Brewmaster Monk Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Brewmaster Monk Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Keg Smash damage increased by 10%. Breath Of Fire damage increased by 10%
• (4) Set Bonus: Keg Smash’s Energy cost is reduced by 5, and when it strikes a target afflicted by Breath Of Fire, it deals additional Fire damage

Tier Set Discussion:

The Brewmaster Tier set for season 1 of Midnight is definitely a very simple one. With buffs to Keg Smash and Breath Of Fire, as well as the interaction between the two, this node is a sizable damage increase, as well as healing through different talent options.

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.

With the addition of the new Sporefall raid comes higher item level pieces than normal. It’s important to get your hands on as many of these pieces of gear as possible, most notably tier slots that you can catalyse for the highest item level tier possible.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

S - Tier Trinkets

Gaze Of The Alnseer - Stacking main stat procs, great defensive and damage value.

Radiant Plume - Solid passive amount of secondary stacks, swappable between mastery and crit.

Solarflare Prism - A very good Crit proc with targets missing hp.

Sporelord's Mycelial Insignia - Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant you a large amount of a random secondary stat as well as Leech for 12 seconds. Its proc rate is quite high, and is almost comparable to Gaze in terms of output, but as we can’t control what stat procs, it’s not bis. It’s still extremely good however.

A - Tier Trinkets

Magister's Alchemist Stone - A crafted trinket that provides base versatility and a good main stat proc.

Solar Core Igniter - A defensive trinket that provides a large absorb. It absorbs 50% of incoming damage, up to a cap. You also gain a decent amount of Versatility if the Shield has remaining power when it expires. A solid choice on a 1:30 cooldown.

Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia - An on use hit that is increased based on your crit. The cooldown is reduced by your critical strikes and you can get it much lower than the 3 minutes base CD.

Gloom-Spattered Dreadscale - A large on use hit that deals split damage to nearby enemies, before applying an absorb based on damage dealt. The absorb takes 50% of incoming damage, and the damage done is increased by 30% per enemy hit, up to 150%. 2 minute cooldown.

Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - A large mastery on-use trinket on a 2 minute cooldown. Can be good when paired with Niuzao every 2 minutes.

B - Tier Trinkets

Vessel Of Tortured Souls - A main stat trinket with a soul collection minigame to get the effect.

Rotting Globule - Defensive on-use trinket that applies a large absorb for 15 seconds. Each time the shield loses 25% of its value, it deals a small amount of damage split among nearby enemies, increasing if the entire absorb is depleted. 2 minute cooldown.

Dragon Games Equipment - On-use minigame damaging effect that requires you to run around and kick orbs on a 2 minute cooldown. Not the best, not the worst.

Mark Of Light - Holy damage procs on your attacks that deal a minor amount of split damage.

Void Stalker's Contract - A simple on-use damage effect that spawns two void stalkers to deal damage to all enemies in their path on a short cooldown.

Latch's Crooked Hook - On use, cleaving strike that deals damage in 2 parts, the hook toss and when it lands. Does decent damage.

Ampoule Of Pure Void - a Void puddle spawns at your feet for 10 seconds, dealing damage to enemies who stand in it and healing you for 300% of that damage dealt.

C - Tier Trinkets

The Eternal Egg - Very good haste stat stick with a minor defensive component.

Withered Saptor's Paw - Delve trinket that’s a haste stat stick with small main-stat procs.

Heart Of Wind - Another very good haste stat stick from M+.

Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige - A stacking damage effect that, once at max stacks (5), deals additional damage that cleaves nearby enemies. The damage is increased per enemy struck, up to 5.

Eye Of The Drowning Void - A damaging proc effect on your abilities that splits damage dealt to enemies, not great.

Emberwing Feather - On-use haste effect that has a chance to reduce your other secondary stats for 10 seconds.

Kroluk's Warbanner - Damaging effect that procs on melee attacks for a small amount of damage, not great.

Jelly Replicator - a random proc absorb that absorbs 40% of incoming damage up to a cap. It also procs when you fall below 35% Health, with a 1 minute cooldown.

Light Company Guidon - A haste on use that increases allies' movement speed if they also use the other variation of the trinket.

Here are the most notable Embellishments for Brewmaster Monk:

Loa Worshiper's Band: A unique ring that provides buffs based on your socketed gems. All of the buffs are pretty powerful for Brew and the base stats of the ring are Crit + Mastery, both good stats for us.

Arcanoweave Lining: A primary stat increase for yourself and an ally, likely the best if you care about also buffing your teammates.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt: A secondary stat proc.

Prismatic Focusing Iris: A damaging proc that increases its damage done based on how many unique gem colours you have socketed.

Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier: All Jewelcrafting embellishments operate at double strength. This is particularly powerful in combination with the Loa Worshiper's Band or Prismatic Focusing Iris since they work together to increase your single target damage massively.

Similar to previous expansions, what’s best to craft is entirely dependent on what stage you're at in the season and your gear progression. In the beginning, when gear is very limited, you’re most likely going to spend your Spark Of Radiance on whatever grants you the most power. Typically, this ends up being a weapon.

Your priority for crafted pieces is:

• Blood Knight's Impetus with Devouring Banding or Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Loa Worshiper's Band
• Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier
• Replace low item level gear

Bonus Rolls

With the release of patch 12.0.5, you’ve been able to obtain and use Nebulous Voidcores to easily target specific pieces of gear from either Raid bosses or M+ Dungeons.

Once an item has been looted once via Bonus Rolls, that item is removed from the loot pool from future Bonus Rolls.

With the addition of the new Sporefall raid comes higher item level pieces than normal. It’s important to get your hands on as many of these pieces of gear as possible, with the exception being the ring since it’s horrible stats for brewmaster.

Your high priority items to spend your Bonus Rolls on are as follows:

There is a large amount of nuance in regards to the most efficient use of your bonus rolls since it’s so heavily dependant on what you already have and have access to, but the table above is a solid representation of the main items you desire as Brewmaster.

If you do not have access to Mythic Raiding, the best way to spend Bonus Rolls is to prioritise Mythic+ trinkets or tier slot items that you can catalyze into Mythic Track Tier.

Voidforging

After unlocking the Voidforge, you’ll be able to collect Ascendant Voidcores to upgrade your weapons and trinkets, via Midnight Endgame Content.

The upgrade priority is as follows:

Myth Track Weapon > Crafted Weapon > Myth Track Trinkets > Hero Track Trinkets

Once your item is ‘Ascendant Voidforged’ you will no longer be able to upgrade it.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Brewmaster Monk:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Self-Mending
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of The Versatile Warrior
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.