Windwalker Monk

Mirrors the current rank-1 Sinister Single parse — every slot is what the best Windwalker Monk actually wears.

Midnight Season 2 · Shado-Pan · updated 2026-08-05

Simulated DPS on the best-in-slot profile below, five-minute patchwerk. Compare every spec →

How it plays

• You press Tiger Palm more than anything else — about 14 times a minute — but the damage lands on Fists of Fury, which is 28% of the total.

Measured on the reference parse below, not a description of the spec — so it changes when the tuning does.

Stat priority

Critical Strike > Mastery > Haste > Versatility

These are not weights pulled from a spreadsheet — they are the live ratings on the reference character this build is taken from, so the order reflects what the best-performing Windwalker Monk is actually stacking right now.

Source: Turbonked — the log. Rank 1 Windwalker Monk on Sinister Single (Dummy Dome), avg ilvl 332. Slots the parse left un-upgraded (waist) use the field-standard pick instead.

Talent build

Laid out exactly as the in-game talent UI draws it, hero tree Shado-Pan. Lit nodes and gold lines are the path this build takes; everything dimmed was passed over. Hover any node for what it does.

Rotation

Never press the same ability twice in a row. Combo Strike is a damage bonus on everything, and breaking it costs more than whatever you repeated was worth.

Openers

Single target

1. Tiger Palm for Chi.
2. Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger, then Zenith.
3. Strike of the Windlord, then Fists Of Fury.
4. Whirling Dragon Punch as soon as it lights up.
5. Celestial Conduit in the back half of Zenith.

Where the damage comes from

Measured on the reference log — a 300-second single-target parse. Worth comparing against the rotation above: the button you press most is rarely the one doing the most.

Source: Sinister Single, 300s.

Best in slot

The finished loadout, built by Pathfinder — the strongest item available for every slot, with the item level to chase and where it drops. 335 average item level across 15 slots, gathered from 2 places.

Gaze of the Coiled Watcher 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Ula'tek ✦ Empowered Hex of Leeching

Aqirbane Reliquary 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Ula'tek ◆ Powerful Eversong Diamond

Tassels of the Monkey King 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — The Lost Explorers ✦ Silvermoon's Mending

Adherent's Silken Shroud 331 · Spark Crafted +Myth Epic Profession Items — Tailoring

Battle Gi of the Monkey King 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Vashnik the Malignant ✦ Mark of the Worldsoul

Aetherlume Bands 331 · Spark Crafted +Myth Epic Profession Items — Engineering

Abyssal Broodfiend's Bardiche 334 · Myth 6/6 · Two-handed The Venomous Abyss — Ula'tek ✦ Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Windwalker Monk 335 average item level

Monkey King's Fighting Fists 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Entombed Sentinels ✦ Gloves Enchant (+3 Stamina)

Unpossessed Skullsash 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — The Lost Explorers

Pantaloons of the Monkey King 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Sszorak ✦ Forest Hunter's Armor Kit

Bespittled Slitherslippers 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — The Twin Fangs ✦ Lynx's Dexterity

Vile Alchemist's Band 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Vashnik the Malignant ✦ Nature's Fury◆ Flawless Deadly Amethyst

Apex Brute's Claw Ring 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Sszorak ✦ Nature's Fury◆ Flawless Deadly Amethyst

Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique 344 · Myth 9/6 (Mythic end-boss drop) The Venomous Abyss — The Coiled Altar

Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 344 · Myth 9/6 (Mythic end-boss drop) The Venomous Abyss — Ula'tek

Where to spend bonus rolls as Windwalker Monk

A Voidcore pays out an item every time — the question is only whether it is one you wanted. For this build, in order:

Roll The Lost Explorers — 2 of its 3 drops are on your list

67% of every roll here lands something on the list. In The Venomous Abyss, it owes you shoulder and waist.

Then The Twin Fangs — 1 of its 3 drops is on your list

33% of every roll here lands something on the list. In The Venomous Abyss, it owes you feet.

Then Entombed Sentinels — 1 of its 4 drops is on your list

25% of every roll here lands something on the list. In The Venomous Abyss, it owes you hands.

The general principles behind this — knockout protection, why finishing one boss beats spreading rolls, and the crests a roll quietly costs you — are in the bonus roll guide.

Week-by-week route

1. Pre-season: the campaign, a world tour of Mythic 0s for a 292 loadout, and the weekly Spark quest. No Myth crests exist yet — bank the Spark.
2. Week 1: farm +10 keys to a full Hero 3/6 (311) loadout and fill the vault. The first Myth crests arrive, so spend the banked Spark on Adherent's Silken Shroud. Every Hero crest goes into lifting pieces toward 6/6 (321).
3. Week 2: first Voidcore — roll The Lost Explorers, where 2 of 3 drops are on this list. Catalyse the set slots for the 4-set. Second Spark goes to Aetherlume Bands.
4. Weeks 3–6: one Voidcore a week down the order above — finish a boss before starting the next. Keep spending Hero crests; every slot should sit at 321 by about Week 6.
5. Week 7 onward: two Voidcores a week (the vault and Orin Straylight). Roll Myth-track bases in the set slots, re-catalyse them, and take each to 6/6 for 80 Myth and 20 Hero crests.
6. Late season: Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique and Voracious Heart of Ula'tek come from the last two bosses at Myth 9 (344). Secure the base items early — that is the only place the extra three ranks exist.

The fast variant

Same stat priority, 2 slots moved. Pathfinder builds the list above for raw power and does not care how many bosses that takes; Slate prices the route as well, and takes an equal-strength item from a boss you are already farming over one that sends you somewhere new. It visits 2 places against the strongest list's 2, at the same average item level.

• Head — Shadow Hunter's Warmask instead of Gaze of the Coiled Watcher
• Neck — Sentinel's Vitriolic Chain instead of Aqirbane Reliquary

Shadow Hunter's Warmask 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Entombed Sentinels ✦ Empowered Hex of Leeching

Sentinel's Vitriolic Chain 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Entombed Sentinels ◆ Powerful Eversong Diamond

Tassels of the Monkey King 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — The Lost Explorers ✦ Silvermoon's Mending

Adherent's Silken Shroud 331 · Spark Crafted +Myth Epic Profession Items — Tailoring

Battle Gi of the Monkey King 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Vashnik the Malignant ✦ Mark of the Worldsoul

Aetherlume Bands 331 · Spark Crafted +Myth Epic Profession Items — Engineering

Abyssal Broodfiend's Bardiche 334 · Myth 6/6 · Two-handed The Venomous Abyss — Ula'tek ✦ Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Windwalker Monk 335 average item level

Monkey King's Fighting Fists 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Entombed Sentinels ✦ Gloves Enchant (+3 Stamina)

Unpossessed Skullsash 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — The Lost Explorers

Pantaloons of the Monkey King 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Sszorak ✦ Forest Hunter's Armor Kit

Bespittled Slitherslippers 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — The Twin Fangs ✦ Lynx's Dexterity

Vile Alchemist's Band 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Vashnik the Malignant ✦ Nature's Fury◆ Flawless Deadly Amethyst

Apex Brute's Claw Ring 334 · Myth 6/6 The Venomous Abyss — Sszorak ✦ Nature's Fury◆ Flawless Deadly Amethyst

Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique 344 · Myth 9/6 (Mythic end-boss drop) The Venomous Abyss — The Coiled Altar

Voracious Heart of Ula'tek 344 · Myth 9/6 (Mythic end-boss drop) The Venomous Abyss — Ula'tek