Brewmaster Monk Tank Macros and Addons — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)
On this page, you will find a number of useful macros and addons to make your life easier when playing your Brewmaster Monk in World of Warcraft — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0).
If you were looking for Mists of Pandaria Classic content, please refer to our MoP Monk addons and macros.
Macros
Generic Macros for Monks
Detox Mouseover Macro
- #showtooltip Detox
- /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Detox;Detox
Using this macro will cast
Detox
on your mouseover
target, if they are a friendly player and they are not dead. Otherwise, it
will cast Detox on your current target.
Tiger's Lust Mouseover Macro
- #showtooltip Tiger's Lust
- /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Tiger's Lust;Tiger's Lust
Using this macro will cast
Tiger's Lust on your mouseover
target, if they are a friendly player and they are not dead. Otherwise, it
will cast Tiger's Lust on your current target.
Mouseover Interrupt and Focus Macro
- #showtooltip Spear Hand Strike
- /cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@focus,exists,harm,nodead][] Spear Hand Strike
This macro allows you to cast
Spear Hand Strike on your mouseover
target, whatever enemy you currently have on focus, or on your current target
if neither of these conditions apply.
Mouseover
Tiger's Lust
- #showtooltip Tiger's Lust
- #showtooltip Tiger's Lust
- /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Tiger's Lust;Tiger's Lust
Similarly to the
Spear Hand Strike macro above, this one allows you to
cast
Tiger's Lust on your mouseover target if it exists. Otherwise
it will cast the ability on yourself as it normally would.
Specific Macros for Brewmaster Monks
All-in-One Taunt Macro
- #showtooltip Provoke
- /cast [nomod,@mouseover,harm,nodead] Provoke
- /cast [nomod] Provoke
- /targetexact [mod:alt] Black Ox Statue
- /cast [mod:alt] Provoke
- /targetlasttarget [mod:alt,exists]
This macro allows you to use your
Provoke ability in a variety of
ways. First, it will taunt whatever you are mousing over, if anything.
Otherwise, it will taunt your current target. If you use the modifier key
— in this case, alt — it will taunt your (talented) Black Ox Statue
if it is out and then return you to your previous target. Be warned that this
macro will not always work correctly if a Black Ox Statue from another player
is present, as there is no way to have a macro know which statue is yours.
If you prefer a different modifier button, replace "alt" with "shift" or "ctrl".
Blessing of Protection Cancelaura Macro
- /cancelaura Blessing of Protection
This macro is very useful to have, as it allows you to cancel a
Blessing of Protection that may have been cast on you. This is important
because while you are under the effect of Blessing of Protection, enemies will
not attack you and will instead attack the next person on their threat list, such
as a DPS. You may also wish to add a variety of heal-over-time or other defensive
buffs supplied by other players to this macro if you are in a scenario where
you intend to be defeated, such as when countering a specific raid mechanic. To do
so, simply write additional lines beginning with /cancelaura followed by the name
of the buff.
Shared
Celestial Brew/
Celestial Infusion
- #showtooltip
- /cast [known:Celestial Brew] Celestial Brew
- /cast [known:Celestial Infusion] Celestial Infusion
Most players will not need this macro, which automatically switches
between casting
Celestial Brew and
Celestial Infusion based
on which of the two you currently have talented. The default UI of Midnight will
already do this for players, however those that make use of separate addons to
modify action bar behavior will likely need to replicate it with the above macro.
Otherwise, you may find yourself unable to cast a key mitigation ability from simply
switching talents around!
Passive
Double Barrel Macro
- #showtooltip Keg Smash
- /cast Double Barrel
- /cast Keg Smash
This macro will automatically make use of the
Double Barrel PvP
Talent if you have it selected and cast it at the same time as your
Keg Smash
whenever the ability is off-cooldown. It will still work even if you do not have
this PvP Talent selected and is useful if you would just like to benefit from
its passive damage increase and stun effect every 45 seconds while out in the
world.
Addons for Brewmaster Monk
Generic Addons for Monks
ElvUI
ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.
Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.
GTFO
GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.
Parrot or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
Parrot and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.
Although you will not be able to make use of WeakAuras in Midnight's Pre-Patch, Wago.io remains an excellent source of both default UI and cooldown manager player configurations. Check their Brewmaster Monk section and see if something suits your needs.
Grid and GridClickSets (Optional)
ElvUI comes with decent raid frames. The only real reason for using Grid and GridClickSets is if you want to be able to decurse raid or party members by right clicking their frame in the raid of party frame. If you choose to go with Grid, then you might want to also use GridStatusRaidDebuff.
Changelog
- 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.0.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Page reviewed for Patch 11.1.0
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Macros adjusted for The War Within launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Page reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Added a macro for Bonedust Brew behavior; page reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Page reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Page reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Page reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Page reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Sinzhu, a Mythic raider on US-Kiljaeden who has passionately played Brewmaster for the past ten years. He also contributes to the Peak of Serenity and is a Moderator of the Monk Class Discord.
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