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Mistweaver Feedback Thread: Week 3
One final updated update before BlizzCon kicks off later this week. We have a few new posts I'd like to point out and some more discussion on existing items. If you want to jump in, you can head over to the Mistweaver specific site here, to add your own ideas and...
read moreMistweaver Feedback Thread: Week 2
Continuing on from last week's quick write up, we have some new feedback topics that need some discussion. You can head over to the Mistweaver specific site here, to add your own ideas and suggestions or comment on that already posted. Again, the goal here is to...
read moreInactive 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...
read moreMistweaver Feedback Thread: Week 1
Last week we released a website to start to gather feedback and ideas for Mistweavers going into BlizzCon and the 9.0 Alpha / Beta period. We got a lot of initial good feedback, and the plan is to outline some of that below. To read and contribute yourself, head over...
read moreMistweaver Changes: Battle for Azeroth 8.3 Build 32151
This week Blizzard released some of the patch notes for 8.3 which include changes to mistweaver. These changes are not bringing mistweaver into the limelight sadly but they do effect some interesting talents/spells. Changes This Build Rising Mist - Healing increased...
read moreMaking Serenity Great Again
The purpose of this article was to try to discover how much of a buff would Serenity need to be viable or even strong in 8.3 Disclaimer: Because the Serenity APL was doing the old Swift Roundhouse rotation of 2x BoK -> RSK I had to swap to Xuen for the purpose of...
read more8.3 PTR Build 32044 – Single Target Buffs!?!
So the first PTR posting for 8.3 was released today, and it comes with some long awaited buffs. Rising Sun Kick Kick upwards, dealing [(115% 143.8% of Attack power) * ((Attack power + Offhand attack power) * 2 / 3) / Attack power] Physical damage, and reducing the...
read moreAnalyzing the Analyzer: The Basics
Concept WowAnalyzer is a powerful log review tool that is both fast and accurate but it can be quite confusing with all the information that it spits out at you. Most if not all of the information it delivers it useful but how does one interpret this information? Well...
read moreDPS Class/Spec Balance in Eternal Palace
This article has been long coming. It was going to get written last week, but with the announced buffs to a few specs, I wanted to wait till we had the full week's worth of data after the changes. Now that a week has passed, its time to start parsing through the data....
read moreDropping RSK from our Priority
If you've been following the events that have transpired the past few days in Discord, then you're probably aware that we've been discussing the pros/cons of dropping Rising Sun Kick from our single target priority. This is something that we've always feared would be...
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