Throne of Thunder Brewmaster Monk Style

Damien · March 5, 2013

This thread is meant to collect useful pieces of information for Brewmaster Monks attempting bosses in the Throne of Thunder. We will add some contributions ourselves and hope that the rest will come from comments in this thread

Jin'rokh the Breaker

Useful talents:

Useful glyphs:

Avoid using Glyph of Guard, unless you self-heal a lot. The extra physical shield really helps the healers.

Tips and Tricks:

Most of the damage is physical for the tank, so stack Agility.
Nimble Brew is awesome to get out of the stun from Thundering Throw. If the other tank has stacks of Static Wound, then you can quickly taunt the boss back from them. Also, Nimble Brew has a 2-minute cooldown, so get thrown first to make the best of it.
Tiger's Lust is very useful if you need to run back to the boss quickly after Thundering Throw.
Since the boss hits hard, use Dampen Harm on cooldown to make the fight easier for your healers.
Save Elusive Brew for when you tank the boss with stacks of Static Wound. Dodging the boss' attacks is really important at that point, to reduce raid damage.
During Lightning Storm, try getting behind everyone and cast Chi Burst when everyone is around half health.
During Lightning Storm, you can use Zen Meditation to help your healers out.
When your raid stacks up for Lightning Storm , coordinate with your healers and use Avert Harm when they don't have cooldowns ready. Make sure everyone stacks tight as Avert Harm's range is rather low!

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Horridon

Useful talents:

Take Celerity or Tiger's Lust. The choice is up to you. Tiger's Lust allows you to make it easier for another raid member to get our of Charge. Celerity can help you reposition yourself during phase transitions. If you manage your own movement properly, Tiger's Lust will probably the most useful of the two talents.
Chi Wave
Take Leg Sweep or Charging Ox Wave in your talent tree since a fair few of the adds are stunnable. If you are mostly on the boss, then you can take Ring of Peace, as Jalakk can be disarmed (and you can also use it during the rest of the fight to disarm/interrupt some of the adds).
Dampen Harm should be taken on this fight as there is almost no reason to take Diffuse Magic.
Take Rushing Jade Wind. Yes, Xeun can be used to tank Jalakk, but the 30% damage buff to Spinning Crane Kick from the Rushing Jade Wind buff is really good for getting those add packs down fast.

Useful glyphs:

Avoid using Glyph of Guard.
Glyph of Spinning Crane Kick will help immensely when the poison pools are down.

Tips and Tricks:

Help your healers out with dispelling Venom Bolt Volley and Deadly Plague as much as you can.
Make sure you have your cooldowns available when you are tanking War God Jalakk or Horridon in the last phase.
On this fight there's a pretty good chance that your Ox Statue will go down, especially if you have Glyph of Leer of the Ox. Try to keep this in mind and recast your statue when needed. Or you can simply make a habit of recasting your Ox Statue every time you get to the next door.
When you don't think you have the ability to live through a Triple Puncture or a Double Swipe that you can't get out of, Zen Meditation will reduce all damage done to you by 90% from any source. Yes it does get cancelled by a melee swing but that melee swing will also be reduced by 90%!
Leg Sweep is great for helping interrupt and just in general stunning adds while you're tanking them.
Use Spinning Crane Kick to bring down the adds, as its damage is greatly increased by Rushing Jade Wind. Also, you will generate a lot of Healing Spheres and you will be able to keep moving to avoid traps and void zones.
Chi Wave will help you immensely on this fight. Combine it with a Purifying Brew right after a Triple Puncture to help offset a large majority of the damage that Horridon does.
Help your healers by using Detox, can't stress how much this actually helps. (Try to get as many people to help with this honestly)

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Council of Elders

Useful talents: share your thoughts!
Useful glyphs:

Avoid using Glyph of Guard.

Tips and Tricks:

Use Zen Meditation when Sul the Sandcrawler is casting Sandstorm, provided you are not tanking any of the other boss, since melee attacks cancel the effect. You have a small window to use it.
Only consume Elusive Brew stacks when you are tanking Frost King Malakk, the melee damage of the other bosses, when interupted, is irrelevant.
You can't use Elusive Brew to avoid getting stunned at 15 stacks of Frigid Assault.

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Tortos

Useful talents: share your thoughts!
Useful glyphs: share your thoughts!

Tips and Tricks:

You can dodge Snapping Bite, so try to use Elusive Brew to mitigate the damage from this attack.

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Megaera

Useful talents:

Chi Burst will help during Rampage.
Diffuse Magic (explanations below)

Useful glyphs:

Glyph of Guard (explanations below)

Tips and Tricks:

The breaths are magic and hit hard. The heads hit hard. Unfortunately, the damage the heads do isn't spikey damage, but is just straight up heavy damage. Because of that, I recommend cancelling out the magic and letting your stagger do it's job. Take Glyph of Guard and Diffuse Magic. Guard as many breaths as you can. Diffuse Magic those you can't.
Remember to throw down some Healing Sphere when stacking in between heads for where you will be tanking.
You can use your raid cooldowns (Avert Harm and Zen Meditation) between 2 and 3 times. Make sure you use them when stacking and that the healers know you will be taking a bit more damage during that phase than normal.

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Ji-Kun

Useful talents:

Tiger's Lust almost completely eliminates Down Draft.
Zen Sphere
Dampen Harm

Useful glyphs:

Commune With Spirits can help you soak damage from Talon Rake when cast on the other tank and while Zen Meditation is active, you can remove 1 or 2 pools of slime.

Tips and Tricks:

Use Guard on the first Talon Rake, and keep cycling between Dampen Harm and Zen Meditation (see above). You can also use Fortifying Brew and keep Zen Meditation for removing pools of slime when you have nothing else to do.
Zen Sphere is great for this fight. Just keep it up on whichever tank is on the boss.
You can remove a pool of slime without requiring healing if you consume a Healing Sphere after each pool. You can also use your Healing Sphere on other players who are removing pools, if your Shuffle is high enough that you won't need to refresh it on the next swap.

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Durumu the Forgotten

Useful talents:

Zen Sphere is best for tank swapping. Use it during the maze phase on whoever is taking a lot of damage.
Dampen Harm is necessary. The boss will hit like a truck as you get close to five stacks of Serious Wound. With proper CD usage and shielding from healers you can make it to 7 or 8 stacks.

Useful glyphs:

Glyph of Stoneskin can be helpful, depending on when you use Fortifying Brew. This will reduce the damage you take from Arterial Cut, but you should use Fortifying Brew at 3 or 4 stacks of Serious Wound with this glyph.

Tips and Tricks:

If you're tanking and you get targeted for a pool, run up on the boss and drop the pool directly underneath the boss.
Transcendence is great for avoiding the beams as they sweep across the room.
Remember to use your Healing Spheres. Plop them down for the other tank to use. Put them down for you right before you begin to tank. Throw them down around the area right before a maze phase, maybe someone will hit a wall and your sphere will save them.
Try gathering 1 minute of Shuffle and saving up on both Energy and Chi before your turn to tank comes. Ideally, you want to be capped on Energy and Chi after the second Hard Stare. After that, use all that Chi for Purifying Brew and Guard and all that Energy for Expel Harm.

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