Welcome to our Brewmaster Monk tank guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Brewmaster Monk in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Sunnier, who maintains the most respected Brewmaster Monk resource site: Sunnier's Art of War.

The Brewmaster is the tanking specialisation of Monks, the most recently-added class in World of Warcraft.

Brewmasters rely mostly on avoiding damage, through dodging and parrying attacks. Brewmasters also have an additional way of dealing with incoming damage, a unique ability called Stagger, which causes part of the damage to be done to the Monk instantly, while the rest is done over the course of 10 seconds (with the possibility for the Monk to remove all of the non-instant damage).

Mainly for these reasons, Brewmasters benefit from a steady and relatively easily-healed damage intake. They make excellent tanks in PvE and will always be a valuable asset to your raid.

Unlike any other tanking class, Brewmaster Monks lack a powerful defensive cooldown that reduces all damage taken, but they make up for this through their many versatile defensive abilities.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros and addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.