Talents

• Tier 1 (lv15) – Chi Wave
• Tier 2 (lv25) – Tiger’s Lust 
• Tier 3 (lv30) – Fist of the White Tiger
• Tier 4 (lv35) – Ring of Peace
• Tier 5 (lv40) – Dampen Harm | Diffuse Magic
• Tier 5 (lv45) – Hit Combo | Dance of Chi’ji 
• Tier 7 (lv50) – Whirling Dragon Punch | Serenity [ viable mention w/ Xuen’s Treasure ]

• Turbo Fists
• Alpha Tiger
• Reverse Harm

• In-Depth Talent Recommendations
• Ability usage & FAQ

Latest Patch Changes – 9.0.5

Help: Serenity , Storm, Earth, and Fire, Fallen Order, Dance of Chi’ji ,Xuen’s Treasure, Fists of Fury

Hurt: Dance of Chi’ji , Calculated Strikes, Spinning Crane Kick, Kyrian Burst

Monk

• Windwalker

  • Xuen, the White Tiger is now vulnerable to  Hibernate,  Polymorph and Fear crowd-control effects.
  •  Touch of Death is now affected by Mastery: Combo Strikes.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Storm, Earth and Fire’s cast to sometimes break nearby enemies’  Stealth.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Xuen, the White Tiger to be able to target enemies in  Stealth.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Tiger Palm to grant an additional stack of  Mark of the Crane when Storm, Earth and Fire is active.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Mark of the Crane to be maintained permanently at maximum stacks while fighting a single target.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Storm, Earth, and Fire spirits from using  Fists of Fury,  Rising Sun Kick, and  Whirling Dragon Punch (Talent).
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Storm, Earth and Fire spirits to continue channeling  Fists of Fury after the Monk’s Fists of Fury channel ended.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause  Spinning Crane Kick‘s damage to not be properly increased by  Mark of the Crane if targets die with the Monk’s mark active.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented  Dance of Chi-Ji (Talent) from increasing Spinning Crane Kick’s damage properly.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented  Fists of Fury from striking its 6th target.

  • Covenant Abilities

    • Fixed an issue that caused  Faeline Stomp ( Night Fae) to not deal damage when used to engage creatures in combat.
    •  Fallen Order‘s ( Venthyr) Fallen Tiger and Ox Adepts have had their stats increased by 20%.

    Player versus Player

    • Player pets should now benefit from the PvP trinket set bonus.

Ability Priority

 Heres an example of what I mean.

The Warrior uses Avatar (20 seconds) which gets immediately disarmed preventing the use of Mortal Strike and Colossus Smash. Most warriors will generally wait it out because the alternative is to Bladestorm without any debuffs rolling. If he had Bladestormed, I would have parried the full thing with Fists of Fury (Turbo Fists) either way so he was smart to wait it out.

My decision here follows the Single Target priority. High Chi, RSK on Cooldown, Expel Harm on Cooldown for healing and Chi.

The Warrior disarms me preventing me from using Fists of Fury and parrying the rest of his damage cooldown. Having Chi, being unable to FoF, and having Expel Harm down I used Rising Sun Kick to reapply mortal strike. The intent was for my Holy Paladin to Avenging Wrath for Hammer of Wrath, and Ashen Hallow, where we would go in to reverse the momentum. Still we are following the ST priority.

Rolling out, rooting the enemy Hpal in Ashen Hallow, when I get charged by the Warrior and Stormbolted.

Trinket -> Leg Sweep -> Storm, Earth, and Fire + Rising Sun Kick.

Now I’m stuck with 3 chi, Ashen Hallow is down, Leg Sweep has enough time remaining to Tiger Palm but there is the very real possibility of the Warrior charging my Paladin, intervening to his paladin, or heroic leaping away entirely.

