Staggering Patch 9.0.5, Brewmaster Edition
With another patch to the World of Warcraft comes another round of patch notes to read and evaluate. This time around, Patch 9.0.5 in the Shadowlands is on the lighter side of things and mostly includes some short-term tuning and bugfixes for many specializations to...
Brewmaster Mitigation in Shadowlands
Brewmaster’s mitigation toolkit is changing going into Shadowlands. We covered the high-level changes we knew about in our previous post, but now we have numbers and details from Alpha to know how it works in much greater detail. At a high level, our new...
Shadowlands Alpha Preview: Brewmaster Impressions
Over the past two days, Blizzard has given us a sneak peak of the new goodies that are coming for Brewmasters with the Shadowlands expansion. First, they showed off some of the new Covenant Abilities. Later, they followed that up with a preview of Class Changes and...
Staggering Patch 8.3, Brewmaster Edition
After a long bout of testing and a delayed release from the December holidays, the launch of Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.3, Visions of N’zoth is finally on the horizon, and what a patch it is. From a long-requested rework of the auction house system to the...
Inactive Mitigation, a Zen Meditation
Recently, the Peak staff were surprised to learn of a rather unorthodox play pattern for Brewmasters: forgo Purifying Brew entirely. Don’t even bother casting it; wear HPS trinkets instead. While we have long held that Ironskin Brew is the more important part of our...
Elusive Brawling, a Zen Meditation
For some time, Brewmasters have followed the mantra: more stats is better than strong stats. Now, however, we recommend a focus on Mastery. What changed?
Staggering Patch 8.2, Brewmaster Edition
After a very long wait, it’s finally time to discuss Battle for Azeroth patch 8.2: Tides of Vengeance. Being the midway point for the expansion, Tides of Vengeance is bringing some sizable chunks of content. This includes: two new zones with catchup gear, a new...
Jaina, a Zen Meditation
Let’s talk about Jaina. On the surface, Jaina seems like a boss that’d be a blast to tank. She’s got a little bit of everything: heavy damage, strict positioning requirements, and a tight DPS check to encourage the padder hiding in all of us. Alas, the devil is in the...
8.2 Preview-Thoughts on Azerite and Tank Traits
Houston, we have content….maybe? At least, that was my initial reaction to Jeremy Feasel’s (aka Muffinus’) preview stream of some of the features to come in patch 8.2, Rise of Azshara. Yet, amidst all the hype he was trying to generate for flying,...
