Windwalker Monk Leveling Guide from 1 to 90 — Midnight (12.0.1)
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Windwalker Monk leveling guide for Midnight. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Monk leveling guide.
Windwalker Monk Leveling Guide for Midnight
Best Leveling Talents for Windwalker Monk
You unlock the Talent Trees at Level 10. Further below is the recommended Leveling Talent path.
Talents are additional effects and abilities that can give you access to more tools in your spellbook. They are unlocked on a regular basis as you level.
You will unlock your first talent point once you reach Level 10.
Your talent setup should be as follows with each talent point as you unlock them. Note that these recommendations may differ from what is shown in our main guide for a maximum-level player.
If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.
Best Leveling Gear for Windwalker Monk
When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.
Useful Leveling Consumables for Midnight
When Leveling up from 80-90 in the Midnight Expansion in particular, there are a lot of consumables that can help ease the process, aside from the "regular" PvE consumables mentioned further below.
Gunshoes — Massive movement speed boost that works when
Mounts do not, and much faster than ground mounts.
Goblin Glider Kit — Lets you glide off of ledges and cover vast
distances quickly.
Light-Step Hoofplates — Do not forget this Mount Equipment to
make your mounts faster on the ground.
Fried Bonefish — An incredible amount of movement speed from a Food.
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Leveling Rotation for Windwalker Monk
The Windwalker Monk rotation is based on a priority system. Use the highest ability on the list as soon as it is available. This list assumes you have access to many talents, so simply remove the ones you don't have. It is also set up for AoE pulls, as Windwalker is very capable of doing so.
Touch of Death
Whirling Dragon Punch
Strike of the Windlord
Fists of Fury
Rising Sun Kick
Blackout Kick
Spinning Crane Kick
Tiger Palm
Windwalker Monk War Mode Talents for Leveling
In this section, we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content. Below is a ranking of both General PvP Talents and Windwalker Monk-specific PvE talents.
General PvP Talents
Relentless is a passive ability, but it does not automatically
remove crowd control abilities. Instead, it reduces the duration.
Gladiator's Medallion is an on-use ability that removes all movement-impairing effects and all loss of control effects.
Adaptation is recommended; it is likely your most passive choice
since it will automatically remove loss of control effects over 5 seconds.
Windwalker Monk PvP Talents for Leveling
Alpha Tiger is very useful for a small added burst as you go
between targets.
Reverse Harm is very useful for survivability and for added
damage.
Turbo Fists is an incredibly strong PvP talent that makes pulling
large groups significantly easier.
Changelog
- 26 Feb. 2026: Reviewed and updated for Midnight release. Expanded leveling to 90.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Reviewed and updated for Midnight pre-patch, updated leveling talents and path.
- 13 Dec. 2025: Fixed leveling slider.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for 11.2.5, no changes needed.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2, no real changes needed, but I'm sure the talent tree will break.
- 01 Jul. 2025: Fixed leveling pathing again, added back Hero talent order.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7, it's not currently broken so no changes needed.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5, removed "Congratulations" section, I'm sure the leveling order will break for some reason.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Reviewed and updated for The War Within Launch, minor formatting changes.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated with new leveling path for TWW Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 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 is written and maintained by Babylonius; Long time raider in Occasional Excellence; Thirteen year veteran of Windwalker; Founder and owner of the dedicated Monk website, Peak of Serenity; and Admin/Owner of the Monk Discord, PeakofSerenity. You can find him on Twitch, Twitter, and occasionally YouTube.
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