Windwalker Monk Torghast Guide and Best Anima Powers — Dragonflight 10.2.5
On this page, we tell you all you need to know to prepare your Windwalker Monk before entering Torghast and then how to pick up the right Anima Powers once you are inside!
Torghast as a Windwalker Monk
This page will guide you on how to get the most out of your Windwalker Monk in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. For more information about Torghast, check out our dedicated pages below.
Best Windwalker Monk Setup for Torghast, Tower of the Damned
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Best Windwalker Monk Anima Powers
Throughout Torghast, you will be met with a ton of different choices when it comes to Anima Powers. Choosing the right one can be difficult, so we have made a Tier List below that should help you make the decision on the fly. This Tier List assumes that the powers are the same level.
Do not follow this list blindly, though, as there is a lot of personal
choice and preference involved in choosing your Anima Powers. If you never use
 Tar Trap in your playstyle, it would be silly to pick an Anima Power
that increases its radius, for example.
Torghast is meant to be flexible and fun, so do not feel like you NEED to use these recommendations or you will not be able to complete your run.
For a complete list of Anima Powers, please refer to the two pages below.
Corrosive Dosage: Top Anima Power for Windwalker Monk
It  may not make a lot of sense but 
 Corrosive Dosage is probably the
strongest Anima Power that Windwalker has access to. Rather unexpectedly
this power results in an insane amount of damage while you just stand
and heal yourself. Use it at any point chance you can get it.
Great Anima Powers for Windwalker Monk
 36 Pressure Point Technique
 Balance of the Ox
 Caught by the Dropkicks
 Constellation Star-Chart
 Fatal Flying Guillotine
 Feathers of a Hundred Flocks
 Flowing Chi Rolls
 Hit Scheme
 Stroke of Elegance (Up to 3 stacks)
 Balancing Stave
 Celestial Weapon-Chains
 Haven's Breath
 Scales of Order
 Fading Memory Shards
Good Anima Powers for Windwalker Monk
 Amplified Samples
 Bad Karma
 Celestial Lasso
 Deathtouched Brew
 Shadowboxing Treads
 Technique of the Rushing Tiger
 Tiger and Crane Figurines
 Whirling Stormgem
 Wrist Wraps of the Zen Master
 Grandmaster's Cypher
 Grandmaster's Lesson
 Grandmaster's Mythos
 Anima-Tinged Weapon Oil
 Maw-Darkened Slippers
 Deep Reflection
 Bulging Brew
 Corrosive Carbonation
 Unfiltered Bone Broth
 Staggered Stomps
Bad Anima Powers for Windwalker Monk
 Stroke of Elegance (After 3 stacks)
 Grandmaster's Ultimatum
 Dowsing Rod
 Fae Aftershock
 Fae Footwraps
Non-DPS Increasing Anima Powers for Windwalker Monk
Some of the powers in Torghast do not provide direct increases to your DPS but are there entirely for enjoyment and flavor.
 Grandmaster's Gift
 Grandmaster's Invocation
 Grandmaster's Legacy
 Forgotten Armor of Order
 Cloud of Feathers
 Ever-tumbling Stone
 Fortified Leg Braces
 Katamawri
 Rolling Tigers
 Tumbling Rollstone
 Bottled Wind
 Shadowy Essence
If an Anima Power is not in the Tier List above, it is either because we have been unable to test it or find information about its tuning. It will be populated over time as we learn more about them.
Phantasma Anima Powers for Windwalker Monk
Occasionally you will be offered the ability to get Phantasma instead of an Anima Power, or increases to your Phantasma generation. It is hard to evaluate these, but we recommend choosing them when there is no "good" or higher alternative Anima Power.
Windwalker Monk Playstyle for Torghast, Tower of the Damned
Inherently, Windwalker should be pretty strong for Torghast, but it can absolutely be viable and to help you achieve this, we have some tips below.
- Pay attention to how much you pull when you first start, do not pull too much.
 
 Afterlife is your absolute best friend when it comes to
self-healing.  Creative and intelligent use of these orbs can make you nigh
invincible.- Windwalker has a lot of tools to control targets, like
 Leg Sweep and 
 Ring of Peace, so use them liberally to manage the
enemies that you pull. - Although many packs will be AOE focused, do not shy away from saving a large target for a single pull to use your single target focused abilities.
 - Several Anima Powers increase the strength or frequency of your defensive abilities pay attention to what you can use more often than usual and make use of the extra uses.
 
Changelog
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
 
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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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