Windwalker Monk DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Windwalker Monk for Midnight Pre-Season. 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.

The Midnight Expansion brought a major stat squish, reducing the stats and numbers of virtually everything in the game, including Item Levels and the stats on gear.

You can find more information about Gearing and much more in Midnight on our Midnight page.

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

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BiS Gear for Windwalker Monk

Pre-Season BiS List for Pre-Season

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Pre-Season BiS List for Windwalker Monk in Pre-Season

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Pre-Season of Midnight, from all Pre-Season sources like Mythic0 Dungeons, Delves, and Crafts.

Because Windwalker Monk wants a decent balance of Critical Strike, Haste, and Mastery, the below list is simply one potential combination aimed at maximizing these stats. There are many many possible combinations of gear that are well within the margin of error from each other.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Head	Spellsnap Shadowmask	Magister's Terrace
Neck	Yoke of the Charging Bear	Den of Nalorakk
Shoulder	Fallen Grunt's Mantle	Windrunner Spire
Cloak	Speakeasy Shroud	Murder Row
Chest	War Trial Vestments	Den of Nalorakk
Wrist	Rootwarden Wraps	The Blinding Vale
Hands	Gauntlets of Fevered Defense	Murder Row
Belt	Snapvine Cinch	Windrunner Spire
Legs	Legwraps of Lingering Legacies	Windrunner Spire
Feet	Arctic Explorer's Legwraps	Den of Nalorakk
Ring	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
2H Weapon	Roostwarden's Bough	Windrunner Spire
1H Weapon	Shadowslash Slicer	Magister's Terrace
1H Weapon	Shadowslash Slicer	Magister's Terrace
Trinket 1	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire
Trinket 2	Void Execution Mandate	Voidscar Arena

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.

Note that simulations for Embellishments are in their early stages, and this information only reflects the current state of those simulations. It is likely that this recommendation will change slightly or entirely by the time Season 1 rolls around, so check back on this page before you are about to craft.

The Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt that can be crafted into a weapon is currently the highest simming embellishment. It is recommended that you craft it into a 1-handed weapon like Bloomforged Claw.

You should ideally sim the optimal stats to craft for your particular character, but Crit/Haste is most likely your best option with a Thalassian Missive of the Fireflash.

1. First, a Crafted Weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.
2. Second, two options:
   • If you are able to get a Myth track weapon to pair with your one Crafted Weapon then you craft Loa Worshiper's Band.
   • If you are unable to get, or wait for, a Myth track weapon, then craft a second Agility weapon with apply Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.
3. After sorting out your Embellishments, you should chase Item Level with your crafts on your otherwise weakest slots. If you are coming to the season relatively late and gearing up, crafting a Weapon followed by Jewelry can be really good here as it lets you customize your secondary stats to a significant degree.

You do not need to have a Professions to get gear crafted for you, that is what Crafting Order NPC's are for, but if you are interested in crafting for yourself and saving some Gold, check out our Professions Overview page:

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests. 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.

Weapon - Why?
• The biggest single increase in damage for all content will come from the item level of your weapon. Upgrading these ASAP will be the biggest value for the crests it will cost.
Trinkets - Why?
• After your weapon is upgraded, Trinkets generally provide the largest value to upgrade. If you have one of the stronger trinkets listed below, then you can likely upgrade them without much concern. However, after the weapon is handled, you will want to make sure that you're confirming your choices through your sims, as upgrading a weaker trinket, or one that you may still replace with a better or higher item level trinket, may not be the right choice.
Sim What's Left- Why?
• Once your weapon and trinkets are upgraded, you get to the point where you really need to be simming the gear that you have in order to know what is best. Upgrading embellishments can be worth it, but they're often in "low value" slots like gloves, belt, bracers, and boots, that don't gain as much by an item level increase. Upgrading a "high value" slot like chest, legs, helm, or shoulders, that gain more Agility, can be worth over your embellishment slots. Unfortunately, the only way to know for sure is to sim your character.

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

You can learn more about the Gear Upgrade System in our Gear Upgrade System page.