Brewmaster Monk Tank Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.1.0)

This table contains loot from the Season 2 Mythic+ Dungeon pool, the Liberation of Undermine 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 675 or 678.

Slot	Item	Source
Head	Ageless Serpent's Mane	One-Armed Bandit Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Neck	Flickering Glowtorc	Darkflame Cleft
Shoulders	Ageless Serpent's Shoulderpads	Rik Reverb Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Cloak	Trashmaster's Mantle	Operation: Mechagon
Chest	Venture Co. Plenipotentiary Vest	The MOTHERLODE!!
Wrists	Rune-Branded Armbands (with Writhing Armor Banding and Algari Missive of the Quickblade)	Leatherworking (see note)
Gloves	Ageless Serpent's Handguards	Cauldron of Carnage Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Belt	Adrenal Surge Clasp	Leatherworking
Legs	Ageless Serpent's Leggings	Stix Bunkjunker Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Boots	Ageless Serpent's Ankleweights	Matrix Catalyst
Ring 1	Miniature Roulette Wheel (Vers/Crit)	One-Armed Bandit
Ring 2	The Jastor Diamond	Chrome King Gallywix
Weapon (2h)	Giga Bank-Breaker	One-Armed Bandit
Weapons (Dual Wield)	Capo's Molten Knuckles Gallywix's Iron Thumb	Mug'Zee Chrome King Gallywix
Trinkets	Geargrinder's Spare Keys (Damage) Grim Codex (Damage) Ringing Ritual Mud (Defense) Cinderbrew Stein (Defense) Tome of Light's Devotion (Hybrid)	Vexie and the Geargrinders Theater of Pain Operation: Floodgate Cinderbrew Meadery Priory of the Sacred Flame

BiS Weapon Disclaimer: In Season 2, your best choice for a weapon is to use a 2h over dual-wielding. However, the best-in-slot dual-wield choices ( Capo's Molten Knuckles and Gallywix's Iron Thumb) are effectively identical or even superior to the best two-handed choice ( Giga Bank-Breaker) for damage in lower target counts. 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 Liberation of Undermine 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	Ageless Serpent's Mane	One-Armed Bandit Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Neck	Gobfather's Gifted Bling	Mug'Zee
Shoulders	Ageless Serpent's Shoulderpads	Rik Reverb Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Cloak	Test Pilot's Go-Pack	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Chest	Streamlined Cartel Uniform	Chrome King Gallywix
Wrists	Hustler's Ante-Uppers	One-Armed Bandit
Gloves	Ageless Serpent's Handguards	Cauldron of Carnage Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Belt	Competitor's Battle Cord	Cauldron of Carnage
Legs	Ageless Serpent's Leggings	Stix Bunkjunker Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Boots	Rushed Beta Launchers	Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
Ring 1	Miniature Roulette Wheel (Vers/Crit)	One-Armed Bandit
Ring 2	The Jastor Diamond	Chrome King Gallywix
Weapon (2h)	Giga Bank-Breaker	One-Armed Bandit
Weapons (Dual Wield)	Capo's Molten Knuckles Gallywix's Iron Thumb	Mug'Zee Chrome King Gallywix
Trinkets	Eye of Kezan (Damage) Geargrinder's Spare Keys (Damage) Chromebustible Bomb Suit (Defense)	Chrome King Gallywix Vexie and the Geargrinders Chrome King Gallywix

This table exclusively contains loot from the Season 2 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	Ageless Serpent's Mane	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Neck	Flickering Glowtorc	Darkflame Cleft
Shoulders	Ageless Serpent's Shoulderpads	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Cloak	Trashmaster's Mantle	Operation: Mechagon
Chest	Venture Co. Plenipotentiary Vest	The MOTHERLODE!!
Wrists	Servo-Arm Bindings	The MOTHERLODE!!
Gloves	Ageless Serpent's Handguards	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Belt	Mad King's Sporran	Operation: Mechagon
Legs	Ageless Serpent's Leggings	Matrix Catalyst Great Vault
Boots	Mercenary Miner's Boots	The MOTHERLODE!!
Ring 1	Ritual Bone Band	Theater of Pain
Ring 2	Ring of Perpetual Conflict	Siren Isle Theater of Pain
Weapon (2h)	Gallytech Turbo-Tiller	Operation: Floodgate
Weapons (Dual Wield)	Starforged Seraph's Mace Gorebound Predator's Gavel	Priory of the Sacred Flame Theater of Pain
Trinkets	Grim Codex (Damage) Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker (Damage) Cinderbrew Stein (Defense) Ringing Ritual Mud (Defense) Tome of Light's Devotion (Hybrid)	Theater of Pain Operation: Floodgate Cinderbrew Meadery Operation: Floodgate Priory of the Sacred Flame

Capo's Molten Knuckles, from Mug'Zee in Liberation of Undermine, is a unique-equip fist weapon that may be obtained as a "very rare" drop. In exchange for having no secondary stats, it features a passive effect that triggers bonus Fire damage to your primary target roughly 2 times per minute. After each proc, you will also deal a smaller amount of Fire damage as AoE over the next 5 seconds.

