Windwalker Monk DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Dragonflight 10.2

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Windwalker Monk for Dragonflight 10.1.7. 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 Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid 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.

447 iLvl Great Vault items from Mythic+ are not listed here, as they are not targetable due to the RNG nature of the Vault. Mythic+ items are included at Item Level 441.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Head	Mystic Heron's Hatsuburi	Tindral Sageswift
Neck	Ouroboreal Necklet	Volcoross
Shoulders	Leafmender Mantle	The Everbloom
Cloak	Inflammable Drapeleaf	Gnarlroot
Chest	Mystic Heron's Burdens	Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle
Wrist	Life-Bound Bindings	Crafted
Gloves	Mystic Heron's Glovebills	Igira the Cruel
Belt	Life-Bound Belt	Crafted
Legs	Mystic Heron's Waders	Larodar, Keeper of the Flame
Boots	Mystic Heron's Tabi	Revival Catalyst
Ring	Signet of the Last Elder	Igira the Cruel
Ring	Lord Waycrest's Signet	Waycrest Manor
Weapon	Rashon, the Immortal Blaze	Fyrakk, the Blazing

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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	Mystic Heron's Hatsuburi	Revival Catalyst
Neck	Raven Filigree Pendant	Black Rook Hold
Shoulders	Leafmender Mantle	The Everbloom
Cloak	Shadowfeather Shawl	Black Rook Hold
Chest	Mystic Heron's Burdens	Revival Catalyst
Wrist	Chronomancer's Stasis Shackles	Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise
Gloves	Mystic Heron's Glovebills	Revival Catalyst
Belt	Hound-Jowl Waistband	Waycrest Manor
Legs	Mystic Heron's Waders	Revival Catalyst
Boots	Mystic Heron's Tabi	Revival Catalyst
Ring	Band of Twisted Bark	Darkheart Thicket
Ring	Lord Waycrest's Signet	Waycrest Manor
Weapon	Borrowed Time	Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise

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Raid Gear BiS List for Windwalker Monk

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Amirdrassil Raid.

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	Mystic Heron's Hatsuburi	Tindral Sageswift
Neck	Ouroboreal Necklet	Volcoross
Shoulders	Mystic Heron's Hopeful Effigy	Smolderon
Cloak	Inflammable Drapeleaf	Gnarlroot
Chest	Mystic Heron's Burdens	Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle
Wrist	Mystic Heron's Fisticuffs	Revival Catalyst
Gloves	Mystic Heron's Glovebills	Igira the Cruel
Belt	Bloody Dragonhide Belt	Igira the Cruel
Legs	Mystic Heron's Waders	Larodar, Keeper of the Flame
Boots	Mystic Heron's Tabi	Revival Catalyst
Ring	Signet of the Last Elder	Igira the Cruel
Ring	Band of Burning Thorns	Larodar, Keeper of the Flame
Weapon	Rashon, the Immortal Blaze	Fyrakk, the Blazing

Throughout this page, we will 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.

Dragonflight features the option to utilize profession gear to a greater extent than ever before, including the ability to create powerful items at an item level of up to 447! However, acquiring items of suitable strength is limited by a unique reagent known as a Spark of Dreams, of which you will only earn one every two weeks. Over time, you can utilize entire sets of crafted gear if you are willing to create them (with or without the help of the Crafting Orders system), but be warned that you cannot convert crafted gear into tier pieces at the Revival Catalyst.

In addition to having customizable secondary stats, there are a variety of powerful optional effects that are either innately present on crafted gear or can be manually added with extra reagents. These bonuses are known as embellishments, and you may have up to two effects present on equipped crafted gear at a time.

Due to the flexibility of crafted gear, such as the ability to specify your secondary stats along with your potential embellishment, you have many options available for gear to be created depending on items you have been able to obtain from other content sources in Dragonflight. In general, however, some items are more likely to be useful for all Windwalker Monks, which are listed below for convenience.

We have two pretty much equal options here: double Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch, or Slimy Expulsion Boots with a Toxified Armor Patch . They are simming essentially very closely. Slimy Expulsion Boots with a Toxified Armor Patch is likely the best choice as its the most flexible.

If you want to go the Shadowflame route: You’ll simply craft Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch onto any two pieces. A good first one is on the chest slot because of its high stat budget and the tier chest’s mediocre stats. The second can be wherever; bracers or belt are easy choices.

1. Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch on one slot, like Bracers or Belt
2. Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch on another slot, like Bracers or Belt

If you want to go the Toxic route: If you do not have one from Season 2 then you should craft a Season 2 item with for ST, Toxified Armor Patch ASAP before/as you use Slimy Expulsion Boots. Common slots for this are belt or bracers.

1. Slimy Expulsion Boots
2. Season 3 item with Toxified Armor Patch on another slot, like Bracers or Belt

As always, sim yourself to see exact numbers for your own character.

There is one final effect to mention that uniquely does not count as an embellishment when added to a crafted item that otherwise has no embellishment: Alchemical Flavor Pocket. This item can be obtained from the weekly Community Feast quest reward of Supply-Laden Soup Pot or bought on the auction house. Consider creating and equipping an item with this bonus for additional quality of life!

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Windwalker Tier Set - Mystic Heron's Discipline

The Amirdrassil Raid features a new tier set for you to collect, and comes with two unique bonuses when wearing at least two or four pieces of its equipment:

• Monk Windwalker 10.2 Class Set 2pc — Free Spinning Crane Kicks grant Blackout Reinforcement, increasing the damage of your next Blackout Kick by 150%. Melee abilities have a chance to grant Blackout Reinforcement.
• Monk Windwalker 10.2 Class Set 4pc — Blackout Reinforcement empowered Blackout Kicks reduce the cooldown of Fists of Fury, Rising Sun Kick, Strike of the Windlord, and Whirling Dragon Punch by 3.0 sec. Damage of Fists of Fury, Rising Sun Kick, Strike of the Windlord, and Whirling Dragon Punch increased by 4%.

As there are five total slots, but only four are needed to gain both equipment bonuses, we recommend that you consider ignoring the shoulder piece in favor of the remaining four. However, getting your set bonuses takes priority over getting the "correct" pieces.

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Choosing a Weapon

Windwalker Monks are unique because they can opt for either two-handed or dual-wield one-handed weapons. This results in a massive amount of potential choices to consider. Although you will often opt for whichever choice has the higher item level or more Weapon DPS, there is some nuance to remember.

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Dual-wielding and Two-Hand Comparison

As you acquire weapons, you may have to, at times, decide between dual-wielding a weapon in each hand or equipping a single two-handed option. This decision may be a little more complicated than it first would seem, as there is a hidden buff — called Windwalker Monk Two-Hand Adjustment despite also affecting Brewmasters — which increases the damage of your abilities by 2% when dual-wielding. However, many of your abilities do not take a weapon in the off-hand into account for calculating their damage dealt!

What this all ends up meaning is that when dual-wielding, your autoattack damage is more significant, but when using a two-handed weapon, your ability damage is higher instead. However, if both of your dual-wielded weapons are enchanted, they more than make up this difference in ability damage. Of course, this assumes all three weapons involved are the same item level and have identical secondary stats.

To summarize: when deciding between dual-wield and 2h, you can safely choose either option if it results in a higher total item level or amount of secondary stats. If you would like to know the best offensive option for your current selection of weapons, then it is still recommended to simulate your character for the best item available.

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Trinket Simulations for Windwalker Monk

These are generic simulations from Bloodmallet, giving you a rough overview of strong Windwalker Monk Trinkets. It is not a replacement for simming yourself, but can still offer a quick overview.

Check out the BiS Lists if you just want to know the best Trinkets from M+ and Raid.

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Best Raiding & Single-Target Trinkets for Windwalker Monk

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Best Mythic+ & AoE Trinkets for Windwalker Monk

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Changelog

• 30 Nov. 2023: Updated BiS Lists
• 19 Nov. 2023: Fixed link problem with Borrowed Time weapon.
• 11 Nov. 2023: Updated for Sporecloak nerf, embellishment recommendations have been redone.
• 06 Nov. 2023: Updated and Reviewed for Patch 10.2, updated tier information, BiS lists, and embellishment recommendations.
• 04 Sep. 2023: Updated and Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7, no changes necessary.
• 10 Jul. 2023: Updated and Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5, added information on unique items in Dawn of the Infinites dungeon.
• 01 May 2023: Reviewed and Updated for Patch 10.1, formatting changes, updated BiS gearsets, and more.
• 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
• 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
• 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1, added gear from Vault of the Incarnates.
• 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch, added initial dungeon gear.
• 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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