Welcome to Overgear Guide to Monk. Here you can get acquainted with class mechanics and its overall changes. Hope you will find helpful and relevant answers to any questions you have. Make yourself comfortable, we are starting now!
Disclaimer: This guide is unfinished due to in-game circumstances. Dragonflight hasn’t been released yet, so we cannot go through builds, gear, consumables, and rotation here. We think that it is very important to provide our readers with the most up-to-date and relevant information, and that’s why we ask you to wait for a while. Keep in touch, and come back later to learn about the rest of the Mage gameplay secrets.
Dragonflight Monk Overview
Monk is a class that can choose between 3 available roles. Playing Monk is interesting because of the mechanics. Every spec has unique and amazing features that many players love. Another thing about Monk is the oriental vibe this class has. It is imbued with the spirit of the East. No matter what spec you are playing, you will sense the atmosphere of dragons, martial arts, and ancient legends.
Dragonflight Monk Spec Choice
The strengths and weaknesses of each class are purely subjective things. However, there are axioms with which most agree.
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Dragonflight Monk Changes
Most general changes Monk face in Dragonflight:
- Close to Heart — Now modifies base Leech instead of Leech from gear;
- Generous Pour — Now modifies base Avoidance instead of Avoidance from gear;
- Ferocity of Xuen — Now grants 4% damage at Rank 2;
- Escape from Reality — Value has been reduced to 25%, increased Vivify healing per point;
- Fatal Touch — Value reduced to 45 seconds per point;
- Roll was renamed to Improved Roll;
- Provoke was renamed to Hasty Provocation;
- Touch of Death renamed to Improved Touch of Death;
- Vivify (Rank 2) renamed to Improved Vivify;
- Fortifying Brew Upgrade (Armor/Dodge) renamed to Ironshell Brew;
- Fortifying Brew Upgrade (Cooldown Reduction) renamed to Expeditious Fortification;
- Vivacious Vivification — Grants an instant Vivify every 10 seconds;
- Expel Harm is now baseline;
- Vigorous Expulsion — Increases the healing of Expel Harm by 5% and the critical strike chance of Expel Harm by 15%;
- Strength of Spirit — Increases the healing of Expel Harm by up to 200% based on current maximum health. Moved to Class Tier from Brewmaster;
- Profound Rebuttal — increases the critical healing of Expel Harm by 50%;
- Summon White Tiger Statue — Damage reduced by 75%.
Dragonflight Monk Talents
Brewmaster Monk
Brewmasters are great tanks with great survivability. They have a unique damage-over-time mechanic called Stagger. This way of taking damage makes Brewmaster different from any other tanking specialization. Moreover, Brewmasters have a lot of utility and mobility. The main change is:
- Attenuation — Cooldown reduction can now trigger up to 10 times (was 5).
Mistweaver Monk
The Mistweaver specialization makes Monk to be a Jack of all trades, as different talent choices can allow them to heal both tanks and the raid very well.
Depending on talent choices, Mistweavers can be focused on hard tank healing, or they can be damage-dealing healers.
The key build changes:
- Ancient Teachings — Range increased to 30 yards (was 20). Now on the Personal Resource Display;
- Vivify — Healing reduced by 25%;
- Rapid Diffusion — No longer overrides existing Renewing Mists that are longer than 6 seconds;
- Attenuation — Cooldown reduction can now trigger up to 10 times (was 5);
- Invoker’s Delight — Now has an 8 second duration with Gift of the Celestials (was 7 seconds);
- Enveloping Mist — Healing increased by 12.5%;
- Rising Sun Kick — Damage increased by 25% for Mistweavers. mana cost increased to 2.5% of Base Mana (was 1.5%);
- Tiger Palm — Increased damage by 40% for Mistweavers;
- Blackout Kick — Reduced damage by 20% for Mistweavers;
- Tea of Serenity — Thunder Focus Tea also grants Renewing Mist, Enveloping Mist, and Vivify 1 extra charge at random;
- Tea of Plenty — Thunder Focus Tea also empowers 2 additional Renewing Mist, Essence Font, or Rising Sun Kick at random;
- Zen Pulse — Increased damage and healing to 70% (was 50);
- Jade Bond — Increased healing of Mastery: Gust of Mists to 40% (was 25%);
- Accumulating Mist — Increased damage and healing to 20% (was 15%).
Windwalker Monk
The Windwalker Monk is a melee DPS spec. It is focused on using Energy and Chi Energy to deal damage. Windwalker is a very mobile spec with a strong kit for M+ and PvP.