The likelihood of getting 2 target cleave here was high so I prioritized FoF/WDP on the Warrior+Paladin which is what lead to my decision to BoK, aim for 5 chi, and try to cleave afterwards. (Which I was unable to get.) but we defaulted to the step below on 2 target cleave when the warrior was stacked up, which was Dance of Chi’ji procs over trying to chase that RSK->WDP and wasting globals on Tiger Palms in between.

Kyrian Changes

Currently this is one of the most technical parts of Windwalker PvP. This is a trick mainly for when you have Storm, Earth, and Fire + Weapons of Order (Kyrian). 

The important change is to Rising Sun Kick

• One of the more important aspects of Weapons of Order (Kyrian) is getting your Rising Sun Kick clipped inside of the Rising Sun Kick buff.

• Weapons of Order (Kyrian) cheat sheet

Low haste 30 – 40% haste

High haste 60% haste 

• Do I still cancel Fists of Fury or Should I cancel Fists of Fury below 50% haste?

For Single Target damage Rising Sun Kick is still above channeling Fist of Fury during WoO. With Invokers you should be safe to let it channel at high haste. With Xuen’s Treasure you should prioritize Rising Sun Kick. 

Because of how Alpha Tiger and Invokers work, 6% haste can turn into 83% haste easily, so it will not be the same for everyone.  Your initial damage will be the typical burst. RSK > FoF > BoK / RSK depending on the amount of haste you have going into it.

Example Burst w/ setup

1. Paralysis on an off target (healer, or hybrid DPS capable of shutting you down like a Balance Druid or Ret Paladin)
2. Storm, Earth, and Fire + Weapons of Order (If Kyrian) + Bonedust Brew (if Necrolord)
3. Leg Sweep on your primary target and secondary targets if possible (leg sweep is 3 seconds, Keefers will have 4 seconds left at this point, so if you can get )

AT+Invokers (Kyrian) high haste

1. Fist of the White Tiger
2. Tiger Palm (proc Alpha Tiger)
3. Rising Sun Kick
4. Fists of Fury 
5. Blackout Kick
6. Rising Sun Kick
7. Blackout Kick
8. Whirling Dragon Punch
9. Blackout Kick

Invokers only (Kyrian) Low haste

1. Fist of the White Tiger
2. Tiger Palm (proc Alpha Tiger)
3. Rising Sun Kick
4. Fists of Fury 
5. Blackout Kick
6. Whirling Dragon Punch
7. Expel Harm 
8. Rising Sun Kick

Keefers (Kyrian, Alpha Tiger) Low haste

1. Fist of the White Tiger
2. Tiger Palm (proc Alpha Tiger)
3. Rising Sun Kick
4. Fists of Fury
5. Blackout Kick
6. Blackout Kick
7. Rising Sun Kick
8. Whirling Dragon Punch

Here is a handy chart for some WOO permutations made by Scurch that will allow you to get your RSK inside the buff for the Chi reduction.

How the chart works

Each Rising Sun Kick buff during WoO can be considered a segment. This chart represents the # of globals per segment to trigger RSK again in order to get your Chi reduction along with the cooldown required to make it work.

• Adjust based on what buffs you have available. Power Infusion from a Priest teammate, or Bloodlust from wwEnh, etc. If you have nothing just prio RSKs. With enough haste it should flow together.

• As a note: Fist of the White Tiger / EH (Reverse Harm) become very high on prio for generation because of the reduced GCD and +1 chi cost over TP.

Tweaking the burst with Serenity!

The only goal here is to blast RSK!

Invokers (Kyrian) 

1. Rising Sun Kick
2. Blackout Kick
3. Blackout Kick
4. Rising Sun Kick

Xuen’s Treasure (Kyrian, Hit Combo) 

1. Tiger Palm (proc Alpha Tiger)
2. Fists of Fury (cancel immediately)
3. Rising Sun Kick
4. Blackout Kick
5. Rising Sun Kick

Very basic burst rotation prioritizing Rising Sun Kick until the last second when you will Fists of Fury.

