Brewmaster Monk PvE Guide — Midnight
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This is a tank whose primary stat is Agility. This tank does not use a shield, and wields either a two-handed weapon (staff or polearm) or two one-handed weapons (axe or mace).
The defining feature of this tank is its delayed-damage mechanic — 
Stagger. Damage taken is not applied to the monk immediately but gradually, over 10 seconds.
- Stagger scales with Agility and reduces incoming damage by splitting it into two parts. You take the first part instantly, while the second part ticks evenly over 10 seconds. You should “clear” that second part using
Purifying Brew. The ability
Hidden Master's Forbidden Touch increases the effectiveness of Stagger. You gain Hidden Master's Forbidden Touch when using 
Keg Smash, 
Blackout Kick and 
Spinning Crane Kick. With the baseline rotation the uptime of this buff will be 100%, so tracking it is not mandatory. Your job is simply to gain the buff before taking the first hit from enemies. That is why Keg Smash will always be your opening ability at the start of combat.
Gift of the Ox and 
Celestial Fortune are passive healing abilities. When you take damage you can summon a healing sphere that restores your health when collected.
There are three ways to absorb the spheres:
Use
Expel Harm (use it only at 4–5 stacks).Use
Spinning Crane Kick.Simply walk through them (yellow spheres).
Strengths
- Easy to learn.
- No need to juggle defensive cooldown rotations.
- One of the most mobile tanks.
- High damage output.
- Handles any type of incoming damage very comfortably.
- A class debuff that increases physical damage taken by targets the monk attacks by 5%.
- Smooth, steady incoming damage, which makes it easier for healers to keep you up in critical situations.
Weaknesses
- Requires healer support, although most of the time it survives almost on its own.
- Weak group utility.
- A large number of active abilities.
Stat Priority
Agility
Critical Strike
Versatility
Mastery
HasteTalents
Rotation (Ability Priority)
- Keg Smash combined with a
Blackout Combo proc when you lack survivability or are fighting a large pack of enemies - Tiger Palm combined with a Blackout Combo proc
- Purifying Brew — use on cooldown to proc
Empty Keg more often 
Celestial Infusion — use on cooldown to proc Empty Keg more often
Black Ox Brew — use on cooldown to proc Empty Keg more often
Invoke Niuzao, the Black OxBest in Slot (BiS)
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Leveling
The main damaging abilities during the early levels will be Blackout Kick and Spinning Crane Kick.
As your level increases you will gain new abilities. We recommend following the ability priority from the rotation section.
Useful Tips for Mythic+ Keys
1
Thanks to abilities like 
Roll, 
Tiger's Lust, 
Lighter Than Air, and 
Transcendence, you will be extremely mobile in dungeons. Use them to pull packs of mobs faster.
2
Tiger's Lust removes movement-impairing debuffs from you or a target. As a rule, such debuffs deal damage or cause you to take heavy damage from void zones. Try to use this ability to cleanse such debuffs.
3
Detox lets you dispel poison and disease effects. Use the ability when such debuffs deal significant damage to you or an allied healer.
4
Using 
Paralysis lets you skip groups of mobs that are not on your dungeon route.
Macros
#showtooltip /cast [@focus,exists,harm][] Spear Hand Strike
#showtooltip /cast [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Paralysis; Paralysis
#showtooltip /cast [@cursor] Ring of Peace
#showtooltip /use [@player] Tiger's Lust
#showtooltip Provoke /cast [nomod,@mouseover,harm,nodead] Provoke /cast [nomod] Provoke /targetexact [mod:alt] Black Ox Statue /cast [mod:alt] Provoke /targetlasttarget [mod:alt,exists]
#showtooltip /cast [@cursor] Exploding Keg
#showtooltip /use Keg Smash /cancelaura Blessing of Protection
#showtooltip /cast [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Crackling Jade Lightning; Crackling Jade Lightning
Author
Rupi
Rupi is a blogger and streamer who started playing WoW during the Legion expansion. His first character was a Blood Death Knight. In Shadowlands he began actively raiding in various top-100 world guilds, playing different tank specs. Rupi holds 95-100 logs on multiple tanks, and has frequently broken into the world top 5 on Blood DK and Demon Hunter in Mythic+.
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