The key spec changes:
- Fists of Fury damage was reduced by 20%;
- Rising Sun Kick damage was reduced by 20%;
- Blackout Kick damage was reduced by 10%;
- Storm, Earth, and Fire damage transfer was reduced by 6.66%;
- Serenity causes the Monk to deal 15% increased damage (was 20%);
- Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 24 seconds);
- Shadowboxing Treads increases Blackout Kick damage by 10% (was 20%);
- Teachings of the Monastery now cause Blackout Kick to have a 12% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Rising Sun Kick (was 15%);
- Fury of Xuen Haste bonus has been reduced to 5% (was 8%);
- Whirling Dragon Punch damage reduced by 10%;
- Forbidden Technique now causes Touch of Death to deal 20% increased damage (was 40%) in addition to its current effects;
- Rushing Jade Wind damage reduced by 10%;
- Xuen’s Battlegear now causes Rising Sun Kick critical strikes to reduce the cooldowns of Fists of Fury by 4 seconds (was 5) and when Fists of Fury ends, the critical strike chance of Rising Sun Kick is now increased by 40% (was 50%);
- Attenuation — Cooldown reduction can now trigger up to 10 times (was 5);
- Fury of Xuen — Now grants flat 10% Haste (was stat value);
- Strike of the Windlord — Damage has been changed;
- New Talent: Dust in the Wind — Bonedust Brew radius increased by 50%;
- Feathers of a Hundred Flocks renamed to Widening Whirl;
- Hidden Master’s Forbidden Touch renamed to Forbidden Technique;
- Keefer’s Skyreach renamed to Skyreach;
- Touch of the Tiger, Flashing Fists, and Hardened Soles now correctly persist through zone transfer;
- Glory of the Dawn — Now scales with the Monk’s Attack Power, instead of a flat value;
- Open Palm Strikes — Converted to a percentage bonus to Fists of Fury damage;
- Meridian Strikes — Converted to a percentage bonus to Touch of Death.
Dragonflight Monk Leveling
Thanks to the fact that Monk can handle all the roles in the game, we assume that the most efficient way to level up this class is to run dungeons. That will save you a huge chunk of time as you will get a lot of experience in one place without any extra runs around the open world. Note that dungeon leveling can be inefficient if you do it with a weak pug group, as they sometimes can wipe over and over again. In that scenario, It is a great idea to take a break and switch to questing. Choose between two expansions that have been proven to be the best. Quests in Warlords of Draenor and Legion expansions are packed conveniently, which reduces your time for running around.
Don’t hesitate to spend some gold on the following items, as they will ease your life drastically.
- Gunshoes – increase your movement speed on the ground;
- Goblin Glider Kit – having a few in your bags is always helpful;
- Light-Step Hoofplates & Comfortable Rider’s Barding – improve your ground mounts;
- Bear Tartare – Killing monsters increases your speed;
- Drums of Deathly Ferocity – A Bloodlust effect;
- Spectral Flask of Power – The old flask will give you a pretty decent stat increase.
Dragonflight Monk Stats
Brewmaster Monk
- Agility is a primary stat. Agility increases your Attack Power, dodge chance, Stagger percentage, and even your self-healing;
- Versatility – increases all the damage and healing you do and decreases all damage you take;
- Critical Strike – gives a chance to deal additional damage;
- Haste – increases attack and casting speed. Decreases global cooldown;
- Mastery – grants you a stacking buff with a chance to dodge. It lasts for 10 seconds or until a successfully dodged attack. It also increases Attack Power. Attack Power also increases your healing from Gift of the Ox.
Mistweaver Monk
- Intellect is a primary stat. Provides Spell Power, which increases the power of healing as well;
- Critical Strike – gives a chance to deal additional damage and healing;
- Versatility – increases all the damage and healing you do and decreases all damage you take;
- Haste – increases attack and casting speed. Decreases global cooldown;
- Mastery – causes Renewing Mist, Enveloping Mist, and Vivify heals to also heal the primary target for a certain amount depending on your Mastery rating.
Windwalker Monk
- Agility is your primary stat. It provides you with Attack Power, which determines the damage your abilities do.
- Versatility – increases all the damage and healing you do and decreases all damage you take.
- Critical Strike – gives a chance to deal additional damage and healing.
- Mastery – causes your abilities to deal increased damage (depending on the mastery rating) when they are not used two or more times in a row.
Dragonflight Monk Best Race
Note that race choice doesn’t affect your game. The difference between various races is miserable. Still, for the Alliance, we recommend playing Dwarves. Their Might of the Mountain passive increases the damage of all critical strikes by 2%. Stoneform ability is also good as it helps you to cleanse debuffs from you and works as an extra save ability that monks lack.
On the other hand, Orcs are the best race for the Horde players. Blood Fury combined with any on-use trinkets will boost your damage to the skies.
Dragonflight Monk Best Professions
We recommend picking professions to have a stable gold income. Some professions are the best in terms of quality-of-life things. Engineering is the winner of this category. It allows you to craft battle resurrection devices like Disposable Spectrophasic Reanimator. The importance of these things is unmeasurable. Sometimes it is so important to have an ability to resuscitate your tank or healer that it makes a difference between a boss kill and wipe.
Alchemy and Enchanting are the best choices for gold making. Both professions can provide players with major upgrades that will be in high demand during all seasons of expansion. For more detailed information, check out our various in-depth Dragonflight profession guides.
Dragonflight Monk Macro
Detox Mouseover Macro
#showtooltip Detox
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Detox;Detox
Mouseover Interrupt Macro
#showtooltip Spear Hand Strike
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead] Spear Hand Strike; Spear Hand Strike
Tiger’s Lust Mouseover Macro
#showtooltip Tiger’s Lust
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Tiger’s Lust;Tiger’s Lust
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