Brewmaster Monk Tank Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.5)

This table contains loot from the Season 1 Mythic+ Dungeon pool, the Nerub-ar Palace raid, and recommended crafted gear. If you are purely striving for the absolute best options no matter the odds of obtaining everything, this is it; this list also assumes every item is at its highest possible item level of 536 or 539.

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Gatecrasher's Horns	The Silken Court Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Neck	Silken Advisor's Favor	The Silken Court
Shoulders	Gatecrasher's Enduring Effigy	Rasha'nan Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow	Rasha'nan
Chest	Gatecrasher's Gi	Broodtwister Ovi'nax Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Wrists	Sanguine Experiment's Bandages	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Gloves	Rune-Branded Grasps (with Writhing Armor Banding and Algari Missive of the Quickblade)	Leatherworking (see note)
Belt	Adrenal Surge Clasp	Leatherworking
Legs	Gatecrasher's Kilt	Nexus Princess Ky'veza Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Boots	Fleeting Massacre Footpads	Nexus Princess Ky'veza
Ring 1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact	Queen Ansurek
Ring 2	Ritual Commander's Ring	The Necrotic Wake
Weapon (2h)	Harvester's Interdiction	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Weapons (Dual Wield)	Void Reaper's Warp Blade Zephyrous Sail Carver	Nexus Princess Ky'veza The Dawnbreaker
Trinkets	Mad Queen's Mandate (Damage) Void Reaper's Contract (Damage) Foul Behemoth's Chelicera (Defense) Silken Chain Weaver (Defense)	Queen Ansurek Nexus Princess Ky'veza Ulgrax the Devourer Delves

BiS Weapon Disclaimer: In Season 1, your best choice for a weapon is to use a 2h over dual-wielding. However, the best-in-slot dual-wield choices ( Void Reaper's Warp Blade and Zephyrous Sail Carver) is only marginally worse than the best two-handed choice ( Harvester's Interdiction) for damage. This includes the set bonus of the Void Reaper's Contract trinket being active. Equip whichever BiS setup you acquire first, defaulting to a two-handed option when you are choosing between gear of the same item level.

This table exclusively contains loot from the Nerub-ar Palace raid. Although it is potentially easier to acquire, particularly pieces of your Tier Set, you will only have one chance to obtain gear per boss on each difficulty every week. In addition, there may be alternative items that are obtained elsewhere as part of your overall best-in-slot gear. However, these are the items from just the raid to look for.

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Gatecrasher's Horns	The Silken Court Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Neck	Silken Advisor's Favor	The Silken Court
Shoulders	Gatecrasher's Enduring Effigy	Rasha'nan Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow	Rasha'nan
Chest	Gatecrasher's Gi	Broodtwister Ovi'nax Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Wrists	Sanguine Experiment's Bandages	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Gloves	Thousand-Scar Impalers	The Silken Court
Belt	Devourer's Taut Innards	Ulgrax the Devourer
Legs	Gatecrasher's Kilt	Nexus Princess Ky'veza Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Boots	Fleeting Massacre Footpads	Nexus Princess Ky'veza
Ring 1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact	Queen Ansurek
Ring 2	Writhing Ringworm	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Weapon (2h)	Spire of Transfused Horrors	Broodtwister Ovi'nax
Weapons (Dual Wield)	Void Reaper's Warp Blade Bludgeons of Blistering Wind	Nexus Princess Ky'veza Rasha'nan
Trinkets	Sikran's Endless Arsenal (Damage) Void Reaper's Contract (Damage) Foul Behemoth's Chelicera (Defense)	Sikran Nexus Princess Ky'veza Ulgrax the Devourer

This table exclusively contains loot from the Season 1 Mythic+ Dungeon pool. These pieces can be "farmed" without any limits, so long as you have access to a keystone for the dungeon in question. However, they will not be obtainable at their highest item level unless obtained from the Great Vault. This means the items here may not always be your absolute best-in-slot choices.

For pieces of your Tier Set in particular, you will be reliant on either the Great Vault or Matrix Catalyst to acquire them. If making use of the Catalyst, you may use any relevant Mythic+ item to create the tier item.

