Windwalker Monk DPS Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.7)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Windwalker Monk for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.7).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Windwalker Monks and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Windwalker Monk
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Windwalker Monk
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated if you get targeted by 
 Oil Slick.
Cooldown Usage
- Use your cooldowns as typical in the opener, but save your 2nd charge of 
 Storm, Earth, and Fire for the intermission when 
 Protective Plating falls off. - When 
 Protective Plating falls off use everything. 
Mechanical Tips
 Leg Sweep and 
 Ring of Peace are useful to help control and position adds.- Leave 
 Transcendence where you need to stack so that you can teleport back if you have to run out for anything. 
Mythic Difficulty
- Very little changes for Mythic, so there aren't any special tricks.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
With plenty of targets to hit that should be nice and grouped up, 
 Crackling Jade Lightning with
 Last Emperor's Capacitor and 
 Power of the Thunder King can be very powerful to blast them quickly.
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated if you need to soak 
 Scrapbomb or when the bosses are stacked up.
Cooldown Usage
- You'll want to use your cooldowns on pull, but then prioritize using them when the bosses are stacked up for maximum effect.
 
Mechanical Tips
 Paralysis and 
 Ring of Peace can be used to help control 
 Voltaic Images.
 Whirling Dragon Punch adds to your movement bar when fighting Torq, so be careful with that.
Mythic Difficulty
- Very little changes for Mythic, so there aren't any special tricks.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Since this fight is mostly, or entirely, single target the recommendation will be the single target talent build. You can utilize the Cleave build if you like as it will get some value when the bosses are stacked up.
Tips for Rik Reverb for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated if you need to soak Amplifier.
Cooldown Usage
- You can generally use your cooldowns when they are available, lining them up together as much as you can for maximum strength.
 - Your main priority is to help kill the barrels that drop, so try to save as many stacks of  
 Last Emperor's Capacitor and face as
many targets as you can when you cast  
 Crackling Jade Lightning for maximum damage potential. 
Mechanical Tips
- Save mobility for movement during Phase 2 as this is when you'll need it the most.
 - You can use  
 Transcendence to teleport over the waves in Phase 2 if you can't get into the safe zone. 
 Vivify cancels the channel for soaking Amplifiers, so don't use it if you are soaking.
Mythic Difficulty
- Very little changes for Mythic, so there aren't any special tricks.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
With plenty of targets to hit that should be nice and grouped up, 
 Crackling Jade Lightning with
 Last Emperor's Capacitor and 
 Power of the Thunder King can be very powerful to blast them quickly.
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated for 
 Incinerator or any of the other numerous damage sources.- On Mythic, you will likely want to save a defensive for when the coil damage hits with 10 stacks.
 
Cooldown Usage
- You can generally use your cooldowns when they are available, lining them up together as much as you can for maximum strength.
 - Be aware of upcoming Overdrive or Rolling phases so that you don't use your cooldowns and need to leave the boss.
 
Mechanical Tips
 Leg Sweep and 
 Spear Hand Strike are useful to help interrupt and stun the adds.- There are many targets to use 
 Touch of Death on, but make sure to follow any priority that your raid needs. 
 Provoke with or without 
 Hasty Provocation can be used to help tanks get adds into the boss quickly.
Mythic Difficulty
- None of the Mythic mechanics affect how you'd play your Windwalker, its just more damage and more targets to hit.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Because of how many targets there are and how important it is that they die quickly, I recommend the Conduit AOE build.
You can use the Conduit Cleave build for more boss damage with a decent amount of damage to adds.
For maximum AOE potential you can run the Conduit AOE build but drop 
 Transfer the Power for 
 Slicing Winds.
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated for the planned damage from things like 
 Foot-Blasters.
Cooldown Usage
- You can generally use your cooldowns when they are available, lining them up together as much as you can for maximum strength.
 
