Brewmaster Monk Midnight Talents Guide

Talent Builds for Brewmaster vary from content to content, and as a result it’s easy to get lost in the sauce. Below I’ve gone ahead and listed what I’d recommend for each form of content.

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In Midnight, we have a fair amount of flexible talent points at our disposal in the class tree. Listed below are what I’d consider interchangeable and explanations.

Soothing Mist + Elusive Mists - These talents are very niche and almost never worth taking, however it does enable additional off-healing with Vivify spam.

Bounding Agility - A nice quality of life talent that provides additional distance on your Rolls.

Detox - There are numerous encounters where Detox has a use and it’s a powerful piece of utility in those scenarios that I’d definitely recommend taking if needed.

Pressure Points - Any time an enrage effect takes place, this can benefit you greatly. It’s almost exclusively a dungeon specific talent, as there aren’t many raid encounters with a dispellable enrage.

Hasty Provocation - Very useful in a lot of scenarios. Particularly if certain bosses, or mobs are stubborn to move or you need to move them extremely quickly.

Improved Touch Of Death - Enables the ability to use Touch Of Death outside of execute range for the Stagger clear. It’s very useful when playing around.

Peace And Prosperity - Every now and then, there are scenarios where a little extra CDR on the Ring Of Peace is the difference between having it up when you need it and not, this enables that.

Summon Black Ox Statue - A very niche talent that can be particularly useful on certain raid encounters. In Mythic+, if talented, acts as an AoE taunt to aid threat.

Windwalking - This is typically at the cost of Lighter Than Air, and can be useful whenever you don’t want the quality of life that lighter provides.

Flow Of Chi - Most of the time, this functions as a minor 5% damage reduction. It’s quite nice to have but comes at the cost of Lighter Than Air.

Fatal Touch - Only really useful in Mythic+ or raid encounters with adds.

In this section, I’ll talk about some of the flexible talents specific to the spec tree.

Elixir Of Determination - This is an extremely powerful 1 point talent node right near the top of our spec tree. The absorb is based on how much damage you’re purifying, and can be treated as an extra defensive/safety net. It cannot occur more than once every 15 seconds. Very powerful to take whenever you need more durability.

Rushing Jade Wind / Special Delivery - This is a highly debated choice node for a lot of Brewmaster players, but essentially what it comes down to in Midnight is whether or not you’re playing Breath Of Fire, you’ll want Rushing Jade Wind as it procs Walk With The Ox more, but if you’re not, or you simply want less buttons to press, you’ll play Special Delivery.

Niuzao's Resolve - If you need more self-sustain, this talent passively aids you in the background quite a lot. I’d definitely recommend it when learning the spec.

Walk With The Ox - This talent is a purely offensive node and can be dropped at any point if you don’t care about damage at all.

Tranquil Spirit - This talent is a large increase to your durability, and pairs very nicely with Niuzao's Resolve.

Counterstrike - A powerful, damaging option if you’re actively tanking things. It’s not as effective in raids, although it is still a throughput increase.

Awakening Spirit - This node is very powerful against larger hits compared to small, frequent ones, making it powerful defensively in M+ and good in certain raid encounters.

Fuel On The Fire - A purely offensive talent that increases your dps by a fair amount. Not worth taking unless you’re really trying to maximise damage.

Empty The Cellar - The additional cast provides a notable amount of CDR to brews and is almost always worth it.

With Midnight comes the introduction of Apex Talents. These are additional talent nodes that are separate from the specialization tree. You have 4 points available to use with these Apex Talents to gain powerful effects and benefits, or you can simply use the 4 talents elsewhere in your spec tree.

Brewmaster’s Apex Talent is called Bring Me Another. It revolves entirely around your brew abilities, and listed below are the effects provided:

• Bring Me Another - Drinking a Brew has a 20% chance to make your next Keg Smash throw an extra Empty Barrel to deal additional damage to up to 4 targets.
• Bring Me Another - Gaining an Empty Barrel resets the cooldown on Keg Smash, makes the next cast free, and deals additional damage.
• Bring Me Another - Fortifying Brew, Celestial Brew and Celestial Infusion give you and 2 other allies a refreshing drink that heals them over time. You also gain an Empty Barrel and empty barrels deal 100% increase damage.

Brewmaster hero talents got quite a shake up in midnight, but ultimately they play very similarly. Your choice is still very much that Shado Pan is better for DPS and durable versus magic damage, whereas Master of Harmonies access to additional brews, among other things, makes it stronger defensively, most notably against physical staggered damage.

Shado-Pan

With Midnight, Shado-Pan has been revisited. Flurry Strikes are now a result of successful autoattacks and are eventually unleashed via Keg Smash, dealing substantial damage per charge.

Due to the removal of Weapons Of Order, Invoke Niuzao, The Black Ox will take over Shado-Pan’s cooldown interactions.

Shadow-Pan favors physical damage as a result of Martial Precision, resulting in the strongest possible Tiger Palm damage when combined with other talents like Face Palm, Blackout Combo and Counterstrike

One of the key goals to aim for with Shado-Pan is to use the Invoke Niuzao, The Black Ox’s duration, to cast as many Breath Of Fire and Blackout Kick as you can, to activate Wisdom Of The Wall for even more damage in the form of Flurry Strikes.

Master of Harmony

Master of Harmony Brewmaster has to cast Celestial Brew / Celestial Infusion frequently to empower your other spells, such as Keg Smash.

Balanced Stratagem can empower your Chi Burst and Exploding Keg up to 25% if you use up to 5 Physical abilities beforehand. This should happen as a result of following the general priority list.

Each time you cast Keg Smash, you will consume a Harmonic Surge stack. This is your hardest hitting spender in ST. The goal is to cast this when buffed by Blackout Combo or Counterstrike.