Windwalker Monk DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Season 4

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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.

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! 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.

The most versatile route is the Blue Silken Lining route. The expected uptime during keys (even higher levels) makes this a significant increase in comparison to other embellishments. Even for raids (including mythic) the uptime is high enough in most cases to be the better choice. Uptime issues can be resolved by talenting Yu'lon's Grace. (e.g. increasing the uptime on mythic Smolderon from 30% to 50%)

1. Blue Silken Lining on one slot, like Ring or Neck
2. Blue Silken Lining on another slot, like Ring or Neck
3. Any free slot with Alchemical Flavor Pocket (does not count towards the 2 embellishment limit)

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!

Season 4 offers a way to target specific, powerful items with the new Antique Bronze Bullion. Here are the best items to spend your Bullions on in Dragonflight Season 4.

1. Djaruun, Pillar of the Elder Flame
2. Seal of Diurna's Chosen
3. Voice of the Silent Star

Dragonflight Season 4 features a re-issuing of tier sets and bonuses, with their respective appearance and bonuses being voted on by the community earlier. For Monk, this is the return of the Wrappings of the Waking Fist bonuses from Vault of the Incarnates. Pieces of this set can be earned from bosses featured in the current "Awakened" raid, which rotates every week, alongside any of the nine slots in the weekly Dragonflight Great Vault, and can also gradually be made at the Revival Catalyst as a catchup system. This armor, when enough pieces of it are worn, unlocks two special bonuses for Brewmasters:

• Windwalker Monk 2pc — Fists of Fury increases the damage dealt by your next 2 Rising Sun Kicks or Spinning Crane Kicks by 40%.
• Windwalker Monk 4pc — Fists of Fury now instead enhances your next 3 Rising Sun Kicks or S Spinning Crane Kicks and enhanced kicks increase the damage of your next Fists of Fury by 7%, stacking up to 3 times.

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

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.

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.

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.