Monk Brewmaster Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Keg Smash 2 Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox 3 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 4 Breath of Fire 5 Blackout Kick 6 Tiger Palm 7 Keg Smash 8 Breath of Fire 9 Blackout Kick 10 Tiger Palm 11 Keg Smash 12 Breath of Fire 13 Blackout Kick

1 Keg Smash 2 Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox 3 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 4 Blackout Kick 5 Chi Burst 6 Exploding Keg 7 Tiger Palm 8 Blackout Kick 9 Breath of Fire 10 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 11 Tiger Palm

1 Keg Smash 2 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 3 Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox 4 Breath of Fire 5 Exploding Keg 6 Empty the Cellar 7 Blackout Kick 8 Tiger Palm 9 Keg Smash 10 Breath of Fire 11 Purifying BrewOff-GCD

#showtooltip Keg Smash
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Keg Smash

Ability	Top-player CPM
Keg Smash	11.1
Blackout Kick	10.9
Tiger Palm	10.5
Breath of Fire	10.5
Purifying BrewOff-GCD	6.4
Celestial Infusion	1.9
RollOff-GCD	1.3
Exploding Keg	0.9
Expel Harm	0.9
Chi Burst	0.8
Black Ox BrewOff-GCD	0.7
Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox	0.6
Tiger's Lust	0.4
Light's PotentialOff-GCD	0.3

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Blackout Kick 2 Tiger's Lust 3 RollOff-GCD 4 Breath of Fire 5 Blackout Kick 6 RollOff-GCD 7 Keg Smash 8 Breath of Fire 9 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 10 Blackout Kick 11 Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox

1 Breath of Fire 2 RollOff-GCD 3 Keg Smash 4 RollOff-GCD 5 Celestial Infusion 6 Keg Smash 7 Blackout Kick 8 Breath of Fire 9 Tiger Palm 10 Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox 11 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD

1 Transcendence: Transfer 2 Keg Smash 3 RollOff-GCD 4 Breath of Fire 5 Blackout Kick 6 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 7 Fortifying BrewOff-GCD 8 Black Ox BrewOff-GCD 9 Tiger Palm 10 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 11 Keg Smash 12 Breath of Fire

#showtooltip Blackout Kick
/cast Purifying Brew
/cast Black Ox Brew
/cast Blackout Kick

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Detox
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Detox;Detox

#showtooltip Spear Hand Strike
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@focus,exists,harm,nodead][] Spear Hand Strike

#showtooltip Tiger's Lust
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Tiger's Lust;Tiger's Lust

#showtooltip Provoke
/cast [nomod,@mouseover,harm,nodead] Provoke
/cast [nomod] Provoke
/targetexact [mod:alt] Black Ox Statue
/cast [mod:alt] Provoke
/targetlasttarget [mod:alt,exists]

/cancelaura Blessing of Protection

#showtooltip
/cast [known:Celestial Brew] Celestial Brew
/cast [known:Celestial Infusion] Celestial Infusion

#showtooltip Keg Smash
/cast Double Barrel
/cast Keg Smash

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Tiger Palm	11.2
2	Keg Smash	11.1
3	Blackout Kick	11.1
4	Breath of Fire	10.6
5	Purifying BrewOff-GCD	7.9
Z	Celestial Infusion	2.5
X	RollOff-GCD	1.6
C	HarpoonOff-GCD	1.4
V	Chi Burst	1.3
R	Exploding Keg	0.9
F	Expel Harm	0.9
T	Black Ox BrewOff-GCD	0.9
G	Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox	0.6
Shift+1	Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD	0.6
Shift+2	Tiger's Lust	0.4
Shift+3	Fortifying BrewOff-GCD	0.4
Shift+4	Light's PotentialOff-GCD	0.3