Windwalker Monk DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.1.7)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Windwalker Monk for The War Within Season 2. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Windwalker Monk, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Windwalker Monk

Overall BiS List Raid Gear BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List

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BiS List for Windwalker Monk

This list contains the highest DPS setup from most sources for Windwalker Monk.

In most non-Tier slots, a maximum iLvl Craft is technically optimal since you can customize the secondary stats to your liking. A few higher iLvl Slots from Mythic Raid are the exception.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Head	Ageless Serpent's Mane	Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Gobfather's Gifted Bling	Mug'Zee
Shoulders	Ageless Serpent's Shoulderpads	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Consecrated Cloak	Tailoring
Chest	Ageless Serpent's Inked Coils	Matrix Catalyst
Wrist	Rune-Branded Armbands	Leatherworking
Gloves	Ageless Serpent's Handguards	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Durable Information Securing Container (Socket recommendation below)	Overcharged Delves
Legs	Flame-Seared Leggings	Operation: Mechagon
Boots	Backbreaking Bootstrappers	Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring	Cyrce's Circlet	Siren Isle
Ring	The Jastor Diamond	Chrome King Gallywix
2H Weapon	Glorious Defender's Poleaxe	Priory of the Sacred Flame
1H Weapon	Capo's Molten Knuckles	Mug'Zee
1H Weapon	Gallywix's Iron Thumb	Chrome King Gallywix
Trinket	House of Cards	One-Armed Bandit
Trinket	Eye of Kezan	Chrome King Gallywix

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Raid Gear BiS List for Windwalker Monk

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Season 2 Raids.

This list is mostly useful for informing your organized guild of what loot is optimal for you for loot distribution purposes.

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Ageless Serpent's Mane	Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Gobfather's Gifted Bling	Mug'Zee
Shoulders	Ageless Serpent's Shoulderpads	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Test Pilot's Go-Pack	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Chest	Ageless Serpent's Inked Coils	Matrix Catalyst
Wrist	Ageless Serpent's Cuffs	Matrix Catalyst
Gloves	Ageless Serpent's Handguards	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Durable Information Securing Container (Socket recommendation below)	Overcharged Delves
Legs	Bilgerat's Discarded Slacks	Stix Bunkjunker
Boots	Rushed Beta Launchers	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Ring	Cyrce's Circlet	Siren Isle
Ring	The Jastor Diamond	Chrome King Gallywix
2H Weapon	Giga Bank-Breaker	One-Armed Bandit
1H Weapon	Capo's Molten Knuckles	Mug'Zee
1H Weapon	Gallywix's Iron Thumb	Chrome King Gallywix
Trinket	House of Cards	One-Armed Bandit
Trinket	Eye of Kezan	Chrome King Gallywix

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Windwalker Monk

This list contains the highest DPS setup, with farmable gear from Mythic+ Dungeons. This is a great place to start on a relatively new character, as you can infinitely grind out these items from Mythic+.

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Ageless Serpent's Mane	Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Strapped Rescue-Keg	Cinderbrew Meadery
Shoulders	Ageless Serpent's Shoulderpads	Matrix Catalyst
Cloak	Electrician's Siphoning Filter	Operation: Floodgate
Chest	Ageless Serpent's Inked Coils	Matrix Catalyst
Wrist	Battle-Scarred Fisticuffs	Cinderbrew Meadery
Gloves	Ageless Serpent's Handguards	Matrix Catalyst
Belt	Durable Information Securing Container (Socket recommendation below)	Overcharged Delves
Legs	Flame-Seared Leggings	Operation: Mechagon
Boots	Backbreaking Bootstrappers	Cinderbrew Meadery
Ring	Cyrce's Circlet	Siren Isle
Ring	Fleshfused Circle	Theater of Pain
2H Weapon	Glorious Defender's Poleaxe	Priory of the Sacred Flame
1H Weapon	Crusher of the Unsettled	Cinderbrew Meadery
1H Weapon	Crusher of the Unsettled	Cinderbrew Meadery
Trinket	Signet of the Priory	Priory of the Sacred Flame
Trinket	Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker	Operation: Floodgate

Patch 11.1.7 features a new belt that you can obtain from a short questline involving new Overcharged Delves, the Durable Information Storage Container (or DISC). This item's level and unique suite of proc effects, in addition to being obtained pre-socketed, results in it being a best-in-slot item for the remainder of Season 2 and likely the early stages of Season 3.

For more information on how to acquire or upgrade this belt, make sure to check out our dedicated Overcharged Delves guide!

