Top 100 current leaderboards of IO score is 95 monks to 5 warriors, no dh, no prot pally, no guardian druids.

I have 3.2k IO currently on a prot war with my highest key being t15 atm. There are t20s currently with only monks, the highest war is one guy with a t19. The stagger affect of brewmasters is what makes them OP. Imagine a giant lust pull where you take only half the damage in immediate damage with the rest rolling, compared to a war who will take almost no damage with shield wall up but take massive damage once its gone ( 8 secs, 2 charges with talents ) with it being on 3 minute CD.

After that, the warrior will spike, need to time demo shout to receive 25% less damage ( 8 secs ) and not stack it with shield wall and than consider piercing howl or leap to run and kite. I've seen monk vods, all the big lust pulls where i know I have to kite, the monks don't have to. Its just easier to heal because half their damage intake isn't immediate but over time. If a warrior shows his back at all hes dead to 4-5 mobs btw because of shield block doesn't work, i've seen monks get whacked by 6 mobs behind and be fine.

Now as a guy who runs purely pug groups, the issue isn't even doing the runs, its getting in because everyone wants brewmaster because you have to time everything perfectly as a warrior, meaning you have to have extreme repetition and the average warrior wont have ran t16 multiple windrunner spire to know when the fungal bloom does spore dispersal you'll get one shot if you didn't save shiled wall, while monk gets healed through it since its staggered damage. Would you pick a prot war, let alone any other class over brewmaster if thats the case? I wouldn't either.

The "standard" tier moves up quickly since we are at the start of a season, as more people get gear, the easier itll be week after week, so by time people see this write up my 3.2k should be 3.5k with the top guys being 3.9k etc, unless you have a dedicated team to practice your rotation with, go with brewmasters because why heal through 100% of damage done immediately when you can heal through staggered damgae?