Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Guide

11.1 - Undermine(d)

Last Updated:March 23, 2025|Changelog|FAQ

Welcome to the Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1.! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Overview

Patch 11.1 - Undermine(d)
Brewmaster Monk
Brewmaster MonkMythic+
Single-Target
Strong
AoE
Strong
Utility
Excellent
Survivability
Strong
Mobility
Excellent
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Best in Slot

Hero Talents

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Brewmaster Monk
  • Master of Harmony and ‍Shado-Pan are both very competitive with each other when it comes to damage output.
  • Master of Harmony influences your gameplay with Endless Draught and Mantra of Purity, while Shado-Pan is almost fully passive.
  • Shado-Pan is overall better for progressing keys in terms of damage and survivability, but Master of Harmony has smoother damage profile with Master of Harmony having more priority damage due to Coalescence.
  • In the talent section below you can find two different recommended talent builds for keys, one for Shado-Pan and one for Master of Harmony, both are viable for either low key or high M+ progression.
Shado-Pan
Master of Harmony
  • Flurry Strikes
    • After 240 Energy spent you unleash all Flurry Strikes.
  • Efficient Training
    • paired with Chi Surge provides a really good cooldown reduction for Weapons of Order.
    • Does nothing for Press the Advantage.
  • Wisdom of the Wall
    • Wording can be deceiving you need to trigger 10x Flurry Strikes by spending 240 energy to obtain any of the Wisdom of the Wall buffs.
    • You can have multiple Wisdom of the Wall buffs at the same time.
  • Shado-Pan choice node picks are:
    • Pride of Pandaria
    • Protect and Serve
      • Very good with Vivacious Vivification.
    • Predictive Training
      • This passive does not have a cooldown and can proc at any time.
  • Aspect of Harmony
    • Damage and effective healing are stored as Vitality.
    • During Aspect of Harmony you don't generate any Vitality.
    • Important: Overhealing does not count as effective healing.
  • Purified Spirit
    • Important node to never waste any Vitality.
  • Endless Draught
    • Having 2 charges of Celestial Brew makes it easy to hold/delay the use to optimize for damage and survivability.
  • Mantra of Purity
    • The extra shield and Stagger reduction are strong defensively.
  • Clarity of Purpose
    • Enables Purifying Brew to also store Vitality.
  • Coalescence
    • Increases the damage enemies take by 10% while you are under the effect of Aspect of Harmony.

Talents

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Brewmaster Monk
Master of Harmony Build
Shado-Pan Build
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

  • Shuffle
    • Shuffle doubles the effectiveness of Stagger.
  • Gift of the Ox
    • This spawns Healing Spheres when you take damage.
  • August Blessing
    • This talent is what makes Crit so valuable, converting overhealing into a heal over time.
  • Scalding Brew
    • Make sure to keep Breath of Fire on cooldown to gain the 20% damage increase on your Keg Smash.
  • Training of Niuzao
    • This provides you with Mastery based on your stagger, one of the reasons why Mastery is not that highly ranked in stat priority.
  • Shadowboxing Treads
    • Makes Blackout Kick cleave and increases its value by a lot.
  • Face Palm
    • Tiger Palm becomes way stronger and generates extra brew cooldown reduction.

Class Tree

  • Hasty Provocation
    • Provoke now increases the target’s movement speed by 50%.
  • Dance of the Wind
    • Replaces Dampen Harm with increased passive dodge, which is really nice for bigger pulls.

Hero Talents

  • Purified Spirit
    • Important node to never waste any Vitality.
  • Tiger's Vigor
    • Nice small bonus cooldown reduction on Roll.
  • Mantra of Purity
    • Clear winner buffing Purifying Brew.
  • Way of a Thousand Strikes
    • Numerically the better choice, buffing your base rotation abilities to generate more Vitality.
  • Coalescence
    • Greatly increases your priority target damage.