In addition, over time the Durable Information Securing Container can be upgraded all the way to item level 701, and you will gain the ability to switch between 9 different item effects (in the form of miniature titan discs). For Windwalker Monks in particular, you will want to make use of the following effects:

• Critical Chain, Spark Burst, or Electric Current for Raiding and Mythic+. What is best for your character will depend on the rest of your gear, so you need to sim these options for your self to know what is best.

Patch 11.0.7 introduced Cyrce's Circlet, it is a new ring that you can acquire by completing several activities on Siren Isle. The ring has 3 sockets, each with a different gem type. There are four different gems available for each of the three slots, for a total of 12 gems, so there is quite a bit of choice on what to socket.

After the significant increase in the ring's maximum item level, many players may want to take the few minutes to maximize this ring as it is easy to do so and is generally better than even some Myth track rings depending on the rest of your character's gear. You should then sim what you have access to so that you know when it is time for you to switch.

These are generally considered to be the best gems, but it is highly recommended to sim yourself to figure out the best choices and combinations for your specific gear and the specific gems and other rings you already own:

• For raid, you will want to play Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine and Windsinger's Runed Citrine
• For Mythic+/AoE, you will also want to play Stormbringer's Runed Citrine, Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine and Windsinger's Runed Citrine

For more information on how to get the ring, as well as acquiring all of the different gems that you can possibly socket into it, check out our Cyrce's Circlet guide below!

The War Within Season 2 offers a way to acquire specific items from Liberation of Undermine through the new Puzzling Cartel Chip. They are acquired by completing a weekly quest to kill four Liberation of Undermine raid bosses. If you missed any previous weeks then you can repeat the quest until you're caught up.

We have compiled a list of high-value items that you should prioritize with your Cartel Chips in The War Within Season 2 as Windwalker Monk. This list is not exhaustive or in order of priority, and you are best served simming yourself for optimal results as the best pick will depend on the gear you already have available.

• The Jastor Diamond (Myth Track)
• House of Cards (Myth Track)
• Signet of the Priory (Myth Track) Only for when you're playing Shado-pan.
• Giga Bank-Breaker or any Myth track 2H weapon you have access to if you do not already have one equipped.
• The Jastor Diamond (Hero Track)
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (Myth Track)
• Eye of Kezan Myth Track for farm parses on longer fights, Hero Track if you are progressing on those longer fights; Bandit, Mugzee, Gallywix.
• House of Cards (Hero Track) if you cannot get a better trinket from Great Vault or Delves.

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets, this should not be a replacement for simming yourself, at least not if you want to minmax sub-1%!

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

You should ideally sim the optimal stats to craft for your particular character, but Haste/Mastery is generally a very safe choice.

1. If you're only interested in single target damage then craft two items made with Elemental Focusing Lens.
2. If you're interested in more than just single target damage then craft two items with Duskthread Lining or Dawnthread Lining. They're practically equal, so which one is largely irrelevant and what's "best" will change based on your other gear, but never so much that it matters.
3. If you, for some reason, cannot get a 2H weapon at 678 item level, then you can craft one with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and another piece with Writhing Armor Banding. This does require 3 Crests instead of 2, so it should be an absolute worst-case-scenario option.
4. Your lowest item level slot.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests, such as Gilded Harbinger Crest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +9 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +8 Dungeon, as those are wasted Crests you may not get back for a very long time.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities and upgrade prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

1. Weapons
2. Trinkets
3. Helm/Chest/Legs
4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
5. Rings and Necks
6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.

The Tier Set is comprised of 5 items, all carrying the Ageless Serpent's moniker. Unique DPS bonuses are unlocked when wearing 2 or 4 pieces from the set:

• Monk Windwalker 11.1 Class Set 2pc — Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak! increasing the damage of your Rising Sun Kick and Spinning Crane Kick by 3% stacking up to 10 times. Rising Sun Kick and Spinning Crane Kick have a 15% chance to remove Winning Streak!.
• Monk Windwalker 11.1 Class Set 4pc — Fists of Fury applies 1 stack of Winning Streak! when cast and when finished channeling completely. The damage of your next Fists of Fury is increased by 8% per stack when Winning Streak! is removed. Your Winning Streak! is always removed once it reaches max stacks.

The Tier Set Bonus is decent, and noticably stronger than the Season 1 set bonuses. You can use the Matrix Catalyst to convert regular items (from Mythic+, for example) into Tier Items.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses. We recommend you get all items except for the Legs due to their lack of Haste or Mastery. Check out the BiS List for more information.