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Gatecrasher's Horns	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Neck	Elder's Hemolymphal Periapt	City of Threads
Shoulders	Gatecrasher's Enduring Effigy	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Cloak	Azureborne Cloak	Grim Batol
Chest	Gatecrasher's Gi	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Wrists	Bands of the Undergrowth	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Gloves	Gorebound Stranglers	City of Threads
Belt	Shadow Congregant's Belt	The Dawnbreaker
Legs	Gatecrasher's Kilt	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Boots	Besieger's Deckstalkers	Siege of Boralus
Ring 1	Ritual Commander's Ring	The Necrotic Wake
Ring 2	Ring of Dun Algaz	Grim Batol
Weapon (2h)	Harvester's Interdiction	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Weapons (Dual Wield)	Zephyrous Sail Carver Bainbridge's Blackjack	The Dawnbreaker Siege of Boralus
Trinkets	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (Damage) Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj Skardyn's Grace (Defense)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes The Dawnbreaker Grim Batol

Harvester's Interdiction, from Ara-Kara, City of Echoes, is a two-handed staff with a chance to deal bonus Shadow damage over a short period, roughly twice per minute. This effect does not affect the stat budget of the weapon, making it purely a bonus.

If you are looking for your strongest two-handed choice (and strongest weapon overall for the season), Harvester's Interdiction represents an easy answer. Plus, it is a weapon that can be farmed from Mythic+, making it easy enough to obtain!

Void Reaper's Warp Blade, from Nexus Princess Ky'veza in Nerub-ar Palace is a unique-equip fist weapon that may be obtained as a "very rare" drop. While it may only feature Critical Strike as its secondary stat — a Brewmaster's favorite — it also comes with a passive effect to apply a Shadow damage-over-time effect for 10 seconds, roughly 2.5 times per minute. In addition, there is a set bonus effect on this weapon that interacts with the Void Reaper's Contract trinket, causing the trinket's bonus effect on low-health enemies to always trigger if they are affected by the Warp Blade's DoT.

This set bonus is not enough to make the Void Reaper's Contract your best option (it is still quite strong, however), but the weapon alone represents your strongest choice for one-handed options. When combined with an appropriate off-hand, such as the Zephyrous Sail Carver, dual-wielding will be comfortably close to using the best two-handed weapons for damage.

Befouler's Syringe is somewhat unique even among "unique" weapons in that it can be obtained as a very rare drop from any Nerubian-themed content, including Nerubian Delves, Dungeons, or the three "World/Delve" slots of the Great Vault. However, this means that its maximum item level is effectively capped to the Veteran, Champion, or Hero upgrade tracks, which are 606/619/626.

With all of these potential restrictions, what power does it have to justify them? This polearm features no Agility, instead having a passive damage effect. At roughly 3 procs per minute, your attacks apply Befouled Blood to the enemy, a 10-second DoT. If a target with Befouled Blood perishes, it will instead become the Befouler's Bloodlust buff on you, empowering your next melee attack to deal additional Nature damage.

Although the passive damage effects of Befouler's Syringe are strong enough to outweigh the lack of Agility and even be better than weapons at similar item levels, its reduced maximum cap of up to 626 (exclusively when obtained from the Great Vault) greatly limits its potential for players that can acquire Myth track gear that can instead be upgraded to 639. Indeed, players can similarly choose to craft 636 weapons with their Spark of Omens instead, outclassing this rare weapon. With that being said, it is equally usable by Strength classes, making warbound versions helpful for gearing alts.

• Mad Queen's Mandate — While this trinket may deal a phenomenal amount of damage, some of its strength will be reliant on your ability to trigger its bonus cooldown reduction from defeating a target with the effect. The heal is otherwise insignificant, and you cannot dodge attacks while channeling its cast; you can still move, however. Seek this out as your best on-use choice for smaller pull sizes.
• Void Reaper's Contract — Although this trinket suffers a 33% penalty to its damage due to being a dps trinket, it can be paired with the Void Reaper's Warp Blade to further boost its strength and become one of your strongest trinket options.
• Sikran's Endless Arsenal — This trinket features three different on-use effects that are rotated through with every activation. Once used, you will additionally gain a passive effect related to each "weapon" until the trinket is triggered again. These stances and passive effects are as follows:
  • Surekian Flourish — Deal Shadow damage over time to your target, gaining passive Parry and Avoidance.
  • Surekian Decimation — Deal split Physical damage in a line in front of you and passively deal 10% additional damage with Critical Strikes to absorb shields.
  • Surekian Barrage — Deal Shadow damage to all targets up to 20 yards in front of you, and passively gain a stacking movement speed buff as you still, of up to 30%. Moving will activate this speed increase for 6 seconds.
  It should be noted that Shado-Pan Brewmasters will deal additional damage with Surekian Decimation due to Martial Precision increasing all Physical damage dealt. This makes this trinket among your best options for damage.
• Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg — Rather than providing static stats, this trinket instead builds up buffs to your Agility and highest secondary stat by either standing still or moving. You will build or lose one stack per second of each buff, depending on what you are doing, though you also have the option to freeze your stack count for 20 seconds at a time, one every two minutes. A large number of total stacks will need to be maintained for this trinket to reach its potential, and it is best used in AoE.

