Developer Notes for Windwalker Monk Rework in Build #2 - Tiger Palm and Combo Strike
Blizzard has posted this week's developer notes for Windwalker Monk, going over the changes for this week's build!
Tiger Palm is the most commonly used button for Windwalker, but historically it has represented very little overall damage itself.
We want Tiger Palm to remain mostly about generating Chi, but also represent a more meaningful percentage of Windwalker’s damage breakdown. Our goal is not to change rotational priorities, but to make every button press feel directly meaningful to your overall damage.This also helps us tackle some interesting damage profiles by increasing their priority target damage, even in AoE scenarios.
We’re excited about talents like Martial Mixture for this reason, which could offer some additional support to this profile.Combo Strikes
We’ve removed Chi Wave and Expel Harm from the list of spells that trigger Combo Strikes for Windwalker Monks in The War Within. Since these are now automatically triggered, we didn’t think it was intuitive for these to trigger Mastery.
Our intent for Combo Strikes is that the main focus should be directly on the action bar and relying on direct spell casts rather than auras to determine your next spell to cast.Alongside this, we’re making a couple adjustments to Combat Wisdom and Storm, Earth, and Fire to support these changes.Combat Wisdom will now rebalance Chi to 2 while out of combat instead of the default depletion. We think this will help both Windwalker’s opener feel more intuitive (only one required Tiger Palm before entering cooldowns with max Chi when playing with Ordered Elements) and also improve the experience of traveling between packs in Mythic.
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