Windwalker Monk DPS Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.0.7
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Windwalker Monk in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.7.
Windwalker Monk in Mythic+
Windwalker Monk is a very solid melee specialization for Mythic+. It
provides a good combination of damage output and utility. It has access
to some of the best crowd control spells and very flexible burst cooldowns,
such as Storm, Earth, and Fire.
Windwalker Monks are heavily used in high end Mythic+ due to their
combination of utility, AoE damage and Mystic Touch.
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our Dragonflight Mythic+ page below.
Dragonflight Season 1 introduces the Thundering affix. This
will periodically spawn many dodgeable lightning strikes all at once, as well
as marking everyone in the group with one of two debuffs. While debuffed,
players will deal 30% additional damage and healing, however if this is not
removed within 15 seconds, the players will take very high Nature damage as well
as a stun. To remove the debuff, players will simply need to stand on top of a
party member who has the opposite debuff.
For a more in-depth look at this affix or any other, check out our affix guide linked below.
Windwalker Monk Mythic+ Build
For Mythic+ Dungeons as a Windwalker Monk, your focus will primarily be on AoE damage. With that in mind, note that the talents recommended below are specifically for Mythic+. If you wish to see a more general overview of Windwalker talents, you can check our main page below.
These are our recommended talents for Windwalker Monk in Mythic+. Remember that you can easily import the talent tree below into the game with either of the two "Copy Export String" buttons:
Windwalker Monk Mythic+ Rotation
Both the single-target and multi-target rotations do not change in Mythic+ content. For more information about the Windwalker Monk DPS rotation, refer back to the Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities page.
However, it is worth noting that most of your multi-target output now lies
in Fists of Fury. Therefore, it is paramount to make the most out of
this spell. Avoid delaying it, keep Chi for it, and do not waste it when you
expect extra targets to come in soon.
Against multiple enemies, the rotation is also based on a priority system, and it depends slightly based on how many enemies you are facing.
Keep in mind that Tiger Palm and
Blackout Kick (as well as
Rising Sun Kick) apply a 15-second
debuff on their target, called
Mark of the Crane. Each instance of this
debuff increases the damage of your
Spinning Crane Kick (against any
target) by 10%, up to 50%. Therefore, your Tiger Palms and Blackout Kicks should be
distributed among your enemies in such a way as to keep the Mark of the Crane
debuff up on as many targets as possible.
Moreover, you should make use of Storm, Earth, and Fire by using it once
at the start of the fight, and then using its next charge when
Fists of Fury becomes available again. From then on, simply reuse it
with
Fists of Fury, making sure that you never let both of
Storm, Earth, and Fire's
charges remain available.
Invoke Xuen
Touch of Death
Expel Harm if <6 Chi AND about to cap energy
Tiger Palm if <5 Chi AND about to cap energy
Blackout Kick with 3 stacks of
Teachings of the Monastery
Spinning Crane Kick with
Dance of Chi-Ji proc
Blackout Kick with 2 stacks of
Teachings of the Monastery
Fists of Fury
Whirling Dragon Punch
Blackout Kick with 1 stacks of
Teachings of the Monastery
Strike of the Windlord
Rushing Jade Wind
Spinning Crane Kick
Blackout Kick
Rising Sun Kick to trigger
Whirling Dragon Punch
Chi Burst
Windwalker Monk Utility
Windwalker Monks provide utility to the dungeon party through strong crowd control, exceptional on demand burst damage on priority targets and mobility.
Leg Sweep is one of the strongest crowd controls in the game. Communicate with your party to use it at the best possible timing.
Ring of Peace is occasionally exceptional. It allows you to move enemies outside of specific ground effects or create a safe zone for your tank. It can also move enemies without entering combat with them to create unique paths to avoid some packs. However, coming at the cost of losing a powerful talent row, it will rarely be picked.
Paralysis will fully disable an enemy for X seconds or until you attack it. It can be used to prevent specific patrols from moving around or to delay dealing with a specific dangerous mob. Additionally, it can be used mid combat as an interrupt.
Windwalking will passively grant your nearby allies movespeed. This 4% increase will rarely have a large impact but adds up to a decent gain over the course of a dungeon run.
Touch of Death is not at its best in a dungeon, as the greater your number of targets, the less its single target damage matters. However, with so many targets hitting the health thresholds consistently, you can overcome its lack of AoE power with volume of casts over the course of a dungeon.
Detox
Detox is a very powerful tool, since there are
many debuffs applied in dungeons. It is worth noting that it removes Poisons and Diseases: this
means you sometimes can remove debuffs which your healer cannot remove: a
Restoration Druid cannot remove Diseases, a Holy or Discipline Priest cannot
remove Poisons, and a Restoration Shaman cannot remove either.
Mythic+ Affixes
Sanguine places a pool of blood on the ground when a mob is slain. This pool will heal remaining enemies who stay inside the zone and damage players. Windwalker Monks can use
Ring of Peace to push enemies off of Sanguine zones.
Bursting places a dispellable magic debuff that deals damage. Simply stagger targets dying to control your stacks. Use
Diffuse Magic to help your healer.
Spiteful is another new Affix for Shadowlands similar to the Thing from Beyond that spawned from Corruption, except everyone can see it. This will likely be kited, making tools like
Ring of Peace incredibly useful. Grab a WeakAura or some other way of identifying when you are targeted and which Shade is coming after you.
Grievous afflicts players with a stacking DoT when they fall below 90%. Bring consumables to assist your healer when out of combat.
Explosive will occasionally spawn Explosive Orbs that need to be targeted and burned down quickly, or they will significantly damage the party. Explosive Orbs cannot be cleaved, and the number of orbs that spawn scales with the number of enemies pulled. You can get stacks of
Mark of the Crane from hitting these orbs.
Storming is an affix that spawns tornadoes around enemy creatures in combat that revolve in a circle for 10 seconds before disappearing; dodge them.
Thundering is a nice debuff to do extra damage, and Windwalker can mitigate much of the damage you take. Just make sure it is off of you before you get stunned.
Changelog
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch, added Thundering information, removed Shadowlands things.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide is written and maintained by Babylonius; Guild Master and Raider in Occasional Excellence on US-Turalyon; Eight 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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