Brewmaster Monk Mythic+

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

  • Shuffle
    • Shuffle doubles the effectiveness of Stagger.
  • Gift of the Ox
    • This spawns Healing Spheres when you take damage.
  • August Blessing
    • This talent is what makes Crit so valuable, converting overhealing into a heal over time.
  • Scalding Brew
    • Make sure to keep Breath of Fire on cooldown to gain the 20% damage increase on your Keg Smash.
  • Training of Niuzao
    • This provides you with Mastery based on your stagger, one of the reasons why Mastery is not that highly ranked in stat priority.
  • Shadowboxing Treads
    • Makes Blackout Kick cleave and increases its value by a lot.
  • Face Palm
    • Tiger Palm becomes way stronger and generates extra brew cooldown reduction.

Class Tree

  • Hasty Provocation
    • Provoke now increases the target’s movement speed by 50%.
  • Dance of the Wind
    • Replaces Dampen Harm with increased passive dodge, which is really nice for bigger pulls.

Hero Talents

  • Flurry Strikes
    • Unleashs a huge amount of burst damage upon your target after spending 240 energy.
  • Wisdom of the Wall
    • Provides a nice passive bonus effect after every 10th Flurry Strike.
  • Protect and Serve
    • Increases healing of your instant Vivifies gained from Vivacious Vivification.
  • Efficient Training
    • Gives you approximately 30 seconds of cooldown reduction to your Weapons of Order.

Rotation

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Tier Set

  • 2-Set: Each time you take damage you have a chance to activiate Luck of the Draw! causing you to cast Fortifying Brew for 6.0 sec. Your damage done is increased by 15% for 8 sec after Luck of the Draw! activates.
  • 4-Set: When you gain Luck of the Draw!, your next 2 casts of Blackout Kick deal 150% increased damage and incur a 2.0 sec reduced cooldown.

Opener

  • We want to gain a good amount of Shuffle through Keg Smash and Blackout Kick while also getting our debuffs rolling. This results in a long opener weaving in a lot of different spells.
Brewmaster Monks Mythic+ AoE Opener
Brewmaster Monks Mythic+ Single Target Opener

Priority List

Make sure to keep this list in mind, unless some bosses or scenarios require you to hold some abilities listed here

  1. Cast Keg Smash on cooldown.
  2. Cast Blackout Kick on cooldown.
    • If talented into Blackout Combo consume it with Tiger Palm or Keg Smash on 6+ targets.
  3. Cast Breath of Fire on cooldown.
  4. Cast Weapons of Order on cooldown.
  5. Cast Rising Sun Kick on cooldown.
  6. Cast Exploding Keg.
  7. If talented, cast Chi Burst.
  8. If talented, cast Rushing Jade Wind.
  9. Cast Tiger Palm or Spinning Crane Kick on 5+ targets.
  10. When the pull is about to end make sure to use Touch of Death whenever possible.

Defensive Cooldowns

  • Celestial Brew
    • Provides big on-use absorb. This is your main defensive ability against tank hits.
    • Purified Chi increases the absorb amount by up to 200%.
    • Gains cooldown reduction from Keg Smash and Tiger Palm.
    • Has 2 charges with Master of Harmony's talent Endless Draught.
  • Diffuse Magic
    • Your best tool against big magical hits. It offers a 60% magical damage reduction for 6 seconds.
    • This also self-dispels and, in certain cases, reflects the spell back to the caster.
  • Dampen Harm
    • Amazing tool for big hits and dots.
    • Offers a 20% to 50% damage reduction based on the hits taken, that's why it's quite strong against a big hit and weaker on multiple smaller hits.
  • Fortifying Brew
    • Crazy long cooldown of 4 minutes that gets reduced by Keg Smash and Tiger Palm.
    • Gives 20% max health and 20% damage reduction, which makes it your most well-rounded defensive.
    • Used mainly against big hits and early on so the cooldown reduction can start working on getting it back.
  • Zen Meditation
    • With a 60% damage reduction, this is your best tool against 1-time big hits.
    • The downside is that you can't move or use any ability without canceling the spell.
    • Mainly used to soak a mechanic or tank a big dot while you are not getting actively hit.

