Windwalker Monk DPS Nerub-ar Palace Raid Guide — The War Within (11.0.7)
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 (11.0.7).
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
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 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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