Brewmaster Monk Gearing Guide

In season 3, Brewmasters tier set revolves around your hero talents and changes depending on what you play.

Shado-Pan Brewmaster Monk Season 3 Tier Set:

• (2) Flurry Strikes deal 10% more damage and activating Weapons of Order instantly grants 10 stacks of Flurry Strikes that trigger on your next attack at 70% effectiveness.
• (4) Flurry charge generation is increased by 30% and Flurry Strikes triggers every 150 energy spent during Weapons of Order.

Master of Harmony Brewmaster Monk Season 3 Tier Set:

• (2) Gaining vitality has an increasing chance to cause your next Tiger Palm to unleash a Harmonic Surge. Dealing Nature damage split between your target and other nearby enemies, and healing up to 5 injured allies.
• (4) Casting Celestial Brew/Infusion guarantees that your next 2 casts of Tiger Palm will trigger a Harmonic Surge.

The Shado-pan tier set highly incentivizes us to spend as much energy as possible during Weapons of Order, causing a lot of our damage to be funnelled into Flurry Strikes. As a result, Shado-pan is extremely bursty and front-loaded in season 3, with no real complexity in regards to how to benefit from your tier set which is nice.

The Master of Harmony set revolves a lot around Tiger Palm and consuming Harmonic Surges. There is some nuance to getting the maximum benefit out of this but for the most part it compliments the general rotation that Master of Harmony consists of.

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

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

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. It benefits from other party members also using it, and just like season 2 it’s a very powerful trinket to combine with weapons of order.

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. In combination with Weapons of Order this trinket can feel pretty nice, although 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

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

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.

Incoporeal 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/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

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Dexterous Fiber (Versatility).

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

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

Patch 11.1.7 comes with a brand new feature! You’ll be able to attain a high item level Titan D.I.S.C. Belt that gives you access to powerful buffs and effects. Alongside the belt, the patch introduces overcharged delves, which you’ll need to do in order to obtain the memory cards to upgrade your new piece of gear each week. You’ll also need to be doing delves to unlock specific Titan discs, however those can be done at any time on any difficulty and don’t have to be overcharged to earn the disc you desire (They are also warbound so you only have to unlock them once).

Listed below are currently the best options for Brewmaster Monk:

• Single Target: Critical Chain
• AOE: Critical Chain