#BREWMASTER STAGGER FULL#

#BREWMASTER STAGGER FULL#

But as a Brewmaster Monk you'll be able to take the full blow and live to tell the tale, at least for the next 10 seconds. And if a boss would usually kill a tank with a move because the damage it great and instant, your healers can't really do much about it except using their cooldowns to save you. First of all, raiding is all about stability. Well why IS it important? The stagger damage is just gonna renew itself to a bigger stagger each time you're dealt damage. The rest will be dealt to you over the next 10 seconds. This means that of the original 100,000 damage you would take as normal tanks, only 40 % of it is instant. Combined with Stagger and you'll find yourself staggering 60 % of all your taken damage. The second ability you'll learn is called Fortifying Brew which will improve your stagger damage by yet another 20 % when you learn. This means that the 80,000 damage you would receive with only having Stagger active will be reduced by an additional 20 %, down to 60,000 damage taken instantly and the 40,000 damage taken over the next 10 seconds. The first being Blackout Kick when you learn which will provide you with the buff, causing you to stagger an additional 20 % damage. This can be improved by two abilities that you'll come to posses. This stagger damage is initially 20 % of all your damage taken due to Stagger. This means that the Monk tank in the case of 100,000 damage taken directly only would receive 80,000 damage instantly and the rest of the 20,000 damage would occur over the next 10 seconds, if all he has is Stagger. Stagger damage will take an x percentage of the damage you would receive instantly and make this x percent do damage to you over time, specifically 10 seconds, rather than instantly. Now, this 100,000 damage would hit a normal tank for this amount instantly, but unlike any other class, Monks will stagger this damage.

Let us assume that your armour mitigates 30 % of this and the Stagger reduces it even further down to 100,000 damage that goes through your armour and other mitigation effects (assuming you do not have any shield on you, such as Guard.) This means that the damage you would recieve after armor mitigation as well as the -25 % damage taken is going to be staggered.Īn example of this would be a boss which has an attack that hits for 133,333 physical damage. Initially you're able to stagger 20 % of the damage you take. The tanking spec for the Monk class is the Brewmaster specialization and upon selecting this specialization you're granted the Stagger.Īs the tooltip states you're with this stance able to stagger damage, a mechanic unique to the Monk class.

But between the dodges and parrys you're going to get hit by the boss once in a while. Monk tanks may, just as Death Knights, Paladins and Warriors, dodge and parry attacks from say a raid boss. Ironskin Brew,, Summon Black Ox Statue, Purifying Brewīelow I've tried to sum up the importance and benefits of stagger damage as a Monk tank to give players an insight in the usefulness of a Monk tank in the raid. Keg Smash, Breath of Fire, Dizzying Haze, Guard, , The following abilities are limited to Stagger Many of the Brewmasters signaure abilities are only useable in this stance and thus you'll have a hard time DPS'ing as a Brewmaster without taking aggro. This means that you're not able to go into this stance if you're specialized as a Mistweaver or Windwalker. Comment by McLockhartThe tanking stance of the Monk class, only available if you specialize as a Brewmaster.

Brewmaster stagger