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood — This trinket may feature static Haste, but its 2.5ppm effect grants an Agility buff that lasts for an entire minute. After this time, it will apply a Nature DoT to your target, resulting in a surprisingly effective option for damage.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj — Simple and to the point, this trinket features a modest 20-second buff to a random secondary approximately 1.55 times per minute. It is the very definition of average performance.
• Bottled Flayedwing Toxin — This trinket's performance is hindered by having its damage reduced for tank players due to being a DPS trinket, though it is still decent overall. Just remember to re-apply it whenever it expires, or your character has died!
• Dead-Eye Spyglass — The proc rate on this trinket may be low (only 1ppm), but the amount of Critical Strike it provides when active is immense and can be quickly stacked up by a Brewmaster.

As a reminder, all trinkets from Delves have a lower maximum item level than those from Dungeons or Raids. They will often still be useful upgrades for your character but will rarely be the best choices available.

• Spelunker's Waning Candle — On top of featuring static Agility, this trinket also has a potent proc for your preferred secondary stat of Critical Strike. As a bonus, you can even share this effect with an ally by moving near them, making it easy to buff your cotank in a raid.
• Detachable Fang — So long as you continue to attack the same target, this trinket's generous proc rate of 6 times per minute will result in frequently triggering the bonus damage on its Gnashing effect.
• Abyssal Trap — In order to fully utilize this trinket, your enemies must stay within its small bubble for 10 seconds at a time. If you and your foes are frequently moving; then it will rapidly lose value.

• Foul Behemoth's Chelicera — This trinket is secretly a damage option in disguise, with its defensive bonuses tacked on. Its healing will rarely be significant, but the bonus maximum health and absorb can prove useful in a variety of scenarios. Seek it out as your strongest "hybrid" trinket choice.
• Swarmlord's Authority — The static Haste of this trinket is, frankly, disappointing, as the passive and on-use effects do add up to an acceptable amount of damage reduction over time. However, it comes at a significant cost to your offensive power. Avoid using this item unless you absolutely need its defenses.

• Skardyn's Grace — Although its effect is somewhat boring, the massive amount of Mastery given by this trinket's on-use effect makes for a compelling hybrid option of damage and defense.
• Refracting Aggression Module — An on-demand absorb is a great concept for a defensive trinket, least of all on a low cooldown, but having the effect tied to Provoke makes this trinket dangerous to use in a raid environment where bosses may become taunt immune at inopportune moments. Utilize this trinket in dungeons, if at all.
• Ceaseless Swarmgland — This trinket wishes to be a useful hybrid choice, granting Agility, damage over time to your attackers, and even a small amount of damage reduction. However, in trying to do so much it ultimately fails at being significant for most of these purposes and results in an often underwhelming choice for defense and damage.

As a reminder, all trinkets from Delves have a lower maximum item level than those from Dungeons or Raids. They will often still be useful upgrades for your character, but will rarely be the best choices available.

• Silken Chain Weaver — Although its attack speed reduction has very limited effect on any miniboss or boss-level enemy (including all raid bosses), this trinket represents your strongest defensive option in Mythic+. Seek it out if possible, as it remains superior to defensive dungeon and raid trinkets in spite of its lower item level!
• Siphoning Lightbrand — While the healing is somewhat insignificant, this trinket's hefty proc rate of 5 times per minute results in a decent hybrid of damage and defense in a single passive effect.