Offensive Cooldowns

  • Weapons of Order
    • 10% increased Mastery and Keg Smash inflicts 8% increased damage taken for 10 seconds, stacking up to 4 times on the targets hit.
  • Exploding Keg
    • Causes melee attacks of targets hit to 100% miss you for 3 seconds.
    • Throw a keg that amplifies all your damage with bonus fire damage. Pair with Spinning Crane Kick on AoE.
  • Touch of Death
    • Clears up to 200% Stagger when casted. Touch of Death is very good to cast on cooldown for both damage and defensive value.
    • It also helps you to finish off dangerous mobs towards the end of a pull.

Deep Dive

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Brewmaster Monk

Stagger

Brewmaster Monks rely on their Stagger mechanic to passively reduce the damage they take which is an essential part of their damage mitigation.

Stagger Phases

Your Stagger is split up into 3 different phases.

  • Light Stagger
    • Total Staggered damage amount is equal to 1-29% of your maximum health.
  • Moderate Stagger
    • Total Staggered damage amount is equal to 30-59% of your maximum health.
  • Heavy Stagger
    • Total Staggered damage amount is equal to 60% or more of your maximum health.

Using Purifying Brew cleanses 50% of the staggered damage thus reducing your Stagger phase and serving as your main mitigation ability. Purifying Brew is best used right after receiving a lot of damage to cut the Stagger damage in half.

Managing Celestial Brew & Purifying Brew

Juggling Celestial Brew & Purifying Brew is your main task and gameplay when it comes to your survivability on Brewmaster Monk.

  • Purifying Brew is your main tool to cleanse Stagger like described above.
    • Important to note: Purifying Brew is not on the global cooldown, so it can be pressed while using any other ability.
  • Celestial Brew is your defensive tool that is empowered by cleansing your Stagger.

Here are some tips and tricks on what to keep in mind when using them:

  • Purifying Brew has a few rules you want to keep in mind when juggling your charges:
    • Avoid having both charges ready, you are wasting both defensive value and cooldown reduction value from your abilities.
    • Use a charge when your Purified Chi is about to expire you don't want to lose your absorb increase on Celestial Brew
    • Make sure you always get full cooldown reduction on this from Keg Smash.
  • General rule on when to use Purifying Brew the most efficient way:
    • After a big hit so you get the most Stagger value cleansed when it is new and at the highest point.
    • The other option is to almost fully cleanse yourself of any dangerous Stagger after big hits, this is achieved by getting a very big stagger and then using 2 charges back to back.
  • Overall, if you follow a natural flow of gameplay, you should use it quite frequently just to avoid Heavy Stagger and not overcap charges.
  • The biggest mistake you can make is to use all charges on cooldown and then end up with none when the Stagger becomes dangerous.
  • Celestial Brew is more straightforward to use:
    • It's your most frequent active defensive and should be used on most mechanics whenever possible.
    • Try to not hold it for too long since you are wasting cooldown reduction, which results in more damage taken in the long run.
    • However, you have to hold it for dangerous tank mechanics in certain scenarios, so keep that in mind.

Shuffle

Brewmaster Monks need Stagger to live any mechanic and what enables it to a large extent is Shuffle.

  • Shuffle is passively generated by pressing Keg Smash, Spinning Crane Kick and Blackout Kick.
  • If you don't stop pressing buttons, Shuffle should never drop and you don't need to pay any attention to it. But there are some scenarios where the buff might run out:
    • When mechanics force you out of range and you are unable to reach the boss you might end up dropping it, resulting in a lot more damage taken so watch out for that!
    • Starting combat with Keg Smash and running in fast can result in death. Since Shuffle is triggered by the damage of Keg Smash and not the cast, if you are faster than the keg flying, you might get hit without Shuffle up and you die.

Blackout Combo

  • Blackout Combo provides you with a variety of options to empower your spells after using Blackout Kick, which happens very often so taking this talent makes it quite difficult to play well.
  • Blackout Combo has a number of buffs it can provide but only 2 of them are really worth using:
    • Tiger Palm, which gains 100% increased damage
    • Breath of Fire, which gains 50% increased damage and 5% additional damage reduction
  • The hard part of using Blackout Combo is that you always want to pair it with Tiger Palm. This is very easy to mess up since any other ability consumes Blackout Combo.
  • Using the buff on Keg Smash to gain extra 2 seconds of brew cooldown reduction is technically not worth but also fine to do with the mob pull count is more than 5 targets as you want to use your Keg Smash on cooldown.
  • Using the buff on Purifying Brew is almost entirely worthless.
  • In order to avoid wasting your Blackout Combo, you need to fill the time until your next Tiger Palm with abilities that deal good damage but don’t consume the Blackout Combo, such as Rising Sun Kick, Rushing Jade Wind, Spinning Crane Kick (watch your energy!), and Chi Burst.

