With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Brewmaster Monk Writer, Sinzhu, offers a retrospective highlighting Brewmaster's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
With the end of Dragonflight inching ever-closer, it’s time we take a look back at one of the more underrepresented tanks of the expansion: Brewmasters. With new talents, tier set bonuses, and more regular tuning than usual, Dragonflight has certainly been one of the more varied expansions when it came to class design. In particular, it has also been a time where Brewmaster Monk has been its most complicated, featuring an abundance of keybinds, more build variety to experiment with, and a greater reliance on proper play than ever before to not fall flat on the floor. Among those enjoying it now, it is considered one of the best iterations the spec has seen, yet it has still remained fairly invisible in a lot of “meta” content over the course of the expansion. Let’s explore how these conflicting points came together and see what can be potentially be adjusted going forward into The War Within and beyond.