Windwalker Monk Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will learn the best Gems to use for your Windwalker Monk in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, as well as the best leveling talents and rotation, whether you are leveling in the open world, or through raids and dungeons.
If you were looking for our normal leveling guide for Windwalker Monk, please check out our Leveling page.
Remix: Mists of Pandaria Guide for Windwalker Monk
Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Windwalker Monk! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Windwalker Monk in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.
This page is focused only on Windwalker Monk in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Talents for Windwalker Monk
Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Windwalker Monk in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.
Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix, although it is the same. For our Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Windwalker Monk, please check our dedicated Leveling page.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Build for Windwalker Monk
Dungeon and Raid Leveling Build
This build assumes you are spending a lot of time in Raids and Dungeons
Open-World Leveling Build
This build is intended for speed-leveling and sacrifices single-target damage to maximize your ability to make huge pulls and AoE damage.
Best Gems for Windwalker Monk in MoP Remix
Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.
- Meta Gem: Oblivion Sphere / Funeral Pyre
- Cogwheel Gem: Blink / Spirit Walk
- Prismatic Gems:
You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem slots, and there is no single best stat to stack. Early on, aim for Critical Strike and Versatility, but as you start to hit diminishing return levels, try to balance out with some Mastery and Haste too.
- Tinker Gems:
- Quick Strike
- Windweaver
- Enkindle
- Lightning Rod
- Brilliance
- Frost Armor
- Cold Front
- Sunstrider's Flourish
- Slay
- Brittle — for Dungeon content.
- Explosive Barrage
- Wildfire
- Incendiary Terror
- Arcanist's Edge — paired with shield gems (such as Frost Armor)
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
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times and sometimes entirely different talents.
- Invoke Xuen
- Touch of Death
- Tiger Palm if <5 Chi AND about to cap energy
- Blackout Kick try not to overcap Teachings of the Monastery
- Spinning Crane Kick with Dance of Chi-Ji proc
- Fists of Fury
- Whirling Dragon Punch
- Strike of the Windlord
- Spinning Crane Kick
- Blackout Kick
- Rising Sun Kick
- Chi Burst
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 14 May 2024: Page added.
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This guide is written and maintained by Babylonius; Guild Master and Raider in Occasional Excellence on US-Turalyon; Eight 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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