Brewmaster Monk Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set Bonuses:

• 2 Set: Damage done increased by 6%
• 4 Set: Damage done increased by 10%

Going into the Midnight pre-patch, our Tier Set bonuses will be removed, with some effects being seen on talent pages or just getting completely removed, and instead replaced with damage amplifiers that don’t directly affect gameplay.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Brewmaster Monk, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

S - Tier Trinkets

Brand Of Ceaseless Ire - This is easily our best trinket available right now, although a lot of its strength relies on taking damage. Getting hit infuriates you, causing you to absorb a small amount of damage and deal shadow damage back to enemies that increases per stack. The damage also further increases by 30% per additional enemy, up to 150%. Dropping combat makes you lose your stacks quite quickly but the trinket is performing very well in M+ regardless of downtime, and in raid it’s your best single target trinket.

Tome Of Light's Devotion - The best purely offensive trinket for single target damage. You shift between 2 stances, one offensive and one defensive. You can force a state change with the on use, and it lines up perfectly to allow you to stay in the offensive state permanently. The defensive stat is very bad so try to never be in it for long.

Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - One of the best Mythic+ trinkets you can get. Provides a large amount of crit every 60 seconds that you can extend when dealing critical strikes.

So'leah's Secret Technique - This trinket actually provides more overall stats than Pacemaker, however a portion of those stats go to a teammate you bond with, making it worse for you personally. It’s a gear stat stick and I’d recommend it if you like supporting your allies.

A - Tier Trinkets

Ringing Ritual Mud - The best purely defensive trinket from Mythic+. A 2 minute on use with a massive absorb shield that gets cooldown reduction when you take damage.

Unyielding Netherprism - Your damaging abilities cause additional cosmic damage that’s split between nearby enemies of your target. The damage gets increased per enemy struck, up to 150%, but it can only occur every 10 seconds. Each time this damage procs, you gain a stack, up to 15 times. When you use the trinket it consumes the power stacked up to grant you main stat, increased by the number of stacks consumed. It has a 20 second cooldown and honestly you can simply macro this into a rotational ability and it be pretty solid.

Signet Of The Priory - Another 2 minute on-use trinket that provides a huge amount of secondary stats for 20 seconds.

Araz's Ritual Forge - A 2 minute on-use trinket that provides a massive amount of main stat that decays over 30 seconds at the cost of 15% of your max hp. It does naturally desync due to talents so it can feel awkward to play at times.

All-Devouring Nucleus - A cheat death trinket that works by restoring you to 20% health and gives you 6 seconds to reach above 65% health or you die anyway. You can still die within the 6 seconds, so if you’re actively tanking something it’s not amazing. It is still a cheat death trinket and for that reason I feel obliged to put it in A tier. Cheating death as a tank no matter the circumstance is always valuable.

B - Tier Trinkets

Empowering Crystal Of Anub'ikkaj - A simple stat stick trinket that provides you a random secondary stat for 20 seconds. Given the other stat sticks available this season, this trinket isn’t particularly appealing.

Ara-Kara Sacbrood - Returning from season 1, this trinket grants you main stat and hatches allies to attack your target. The amount of stats this is providing in season 3 isn’t great and there are much better options elsewhere.

Soulbinder's Embrace - One of the few defensive trinket options available. On-use it has a damage effect, before reducing 50% of your damage talent for 20 seconds or until an amount of damage has been prevented. It’s only on a 1 minute cooldown so it’s not bad, but the amount of damage it prevents is a tad low to be particularly valuable outside of niche scenarios.

Perfidious Projector - One of the only on-use large damage effect trinkets this tier. 2 minute cooldown, deals a large chunk of damage that gets split between nearby enemies. The damage gets increased by 30% per additional enemy, up to 150%.

Astral Antenna - A crit stat stick that can stack each proc to provide additional stats. The amount of stats you get and how often this proc’s was heavily nerfed and unfortunately it’s one of the lesser stat sticks available this season.

C- Tier Trinkets

Sigil Of The Cosmic Hunt - A mediocre damaging effect that gets increased based on the targets missing hp. The damage proc splits on nearby enemies.

Screams Of A Forgotten Sky - A damage effect that has a chance to proc a comet, dealing damage and increasing damage taken of future comets. When your target dies, they implode, dealing increased damage per stack split among nearby enemies with additional damage for more enemies struck. Cool in theory, but the numbers are just too low and it relies on targets dying to do anything meaningful.

Ceaseless Swarmgland - A very mediocre Tank trinket that reflects damage back to attacks and reduces a very small amount of damage they deal to you.

Harvester's Edict - A damaging effect trinket that provides Mastery if you collect an orb that it spawns. Not great.

Incorporeal Warpclaw - Makes your melee attacks do damage split between enemies in it’s path. Quite underwhelming numerically.

Lily Of The Eternal Weave - A 1minute 30second cooldown on-use trinket that provides you with a chunk of mastery. Not particularly great.

Codex Of The First Technique - This trinket has been a bait ever since it was introduced in Shadowlands. It spent the entirety of the PTR cycle bugged, and even in a fixed state doesn’t provide enough benefit to warrant ever using.

Currently Embellishments are fairly under-tuned and don’t provide a ton of value, although the following are the most notable for Brewmaster in my opinion:

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension - This is a random secondary stat proc that stacks. Only really worth crafting on your weapon early on in the tier.

Dawnthread Lining / Duskthread Lining - This is a stat stick embellishment designed around remaining above 80% health. Very valuable if you can ensure decent uptime.

Writhing Armor Banding - This embellishment is put onto a random leather armor piece and buffs your Adrenal Surge Clasp or other Nerubian Embellishments. It’s useless on its own, but when paired together is good.

Elemental Focusing Lens - Your spells and abilities have a chance to deal bonus magic damage, this is a simple proc of extra damage and it adds up to a decent amount, particularly single target

Reshii Wraps

The cloak slot will still be filled by Reshii Wraps, This cloak is obtainable via a quest chain, in which chapter 3 of the Ghosts of Karesh storyline will reward you with Reshii Wraps. It will get Item Level capped like all of your other gear, so upgrading it will no longer be necessary.

You can also add a secondary stat of your choosing to the Wrap via the Fiber Socket - as always Sim yourself as you can remove the Fibers at any point to slot another in.

But the result will most likely be the Haste fiber: Pure Chronomantic Fiber.

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Puzzling Cartel chips provide an easy way to obtain BiS trinket options, providing that you meet the criteria. You can earn up to 9 Chips per character, so up to 3 items can be purchased from the vendors in Dornogal.

Recommended Purchases:

• Brand Of Ceaseless Ire
• Tome Of Light's Devotion (ST)
• Cursed Stone Idol / Unyielding Netherprism
• Interloper's Reinforced Sandals