Covenants

 Windwalker Comps 

2v2 team compositions

Windwalker / Holy Paladin

A good mix of offence and defense. The primary objective is to keep each other mobile. Don’t let your Paladin sit behind a pillar trying to juke kicks from a melee alone.

General Strategy: Aim to cleave 2 targets. Enable your Paladin to run to, and through, the enemy healer where you will be able to cleave both targets and peel by utilizing Leg sweeps, 90% slow from Turbo Fists, etc. Do not leave each other behind and watch your Diminishing Returns on stuns. Pay attention to specific enemy team comps, such as Dps/Priest, or Druid, so you do not get feared by psychic scream or Incapacitating Roar leaving your healer vulnerable to a cc chain afterwards.

Offensively you will use Avenging Wrath, Ashen Hallow, and Hammer of Reckoning to punish out of position targets and land kills.

Defensively you will utilize Ride the Wind, Disable,  Tiger’s Lust, and Blessing of Freedom to play defensively around a pillar.  Blessing of Sacrifice, Blessing of Protection, Touch of Karma, Diffuse Magic, and Ring of Peace as tools that can be rotated to be disruptive and stay healthy. CC chains can be setup with Paralysis and Hand of Justice or the Paladin can setup himself with Hand of Justice and Repentance.

Notable Abilities: Ashen Hallow, Hammer of Reckoning, Blessing of Freedom, Blessing of Sacrifice, Blessing of Protection, Hand of Justice, and Repentance.

Windwalker / Restoration Shaman

An offensive based comp. The primary objective is to pressure an enemy team and through the addition of Wind Shear and Purge, shut down incoming healing and force defensive cooldowns from the enemy team until they run out.

General Strategy: Lockout enemy spell casts and lock them down through stuns.

Offensively you will use Interrupts, Stuns, Purges, and damage procs from Lava Burst to focus down a target.

Defensively you will use paralysis, in conjunction with capacitor totem, to single out and shut down enemy cooldowns and attempts at crowd control.

Windwalker / Discipline Priest

Another offensive based comp. The primary objective is to create pressure through Reflective Shields, Purges, and constant CC chains on the enemy healer while shutting down defensive play through tactics like Mind Controlling a low health DPS so they can’t be healed, Mind Games, and Mass Dispel.

3v3 team compositions

Windwalker/Death Knight: 

Windwalker/Mage:

Windwalker/Affliction: 

Windwalker/Balance Druid

Ability Usage & FAQ

• Blackout Kick! and Mastery: Combo Strikes – The best way to view Blackout Kick! is as a proc that can be consumed for cooldown reduction. Where it is placed as a priority depends what the priority is at the time it’s active. Mastery is not something listed as a priority because it is generally assumed you do not break it and maintain your damage buff. This is accurate 99% of the time. The 1% of scenarios do exist where the cooldown reduction has a higher value than a globals worth of damage.  Here is an example of when a Blackout Kick mastery break leads to a kill through CDR.

• Dance of Chi-Ji – Q: “Do I hold the proc?” A: Yes. Dance of Chi’ji procs are extremely valuable and deal a very large amount of cleave damage especially if your playing with Calculated Strikes as a second potency conduit. If you are setting up damage and you can fit this into your burst window you absolutely do not want to waste this even without the conduit.

• Ring of Peace – One of Windwalkers highest skill cap abilities. This can be used to zone control, bump casts for when you can’t kick a major cc from distance, and is used to peel.

Here we use it to block the rogues exit after my Transcendence.

Here is another example of using Ring of Peace to defend my healer who is rooted inside the Warriors Kyrian Spear tether.

• Ride the Wind – is a good pick into something like, Dh/Healer, or dps/Disc Priest, where you want to play primarily around a pillar to Line of Sight and you can’t also play Disarm. While circling pillar you should be using Disable on the DPS that is training your healer to root them while simultaneously using Ride The Wind to give your healer a speed boost to the other side of the pillar to freely cast and stay healthy. How you achieve this will vary because you yourself must also stay mobile during this time and free from anything like Earthgrab, Mass Entanglement, or any other roots/snares.

