Windwalker Monk Battleground Blitz Guide — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 18, 2024 at 18:00 by Mysticall 14 comments

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about playing Windwalker Hunter in Battleground Blitz, including specific playstyle tips, talent builds, and much more.

1.

Windwalker Monks in Battleground Blitz

2.

Playstyle as Windwalker Monk

The main role of a Windwalker Monk in Battleground Blitz is to use your mobility to maintain uptime on enemy healers and relentlessly pressure them. To keep your team offensive, you will push in with your team to try to get Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep stuns on multiple enemies. Be careful not to use all of your mobility to reach the enemy healer. This will make it easy for teams to make swaps to you. Setup a Transcendence Icon Transcendence port before you push in so you can use Transcendence: Transfer Icon Transcendence: Transfer if you are taking heavy damage.

3.

Talent Choices for Windwalker Monk

Here is the talent build you will be using to maximize your damage output:

The goal of this build is to get Dance of Chi-Ji Icon Dance of Chi-Ji as often as possible to maximize your spread damage on teams that are stacked.

4.
  • Turbo Fists Icon Turbo Fists
  • Rising Dragon Sweep Icon Rising Dragon Sweep
  • Stormspirit Strikes Icon Stormspirit Strikes

Because you will be the primary focus for most teams, Turbo Fists Icon Turbo Fists gives you the extra survivability you need to keep yourself alive in team fights. Rising Dragon Sweep Icon Rising Dragon Sweep gives Windwalker Monks an AoE knock-up effect that can be used to interrupt multiple enemies at the same time. Finally, Stormspirit Strikes Icon Stormspirit Strikes gives you even more AoE damage that will be beneficial versus teams that are stacked throughout a team fight.

Crowd Control as Windwalker Monk

In Battleground Blitz, without the Arena Dampening effect, healers, when left alone, are able to sustain against many players with relative ease. The way to counter the high throughput of healers in Battleground Blitz is with the effective use of crowd control.

Monk has many tools in its kit to aid with this:

  • Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep
  • Paralysis Icon Paralysis

Note: Be careful with Paralysis Icon Paralysis! This will dispel all DoTs on the target, and you could be removing quite a bit of damage if you have an Affliction Warlock or Shadow Priest on your team.

5.

Windwalker Monk Defensives

  • Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep should be used for crowd control on the enemy healer most of the time. If you are being focused and cannot get away or receive help from your teammates, use Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep to stun enemies near you.
  • Transcendence Icon Transcendence can be used to teleport behind pillars. Use this when you push in for a Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep and Transcendence: Transfer Icon Transcendence: Transfer back before you get swapped to. If an enemy is casting crowd control on you, you can teleport before their cast finishes to avoid being crowd-controlled.
  • Touch of Karma Icon Touch of Karma is our primary defensive cooldown. Use this when the enemy team is focusing you down, and your healer cannot heal you through it or is stuck in crowd control. It absorbs 50% of your Health pool and heals you.
  • Fortifying Brew Icon Fortifying Brew is a powerful defensive cooldown. This not only decreases the amount of damage you take, but it increases your Health. This affects how much Health you get back when using a Healthstone Icon Healthstone.
  • Paralysis Icon Paralysis can be used when you have been interrupted. If the enemy team is trying to kill one of your teammates and you get interrupted, use Paralysis on one of the enemy DPS to prevent their damage. You can also use Paralysis to interrupt casts, including to avoid incoming crowd control.
6.

Windwalker Monk Stat Priority and Gear

  1. Agility;
  2. Versatility;
  3. Mastery;
  4. Haste;
  5. Critical Strike.
7.

The Role of Windwalker Monks in Battlegrounds

7.1.

Capture the Flag (Warsong Gulch, Twin Peaks)

On both Warsong Gulch and Twin Peaks, if you are defending your own flag carrier, you should encourage them to take high ground on the upstairs ledges so you can protect them with Ring of Peace Icon Ring of Peace.

Similarly, when attacking enemy bases, you should look to knock players off the high ground. You can do that either to make sure that your teammates can attack the enemy flag carrier or to separate the flag carrier from their healers.

When nobody is available to take the enemy flag, and it is nearby, you should take advantage of your mobility and defensive cooldowns to bring the enemy flag back to your team as soon as you can and, if possible, pass it to a more durable specialization when it is safe to do so. Use spells like Roll Icon Roll and Flying Serpent Kick Icon Flying Serpent Kick to get to someone quickly.

7.2.

Resource Race (Arathi Basin, Battle for Gilneas, Deepwind Gorge)

Before a Resource Race battleground starts, you should decide with your team which base you should focus on first.

  • If there is an enemy healer at the base you are assigned to, then you should crowd control them as soon as possible and use your burst cooldowns to kill their teammates
  • If there is no healer but there is more than one DPS enemy, you should use your crowd control on the one who your team is less likely to attack (as they would break your crowd control)

Because Windwalkers do not have the same crowd control toolkit as other DPS, your primary goal will be to team fight at a node and pull in as many enemies as possible while your team tries to get other nodes. Ideally, you will have a healer and 1 more DPS with you. From here, it will be a 2v2 or 3v3 against the other team.

7.3.

Hybrid (Eye of the Storm)

Similar to resource race maps, your goal is to keep your team offensive by pushing into the enemy team with other DPS and team fighting. The goal on this map, unlike normal Rated Battlegrounds, is to team fight at one node and try to cap both bases. This results in long 7v7 team fights, and the winner will more than likely pull ahead quickly. Trade your defensives when you get low (Touch of Karma Icon Touch of Karma, Fortifying Brew Icon Fortifying Brew, etc.) and get value out of Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep by stunning multiple enemies.

Note: Capping the flag will make the inactive bases active and both teams will have to recap the nodes. Use this tactic if your team is falling behind on points or lost the team fight.

7.4.

King of the Hill (Temple of Kotmogu)

Ranged DPS specializations will always be the best orb carriers on Temple of Kotmogu, so do not grab the flag unless it is a dire situation and you have to. The most important part about this map is to win the initial team fight and quickly gain momentum by grabbing 3 orbs and standing in the middle of the map. When the enemy team starts to resurrect, leave middle and kite around the center. Here are some tips for this map:

  • Players take more damage the longer they hold the orb. This means that, eventually, the Orb carriers will die. Ideally, your team will only hold 2-3 orbs at a time, so that you do not easily wipe when you have high stacks.
  • Make sure you die on the correct side of the map! You and your team will resurrect depending on where you died. If you die on purple side, you will resurrect on blue side and vise versa. Ensuring you and your team resurrect together is crucial, this will allow you to regroup faster and quickly wipe the enemy team that will be weak.
  • There are leaves at every orb; if you are low on Mana, make sure you grab one!
8.

Changelog

  • 15 Sep. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
  • 27 Aug. 2024: Page added.
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