Windwalker Monk PvP Rotation and Playstyle (The War Within Pre-Patch)

The main role for a Windwalker Monk is simple: use your mobility to relentlessly attack a target and use your strong single-target cooldowns to burst your enemies down. You have some crowd control for the enemy healer in the forms of Paralysis and Leg Sweep. Because of this, you will use a large amount of damage output you have to make the enemy team use their defensive cooldowns. By managing your damaging buffs, a Windwalker can unleash a devastating amount of damage in a short amount of time.

Know exactly where to put your Transcendence portal. Although it does not seem like it, using your Transcendence effectively is crucial in Windwalker's survivability. The best place to put it is behind a pillar, and tell your healer where it is. This way, when you do use Transcendence: Transfer, they will not be confused about where you are.

The opener refers to your team's opening crowd control chain and damage done as soon as you exit the gates. The main goal in the opener is to force your enemies to use their cooldowns. They are in trouble if the enemy healer uses their trinket in the opener. Windwalkers have Paralysis (an incapacitating effect with diminishing returns) and Leg Sweep (a stun with diminishing returns). Always use Paralysis on the enemy healer, and if the enemy team is grouped up try to Leg Sweep the healer.

Managing your Hit Combo and Mastery: Combo Strikes is crucial to the Windwalker Monk rotation. This will increase your sustained and burst damage.

This is the rotation you should use on your target at the beginning of the game.

1. Use Tiger Palm to generate Chi.
2. Use Rising Sun Kick.
3. Use Blackout Kick.
4. Use Spinning Crane Kick if you get a Dance of Chi-Ji proc.
5. Use Paralysis on the enemy healer.
6. Use your burst rotation.
7. After your burst, perform your sustained damage rotation until your burst cooldowns are available.

When you have the enemy healer in crowd control and are trying to kill an enemy, you use your burst damage.

1. Before you use your burst rotation, generate 2-3 Chi.
2. Use Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger.
3. Use Jadefire Stomp
4. Use Leg Sweep.
5. Use Storm, Earth, and Fire.
6. Use Spinning Crane Kick when you get a Dance of Chi-Ji proc.
7. Use Rising Sun Kick.
8. Use Tiger Palm.
9. Use Fists of Fury.
10. Use Strike of the Windlord.
11. Use Whirling Dragon Punch.
12. Use Tiger Palm.
13. Use Blackout Kick.
14. Use Rising Sun Kick.
15. Use Touch of Death if the enemy drops below 15% health.

Sustained damage is damage you do when your burst cooldowns are unavailable.

1. Use Jadefire Stomp off cooldown so your target is always taking increased damage from your abilities.
2. Use Spinning Crane Kick when you get a Dance of Chi-Ji proc.
3. Use Tiger Palm to generate Chi.
4. Use Rising Sun Kick.
5. Use Fists of Fury.
6. Use Whirling Dragon Punch.
7. Use Strike of the Windlord.
8. Use Blackout Kick when you have multiple stacks of Teachings of the Monastery to reduce the cooldown of Rising Sun Kick.
9. Use Touch of Death if the enemy drops below 15% health.

Touch of Karma is our primary defensive cooldown. Use this when the enemy team is focusing you down, and your healer cannot heal you through it or is stuck in crowd control. It absorbs 50% of your Health pool and heals you.

Fortifying Brew is a powerful defensive cooldown. This not only decreases the amount of damage you take, but it increases your Health. This affects how much Health you get back when using a Healthstone.

Finally, use Monk mobility as a defensive technique.

1. Flying Serpent Kick can be useful if you have taken the Ride the Wind PvP talent. This helps with getting around pillars to get away from enemies.
2. Use Transcendence and Transcendence: Transfer to port away from incoming damage and reposition yourself with your healer.
3. Tiger's Lust removes snares from you. This helps when being kited or stuck in the middle of the map.

It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.