Mechanical Tips
- Keep 
 Transcendence near the center of the room so you can teleport back to the boss after Beta Launch. 
Mythic Difficulty
- There isn't any significant changes for Windwalker in Mythic, if any Mythic-specific tricks are found, they will be added.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Since this fight is mostly, or entirely, single target the recommendation will be the single target talent build.
Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated for the damage from 
 Reward: Flame and Coin.
Cooldown Usage
- You can generally use your cooldowns when they are available, lining them up together as much as you can for maximum strength.
 - Be mindful of getting 
 High Roller! if you can do so safely and potentially save cooldowns for when you have that buff. 
Mechanical Tips
 Leg Sweep, 
 Spear Hand Strike, and 
 Ring of Peace are useful to help interrupt and control the adds.
Mythic Difficulty
- Mythic tips will be added once more people can experience the boss and come up with any tricks.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
With plenty of targets to hit that should be nice and grouped up, 
 Crackling Jade Lightning with
 Last Emperor's Capacitor and 
 Power of the Thunder King can be very powerful to blast them quickly.
Tips for Mug'Zee for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated for the numerous damage sources.
Cooldown Usage
- You can generally use your cooldowns when they are available, lining them up together as much as you can for maximum strength.
 
Mechanical Tips
 Transcendence can be used to escape from the prison walls created by the Gaol, allowing you to get back to the boss faster and avoid the damage.
Mythic Difficulty
- Mythic tips will be added once more people can experience the boss and come up with any tricks.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Since this fight is mostly, or entirely, single target the recommendation will be the single target talent build.
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
 Touch of Karma, 
 Diffuse Magic, and 
 Fortifying Brew should be rotated for the numerous damage sources.
Cooldown Usage
- You can generally use your cooldowns when they are available, lining them up together as much as you can for maximum strength.
 - You will be able to help decimate the adds that spawn, so consider saving cooldowns for when they do.
 
Mechanical Tips
- Help control the adds with interrupts, stuns, and knocks.
 - You can talent into 
 Pressure Points to help dispel any Enrages. - Set your 
 Transcendence next to Gallywix in the final phase when he casts his big AOE so you can run out to take less damage then teleport back in. 
 Dance of the Wind allows you to back up tanks soaking the bombs if it is at its maximum stacks.
The initial damage is very small and the ticking damage is the only real damage that you take from it.
Mythic Difficulty
- Mythic tips will be added once more people can experience the boss and come up with any tricks.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
With plenty of targets to hit that should be nice and grouped up, 
 Crackling Jade Lightning with
 Last Emperor's Capacitor and 
 Power of the Thunder King can be very powerful to blast them quickly.
General Offensive Cooldown Usage
Windwalker Monk has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Liberation of Undermine:
 Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger — Use on cooldown, pair it with other DPS cooldowns like 
 Storm, Earth, and Fire if delaying it will
not lose you a cast throughout the fight. If you don't know if it will or not, then use on cooldown as the safest strategy.
 Storm, Earth, and Fire — Used close to on cooldown while lining up with other abilities and damage bonuses.
Don't sit on 2 charges; always have it recharging unless you know a big damage phase is upcoming where you can use both charges.
 Celestial Conduit should be used with the other cooldowns, with 
 Strike of the Windlord used first to trigger 
 Heart of the Jade Serpent
after the other cooldowns and 
 Celestial Conduit when the first 
 Heart of the Jade Serpent is finishing.
General Defensive Cooldown Usage
Windwalker Monks excel at handling predictable damage, but do not do well reacting to damage.
Generally you want to prioritize using 
 Touch of Karma first to handle incoming damage, since it reflects
some of the damage back to the target. After this, 
 Diffuse Magic is very useful at handling large chunks of
magic damage. Lastly 
 Fortifying Brew is useful for smaller chunks of damage over a longer period of time, or to add
on top of 
 Touch of Karma to increase your health pool and the amount that 
 Touch of Karma will absorb and redirect.
Changelog
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
 - 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5, no changes needed.
 - 17 Mar. 2025: Added Gallywix and other tips, adjusted talent recommendations to allow for cleave.
 - 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
 
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This guide is written and maintained by Babylonius; Raider in Zero Pecent Wipe; Twelve 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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