If you are lucky enough to acquire it, this weapon represents one half of your strongest dual-wield choices for the season (alongside Gallywix's Iron Thumb), offering an excellent blend of priority-target damage and bonus AoE. However, it may be beaten by a stronger two-handed option.

Gallywix's Iron Thumb, from Chrome King Gallywix in Liberation of Undermine is a one-handed Mace. Although it has questionable secondary stats for a Brewmaster, it drops at a higher base item level and also features a bonus effect: while equipped, your attacks have a chance to apply a Shadow DoT to the target with no duration, stacking up to 25 times; this may occur roughly 5 times per minute.

This weapon represents the other half of your strongest dual-wield choices for Season 2 (alongside Capo's Molten Knuckles), though its value depends upon targets living long enough for the DoT to become substantial. As such, it may be beaten by a stronger two-handed option, particularly for shorter encounters. However, it should be mentioned that Gallywix's Iron Thumb is not unique-equipped, allowing you to wield two of them!

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 645/658/665.

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 665 (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 678. Indeed, players can similarly choose to craft 675 weapons with their Spark of Fortunes instead, outclassing this rare weapon. With that being said, it is equally usable by Strength classes, making warbound versions helpful for gearing alts.

• Geargrinder's Spare Keys — Those familiar with the former Remote Guidance Device trinket from Operation: Mechagon will recognize this on-use effect, which launches a Geargrinder trike in the direction you are facing and crashes into the first enemy it makes contact with to deal a large amount of on-demand Fire damage. While it may be simple, it does represent a strong source of burst damage for a Brewmaster, and deals increased damage in AoE despite also splitting the resulting damage afterward.
• Eye of Kezan — Although this trinket features static Mastery, its effect is truly extraordinary. With a proc rate of roughly 5 times per minute, your abilities will grant an Agility buff that is permanent for the duration of combat, up to 20 stacks. Once you have reached 20 stacks, further procs will instead trigger Wrath of Kezan or Vigor of Kezan, dealing bonus Fire damage or healing an ally. Upon leaving combat, your stacks will decay at a rate of one every 2 seconds, or all remaining stacks after 20 seconds. So long as you can maintain at least 10 stacks of the Agility buff, this trinket is already on-par with any alternative featuring static Agility. Although Vigor of Kezan may "waste" some procs on your self-healing, a fully-stacked buff more than makes up for this.
• Junkmaestro's Mega Magnet — Representing another form of on-demand damage, this trinket gradually builds up to 30 stacks of damage with a ppm of 10. Activating the on-use's 20-second cooldown releases these stacks to deal Plague damage to your target, additionally dealing 10% of the amount as bonus AoE. If you prefer more frequent, smaller amounts of damage, then this is a solid on-use choice.
• Zee's Thug Hotline — As a completely passive alternative, this trinket gives a chance to summon one of three helper NPCs from your attacks: Thwack Jack, Pocket Ace, or Snake Eyes. Each of these thugs deal varying amounts of Physical damage with their attacks, although if a Bloodlust-style Haste buff is triggered you will immediately summon all three! Shado-Pan players in particular may find this trinket to be their best choice in strictly single-target fighting.

