeditious Fortification talent. It should be used whenever you are about to take a large amount of damage. Alternatively, it can be used as an emergency cooldown when your Health is low, although it is less effective in this way.
• Zen Meditation is a very powerful defensive cooldown. It reduces damage taken by 60% for 8 seconds, but the effect is canceled prematurely if you are the victim of a melee attack or move if you do not have Fundamental Observation talented. This cooldown allows you to greatly mitigate the damage dealt by abilities with a cast time in particular, since the cast allows you to time Zen Meditation perfectly. Alternatively, it can reduce the first melee attack or boss ability that hits you while channeling it.
• Diffuse Magic is a powerful defensive cooldown that you can use to counter magic damage in particular. One of its more unique effects is the ability to both dispel and reapply a variety of potent magic debuffs to enemies.
• Dampen Harm is a survival cooldown that you can use to mitigate the damage from powerful boss attacks. It is most useful if used preemptively. A further breakdown of its damage reduction can be found in the Spell Summary.
• Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox takes on a portion of the damage you are Staggering during the time he is present while also dealing a small amount of damage. If you are not making use of the Improved Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox talent, then this damage is negligible, and the cooldown's defensive bonuses are more useful to consider.
• Touch of Death is to be used when an enemy's Health is low enough to allow it. While the damage it deals will also remove a portion of your Stagger, you are usually using it against something that is nearly dead and cannot harm you anymore. This cooldown is, therefore, more useful offensively, but you may rarely be able to plan around its defensive benefit as well.

The Amirdrassil raid features a new tier set for you to collect, and comes with two unique bonuses when wearing at least two or four pieces of its equipment:

• Monk Brewmaster 10.2 Class Set 2pc — Breath of Fire deals 40% bonus damage as Shadowflame and causes you to heal for 50% of your fire damage dealt.
• Monk Brewmaster 10.2 Class Set 4pc — Your attacks against targets afflicted by Breath of Fire have a chance to deal 15% extra damage as Shadowflame, and each Celestial Brew also grants a Stagger absorb for 100% of the Shadowflame damage you have dealt, causing damage delayed by Stagger to instead be prevented.

At first glance, the Monk Brewmaster 10.2 Class Set 2pc bonus sounds like an absurd amount of additional healing. After all, with a running theme of Shadowflame and Fire damage effects on gear throughout the entirety of Dragonflight, surely healing for 50% of all of it would make you nearly invincible! Unfortunately, however, the effect's description is a bit misleading. Rather than applying to all Fire damage you deal, it will only apply to your Fire-damage-dealing abilities as a Brewmaster Monk. This includes:

• Breath of Fire's initial hit (and additional hits from Dragonfire Brew)
• Exploding Keg's initial hit, as well as additional hits of it in the three seconds after impact
• Charred Passions damage

Although this substantially limits the amount of healing you will receive from the Monk Brewmaster 10.2 Class Set 2pc bonus, it will still effectively turn Exploding Keg into a full-heal when cast on multiple targets.

In comparison to the limited scope of the 2pc bonus, the Monk Brewmaster 10.2 Class Set 4pc is capable of triggering on nearly everything in your Brewmaster Monk toolkit, and will do so roughly 50% of the time you deal damage with any of your abilities. This is helpful, as the additional absorb against new Stagger damage when casting Celestial Brew is purely based on this additional Shadowflame damage, as well as the 40% bonus Shadowflame damage dealt through the Monk Brewmaster 10.2 Class Set 2pc bonus. On top of this, the additional Stagger absorb from this bonus effectively turns your Stagger percentage into a temporary damage reduction instead!

Overall, the Amirdrassil Brewmaster Monk set bonuses are full of potential, but due to their limited usability and relatively average tuning, are only a bit more effective than if you had thrown another set of enchantments on your gear. They are still certainly worth seeking out, but do not expect your survivability, damage potential, or rotation to suddenly shift as a result.

If you would like to learn more about which pieces of the tier set to focus on acquiring from Amirdrassil, please see the gearing section of this guide, linked below.