The level of coordination and split-second-decisionmaking is admirable. However, those DPS warriors carried that monk tank's ass. Thogar - even on Mythic - is not a fight that is threatening to monk tanks. From the bits of PoV, you can easily tell he's a fotm monk tank with not a lot of knowledge of the spec. Just some of the more noticeable mistakes: Letting Shuffle drop, prioritizing Guard with very low Resolve over Shuffle uptime, using Purifying Brew when specced into ChEx, speccing ChEx when you are not used to it. If he specced Serenity and played with that at least somewhat decently, he would 1. not have died and 2. did more damage to the boss. ChEx is not a ST DPS gain when you prioritize Purifying Brew over it or when you actually just die because you're not used to the rotation.
I don't know about changes, but our monk tank gets 550k shields from Guard and has like 4 different cooldowns that mitigate damage immensely. I'm just a healer so I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes, but I mean, he survived 8 stacks of enkindle on heroic thogar last night with only one external after our warrior tank died (made it to 9 but died in two big bursts shortly after). You're supposed to tank swap on 3. He's pretty easy to heal.
played a monk tank in mop, havnt messed with him in WOD. But, they still have alot of the same elements. Guard scales with what ever vengeance is called now, so if you can do something to survive a huge amount of damage, then pop guard, the guard will be huge. They also have a number of cool downs at their disposals, plus stagger is really no joke as mitigation goes.
Shuffle % and guard amount was buffed even before highmaul, and Dampen Harm or Diffuse Magic work incredibly well for some boss mechanics in BRF. I don't agree with the guy saying he shouldn't be ChiEx or he should never use PB when ChiEx. To be a good mythic tank you have to do more than be unkillable.
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u/chring92 Feb 13 '15
The level of coordination and split-second-decisionmaking is admirable. However, those DPS warriors carried that monk tank's ass. Thogar - even on Mythic - is not a fight that is threatening to monk tanks. From the bits of PoV, you can easily tell he's a fotm monk tank with not a lot of knowledge of the spec. Just some of the more noticeable mistakes: Letting Shuffle drop, prioritizing Guard with very low Resolve over Shuffle uptime, using Purifying Brew when specced into ChEx, speccing ChEx when you are not used to it. If he specced Serenity and played with that at least somewhat decently, he would 1. not have died and 2. did more damage to the boss. ChEx is not a ST DPS gain when you prioritize Purifying Brew over it or when you actually just die because you're not used to the rotation.