Windwalker Monk Raid Guide (2024)

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Fists of Fury increases the damage dealt by your next 2 Rising Sun Kick or Spinning Crane Kick by 40%.
• 4-Set: Fists of Fury now instead enhances your next 3 Rising Sun Kick or Spinning Crane Kick and enhanced kicks increase the damage of your next Fists of Fury by 7%, stacking up to 3 times.

Single Target

Single Target Opener Rotation

• Your goal is to cast as many Chi spenders as possible in your Storm, Earth, and Fire window while also keeping relevant abilities on cooldown.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Touch of Death if possible.
2. Tiger Palm if below 5 Chi and close to capping Energy.
3. Jadefire Stomp if talented.
4. Strike of the Windlord.
5. Rising Sun Kick when buffed by Xuen's Battlegear.
6. Fists of Fury.
7. Rising Sun Kick
8. Spinning Crane Kick with Dance of Chi-Ji.
9. Blackout Kick to not overcap on stacks of Teachings of the Monastery.
10. Chi Burst.

Multi Target

5+ Target Priority List

• Below, you see an example of how your opener looks like using the recommended Multi-Target talent spec.

1. Keep up Mark of the Crane on 5 targets.
2. Touch of Death if possible.
3. Tiger Palm if below 5 Chi and close to capping Energy.
4. Jadefire Stomp if talented.
5. Crackling Jade Lightning if you are overcapping Last Emperor's Capacitor with Power of the Thunder King talented.
6. Rising Sun Kick for Whirling Dragon Punch if possible.
7. Strike of the Windlord.
8. Spinning Crane Kick with Dance of Chi-Ji.
9. Fists of Fury.
10. Spinning Crane Kick.
11. Blackout Kick to not overcap on stacks of Teachings of the Monastery.
12. Chi Burst.

Mastery

• It is very important to never break your Mastery: Combo Strikes or Hit Combo. During downtime you can use Flying Serpent Kick or Chi Burst to keep up your Hit Combo when necessary. If the boss is immune to damage you can also use Crackling Jade Lightning to keep it up.

Touch of Karma

• To maximize your damage output you want to press Touch of Karma on every damage event possible in the fight. You can increase the absorbed amount of your Touch of Karma damage by using Fortifying Brew beforehand to increase your maximum health. You can also ask your Warrior to press Rallying Cry if it is not needed as a Raid cooldown to get even more health before using Touch of Karma.

Touch of Death

• As a Windwalker Monk it is very important for you to snipe any low health add with Touch of Death to get your 5% damage buff.

Dance of Chi-Ji and Mark of the Crane

• It is worth it to hold your Dance of Chi-Ji proc if you are able to stack Mark of the Crane depending on if adds are going to spawn within the duration of your Dance of Chi-Ji buff.

Storm, Earth, and Fire

• Your clones prioritize hitting targets that have no Mark of the Crane on them as their mimicked abilities apply it.
• You can press Storm, Earth, and Fire again to fixate your clones on a target after getting 5 Mark of the Crane stacks. It is especially good if your clones hit targets far away from the rest of the enemies that you would otherwise not be able to spread Mark of the Crane to.
• It is extremely important to fixate your clones otherwise you could miss out on potential cleave from Whirling Dragon Punch, Fists of Fury, and Spinning Crane Kick.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

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Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Raid boss fights as a Windwalker Monk. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

• All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

• Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
• Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing. The damage of your pets does not heal you thus Leech is a great tertiary for you since most of your damage is coming from your own spells.
• Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to the recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the scenario.

Active Trinket alternatives

• Irideus Fragment
  • A good trinket if the boss kill time is around 3:30.
• Manic Grieftorch
  • Very powerful for killing important add spawns and is especially strong when your allies die.

Passive Trinket alternatives

• Whispering Incarnate Icon
  • Grants a bunch of Crit when equipped and when tanks and healers equip this trinket it can proc Versatility and Haste respectively.
• Ominous Chromatic Essence
  • Grants secondary stats of your choice and gives you smaller buffs of other stats when grouped with other users of this trinket if they are using different buffs.

Simcraft

To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.

• 2x Blue Silken Lining
  • A good choice if you have over 90% health most of the time and especially during your cooldowns.
  • The optimal slots to craft on are Wrists, Boots, Waist or Cloak depending on your available gear.

or

• 2x Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch
  • Use Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch instead of Blue Silken Lining if you are below 90% health for a considerable amount of time throughout the fight.
  • The optimal slots to craft on are Wrists, Boots, Waist or Cloak depending on your available gear.

Honorable mention

• Elemental Lariat
  • A good alternative to use if you have access to the maximum amount of gems. This is decent in multi target scenarios especially if your Blue Silken Lining uptime is not great.

Remaining Sparks

• Make sure to apply Alchemical Flavor Pocket if you have an additional crafted item equipped.
• Crafted items are 525 item level and regular items are 528 on max item level therefor it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

Phials

• Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage --Maximum DPS.
• Phial of Tepid Versatility -- Less DPS but more survivability.

Food

• Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak
• Deviously Deviled Eggs

Combat Potion

• Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
• Residual Neural Channeling Agent
  • Can be used while dead if your potion is ready.

Health Potion

• Potion of Withering Dreams -- A big burst of healing
• Dreamwalker's Healing Potion -- Less healing upfront but an additional small heal over time.

Weapon Rune

• Howling Rune
• Buzzing Rune

Augment Rune

• Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
• Draconic Augment Rune

Sockets

• Fierce Illimited Diamond or Inscribed Illimited Diamond -- Unique, made by work order
• Energized Ysemerald

For min maxing a Windwalker Monk in raiding, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your characters. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

• Stoneform -- Dwarf
  • Can dispel Magic and Bleed debuffs. Has been useful in the past on some bosses with Bleeds.
• Rocket Jump -- Goblin
  • A small jump in the direction your character is facing.
  • While in the Rocket Jump animation you are placed on a global cooldown until your character lands.
• Berserking -- Troll
  • Strong DPS racial.
  • Reduce the duration of movement impairing effects by 20%. Was only useful once in the recent history of progression raiding but worth noting.
• Blood Fury -- Orc
  • Strong racial for damage because of it lines up with Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger.
  • 20% reduced stun duration on you which can be useful in some situations.
• Spatial Rift -- Void Elf
  • Active to spawn a shadow traveling in the direction you are facing. Activate again to teleport to it.
  • Maximum range of 100 yards.

Recommendation

In general, it's safe to say that if you care about min-maxing your DPS you should go with the highest DPS racial. That being said the story is a bit different if it's about progression raiding. Some help out massively to speed up the progression of certain bosses. Notably Dwarf with their Stoneform helped out on Tindral Sageswift & Fyrakk the Blazing in the latest Race to World First by having easy access to dispelling yourself at crucial points of the fights mentioned.

Discover recommended macros for Windwalker Monks during Raid encounters and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

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Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Windwalker Monk, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Raids to make your life easier.

Credits

Written By: Swag

Reviewed By: Revves