Brewmaster Monk Review of Master of Harmony Hero Talents - Force of Balance

Posted 2024/05/14 at 1:32 PM by Sinzhu

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Masters of Harmony chase physical perfection and the refinement of the body into pure strength, allowing them to tap into the flow of chi and natural cycles of power.

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Aspect of Harmony; 0-30% of your maximum health stored

Aspect of Harmony; 31-60% of your maximum health stored

Aspect of Harmony; 61-100% of your maximum health stored

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Watching your three Aspect of Harmony buffs to ensure you do not cap out on stored vitality, and potentially using Celestial Brew more greedily to reduce waste.

Managing your Balanced Stratagem buffs for your hardest-hitting abilities such as Exploding Keg.

Ensuring you and your enemies are positioned appropriately for Overwhelming Force to hit them all.

Taking advantage of Path of Resurgence windows to amplify your stored vitality.

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Comment by CaithonGreat review! im hyped to pplay with this talents. Additionally I would like more love for the chi burst, maybe some visual updates and more interactions.Comment by WozeI agree with everything you're saying from a gameplay perspective, but I think it's an abject failure thematically. Brewmaster and Mistweaver actually have something in common, unlike the vast majority of specs they had to make work. They both brew things. Brewmaster with beer obviously, and Mistweaver with tea. I would've loved to see some expansion there. I assume they're trying to move away from the 'beer' aspect of the class / spec for PC purposes, but it feels bad. Master of Harmony means nothing, and its description is bland AI generated nothing. You're just a monk, but like extra monk!

All that makes the fact that the kit is entirely passive feel much worse. You will forget you're supposed to be a 'master of harmony' because nothing that you're doing or seeing has anything to do with being one.Comment by reboundTracking buffs isn't that big of an issue for me. My issue with Brewmaster has always been about button bloat. If that can be reduced then I'm 1000% running Brewmaster for TWW.Comment by ElunarioBlizzard should make Weapons of Order also available to WW, as it was possible in SL. Making Jadefire a choice node, and put Weapons of Order as an alternative would be a great option.Comment by GoustafYoo I'm kind of hype for this one. First wasn't that excited as the theme seems abit lacking but the gameplay of this sounds awsome. I think maybe brew is starting to have one too many things to keep track of tho. Between stagger, shuffle, firebreath debuff, brews on cd, wepons of order and now both Balanced Stratagem and Vitality. I am however super excited to try and pull off a FAT exploding keg with Balanced Stratagem but I worried about the fact that you would consume the buff by pressing Expel Harm, so if you need to press it for defensive purposes then you brick your fat payoff, and would it be consumed by Chi Wave?

Regardless I think this talent tree will allow for some awesome expression in skill, big W