• Grim Codex — Simple and to the point, this on-use trinket triggers a burst of Shadow damage to your target and a smaller amount to any enemies in a cone behind them, all on a 90-second cooldown. This damage, in combination with having static Agility, results in your strongest damage choice among dungeon options. However, unlike most raw damage trinkets, its on-use effect is not reduced for tank players, which may be unintended. Bear this in mind should it appear as a choice in your weekly Great Vault.
• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker — If stats are of more interest to you, then this trinket offers a novel way to get a Brewmaster's favorite secondary of Critical Strike. Every 60 seconds, using an ability will grant a Critical Strike buff for 15 seconds, though during this time any additional Critical Strikes will extend the duration by up to 30 seconds in total! This form of on-demand stats makes it excellent for AoE, provided you are able to time the effect with your bigger damage moments.
• Tome of Light's Devotion — This trinket is not only a hybrid choice of defense and damage, but secretly one of your strongest offensive choices when utilized properly. While equipped, you will alternate between the buffs of Inner Resilience and Inner Radiance, switching automatically as you take damage and gain up to 50 stacks of "reading" the tome.
  • While "reading" Resilience, you gain a small amount of passive Armor and a chance to gain an absorb against Magic damage.
  • While "reading" Radiance, you instead gain passive Critical Strike and a chance to deal bonus Holy damage with your abilities.
  Finally, on a 90-second cooldown, you may immediately switch buffs and double their strength (both passive and proc) for 20 seconds! By activating this effect in Resilience to trigger a double-strength Radiance buff, you can deal phenomenal damage that more than makes up for this trinket's lack of regular stats.
• Ravenous Honey Buzzer — Another simple on-use trinket with burst damage, this option also allows you to travel forward 15 yards when activated. It is not the absolute best, but better than most choices for damage.
• Signet of the Priory — If Critical Strike is not your highest secondary stat, then this trinket may be a better way to obtain your preferred choice for burst damage or defense on a 2-minute cooldown. As an extra bonus, any allies also wearing this item will gain a smaller amount of the same stat with every activation!
• Sigil of Algari Concordance — An entirely passive choice, this trinket has a chance to summon an earthen ally at a low proc rate of 0.5 times per minute. For tank players, this ally is Boulderbane, who casts Mighty Smash and Earthen Ire to deal Nature damage to enemies while also occasionally buffing you with Boulder Shield. Although its performance is very random, this trinket has incredible potential in AoE scenarios if it procs appropriately.

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.

• Turbo-Drain 5000 — Despite its item level cap, the strong Nature DoT of this trinket (and its bonus movement speed if the affected enemy perishes) result in an option capable of equalling the best raid and dungeon alternatives. Keep it in mind if you see a higher item level version available.
• Mechano-Core Amplifier — While it may be providing stats at random roughly 3 times per minute, the choice of receiving your best secondary stat or a buff that is 33% stronger for your worst secondary ends up being fairly strong on Brewmaster Monk where all secondaries remain relatively close in overall value.

• Chromebustible Bomb Suit — This trinket offers exactly what you desire as a defensive option: a large amount of on-demand damage reduction combined with some AoE on a fairly short cooldown. Its main downside is having static Haste, a Brewmaster's least-favorite secondary stat. Nevertheless, it may be helpful when you need it.
• House of Cards — While it is only an indirect buff to your defense, the on-demand Mastery of this trinket does allow for a damage gain as well, and the effect's minimum value will increase the longer an encounter goes!

• Ringing Ritual Mud — While similar to the Chromebustible Bomb Suit from Liberation of Undermine in that this trinket also provides an on-demand absorb that triggers AoE damage, it is in some ways superior. This is due to featuring static Versatility instead of Haste, alongside any DoT effects triggering a reduction to its baseline 2-minute cooldown. However, your own Stagger damage does not count for this! Even so, it is your strongest defensive option in general.
• Cinderbrew Stein — Though it may not have any passive stats, this trinket's effect will frequently trigger at 2ppm when healed by an ally to give each of you a main stat buff (Agility) and an absorb, with the ally's buff favoring stats and your own favoring the absorb. In addition, you will automatically trigger an extra buff for yourself once per minute when falling below 50% health. Due to the unique way this trinket's effects are implemented, it can often absorb far more than it should be able to as well, making this a helpful source of defense when you are in need of it.
• Tome of Light's Devotion — This trinket is not only a hybrid choice of defense and damage, but secretly one of your stronger offensive choices when utilized properly. While equipped, you will alternate between the buffs of Inner Resilience and Inner Radiance, switching automatically as you take damage and gain up to 50 stacks of "reading" the tome
  • While "reading" Resilience, you gain a small amount of passive Armor and a chance to gain an absorb against Magic damage.
  • While "reading" Radiance, you instead gain passive Critical Strike and a chance to deal bonus Holy damage with your abilities.
  Finally, on a 90-second cooldown, you may immediately switch buffs and double their strength (both passive and proc) for 20 seconds! By activating this effect in Resilience to trigger a double-strength Radiance buff, you can deal phenomenal damage that more than makes up for this trinket's lack of regular stats.

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.

• Suspicious Energy Drink — It may only offer indirect defense by occasionally triggering a Mastery buff, but this trinket's additional Mastery gained when procced below 35% health does fill a defensive role of being present when you are in need of it. As a bonus, it also does well offensively in larger AoE!