Windwalker Monk DPS Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (Season 1)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Windwalker Monk for each boss of the following raid: Nerub-ar Palace. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Nerub-ar Palace. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Nerub-ar Palace guides.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Windwalker Monk and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Nerub'ar Palace Boss Guides for Windwalker Monk
Nerub'ar Palace Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Windwalker Monk
Tips for Ulgrax the Devourer for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
Diffuse Magic on first 
Venomous Lash, then at the start of the 
Juggernaut Charge or whenever assigned, pretty much on CD.
Touch of Karma after Diffuse Magic is down.
Fortifying Brew with Touch of Karma for damage, or with 
Hungering Bellows
Cooldown Usage
- Everything on Pull, can use both
Storm, Earth, and Fire charges. - 1 Storm, Earth, and Fire charge again when adds spawn or at 2:00 when adds come up.
Xuen's Bond can be used, so 
Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger's up for adds, but probably not necessary.- 1 Storm, Earth, and Fire with Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on start of P2 if not used on adds.
Mechanical Tips
- Help control adds during intermission with
Leg Sweep and 
Ring of Peace. - Drop
Transcendence near boss so you can get back quickly after 
Carnivorous Contest.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Mostly single target damage; the standard AOE talents that are part of the single target build should be plenty for the add phase.
Tips for Bloodbound Horror for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
- Fortifying Brew for
Crimson Rain or 
Goresplatter. - Touch of Karma for
Gruesome Disgorge when soaking.
Cooldown Usage
- On Pull, save a Storm, Earth, and Fire charge for when you go down to kill adds. Save everything if you're in the first soak group.
Mechanical Tips
- Transcendence on a
Invoke Terrorss if you have to run away from it so you can get to it quickly. - Help control adds during intermission with Leg Sweep and Ring of Peace.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Single target, maybe 
Yu'lon's Grace because of the frequency of raid damage.
Tips for Sikran for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
- Touch of Karma or Diffuse Magic if/when you get targeted for
Phase Blades, the other for first 
Decimate in each pair, Touch of Karma first. - Fortifying Brew for
Shattering Sweep.
Cooldown Usage
- Use on CD, be careful of Phase Blades/ Decimate timings.
Mechanical Tips
- Transcendence near the boss, run out and port back in.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Single Target, maybe 
Escape from Reality, but probably not necessary.
Tips for Rasha'nan for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
- Alternate Touch of Karma and Diffuse Magic for
Erosive Spray.
Cooldown Usage
- Cooldown on pull
- Can save a Storm, Earth, and Fire stack for adds spawning if necessary.
- Try to save a
Whirling Dragon Punch and 2 stacks of 
Dance of Chi-Ji for adds spawning for maximum BOOM.
Mechanical Tips
- Help control adds during with Leg Sweep and Ring of Peace.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Single target, there's enough AOE "umph" in the single target build.
Tips for Broodtwister Ovi'nax for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
- Make sure to have Touch of Karma, Diffuse Magic, and/or Fortifying Brew up for
Ingest Black Blood.
Cooldown Usage
- Use every time they're up unless you need to focus on adds, then save for whenever adds are grouped up for damage.
- Save a stack or two of Dance of Chi-Ji for adds spawning soon either way.
Mechanical Tips
Roll combined with 
Swift Art can free yourself from 
Sticky Web; make sure others aren't surrounding you if you do this.
Tiger's Lust can be used to free someone from Sticky Web.- Help control adds during with Leg Sweep and Ring of Peace.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
You can use an AOE build if assigned to focus on adds, but most likely Single Target with Yu'lon's Grace, as there's enough AOE in the single target build to do plenty.
Tips for Nexus-Princess Ky'veza for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
- There are so many big damage events; try to have something up as often as you can, and coordinate with your healers to make sure you're covering anything they can't.
- You Should be able to have a cooldown up for every
Nether Rift if you plan well.
- First P1: Fortifying Brew > Touch of Karma > Diffuse Magic
- 2nd P1: Touch of Karma > Diffuse Magic > Fortifying Brew
- 3rd P1: Touch of Karma > Diffuse Magic > Hopes and prayers
- First P1:
- Any Nether Rift that's covered heavily enough by Healers can free up one of the personals for getting targeted for
Assassination.
This may be the best choice anyway, depending on your group's capabilities.