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.

Dungeons

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In the dungeon section below, we're only showing builds that play Shado-Pan but feel free to also use the recommended Master of Harmony build that you can in the talent section. Both builds are completely viable for every dungeon and do not change your playstyle.

Cinderbrew Meadery
Darkflame Cleft
Priory of Sacred Flame
The Rookery
Operation: Floodgate
Theater of Pain
Operation: Mechagon
The MOTHERLODE!!
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Cinderbrew Meadery

Boss Tips

Brew Master Aldryr

  • Keg Smash is the tank mechanic. It does physical damage and leaves pools of Hot Honey on the ground.
  • In the intermission Happy Hour make sure to bring the Cinderbrew infront of the boss to the Thirsty Patrons across the room.

I'pa

  • This fight contains two mechanics you'll have to pay attention to as a tank. Firstly Bottoms Uppercut does physical damage and knocks you back.
  • Secondly, when the boss starts casting Spouting Stout you should try to move him away from any Brew Drops.
    • Be careful to not get knocked into the direction of any Brew Drops, as the boss will follow you and most likely consume a Brew Drop, resulting into an immediate wipe.
    • Ring of Peace is an excellent tool against the approaching Brew Drops, making sure they never reach the boss.

Benk Buzzbee

  • As a tank you will be targeted by Honey Marinade, make sure to place the residual Flaming honey on the edges of the room, so you and your group have an easier time guiding Ravenous Cinderbee's through these Flaming honey pools.

Goldie Baronbottom

  • Aim the Cash Cannon towards barrels on the ground, make to only hit one volatile barrel at the time, but feel free to hit multiple barrels without a glow.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Venture Co. Pyromaniac - Boiling Flames
    • Royal Jelly Purveyor - Honey Volley
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Venture Co. Patron - Mean Mug
      • Stacking bleed debuff, make sure to start kiting early enough.
    • Worker Bee - Final Sting
      • If too many are being casted on you, make sure to use a defensive cooldown.
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Darkflame Cleft

Boss Tips

Ol' Waxbeard

  • Rock Buster is the tank mechanic. It does physical damage and leaves a 25% increased physical damage taken debuff for 6 seconds.

Blazikon

  • This boss is very simple, just make sure to always be in melee range of the boss, otherwise he will start casting Blazing Storms dealing groupwide fatal damage.

The Candle King

  • Make sure to interrupt Paranoid Mind.

The Darkness

  • On this fight it is important to always stand in Candlelight but make sure to not pick the candle up as a tank as it makes you unable to perform any action while lifting.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Blazing Fiends - Explosive Flame
    • Shuffling Horror - Drain Light
    • Royal Wicklighter - Flashpoint
    • Sootsnout - Flaming Tether
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Rank Overseer - Overpowering Roar
      • This cast will knock you and any enemies without it's radius, spreading out the pull, make sure to leave beforehand.
    • Corridor Creeper - Eater of the Dead
      • Do not tank these mobs near enemy corpses, as they will devourer them and gain a stacking damage increase.
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Priory of Sacred Flame

Boss Tips

Captain Dailcry

  • Before engaging this boss, you and your group have the choice to make which mini-boss to fight alongside the boss. Depending on which mini-boss you decide on, this fight will contain different mechanics.
  • The boss itself will always have his abilites, that will not change depending on which mini-boss, but the mini-boss themself have different abilites to deal with.
  • Pierce Armor is the bosses tank mechanic, it does phyiscal damage and leaves behind a bleed for 10 seconds.
  • The boss will cast Battle Cry make sure to interrupt it.
    • Elaena Emberlanz alive:
      • Casts Repentance, make sure to interrupt.
      • Adds another tank ability with Divine Judgment.
      • Holy Radiance deals groupwide AoE damage.
    • Sergeant Shaynemail alive:
      • Make sure to dodge Brutal Smash on the ground as it stuns you and does fatal damage when hit.
      • Do not stack with other people because of Lunging Strike.
    • Taener Duelmal alive:
      • This mini-boss adds a lot of additional kicks to the fight, firstly Cinderblast and secondly Fireball.
      • On top he starts casting Ember Storm, watch out and dodge fire swirlies on the ground.

