Best Brewmaster Monk Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

By Llarold Updated: 2022/11/28

Conduits

Potency conduits enhance your class' throughput potential

Endurance conduits focus on your defensive toolkit, by providing things like cooldown reduction or amplification to sustain/defensive cooldowns

Finesse conduits enhance niche parts of the spec's toolkit

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Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Scalding Brew

Buffs the damage of your main damage-dealing skill, Keg Smash. This was underwhelming initially in the expansion. Thanks to the addition of the Brewmaster Monk Tier Set bonuses in Patch 9.2, this is a very good Conduit once you have unlocked the 4-piece tier set bonus. When combined with that bonus, this Conduit adds not just damage, but healing and max health, as well. Very good.

It's still a slightly annoying bonus to use compared to most others, as it requires some playstyle alteration. It's also not very good prior to unlocking the 4-piece bonus, so do not use it unless you have the 4-piece bonus.

Good bonus, requires 4-piece

Walk with the Ox

Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox is a decent all-around cooldown, and this Conduit increases his main damaging skill by a decent amount, and reduces his average cooldown by 30-40 seconds, which is very significant. It's not as consistent as buffing Keg Smash's damage, but it is by far the strongest all-around choice over the course of a raid fight or a Mythic+ run.

Note: Each tick of Spinning Crane Kick triggers the cooldown reduction, making Spinning Crane Kick worth using even in single target as a DPS increase, if the fight will last long enough for you to get another Niuzao cast off.

Best DPS gain

Adaptive Armor Fragment

Added in Patch 9.1, this is a generic Potency Conduit available to all tanks, and it's okay. More primary stat is good, and this provides a decent amount of it on relatively high uptime (~50%). Because of Scalding Brew's synergy with tier set bonuses, you should not use this once you have the 4-piece tier set bonus.

Minor stat gain

Covenant-Specific Potency Conduits

Covenant

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Kyrian

Strike with Clarity

Makes Weapons of Order last 5 seconds longer and grants a small increase to Mastery while active. The Mastery bonus is small, but everything counts. The 5 extra seconds is a good bonus, and adds on to the strongest part of your burst damage window. Fight length and burst requirements can affect its value.

This is a good bonus, but not worth using over Scalding Brew in Mythic+ or add fights if you have the 4-piece Tier Set bonus. Running this as the third potency Conduit in Mikanikos' tree is usually the best choice, and it is worth more defensively than a third Endurance Conduit.

If you don't have tier set yet, this is the #2 option.

Small burst DPS gain

Necrolord

Bone Marrow Hops

Boosts the damage dealt by Bonedust Brew by another 40% at rank 1, buffing it from a 20% damage increase while active to a 28% damage increase while active. At 278 item level and 80 Renown, it makes Bonedust Brew a 37.6% damage increase. Despite the section about cooldown reduction, that effect is capped at 2.5 seconds per Bonedust Brew cast, making it nearly worthless.

With double Legendary powers, Bonedust Brew has an average uptime over 50%, making this Conduit at 278 worth an average of around 20% more total DPS. That's really good.

Small burst DPS gain

Night Fae

Way of the Fae

Buffs the damage of Faeline Stomp in AoE. Faeline Stomp is at its best in AoE, so this is a fantastic bonus on paper. In terms of real-world impact, it's good. It's absolutely worth using, but it still winds up being a relatively small bonus. It's a much weaker option than Way of the Ox unless you are tanking sustained AoE.

Small sustained DPS gain

Great sustained DPS gain

Venthyr

Imbued Reflections

Substantially increases the damage of Fallen Order. It's kinda boring, like Fallen Order, but it's good for burst DPS -- like Fallen Order.

Good burst DPS gain

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Walk with the Ox

Bone Marrow Hops - Necrolord

Way of the Fae - Night Fae

Imbued Reflections - Venthyr

Scalding Brew

Strike with Clarity - Kyrian

Adaptive Armor Fragment

Best Endurance Conduits for Brewmaster Monks

Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Harm Denial

Increases the healing of Expel Harm, which sounds terrific, but it only increases the base heal, not the added healing from Gift of the Ox orbs. Consequently, this isn't great. It can provide the most sustained self-healing benefit throughout combat, but it's not good. It does have a very, very minor DPS benefit, but not really enough to notice.

