Video first. Then words.
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OK, details:
6-7% downtime is pretty good compared to previous raid tiers. Enhancement Shamans are
still in the lead, with 0% downtime at every level and talent combination. Not that I am bitter.
The character shown here has +20 max energy from Inner
Peace, saves 1 chi per FoF via Fists of the Wind, and (crucially) is using
Tornado Kick.
The current tooltip for the Tornado Kick trait reads: "When
you use Blackout Kick, powerful energy from the Skywall Cestus is unleashed
into your body, causing Tornado Kick to replace your next Blackout Kick." At the moment, we have no idea what the Tornado
Kick attack actually does, other than it apparently replaces every second
Blackout Kick.
I'm going to make a guess here as to its intended purpose: Tornado
Kick counts as a separate ability from Blackout Kick for the purposes of
Mastery: Combo Strikes.
This finally makes Hit Combo viable. We can fill enough GCDs to build up Hit Combo
for Fists of Fury without resorting to using an AOE attack like Spinning Crane
Kick (and in AOE situations, we should take Rushing Jade Wind instead of Hit
Combo!). Serenity makes a lot more sense
too.
For comparison, Xuen contributes around 4-5% of my overall damage
in a typical Warlords encounter, so I
need 9-hit combos on average to keep up with him. We saw just how (un)feasible that is without
Tornado Kick.
Xuen remains useful for encounters that force the player to
leave melee range often.
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Hey, one last thing:
I've been learning how to program in Lua.
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