Brewmaster Monk Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Dragonflight 10.2.5

Within the depths of Torghast lies an entity known as the Runecarver. By helping to free him from his torment and restore some of his lost memories, you will be able to take advantage of the Runecarving system to imbue a variety of Legendary Powers into certain crafted items.

Although you are only able to wear one of these new items at a time, you get to decide what stats they shall have as you experiment with effects both new and familiar to a Brewmaster. If you are unfamiliar with the Runecarving process or would like to see all Legendary Powers available to Monks, please see their respective articles below, as this page will only be detailing what Legendary Powers are ideal in the main areas of content in the Shadowlands.

Note that the bolded slot name represents the more ideal slot to craft the given Legendary in due to a greater amount of stats provided or the presence of a better item elsewhere for its alternative.

Focus	Legendary	Slots	Source
Special	Unity	Neck, Ring, Belt, or any other slot	Revered with The Enlightened
Raiding (with Brewmaster Monk 4-Piece)	Stormstout's Last Keg	Waist, Hands, or Shoulders	General Kaal (Sanguine Depths)
Raiding (if missing Brewmaster Monk 4-Piece)	Charred Passions	Back or Feet	Torghast (Coldheart Interstitia, Layer 3+)
Mythic+	Stormstout's Last Keg	Waist, Hands, or Shoulders	General Kaal (Sanguine Depths)
Torghast	Fatal Touch	Wrists or Ring	Muehzala (De Other Side)

When Runecarving any of the Legendary Powers above into an item, it is recommended to choose Versatility and Critical Strike as your two stats, with perhaps the option of Mastery for some defensive-oriented alternatives that will be discussed below.

In Patch 9.1 every class received four new Legendary Powers — one for each Covenant.

• Kyrian — Call to Arms, crafted on Legs or Feet — Casting Weapons of Order will also summon your specialization's Celestial for 12 seconds. This means you will spawn Niuzao from Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox.
• Necrolord — Bountiful Brew, crafted on Shoulders or Chest — Your abilities will occasionally cause a cast of Bonedust Brew to occur at your target's location. This occurs at a frequency of approximately 1.25 procs per minute, but has a 5-second cooldown between activations of the effect.
• Night Fae — Faeline Harmony, crafted on Waist or Hands — The 6% chance for your abilities to reset the cooldown of Faeline Stomp is doubled, increasing it to 12%. In addition, both enemies and allies hit by Faeline Stomp gain the Fae Exposure buff. This buff increases the damage taken or healing received from you by 8% for 10 seconds, depending on if the target was an enemy or an ally.
• Venthyr — Sinister Teachings, crafted on Wrist or Finger — Fallen Order summons one additional adept matching your specialization that lasts for 24 seconds. While any adept from Fallen Order is present, your critical strikes reduce the cooldown of Fallen Order by 5 seconds.

Although these Legendary Powers were mostly ignored due to being less valuable than either Stormstout's Last Keg or Charred Passions, they are becoming relevant again as part of Patch 9.2 where you can make use of your Covenant-exclusive power at the same time as another power! This is done through the new power known as Unity, which requires you to be Revered with The Enlightened, a new reputation of Zereth Mortis. You will also be given a premade copy of this Legendary Power in the belt slot as part of the story of the zone. With that being said, many Brewmasters will opt for crafting Unity on either the Neck, Ring, or Belt due to the ability to choose your secondary stats.

While wearing an item with the Unity Power, it will also automatically adjust with whatever Covenant you have currently pledged yourself to, allowing you to have all four powers available on the same item. In addition, this Power can be crafted in any slot you like, making it an incredibly versatile Legendary Power to match your current gearing needs.

Overall, Stormstout's Last Keg or Charred Passions will be your Legendary choice across most forms of content. Each offer a substantial increase in damage output, along with a minor defensive component. That being said, in terms of pure damage potential, Charred Passions will be stronger against one or two enemies and Stormstout's Last Keg will pull ahead against larger groups However, as the gap between these two options remains small, either of them can be acceptable. You may enjoy the added flexibility in the playstyle provided by having a second charge of Keg Smash to offset otherwise "wasted" cooldown time, or you may prefer the added damage burst potential Charred Passions gives your Blackout Kick.

Ultimately, you may use either of these legendaries, though for convenience you should opt for Stormstout's Last Keg once you have acquired the Brewmaster Monk 4-Piece bonus from Sepulcher of the First Ones or the Matrix Catalyst.

For the most part, raid encounters involve large periods of combat against a single target, and small moments of fighting additional enemy spawns. In these scenarios, Charred Passions provides the greatest amount of damage while offering near-permanent uptime on the damage reduction effect of Breath of Fire. However, if you would rather not craft an additional Legendary that is optimized for single-target fighting, Stormstout's Last Keg will work just fine, especially with the Brewmaster Monk 4-Piece bonus activated.

In the rare times when you require extra defense as a Brewmaster that your own cooldowns or healers cannot provide, the following options may be worth considering:

1. Mighty Pour will passively provide you with extra uses of Purifying Brew over the course of an encounter and also increase your Armor during Celestial Brew, which can be useful in moments of incredibly high damage or to help bolster a Celestial Brew that is not empowered with many stacks of Purified Chi.
2. Invoker's Delight may give Brewmasters a stat they do not particularly care for — Haste — but it does grant a truly massive amount of it. This will result in a shorter cooldown on many Brewmaster abilities, including Purifying Brew and thus reduce damage taken a little more. It also has the benefit of being a Legendary Power that can be used by all three Monk specializations.

Within Mythic+, you are more likely to encounter larger groups of enemies at a time. As such, Stormstout's Last Keg remains a strong option for opening with a strong amount of threat or just increasing your AoE damage in general.

Beyond this choice, your main options to consider are the following:

1. Fatal Touch enables more frequent use of your Touch of Death. With this ability dealing your full maximum Health's worth of damage to most enemies in a dungeon, this translates to what is essentially a complete removal of Stagger every minute. However, as the enemy was likely already near death, a lot of the extra damage you will deal may not be considered "useful" damage.
2. Mighty Pour may also prove useful in a dungeon setting, as the presence of only one healer means that effectively purifying Stagger becomes all the more important. However, this amount of defense is not likely to be necessary until the extremely high end of keystone.

Torghast's variety of Anima Powers to improve many of your abilities can result in almost any Legendary Power having a chance to be the best. However, due to the ease of finding 36 Pressure Point Technique or Stroke of Elegance, Fatal Touch quickly becomes an invaluable tool to give your Touch of Death a 0-second cooldown and ascend the tower with ease.

While in Torghast, other noteworthy options of Legendary Power include:

1. As it contains large groups of enemies at a time, Stormstout's Last Keg or Charred Passions remain strong choices for general use and can be further improved with Anima Powers like Hit Scheme and Shadowboxing Treads.
2. Likewise, Invoker's Delight can have use in Torghast even as a Brewmaster with the help of Anima Powers that reduce the cooldown of Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox or automatically summon a Celestial.