Baron Braunpyke

  • Make sure to interrupt Burning Light.
  • While the boss has Vindictive Wrath active, make sure to counter with defensive abilites as he has increased physical damage done.

Prioress Murrpray

  • During the bosses Blinding Light cast, make sure to stand with your back towards the boss so you do not get disoriented.
  • Use your interrupts against Holy Smite.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Devout Priest - Inner Fire
    • Devout Priest - Greater Heal
    • Forge Master Damian - Heat Wave
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Guard Captain Suleyman - Shield Slam
      • This ability knocks you back and does huge amount of physical damage.
    • Ardent Paladin - Consecration
      • Make sure to always move the mobs out of Consecration.
    • Sir Braunpyke - Blazing Strike
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ The Rookery

Boss Tips

Kyrioss

  • Dodge Grounding Bolt on the ground.

Stormguard Gorren

  • Run away from the boss while he casts Dark Gravity.
  • After the boss has casted Chaotic Corruption make sure to stand close to the player that has been targeted by this ability, so its debuff jumps to you at least twice during its existence.

Voidstone Monstrosity

  • This fight contains two tank mechanics. Firstly Oblivion Wave which is a frontal so make sure to not aim it towards your group and secondly do not leave the bosses melee range as he will start casting Entropy dealing fatal groupwide damage.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Cursed Thunderer - Lightning Bolt
    • Unruly Stormrook - Energized Barrage
    • Cursed Rooktender - Lightning Surge
    • Void Ascendant - Feasting Void
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Operation: Floodgate

Boss Tips

Big M.O.M.M.A.

  • Electrocrush is the tank mechanic. It deals nature damage and leaves a debuff for 10 seconds dealing additional nature damage every 1 second.
  • Make sure to dodge Sonic Boom as it drags you further away from the boss and silences.
  • Use your interrupt against the Darkfuse Mechadrone's cast Maximum Distortion.

Demolition Duo

  • Use defensives against Bront's Wallop.
  • While targeted by Barreling Charge make sure to hit as many Bombs on the ground as possible.

Swampface

  • Sludge Claws does a small amount of magical damage on top of a huge amount of physical damage. It also leaves a big healing absorb on you, so make sure to use a defensive.

Geezle Gigazap

  • This bosses tank ability is Thunder Punch, knocking you back and inflicting you with a huge amount of physical damage over 4 seconds.
  • While being fixated by Leaping Sparks make sure to kite it through Dam Water pools on the ground.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Mechadrone Sniper - Trickshot
    • Venture Co. Diver - Harpoon
    • Disturbed Kelp - Restorative Algae
    • Darkfuse Bloodwarper - Blood Blast
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Shreddinator 3000 - Shreddation
      • Make sure to start moving at the end of this cast so you do not get hit by the blades spawning.
    • Disturbed Kelp - Jettison Kelp
      • Use Leg Sweep or Ring of Peace to interrupt this cast.
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Theater of Pain

Boss Tips

An Affort of Challengers

  • Dessia will occasionally cast Mortal Strike which deals physical damage and leaves a dot behind reducing healing taken by 50% for 5 seconds.
  • Use your interrupt against Sathel's Necrotic Bolt.
  • Dodge green swirlies on the ground caused by Paceran's Noxious Spores cast.

Gorechop

  • Hateful Strike is the tank mechanic. It deals a large amount of physical damage, make sure to use a defensive against it.
  • Do not get caught by Meat Hooks crossing the arena.

Xav the Unfallen

  • This boss will cast Brutal Combo as its tank ability, it's a 2.5 second long cast inflicting multiple physical damage hits in a short time.
  • During Might of Maldraxxus the boss will cast 3 different abilities that you should dodge.

