@tuanha Brewmaster monk is good but need better rotation for tank
Keep in mind, these assume that you have the space to generate chi without wasting any.
1) If off cooldown, use Keg Smash.
2) If off cooldown and you are not at 100% health, use Expel Harm
3) If 1 and 2 are not avaiable and you have more than 80 energy, use Jab
Or in other words, Keg Smash as much as possible, use Expel Harm when you can benefit from the self healing, and if neither of these are applicable and you have a solid energy pool, use Jab. For more on why you want a large energy pool before using Jab.
After that you have three primary choices for chi spending.
1) Blackout Kick for damage and shuffle generation. Each Blackout Kick generates 6 seconds of shuffle uptime, so this ability needs to be used fairly regularly (how regularly depends on talent choice) to maintain a near 100% uptime.
2) Purifying Brew to get rid of your stagger DoT. How often you use this is again going to be dependent on your talent choice and it also depends on the difficulty of the content you are consuming. Ignoring talents, during 5 man content purifying at about 20% stagger is a good idea, but in raids you will likely have to wait for higher stagger levels because of how quick stagger will climb up. On average you will want to try and purify about 70% of your stagger damage (you can look at logs and they will help tell you how much you purified). If you are running with Serenity, that can potentially be up to 90%.
-If you are using Serenity, you will want to spam Blackout Kick and Purifying Brew during that time period. This will allow you to generate a large amount of shuffle uptime, and thus it means you can spend more chi on purifying your stagger damage. This relationship of generating shuffle uptime and purifing stagger damage is an interesting one, and Serenity allows you to throw a lot more chi into the latter while still maintaining the former.
-If you cannot do any of the above, use Tiger Palm as a filler.
-If your target is below 10% health and you can afford the chi (and/or cooldown) cost, use Touch of Death.
# Chi Explosion
- During single target encounters while actively tanking, you will want to try and use Chi Explosion at 3 chi. This will take a bit of time to get used to, especially if you're running Power Strikes, but it's well worth it.
- If you're not actively tanking, try to just use Chi Explosion at 2 chi, so you can build up that shuffle in as efficient a way as possible.
- If you're AoEing, TRY naturally you will want to use it at 4 chi.
-Chi Pooling
Our personal shield, Guard costs 2 chi and is immensely useful for emergencies. As well, this expansion Purifying Brew is incredibly potent in reducing overall damage taken and is a more important part of our toolkit. Thus, you should try and keep at least 1-2 chi at all times, in case an emergency comes up. This is probably one of the harder things to manage since instinct will tell you to just spend everything you gain and because of the bursty chi generation of your level 45 talents. You won't be able to do this all that much if you talent into Chi Explosion, but with energy pooling, that isn't such a big deal, particularly since Chi Explosion necessitates more foresight anyway.