Method Windwalker Monk Guide - Playstyle And Rotation

Playstyle & Rotation

General Rotation:

Windwalkers use a priority system, not a rotation. This means that you want to use the highest priority ability available and don’t delay a higher priority ability for a lower one. NOTE: With the T30 Tier bonuses, you will be casting Rising Sun Kick on cooldown in all situations.

Storm, Earth, and Fire (and outside of Serenity) Single Target:

Faeline Stomp (if targets don’t have Faeline Harmony debuff)
Strike of the Windlord
Whirling Dragon Punch
Rising Sun Kick with Xuen’s Battlegear buff active
Fists of Fury
Rising Sun Kick
Spinning Crane Kick with Dance of Chi-Ji proc
Blackout Kick (Make sure to not overcap Teachings of the Monastery stacks)
Rushing Jade Wind
Chi Wave
Faeline Stomp
Chi Burst

Serenity Single Target:

Follow this priority only during Serenity, follow the other priority otherwise.

Fists of Fury full channel (if Serenity has less than 1.5 seconds remaining)
Faeline Stomp to apply Faeline Harmony (if Serenity has more than 2 seconds remaining)
Strike of the Windlord
Fists of Fury
Rising Sun Kick (cancel Fists of Fury)
Blackout Kick (cancel Fists of Fury)
Spinning Crane Kick with Dance of Chi-Ji Proc (if talented)
Chi Wave
Tiger Palm

Opener

Storm, Earth, and Fire: (With Skyreach)

Storm, Earth, and Fire: (Without Skyreach)

Serenity: (With Skyreach)

Expel Harm (14 seconds before pull)
Chi Burst (2 seconds before pull)
Expel Harm
Summon White Tiger Statue
Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger
Fists of Fury
Bonedust Brew (if talented)
Faeline Stomp (if talented)
Tiger Palm
Serenity
Rising Sun Kick (This can be done in one button press with macro)
Strike of the Windlord
Blackout Kick
Rising Sun Kick
Fists of Fury

Multi Target:

Serenity AoE

Follow this priority only during Serenity, follow the other priority otherwise.

Fists of Fury full channel (if Serenity has less than 1 second remaining)
Fists of Fury (to trigger Tier set)
Spinning Crane Kick (do NOT break Mastery)
Blackout Kick

Playstyle

Mark of the Crane

Mark of the Crane is the term for the mechanic when you use Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, or Rising Sun Kick. It applies a 20-second debuff that increases the damage of your Spinning Crane Kick by 18% per stack. In AoE, it is crucial to maintain as many debuffs as there are targets up to a maximum of 5 to deal the most damage with Spinning Crane Kick. This can be accomplished when you use Storm, Earth, and Fire because by default the spirits will seek out targets that you are in combat with and targets that do not have a mark applied to them. When you use an ability that would normally apply a Mark of the Crane, it effectively triples the speed at which you can gain stacks in AoE.

In Dragonflight with the addition of Shadowboxing Treads this process has been made significantly faster and easier because the additional hits from Blackout Kick also apply Mark of the Crane to targets. Additionally, Coordinated Offensive is no longer and thus you do not need to fixate your spirits anymore for a DPS increase. Fixating your spirits can theoretically be a DPS increase in some situations in order to position them better to hit more targets with their AoE abilities.

Movement

Windwalker Monk is one of the most mobile classes in the game. You have a plethora of mobility tools available, such as Flying Serpent Kick, Roll, Transcendence, and Tiger's Lust if you have it talented.

Survivability

You have many defensive cooldowns available to you, such as Touch of Karma, Fortifying Brew, Dampen Harm, and Diffuse Magic, as well as the constant healing from Expel Harm. If you have it talented, you should try to identify good times to use Touch of Karma to deal damage as long as it is not detrimental to your group and does not put you at risk later on.

Windwalker Monk playstyle and rotation guide