Brewmaster Monk Tank Stat Priority — 12.0.5

As a Brewmaster Monk, your stat priority stays simple for whatever you want to do. This includes whether you are playing as a Shado-Pan Brewmaster, or a Master of Harmony. Regardless of your choice, the following stat priorities will not change with your Hero Talents!

Brewmaster Monk Defensive Stat Priority

Agility/Item Level > Critical Strike = Versatility = Mastery > Haste

Brewmaster stats are fairly close in defensive value. For this reason, you should wear the highest item-level gear you have available. Having more stats will often be more useful than having "better" stats for your defense. Jewelry slots are the main exception, as they do not have Agility or Armor on them. For these slots, you should focus on whatever provides the least amount of Haste when optimizing for defense.

Want to also know where to find pieces with these stat priority? Our gearing guide can make things easier.

Brewmaster Monk Offensive Stat Priority

Agility > Critical Strike ≥ Mastery > Versatility > Haste

If you are trying to deal more damage as a Brewmaster rather than survive more of it, you should glance at our Simulation guide to learn how to find out which stat is most useful based on what you are wearing. Just remember, as a tank, your job is to survive first and deal damage second.

As your Brewmaster reaches increasingly high item levels and gains larger amounts of secondary stats, you may reach a point of slight diminishing returns. From here, further stat rating will be slightly reduced to encourage a more balanced spread. Put simply, for Brewmaster, these points begin at 30% for Haste and Versatility, 37% for Mastery, and 40% for Critical Strike. However, this only applies to the stat ratings. The temporary 30% Haste from Bloodlust does not count against you, for example. With that being said, the impact of this diminishing returns effect is not strong enough for you to end up ignoring the stats you desire. Depending on what items you have received as upgrades along the way, you may never even hit these points on any of your stats.

In addition to stats from gear, you can obtain more by socketing certain gems, applying enchantments, and using various consumables. These will usually be similar to your chosen stat priority, but our dedicated page covers the topic in greater detail.

Critical Strike — 46 rating = 1%: increases your chance to deal double damage or healing on most of your spells.

Haste — 44 rating = 1%: improves your Energy regeneration rate, lets you auto attack faster, and reduces the cooldown of some abilities. Although this stat normally reduces your global cooldown as well, Brewmaster and other specializations that use Energy as a resource always have a global cooldown of 1 second regardless of Haste.

Versatility — 54 rating = 1%: enhances all damage and healing you perform (including from gear effects like trinkets) and reduces all damage you take.

Mastery — 46 rating = 1%: Mastery: Elusive Brawler grants you a stacking buff that increases your chance to dodge every time you are attacked or cast Blackout Kick until you successfully dodge an attack; Mastery also passively increases your Attack Power.

Agility — 1 rating = 1 Attack Power: increases your ability strength, dodge chance, Stagger percentage, and even your self-healing. This is your most important stat.

Stamina — 1 rating = 20 Health: improves your maximum health, providing you with greater survivability in general. Nearly every piece of gear you equip will include some amount of Stamina, making it a stat that is passively increased with item level.

Armor is a stat you will acquire from most of your gear by default, with higher item-level pieces offering more. It has strong defensive value, but only works to reduce the damage received from Physical attacks.