Kul'tharok

  • Make sure to not aim this bosses tank abilty Necrotic Eruption towards your group and use a defensive for it.
  • While afflicted by Draw Soul stack up with your group to spawn all Lost Souls together and use Leg Sweep and Ring of Peace so the adds do not reach the boss as it does fatal group wide damage.

Mordretha, the Endless Empress

  • Reaping Scythe is a huge tank buster, make sure to have a defensive up or be ready to purify the stagger after.
  • Use your interrupt or Leg Sweep to interrupt Death Bolt casted by Deathwalker.
  • After the boss reaches 50% HP, he will occasionally summon Ghostly Combatants which cast Ghostly Charge, running from one side of the room towards the other, make sure to dodge them.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Blighted Sludge-Spewer - Withering Discharge
    • Maniacal Soulbinder - Necrotic Bolt Volley
    • Bone Magus - Bone Spear
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Putrid Butcher - Devour Flesh
      • Use a defensiv for this ability.
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ Operation: Mechagon

Boss Tips

Tussle Tonks

  • While being targeted by Platinum Pummel try not minimize movement and use a defensive ability.
  • When The Platinum Pummeler gains a stack of Platinum Plating bring him near a Piston Smasher and make sure you active it when the boss is underneath, so it smashes and removes the stack of Platinum Plating.
  • When Gnomercy 4.U. reaches 100 energy make sure to aim his Maximum Thrust towards a nearby wall.
  • The boss will occasionally spawn B.4.T.T.L.3. Mine, feel free to move away from mines when too many have spawned.

K.U.-J.O.

  • Before the boss casts Venting Flames make sure to move him towards a box to stand behind.

Machinist's Garden

  • When the boss spawns a Inconspicuous Plant, make sure to move him on top, meanwhile try to dodge the rest of the boss abilities.

King Mechagon

  • In Phase 1, make sure to dodge Plasma Orb.
  • While the boss is casting Take Off! make sure to not stand directely underneath him as it does fatal damage.
  • In Phase 2, if targeted by Mega-Zap make sure to use a defensives.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Bomb Tonk - Detonate
    • Mechagon Tinkerer - Giga-Wallop
    • Mechagon Mechanic - Tune Up
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Waste Processing Unit - Puncture
      • Physical damage taken hit and leaves a bleed for 6 seconds dealing damage, make sure to use a defensive.
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+ The MOTHERLODE!!

Boss Tips

Coin-Operated Crowd Pummler

  • While the boss casts Coin Magnet make sure to not be near any coins on the ground.

Azerokk

  • Make sure to tank the boss near Earthrager and help your team with Leg Sweep and Ring of Peace.

Rixxa Fluxflame

  • Do not stand in front of the boss while he casts Propellant Blast.

Mogul Razdunk

  • In the intermission while being targeted by Drill Smash make sure to stand next to a Drill.

Trash Tips

  • Important abilities to interrupt in this dungeon are:
    • Refreshment Vendor - Iced Spritzer
    • Hired Assassin - Toxic Blades
    • Venture Co. Earthshaper - Rock Lance
    • Stonefury - Furious Quake
    • Venture Co. Alchemist - Transmute: Enemy to Goo
  • Pay extra attention to these casts:
    • Azerite Extractor - Puncture
      • Physical damage taken hit and leaves a bleed for 6 seconds dealing damage, make sure to use a defensive.
    • Hired Assassin - Fan of Knives
      • Use Leg Sweep or Ring of Peace to interrupt this cast.

Affixes

The Affix system got revamped going into The War Within Season 1 retiring most Affixes as well as introducing new kiss-curse ones while also changing on which key level these appear.

  • +4 Affixes -- Rotates on weekly basis
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
    • Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar
  • +7 Affix -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis
    • Tyrannical
    • Fortified
  • +10 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis, is always the opposite of the +7 Affix
    • Tyrannical
    • Fortified
  • +12 Affix
    • Xal'atath's Guile -- Replaces the +4 Affix

Following you get some useful tips for handling different Mythic+ Affixes as a Brewmaster Monk.