Legendaries

Crafting for PvP

1. Invoker’s Delight (Sorry guys – hit that raid)
2. Xuen’s Treasure (9.0.5 update – should be working with Storm, Earth, and Fire now as well) 
3. Keefer’s Skyreach
4. Escape from Reality

Invokers will be a powerful legendary that will significantly boost the damage output of both you and Xuen when you use him. For raw damage and pressure in a short time frame there is not much competition.

Keefers is difficult to use with Storm, Earth, and Fire. It’s still a good legendary but its important to remember your clones don’t benefit from the crit increase. It will likely find a lot of play with Serenity naturally.

Escape from reality is going to be our strongest legendary for defensive gameplay and mobility. Remember the second port will consume the buff and remove your healing increase.

Gearing for PvP

Agility > Versatility / Mastery

Why don’t we gear for Haste?

There’s a lot of haste suppression in the kit so building out for it is not the greatest but in larger amounts it’s beneficial. Especially when it’s something like Invokers, or alpha tiger, for example. Getting additional casts of RSK, a second FoF in SEF, or just channeling faster are all some of the benefits of haste in large amounts. Otherwise damage increasing stats get better mileage. If it’s not a significant amount of Haste or Crit that is going to increase your kill potential in a small damage window it’s generally not worth pursuing

2h vs Dual Wield?

As of right now we’ll be playing Dual wield. There are no staves with a swing speed under 3.6 and there is currently a small modifier of -2% for 2h that is baked into most abilities while dual wield is getting a +2% bonus. The only time you’ll be throwing on a 2h weapon is when it’s significantly higher, like 15 ilvls.

Enchanting

• Weapons – Enchant Weapon – Sinful Revelation & Enchant Weapon – Celestial Guidance
• Cloak – Enchant Cloak – Soul Vitality
• Chest – Enchant Chest – Eternal Skirmish
• Boots – Enchant Boots – Eternal Agility

Shadowlands Trinkets

• Right now prioritize Gladiators Distinction via Freedom Trinket & Insignia / Battlemaster trinket.

WeakAuras / Addons

WeakAuras can be a blessing or a curse. While they can aid in tracking certain buffs or debuffs they can also clutter your screen and visual impair or distract you. What I link here is popular, simple, effective, and updated regularly. While you don’t have to use them I would still recommend finding something or creating your own to use following the same mindset.

• Babylonius – Windwalker Monk group
• Ipse’s WA’s – Monk
• Omnibar
• Gladius or sArena
• Touch of Karma duration and remaining absorb
• Storm, Earth, and Fire | This Weak Aura shows the charge amount, cooldown of your next charge, and duration of your active SEF.

Macros

A really handy tool to automatically switch buttons on your action bar with talent changes is the add on Talentmacros

#showtooltip as the first line will display an icon of your choosing if specified or will default to the icon of the first line in the macro.

The “exists” parameter will enable the Macro to function as a normal key outside of Arenas

• Arena1,2,3 examples

/cast [@arena1, exists] Paralysis; Paralysis
/cast [@arena2, exists] Paralysis; Paralysis
/cast [@arena3, exists] Paralysis; Paralysis

/target arena1 or /focus arena1
/target arena2 or /focus arena2
/target arena3 or /focus arena3

• Example macro setup that I use for utility with my healer on focus

#Showtooltip
/target Arena1
/cast [@focus,mod:shift] Vivify 

#Showtooltip
/target Arena2
/cast [@focus,mod:shift] Detox

#Showtooltip
/target Arena3
/cast [@focus,mod:shift] Tiger’s Lust

#showtooltip Touch of Karma
/target arenapet1
/cast Touch of Karma
/targetlasttarget