Brewmaster Monk Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Breath Of Fire ignites your next Keg Smash, causing it to explode on contact, dealing additional Flamestrike damage to your main target, and reduced to additional targets.
• (4) Set Bonus: Ignited Keg Smashes cause enemies struck to take 8% increased damage from your Physical abilities, and leave a patch of flames on the ground, dealing Fire damage each second for 5 seconds.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Brewmaster Tier set for season 2 of Midnight is definitely an interesting one. With buffs to Keg Smash, making it deal additional Fire damage, it plays into the Vital Flame talent nicely, which is most notable for M+.

It also causes you to leave Flame Patches on the ground, that deal solid amounts of damage and is definitely very worthwhile playing around if you’re looking to maximise your damage.

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 additional item level from the final 2 bosses of the raid, it’s worth noting that the ilvl increases from Mythic Raiding make almost every piece from the last 2 bosses worth using over lower ilvl, better statted equivalents.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

S - Tier Trinkets

Font Of Venomous Rage - A 4 minute cooldown on-use nuke trinket. It has a 2 second channel and deals massive damage to your main target, as well as splash damage to additional targets. The damage of this trinket is increased by Versatility, which Brew stacks a lot of, and also can crit, making it absolutely amazing for us.

Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek - A 1:30 on use trinket that provides a large amount of main stat. It also has a secondary damaging effect that provides a small amount of main stat randomly. It’s a very powerful trinket when playing Shado-pan in M+, and makes Niuzao even stronger.

Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - A passive trinket that has a set bonus paired with a 1 handed weapon from the raid. The trinket on its own does amazing single target damage, which has an amplifying execute effect. It’s perfect for progression raiding and the set only makes it hit 2 targets, so it’s not fully necessary to make the trinket amazing.

A - Tier Trinkets

First Mate's Shellward - The best defensive trinket of the tier. A large absorb on a 1 minute 30 second cooldown that prevents 40% of incoming damage for 30 seconds. It also reduces damage taken by 80% when below 40% health. It’s a very strong defensive trinket that works perfectly with Brewmaster and how you smooth damage intake

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - Passive stat stick, has very high uptime on a good amount of stats.

Glorious Crusader's Keepsake - A passive stat stick that not only increases your secondary stats but a good amount, but also buffs other allies with the same trinket. If you find yourself in a party with multiple people using this, it’s a good thing to have.

Resonant Bellowstone - A crit stat stick with good uptime.

Lustrous Golden Plumage - 2 minute cooldown vers trinket. Lasts most of Niuzao duration making it pretty good.

Vile Vial Of Volatile Venom - On-use secondary stat trinket that provides a very large amount of a random stat for 15 seconds, before reducing a random stat for a small amount for another 15 seconds.

Here are the most notable Embellishments for Brewmaster Monk:

Polished Ammolite: Critical Strikes provide a Crit buff that stacks to burst for a large amount of damage.

Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier: All Jewelcrafting embellishments operate at double strength. This is particularly powerful in combination with Polished Ammolite, the Loa Worshiper's Band or Prismatic Focusing Iris, since they work together to double the effects.

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 Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Masterwork Sin'dorei Band with Polished Ammolite
• Silvermoon Agent's Sneakers with Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier
• Replace low item level gear

Bonus Rolls

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

An important thing to note in season 2 is that the final 2 bosses of The Venomous Abyss on Mythic difficulty drop higher item level gear than what is otherwise attainable from the rest of the game.

With this in mind, almost every item from the final 2 bosses are BiS if you have access to them on Mythic.

At difficulties below Mythic, you’ll want to avoid The Coiled Altar loot entirely outside of the trinket (unless you want to use 1 handed weapons), and ignore the helmet and weapon from Ula’tek.

Temple of Sethraliss has 9 pieces of loot as Brewmaster with 7 of them being useful to you in some way, whether that is easy catalyst tier pieces or solid stat jewellery.

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.