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Brewmaster Monk Artifact Weapon: Fu Zan, the Wanderer's Companion – Legion 7.3.5

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BrewingScribeBrewing MasteryArtifact Weapon: Fu ZanActive AbilityExploding KegRelics & the Netherlight CrucibleNetherlight CrucibleArtifact KnowledgeNetherlight Crucible GuideHow to Pick your RelicsFace PalmDraught of DarknessFace PalmAntorus, the Burning ThroneInsignia of the Grand Army1) Relic Choice:Hot BloodedPotent Kick2) Tier 3 Bonus Trait:Hot BloodedPotent Kick3) Tier 2 Power:

Defensive Value

1) Relic Choice:Face Palm2) Tier 2 Power:

Offensive Value

Torment the Weak

Shadowbind

Chaotic Darkness

3) Tier 3 Bonus Trait:Draught of DarknessGifted StudentHot BloodedBack to TopTraitsBasic Traits:

Full Keg - Keg Smash deals 10% more damage. You basically get this one for free with Fu Zan!

Gifted Student - You gain 1% crit chance per rank for 3 seconds whenever you dodge or heal yourself via Gift of the Ox. While the uptime of
this will be fairly high as we regularly dodge due to our mastery, the crit provided is relatively small. This is decent enough DPS.

Obstinate Determination - You automatically summon a Gift of the Ox when you are brought below 35% HP. This does not appear to have a
cooldown to the proc and as such is an extremely good trait to pick up.

Face Palm - Tiger Palm has a 10% chance (per rank) to deal 300% of normal damage and to reduce the remaining cooldown on your
Brews by an additional second. Rather solid trait. In fact, it's the strongest offensive single target trait we have.

Hot Blooded - Your Breath of Fire's damage over time portion deals 25% additonal damage (per rank) and also reduces the damage enemies
affected deal to you by 1% (per rank). Decent defensive value and decent offensive value make this trait a pretty solid one.

Potent Kick - Increases the duration of Ironskin Brew by 0.5 seconds per rank. This is actually quite nice as over time, those seconds add up and
allow you to spend more brew charges on purifying your stagger. This also increases the max duration cap of Ironskin Brew by 1.5 seconds per rank.

Healthy Appetite - Increases your max health by 1% per rank. Rather tame, but not awful.

Dark Side of the Moon - Blackout Strike reduces the damage you will take from that enemy's next auto-attack by 2% per rank. While not amazing
at reducing spike damage, this will be nice for reducing overall damage taken, which isn't an insignificant thing. Do note that if you are using the
talent Blackout Combo, you will still want to prioritize saving Blackout Strike for comboing, rather than maximum uptime of this trait.

Obsidian Fists - Increases the critical strike chance of Blackout Strike by 3% per rank. A not bad single-target DPS option.

Overflow - When you spawn a Gift of the Ox orb, it has a 5% chance per rank to be a greater orb, healing for twice as much. The proc rate on
this is relatively low, but the healing is fairly potent. You wouldn't miss too much if you saved this one for later.

Smashed - Increases the range of Keg Smash by 10 yards, bringing it up to 25 yards. Seeing as Keg Smash is our primary pulling tool, this is
a good piece of utility to have.

Swift as a Coursing River - When you use any of our Brews (including Fortifying Brew), you gain 6% additional movement speed for 15 seconds,
stacking up to 30%. Using one brew every 15 seconds is easy, so this effectively means we'll likely be able to have this up for most of, if not the
entirety of an encounter, giving us very strong movement capacity.

Staggering Around - Increases the amount of damage purified by Purifying Brew by 1%. This is another decent enough trait that provides a nice benefit.
Its value isn't insanely high, however.

Golden Traits:

Exploding Keg - Our active ability from our artifact. As mentioned before, it deals high AoE damage on a 1.25 minute cooldown and enemies
hit will miss with their auto-attacks for 3 seconds. This is a strong ability with many varied uses.

Dragonfire Brew - After you use Breath of Fire, you breathe fire an additional two times, dealing some damage. The damage is a bit more than a tick
of Breath of Fire's damage over time effect. Despite that, it is the strongest DPS increase per a single rank that we get in the basic tree.
It also doubles Breath of Fire's duration to 16 seconds, allowing Hot Blooded to have a 100% uptime, which is pretty decent defensive value.

Brew-Stache - When you use Ironskin Brew or Purifying Brew, you gain 10% dodge for 4.5 seconds. This is pretty good for dealing with overall damage
taken, which is a weakness of ours. It sees additional value when we need to dodge attacks that we also want to maintain Ironskin Brew for.

Fortification - After activating Fortifying Brew, you gain 25% dodge for 21 seconds. This is a very strong buff to an already strong ability. The downsides
really are just that you won't see this be too useful all the time if you need to save Fortifying Brew, and it's already a powerful-enough cooldown for raiding.
However, this has a very strong potential to be exceptional in Mythic+ dungeon content in combination with Elusive Dance when pulling multiple packs of
enemies. The amount of dodge you can have with this ability up alongside smart use of Elusive Dance is very high and will help mitigate a large portion
of the overall damage that's coming in.

Empowered Traits:

Endurance of the Broken Temple - Increases damage dealt by 10%, Armor by 35%, and Stamina by 10%. This is the rough variant of a common power boost that all
classes receive. There's not too much else to say on this trait.

Draught of Darkness - Increases Blackout Strike damage by 5% per rank. This is a fairly strong single-target trait and isn't something to shy away from.
Being said, this is still less power than you get from Face Palm, especially when factoring in Blackout Combo

Stave Off - Keg Smash has a 20% chance to trigger a free Keg Smash. Currently this ability can proc off of itself, but I would expect
a fix soon. Per point, this is now the strongest increase in an ability's power, beating out Dragonfire Brew. Not to mention its defensive abilities.

Quick Sip - Drinking Purifying Brew grants 1 second of Ironskin Brew, and Ironskin Brew purifies 5% of your stagger pool. This is actually
not too bad, giving us a slightly stronger control over sustained damage.

Concordance of the Legionfall - Grants a proc to grant an increasing amount of Versatility per rank. More or less our new paragon trait, so there's not much more
to say about it than that. You unlock it after putting ranks into all other traits, including the old 1-34 traits that now have a fourth base rank.

Recommended build paths1-34 TraitsSmashedBrew-StacheFortification36+ TraitsFace PalmStave OffFace PalmBack to Top

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