  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
    • When orbs spawn use Ring of Peace to interrupt as many as possible.
    • Use Leg Sweep whenever needed.
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
    • The Void Emissary follows you, keep it close to cleave and target it whenever its up.
    • Use Touch of Death to deal a huge amount of damage to the Void Emissary.
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
    • Detox yourself whenever its applied to yourself.

Stat Priority

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

Brewmaster Monk Stat Priorities in Mythic+

Higher Item level items are better in most scenarios. For an accurate representation of what item to equip you should use Simcraft! A static "Stat Priority" is just a starting point and can easily shift depending on your individual gear.

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.
  • Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. This makes managing certain mechanics a lot easier.

In general, Leech is really strong for tanks, especially in AoE scenarios it can be by far the best stat you can have.
Avoidance is great but most of the time tanks are not struggling to survive the typical Area of Effect abilities.

Gear

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Overall BiS
Farmable Alternatives
SlotItemLocation
HeadAgeless Serpent's ManeThe One-Armed Bandit / Catalyst
NeckFlickering GlowtorcDarkflame Cleft
ShoulderAgeless Serpent's ShoulderpadsRik Reverb / Catalyst
CloakCandlebearer's ShroudDarkflame Cleft
ChestAgeless Serpent's Inked CoilsSprocketmonger Lockenstock / Catalyst
WristRune-Branded ArmbandsCrafting
GlovesEnforcer's Sticky FingersMug'zee, Heads of Security
BeltAdrenal Surge ClaspCrafting
LegsAgeless Serpent's LeggingsStix Bunkjunker / Catalyst
BootsAgeless Serpent's AnkleweightsCatalyst
Ring 1Ritual Bone BandTheater of Pain
Ring 2Ring of Perpetual ConflictTheater of Pain
Trinket 1Ringing Ritual MudOperation: Floodgate
Trinket 2Cinderbrew SteinCinderbrew Meadery
1-Hand WeaponStarforged Seraph's MacePriory of Sacred Flame
1-Hand WeaponCapo's Molten KnucklesMug'zee, Heads of Security
2-Hand WeaponGiga Bank-BreakerThe One-Armed Bandit

Below you are presented with a good list of farmable alternatives that are obtainable outside of WoW’s weekly lockout system. While replaced in time as you progress, these offer immediate character power.

SlotItemLocation
HeadHelm of the Righteous CrusadePriory of Sacred Flame
NeckFlickering GlowtorcDarkflame Cleft
ShoulderMechanized JunkpadsOperation: Floodgate
CloakCandlebearer's ShroudDarkflame Cleft
ChestJerkin of Awakened StoneThe Rookery
WristBattle-Scarred FisticuffsCinderbrew Meadery
GlovesSelf-Sanitizing HandwrapsOperation: Mechagon
BeltMad King's SporranOperation: Mechagon
LegsSquallrider's KiltThe Rookery
BootsMachinist's Treasured TreadsOperation: Mechagon
Ring 1Ritual Bone BandTheater of Pain
Ring 2Ring of Perpetual ConflictTheater of Pain
Trinket 1Ringing Ritual MudOperation: Floodgate
Trinket 2Cinderbrew SteinCinderbrew Meadery
1-Hand WeaponStarforged Seraph's MacePriory of the Sacred Flame
1-Hand WeaponStarforged Seraph's MacePriory of the Sacred Flame
WeaponGallytech Turbo-TillerOperation: Floodgate

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the mythic+ dungeon. In addition trinkets that are meant for DPS specialisations are nerfed by 33% but still provide better damage than tank specific trinkets.

Active Trinket alternatives

  • Chromebustible Bomb Suit
    • Strong 1.5 minute cooldown defensive trinket.
  • House of Cards
    • Provides you with a massive mastery buff for 15 seconds which can be used in combination with Weapons of Order since it shares an almost similar cooldown.
  • Tome of Light's Devotion
    • Passive trinket that has its biggest value offensively, make sure to always have the "The 50 Verses of Radiance" buff up.

Passive Trinket alternatives

  • Eye of Kezan
    • A good passive trinket that loses a lot of value in mythic+ because its stacks drop of from leaving combat which often occurs in dungeons.
  • Azerokk's Resonating Heart
    • Another passive trinket that gives you a big amount of main stat for 15 seconds.
  • Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker
    • Passive trinket which gains a lot of value when played around correctly.