Cooldown Usage
- Use on cooldown; be aware of when you may need to run out or move to avoid damage loss.
Mechanical Tips
- You can consider Escape from Reality as a useful talent. It allows you to place your
Transcendence in the middle of the room, run out if targeted by Assassination, port back in
afterward, then run back out if you get targeted for
Twilight Massacre. The timing of things
may be tight, and messing it up may wipe your group, so try at your own risk.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Single Target, Magic damage is frequent enough that Yu'lon's Grace may be useful
Tips for The Silken Court for Windwalker Monk
Defensive Tips
- Use defensives liberally
Cooldown Usage
- With Xuen's Bond
- Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on Pull.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire on first P1 Reckless Charge.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on 2nd P1
Reckless Charge. - Use Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger during P2 so they aren't sitting off cooldown, but make sure they'll be up for Reckless Charges in P3.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on P3 Reckless Charge.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on 2nd P3 Reckless Charge.
- Without Xuen's Bond
- Storm, Earth, and Fire on Pull
- Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on first P1 Reckless Charge.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire on 2nd P1 Reckless Charge.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire/ Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger when Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger is up during P2.
- Use Storm, Earth, and Fire once by itself during P2 so you don't overcap.
- If you'll only get 1 Reckless Charge in P3 then save Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger and 1 Storm, Earth, and Fire charge for it.
If you'll get 2, you can use Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger/ Storm, Earth, and Fire one more time in P2 or at the start of P3 so it will still be up for the 2nd Reckless Charge in P3.
- You'll probably have at least one extra Storm, Earth, and Fire charge to use when it fits best for you.
Mechanical Tips
- Transcendence can be very useful to get back to the bosses after
Web Vortex.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
- Single target, going for AOE or cleave is likely not worth it unless your tanks are insanely good at stacking them up and your raid has very little AOE damage.
- Xuen's Bond allows for using Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger on pull and then 2nd Reckless Charge in P2,
2x in P2 and for each Reckless Charge in P3.
Tips for Queen Ansurek for Windwalker Monk
Note that it is early days and that this section will be far more fleshed out as the Season progresses and cool tricks and tips are found.
Defensive Tips
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Cooldown Usage
- Little is known about this boss at the time of writing, but check back after the Heroic week for some tips.
Mechanical Tips
- Nothing fancy here yet, but do check back in after the Season has been out for a couple of weeks to see if any tricks or tips have been found.
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Windwalker Monk has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate
throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often
as needed with incoming mechanics and save bigger cooldowns like 
Fortifying Brew
for large incoming damage.
- Touch of Karma
- Diffuse Magic
- Fortifying Brew
General Cooldown Usage
Windwalker Monk has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Nerub-ar Palace:
- Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger — Use on cooldown, pair it with other DPS cooldowns like Storm, Earth, and Fire if delaying it will
not lose you a cast throughout the fight. If you don't know if it will or not, then use on cooldown as the safest strategy.
- Storm, Earth, and Fire — Used close to on cooldown while lining up with other abilities and damage bonuses.
Also useful to easily tag targets for increased Spinning Crane Kick damage.
Don't sit on 2 charges; always have it recharging unless you know a big damage phase is upcoming where you can use both charges.
-
Ordered Elements makes the playstyle during Storm, Earth, and Fire slightly different, where
you'll want to make sure to use 
Rising Sun Kick frequently enough that you maintain the Chi cost
reduction. This may mean casting Rising Sun Kick at a higher priority in order to maintain the
Ordered Elements buff.
In addition to the general rotation, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to use your cooldowns as often as possible during an encounter. With that in mind, your secondary goal is to use them at the correct time.
I highly suggest using some Addon or WeakAura to track the estimated time to
die of your target/boss target.
Method
Raid Tools has this as an option if you are already using this addon.
By tracking time to die, if you know that you can only fit one more cycle of
your cooldowns in before the boss dies, you can choose to hold these cooldowns
to better line up with 
Bloodlust, your Potion, or even your other
cooldowns, trying to look for opportunities to stack all of them.
Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Guide added.
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This guide is written and maintained by Babylonius; Guild Master and Raider in Occasional Excellence on US-Turalyon; Eight year veteran of Windwalker; Founder and owner of the dedicated Monk website, Peak of Serenity; and Admin/Owner of the Monk discord, PeakofSerenity. You can find him on Twitch, Twitter, and occasionally YouTube.
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