Windwalker Monk PvP Guide for Mists of Pandaria Classic

The Windwalker Monk offers a versatile and well-rounded playstyle. This specialization functions as a blend of the Rogue and Warrior, providing stuns, and a balance between steady, reliable damage output and sudden, high-impact damage bursts.

Strengths

• Flexible and fast-paced play-style
• Ability to one-shot enemies with Touch of Death
• Strong survivability toolkit
• Good crowd-control
• Huge burst-on-demand damage potential

Weaknesses

• Mostly melee damage
• Playstyle can be difficult for beginners
• Huge learning curve for optimal performance

• Glyph of Touch of Death — Touch of Death requires no more Chi and therefore this Glyphs gives you a guaranteed kill, if an opponent is below your health.
• Glyph of Touch of Karma — Increases your Touch of Karma's range to 25 yards, making it more useful versus ranged attacks.
• Glyph of Paralysis — acts like Glyph of Polymorph from Mages, removing all dots from your Paralysis target, avoiding that the target instantly dropping the crowd-control effect.
• Glyph of Sparring — is particularly useful when fighting PvP compositions with casters and melees in it. When fighting in melee, you will gain a passive spell-reflect effect, hitting the caster.

The Glyph of Blackout Kick is basically the only useful Glyph for Battlegrounds and Arenas, increasing your damage dealt. The Glyph of Zen Flight is useful in World PvP, when you want to avoid fall damage.

If you have not already, we also recommend taking a look at the Spells Summary page. The better you know your abilities, the better and more versatile you are at playing your Monk. The rotation always depends on what your enemies do and if they are frozen or not. For a better understanding of when your spells deal most damage, we highly recommend reading the Rotations page from the PvE section, where you also find a list and explanation of all your cooldowns.

If you would like to initiate a burst, you should wait for your trinket to be ready. Ensure that you have accumulated at least five stacks of Tigereye Brew for the damage increase. Use Tigereye Brew (which is your standard damage cooldown) and have a minimum of two Chi available in order to cast Rising Sun Kick, as it will apply a debuff to the target that causes them to take 20 percent increased damage. Make sure that the Tiger Palm buff is active. At this point, you should activate either Rushing Jade Wind or Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger, depending on which ability you are using. Follow that with Fists of Fury and maybe a Touch of Death, and the enemy will be unable to respond effectively.

Another popular strategy makes use of Storm, Earth, and Fire. With this ability, you can spread out your damage, letting one or two copies of yourself attack one target, while you attack another target.

With Leg Sweep, Fists of Fury, and Paralysis you can control your foes pretty well, while dealing damage to other enemies. Leg Sweep is particularly useful, when fighting big groups of enemies, as it stuns all enemies in a radius of 5 yards, while Fists of Fury stuns and damages all enemies in front of you. Paralysis acts as a single-target crowd-control effect.

If you are looking to maximize the potential of your Windwalker Monk in Mists of Pandaria PvP, we recommended Tailoring and Engineering. As in PvE, these remain the best professions for Windwalker Monks. Tailoring really shines with Lightweave Embroidery. This cloak enchant gives you a massive 2000 Intellect proc over the course of 15 seconds, which will most likely proc during cooldowns, and can be combined with Engineering's Synapse Springs (1920 Intellect for 10 seconds). Both can be stacked and prolonged for 6 seconds with Alter Time, giving you huge burst potential. Besides the Synapse Springs, Engineering offers the very useful Nitro Boosts.

The list linked below provides you with the Best-in-Slot gear setup for a Windwalker Monk in PvP.

To learn in which setups Windwalker Monks are typically strongest, please read the guides we have prepared below: