Brewmaster Monk Gearing Guide

Patch 11.0.5 Last Updated: 26th Nov, 2024
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Tier Sets

Brewmaster Monk Season 1 Tier Set:

  • (2) Set Bonus: Blackout Kick and Keg Smash deal 20% additional damage, and Shuffle also grants 3% damage reduction.
  • (4) Set Bonus: Blackout Kick increases your damage dealt by 1% for 15 seconds, stacking up to 3, and has a chance to reset the cooldown of Kegsmash and make its next case cost no energy

brewmaster monk Best in Slot Gear

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 Best Gear

Slot Item Source
Head Gatecrasher’s Horns Tier Token / Catalyst
Neck Elder’s Hemolymphal Periapt City of Threads
Shoulders Gatecrasher’s Enduring Effigy Tier Token / Catalyst
Cloak Wings of Shattered Sorrow Rasha’nan
Chest Gatecrasher’s Gi Tier Token / Catalyst
Wrist Sanguine Experiment’s Bandages Broodtwister Ovi’nax
Gloves Rune-Branded Grasps Crafted
Belt Adrenal Surge Clasp Crafted
Legs Gatecrasher’s Kilt Tier Token / Catalyst
Boots Viscera Stitched Footpads The Necrotic Wake
Ring Seal of the Poisoned Pact Queen Ansurek
Ring Ritual Commanders Ring The Necrotic Wake
Trinket 1 Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg Broodtwister Ovi’nax
Trinket 2 Void Reaper’s Contract Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
Trinket 3 Swarmlord’s Authority The Silken Court
Trinket 4 Dead-eye spyglass Siege of Boralus
Main Hand Void Reaper’s Warp Blade Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
Off Hand Zephyrous Sail Carver The Dawnbreaker

Best Gear from the Raid

Slot Item Source
Head Gatecrasher’s Horns Tier Token / Catalyst
Neck Locket of Broken Memories Rasha’nan
Shoulders Gatecrasher’s Enduring Effigy Tier Token / Catalyst
Cloak Wings of Shattered Sorrow Rasha’nan
Chest Gatecrasher’s Gi Tier Token / Catalyst
Wrist Sanguine Experiment’s Bandages Broodtwister Ovi’nax
Gloves Rune-Branded Grasps Crafted
Belt Adrenal Surge Clasp Crafted
Legs Gatecrasher’s Kilt Tier Token / Catalyst
Boots Fleeting Massacre Footpads Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
Ring Seal of the Poisoned Pact Queen Ansurek
Ring Writhing Ringworm Broodtwister Ovi’nax
Trinket Mad Queen’s Mandate Queen Ansurek
Trinket Void Reaper’s Contract Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
Main Hand Void Reaper’s Warp Blade Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
Off Hand Bludgeons of Blistering Wind Rasha’nan

Best Gear from Mythic+

Slot Item Source
Head Gatecrasher’s Horns Tier Token / Catalyst
Neck Elder’s Hemolymphal Periapt City of Threads
Shoulders Gatecrasher’s Enduring Effigy Tier Token / Catalyst
Cloak Swarmcaller’s Shroud Ara Kara, City of Echoes
Chest Gatecrasher’s Gi Tier Token / Catalyst
Wrist Bands of the Undergrowth Mists of Tirna Scithe
Gloves Rune-Branded Grasps Crafted
Belt Adrenal Surge Clasp Crafted
Legs Gatecrasher’s Kilt Tier Token / Catalyst
Boots Viscera Stitched Footpads The Necrotic Wake
Ring Ritual Commanders Ring The Necrotic Wake
Ring Seal of the City Watch Siege of Boralus
Trinket Dead-eye spyglass Siege of Boralus
Trinket Ara-Kara Sac Brood Ara Kara, City of Echoes
Main Hand Zephyrous Sail Carver The Dawnbreaker
Off Hand Arachnoid Soulcleaver Ara Kara, City of Echoes

Trinkets

S - Mad Queen’s Mandate - This trinket is extremely strong for pure single target damage. Its damage increases the lower health the target becomes. If you value damage it’s likely this trinket is your best option, particularly in raids or encounters with damage amplifications.

S - Void Reaper’s Contract - This trinket is your best in slot if you have the weapon to full-fill the 2 piece combo. It does a significant amount of damage although I wouldn’t bother using it unless you have the bonus effect available.

A - Bottled Flayedwing Toxin - Despite being a damage trinket, this doesn’t actually suffer the 33% reduction that Blizzard implemented not long ago. Until this gets changed, this trinket is putting out pretty decent numbers and is one of the better trinkets from M+.

A - Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg - This trinket provides a large amount of secondary and main stat. The way it works is when you move, you gain stacks of Incubation that provide secondary stats. When you stand still, you gain stacks of incubation that provide primary stat. You can only ever have 30 stacks total, and when you’re gaining one, you are losing the other. It’s quite a simple stat stick despite sounding complicated.

A - Dead-Eye Spyglass - This trinket is making its return from the expansion BFA as Siege of Boralus is in the dungeon pool for season 1 of The War Within. Your attacks have a chance to grant you a bunch of critical strike chance. Brewmaster favorite.

A - Swarmlord’s Authority - This is the only really notable tank trinket of the first season of The War Within. It’s an on use with a 1 minute cooldown that provides a decent shield that builds up. The damage it does is minimal, I’d only recommend this for Mythic Plus if you require a defensive trinket.

A - Ara-kara Sac Brood - This trinket is decent, it provides you a chunk of main stat with a minor damage proc.

B - Foul Behemoth’s Chelicera - This trinket is supposed to be a tank option, however the defensive portion is underwhelmingly weak and it’s solely the damaging effect that makes this enticing.

B - Sikran’s Endless Arsenal - This trinket is an interesting one. It has 3 different on-use effects that it rotates between, which all are just differing damage effects.

C - Refracting Aggression Module - A very weird purely defensive tank trinket. You get an absorb shield when you taunt, with a 1 minute internal cooldown. It’s not particularly great in any scenario.

C - Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj - A fairly mediocre stat stick that only procs every 2 minutes.

D - Throngus’s Finger - This trinket is unreliable as you have no control over when you proc it and as it provides no mainstay, it’s just a bad option comparatively.

Embellishments

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.

Adrenal Surge Clasp - This is a kiss-curse type effect under the Nerubian Embellishments. It provides you with main stat at the cost of Mastery.

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.