Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Windwalker Monks in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Windwalker Monk PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Windwalker Monks in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Windwalker Monk Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Windwalker Monk Stat Priority

Versatility > Mastery > Haste > Critical Strike

Versatility will be our most important stat. You want to focus on getting as much of it as you can, up to at least 25%. This will happen automatically through PvP gearing, as most of the items you will end up using will have Versatility on them.

After that, you’ll be focusing on Mastery. This increases your damage on any of your damaging abilities as long as you don’t use the same ability twice in a row. You’ll want to acquire a solid amount of this stat as this is beneficial to your overall throughput.

Followed by Mastery is Haste. This secondary stat reduces the global cooldown on all our spells, allowing us to ramp up and consume our Flurry Strikes quicker if you select the Shado-Pan Hero tree. As for our Conduit of the Celestials Hero tree, this helps you to consume Chi orbs faster to benefit the most out of Heart of the Jade Serpent for some solid cooldown reduction on your primary spells.

Critical Strike provides us with the least amount of benefits to our toolkit, therefore making it avoided at all costs.

BiS Windwalker Monk PvP Gear

Main Pieces

Head: Algari Competitor’s Leather Mask with Mastery / Versatility or Forged Gladiator’s Leather Mask
Shoulders: Gatecrasher’s Enduring Effigy
Chest: Gatecrasher’s Gi
Gloves: Forged Gladiator’s Leather Gloves or Algari Competitor’s Leather Gloves with Mastery / Versatility
Legs: Forged Gladiator’s Leather Legwraps or Algari Competitor’s Leather Trousers with Mastery / Versatility

Off-Pieces

Back: Forged Gladiator’s Shawl or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Cloak with (Mastery / Versatility) or (Haste / Versatility)
Belt: Algari Competitor’s Leather Belt with (Mastery / Versatility) or (Haste / Versatility)
Bracers: Forged Gladiator’s Leather Wristwraps or Algari Competitor’s Leather Wristwraps with (Mastery / Versatility) or (Haste / Versatility)
Boots: Algari Competitor’s Leather Boots with (Mastery / Versatility) or (Haste / Versatility)

When it comes to trinkets, the offensive option is the Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity. This provides us with a static boost to our Haste, greatly assisting us with our stat priority, and grants us a considerable boost to our primary stat in order to enhance our sustain damage.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

Humans then have the option to drop the Forged Gladiator’s Medallion for Forged Gladiator’s Badge of Ferocity. This is due to Human having access to Will to Survive for breaking out of crowd control. However, the Medallion can still be a solid pick for Human into teams where you want more frequent access to a CC removal, as you will be able to rotate through the Forged Gladiator’s Medallion and Will to Survive every 90 seconds.

Best Windwalker Monk Embellishments

Item 1: Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted slot.
Item 2: Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted slot.

Alternative Embellishments:

Item 1: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on Algari Competitor’s Pickaxe with Haste / Versatility
Item 2: Writhing Armor Banding on any crafted armor piece.

As for either embellishment, both Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and Elemental Focusing Lens provide consistent benefits to your throughput. However, Elemental Focusing Lens tends to have slightly higher representation in the current meta. This embellishment is only effective as long as you have at least 1 gem equipped, and deals damage from a specific school of magic based on the gem you equip. Keep in mind that the damage from this embellishment can’t be buffed by cooldowns, talents, or any damage bonuses from school types.

However, you may find value out of our alternative embellishments, which grant us a constant flow of secondary stats. This embellishment tends to be the most valuable early on in the expansion when secondary stats are at their lowest.

Best Windwalker Monk Gems

Core Gems: Enduring Bloodstone + Quick Onyx

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

For your new unique PvP-specific gem, we highly recommend the Enduring Bloodstone, as this will give you some additional damage reduction when affected by Crowd Control.

For all gem slots, we will use Quick Onyx. This will provide us with a hefty amount of Mastery to compensate for the lack of this stat, while weaving in some Haste to buff our overall damage.