Embellishments

  • Adrenal Surge Clasp
    • Provides good passive Agility at the cost of some Mastery.
  • Writhing Armor Banding
    • Empowering your Adrenal Surge Clasp.
    • On Wrists, Boots, Waist, Hands or Cloak depending on your available gear.

Remaining Sparks

  • Crafted items are 675 item level and regular items are 678 on max item level, therefore, it's a small loss to equip crafted items outside of your 2x Embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

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.

Consumables

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  • Phials
    • Flask of Tempered Versatility
  • Food
    • Feast of the Divine Day
    • Feast of the Midnight Masquerade
  • Combat Potion
    • Tempered Potion
  • Health Potion
    • Algari Healing Potion
  • Weapon Stones
    • Ironclaw Whetstone -- usable on Sword, Axe, Polearm.
    • Ironclaw Weightstone -- usable on Mace, Staff and Fist Weapon.
  • Augment Rune
    • Crystallized Augment Rune
  • Sockets
    • Deadly Sapphire
    • Culminating Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem colour to enhance your Blasphemite.
      • Deadly Onyx
      • Versatile Ruby

Enchantments

HeadS.A.D.
NeckMagnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
CloakEnchant Cloak - Chant of Leeching Fangs
ChestEnchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
WristEnchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech
S.A.D.
BeltS.A.D.
LegsStormbound Armor Kit
BootsEnchant Boots - Defender's March
Ring 1Enchant Ring - Radiant Versatility
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
Ring 2Enchant Ring - Radiant Versatility
Magnificent Jeweler's Setting 2x
2-Hand Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power
1-Hand 1Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power
1-Hand 2Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power
Brewmaster Monk Mythic+

You buy ‍S.A.D. from the Great Vault Vendor to add sockets to your Helm, Wrists and Belt.

Races

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For min-maxing a Brewmaster Monk in Mythic+ Dungeons, 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
    • Is very valuable because you can dispel yourself or remove dangerous bleed effects.
    • On top of that using Stoneform gives you 10% physical DR which can be used as a small extra 8 second personal when tanking.
    • Use-case examples:
      • Mean Mug, Venture Co. Patron (Cinderbrew Meadery)
      • Pierce Armor, Captain Dailcry (Priory of Sacred Flame)
      • Puncture, Azerite Extractor (The MOTERLODE!!)
  • Shadowmeld -- Night Elf
    • Can be very useful when doing any kind of skip in Mythic+
    • Run past basically any mob and then cast Shadowmeld to make them reset. Even works on mobs that have stealth detection if you get enough distance before you Shadowmeld
  • Rocket Jump -- Goblin
    • Do a small jump in the direction your character is facing.
    • While you're in the Rocket Jump animation you are placed on a global cooldown until your character lands.
  • Arcane Torrent -- Blood Elf
    • Strong racial to dispel or purge enemies, the value is very limited but sometimes can come in handy.
  • Spatial Rift -- Void Elf
    • Spawn a shadow traveling into your facing direction, and activate again to teleport to the rift.
    • Maximum range of 100 yards.

Recommendation

As a tank picking a racial for damage is most of the times such a small gain that it's not worth it. If you care about min-maxing your DPS go with the highest DPS racial.

That being said the recommended race for Mythic+ is either Night Elf or Dwarf both offer unique features one being more tactical with Night Elf skips and the other being more reliable when it comes to your survivability.

Macros

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Discover recommended macros for Brewmaster Monk for Mythic+ and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

Taunt Macro --- This macro either casts Provoke at your target or your mouseover (very handy to pick up mobs)

#showtooltip Provoke
/cast [@mouseover,exists,harm][@target,exists,harm] Provoke

Boss 1 Taunt --- Casts Provoke on Boss1

/cast [@boss1] Provoke

Boss 2 Taunt --- Casts Provoke on Boss2

/cast [@boss2] Provoke

Addons

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

Brewmaster Monk Mythic+
Brewmaster Monk Interface in Mythic +

Changes this Patch

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FAQ

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Credits

Written By: Skövte

Reviewed By: Wolfdisco

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