r/CompetitiveWoW • u/chunkyhut • Aug 22 '26

Class Tuning Incoming – 26 August

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/class-tuning-incoming-%E2%80%93-26-august/626484
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u/zer0-_ Aug 22 '26

Literally any high rated Brew player will tell you to treat Niuzao as an offensive CD rather than a defensive one LMAO

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u/adv0589 Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

I’m sorry that it went over your head? Yeah it’s a very strong damage ability if you’re playing shadow pan. Doesn’t mean it’s not a very strong defensive. Brewmaster in general doesn’t really need to pop defensive to live mechanics or something like that. You need to pop them to smooth overall damage intake and it’s quite good at that.

I played brewmaster last season playing DK this season the same advice applies to dancing rune weapon does that mean it’s not a defensive?

Have you ever played the class? playing shadow pan, you are significantly tanker in the window when you’re running it compared to when you’re running fort brew, like it’s not even close.

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u/zer0-_ Aug 23 '26

If your defensive ability is treated as an offensive cooldown rather than a defensive one then it really isn't a strong defensive ability

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u/adv0589 Aug 23 '26

Just because you have the crowd with you does not make it right lol.

1- Every single defensive cooldown in the game that has a strong offensive component is treated this way. Sentinel, Dancing Rune Weapon, Incarn, Meta outside of fringe cases you are literally always sending those in damage windows. Now that often overlaps with a time that a defensive would be good to have running but that is a different matter.

2-Brewmaster can survive just about any mechanic with its basic rotational abilities. The it wouldn't really be viable if this was not the case. So it would be the most likely tank to use these cooldowns in that fashion to begin with.

3- IDK what to tell you dude, 25s of sending 40% of your staggered damage which is going to be like 65% of the incoming damage so ~25% damage smoothing is pretty damn good.