Decent self-healing bonus

Celestial Effervescence

Adds self-healing value onto Celestial Brew, and will absolutely result in overhealing while Celestial Brew is active. The main positive is that you can pretty consistently guarantee that you will come out of Celestial Brew with full health, which is okay, but not great. This is a relatively wasteful Conduit that doesn't really do a lot.

Minor self-shielding bonus

Evasive Stride

Looks amazing on paper -- it converts damage taken into healing taken! Unfortunately, the proc rate and use case is so incredibly low, this bonus doesn't usually do anything. When tanking insanely high-level Mythic+ dungeons, it is less powerful than basic 1% Versatility racial bonuses. In raids, it virtually never procs. It's bad.

Avoid

Fortifying Ingredients

This is essentially worthless. Adding a tiny shield onto a major defensive cooldown is not appealing at all.

Avoid

Grounding Breath

Useless while actively tanking. It has potential to be slightly useful if you have to Roll out of melee range and self-heal with Vivify during Mythic+ pulls, or if you are using Corrosive Dosage in Torghast. The Energy refund has a 1 minute internal cooldown.

Avoid

Avoid/Decent but playstyle-specific

Condensed Anima Sphere

This is a new Endurance Conduit added in Patch 9.1. Despite an initially inaccurate tooltip (showed as 1/10th of its real value), this is a decent trickle of self-healing, and generally a pretty decent, if boring self-healing conduit.

Decent

Best Endurance Conduits for Brewmaster Monks for Raids

Harm Denial is the more reliable self-healing tool, and while it's not as flashy, it provides a much more steady trickle of self-healing throughout the course of a fight.

Condensed Anima Sphere is a decent trickle of self-healing, and generally worth using as a second option.

Celestial Effervescence can offer useful healing value in special situations, but it has a tendency to waste its value on overhealing, and it's tied to a ~30-second cooldown skill, as opposed to a 5-second cooldown skill, so its impact is much more spread out. Inconsistent, not great.

None of the other three options are generally very useful.

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Conduit

Description

Raid Verdict

Mythic+ Verdict

Dizzying Tumble

This actually provides more damage reduction value than any of the Endurance Conduits. Isn't that hilarious? It waits until Leg Sweep has worn off to reduce the enemy's damage, which is helpful, but it's still a very, very small defensive bonus. This is not good.

Not good

Lingering Numbness

This actually makes repositioning enemies harder. Nice for PvP, though.

Worse than nothing

Swift Transference

Tacks a tiny movement speed bonus onto a mobility cooldown.

Minor value, can help with movement

Tumbling Technique

A random, low chance to reset a mobility skill that already has a pretty short cooldown. Sounds better than it actually is.

Not great

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Comments

Comment by HyperBadger

Question, does running Charred Passions legendary make Scaling Brew much more viable as it will essentially give you 100% uptime on the breath of fire dot?

Comment by archey01

this guide is an oof my guy. You should actually play brewmaster sometime, it's a fun spec.

Comment by Boventura

It seems Healing Elixir does not get its healing increased under Celestial Effervescence. Are you aware if this is by design? In my limited testing, all healing abilities get the increase except Elixir.

I have found this page on AskMrRobot which lists Expel Harm, Gift Of The Ox, Eye Of The Tiger, Chi Wave and Chi Burst as the affected spells - Vivify is a notable absence however Vivify does gain the increased healing in my own testing.

Comment by Avalith

I disagree with listing Fortifying Ingredients as something to avoid. It's uininspiring, sure, but unlike Celestial Effervescence it arguably has more use cases. A free absorb is a free absorb, and unlike CE it's much less likely to be wasted unless you fat finger Fortifying Brew while you're not taking any damage whatsoever. They're both relatively useless in a raid setting where your healers should have zero issues keeping you topped up, but they're both solid in M+. CE's value is somewhat limited if you're running Dampen or Bob and Weave instead of Healing Elixir (which another comment has suggested doesn't even work with CE, something I've yet to be able to test).

Don't get me wrong, CE absolutely has its place, but I feel that you're overlooking the value of a free absorb that scales off of increased max health. Brewmaster conduits are hardly the greatest, but FI's definitely stronger than the guide makes it seem even if it's an incredibly lazy design and totally unappealing.

Best Brewmaster Monk Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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