Brewmaster Monk Stat Priority - Midnight

By Sinzhu Updated: 2026/08/12

Best Stats for Brewmaster Monkslightlyit will likely be an upgradeDefensive Brewmaster Monk Stat Priority

Shado-Pan Defensive Priority

Item Level / Agility / Armor / Stamina
Versatility = Critical Strike = Mastery
Haste

Master of Harmony Defensive Priority

Item Level / Agility / Armor / Stamina
Versatility = Critical Strike = Mastery
Haste

Offensive Brewmaster Monk Stat Priority

Shado-Pan Offensive Priority

Item Level / Agility
Critical Strike
Versatility = Mastery
Haste

Master of Harmony Offensive Priority

Item Level / Agility
Critical Strike
Versatility = Mastery
Haste

sim yourself Stats ExplainedPrimary StatsAgility

Increases Stagger's power, delaying more incoming damage automatically.

Improves your self-healing from Gift of the Ox/Spirit of the Ox and Expel Harm.

Buffs the size of Celestial Brew/Celestial Infusion shields.

Empowers all damage abilities, such as Keg Smash and Blackout Kick.

ArmorStamina

Monks also gain a unique benefit to having more of it by increasing the damage dealt by the Touch of Death ability.

Secondary Stats

Critical Strike — 46 rating = 1%: Chance for attacks and heals to be twice as effective, which often includes gear effects like trinkets. Agility-based specializations such as Brewmaster automatically have 10% baseline Critical Strike.
Brewmaster Critical Strike Bonuses

Directly increases your healing taken through Celestial Fortune, which also similarly increases all friendly damage absorbs based on the stat.

Further defensive benefits with the Elusive Footwork talent.

(Shado-Pan) Increased Flurry Strikes generation through One Versus Many.

Hastenot

Keg Smash. Notably, 14.3% Haste results in a 7-second cooldown, and 33.4% a 6-second cooldown.

Purifying Brew

Rushing Jade Wind

Press the Advantage/Flurry Strikes (from faster auto attacks)

MasteryMastery: Elusive BrawlerBlackout Kick

Brewmaster Monks start with 7.4% Dodge chance per stack and an Attack Power increase of 8%.

You may reach 100% dodge chance or more, especially through Blackout Kick; any extra dodge chance is "wasted" when reset.

Many enemy abilities cannot be dodged, though dodgeable attacks often make up the majority of your damage taken.

Attack Power only increases the damage and healing of your abilities, and does not increase the damage of gear effects such as trinkets.

Versatility

Versatility will always require more rating to gain 1% of the stat than any other secondary, but its effects are more universal by comparison.

All damage and healing from gear effects and trinkets is increased by Versatility. Its power grows as more of your total damage comes from outside of your Brewmaster abilities.

Enemies that primarily deal magic damage (usually) cannot be dodged with Mastery: Elusive Brawler. Here, Versatility becomes your strongest passive defense.

PvP-related content can feature set bonuses that increase your total Versatility by a percentage, while all of its related gear also favors the stat.

Tertiary StatsLeechAvoidanceSpeed Diminishing Returns in

Critical Strike - Above 1380 rating

Haste - Above 1320 rating

Mastery - Above 1380 rating

Versatility - Above 1620 rating

Example
Let's assume you gain 1% Haste for 10 Haste Rating. When above the diminishing return breakpoint, 10 Haste Rating would give you 0.9% Haste instead, resulting in a 10% reduction from what you gained previously.
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Comments

Comment by drivird

Sorry how can I matche the stat priority

Critical Strike > Versatility > Mastery > Haste = Agility

with the statement

"Agility is, by all appearances, the best stat a Brewmaster can get"?

Maybe a typo?

Thanks!

Comment by Jendaille

Is the benefit of Celestial Fortune really so strong than it causes Crit to outweigh Mastery? I feel that Versatility would still be our strongest stat for pure Mitigation especially when paired with our Mastery.

I'm just curious on this honestly, Elusive Brawler is very strong with High Uptime's it feels where as you would need a lot of Crit to make Celestial Fortune (a pure RNG passive) really even worth it imo.

Comment by Rainlover

I don't know why but I find Versatility stronger than Crit.....

Comment by Tuulz

Here is the easy answer. Agility is indeed a great stat for brewmaster. However for defensive purposes Monks have enough agility on their gear (above 455) to be well into the DR (diminishing returns) for the agility----> Stagger ratio. to the point that if you have more than 85% stagger with iron skin brew active (like you always should) Agility which does indeed still add to your stagger, will barely help this number increase. my 470 brewmaster has 87% and when my cloak OR fortifying brew are active, both only bring this number to 91% and together to 93. As far as agility goes, its a DPS stat, once you have gear.

As far as survival-ability goes, Mastery is indeed the top stat. but if you have the proper azerite, ( 2-3 training of nizuao) and you appropriately know how to manage your stagger / purify. with good azerite levels. you have 800-1200 mastery from those traits alone. This does not diminish the value of mastery. it does however explode the value of crit and versatility. given that, for the most part, every class has the same "you dont want to just stack one stat, as, as all your stats improve, so does the value of the others" so because this trait gives a great amount of mastery (tbh it should easily put you over 30-35% mastery). this level of mastery would mean with 20% dodge your first attack hit, makes your dodge 50%, and the second hit makes it 80%, and the third in a row, makes it 110% guaranteed 4th hit dodge. Blackout strike which you keep ON COOLDOWN, every 3 seconds you get a free stack to your mastery as well. so effectively, over 30% mastery you are looking more at the attack power bonus, than you are at the dodge bonus.

In layman's terms you'd want all your peices to be vers over crit, (not crit over vers because your cloak and neck do not have vers at all ) for all your peices, because you have plenty of base-line agility, and you have enough mastery from azerite traits.

Celestial fortune is indeed RNG, however lets say you have 30% crit. and 20% vers. and your healer hits you for three 100k heals. one of which procs celestial fortune. with your vers it turns into 78k self healing. the math says, that on average this is a 26% increase to all healing taken. as your crit goes up, and your vers goes up, this number explodes.

Brewmaster Monk Stat Priority - Midnight

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