Monk Windwalker Rotation & Opener

Raid 5 top logs sampled Median kill 6:07

AI coach — raid

How to play: Tiger Palm builds chi (top players: 10/min), Rising Sun Kick on cooldown always (8.9/min), Blackout Kick spends as filler (9.2/min), Fists of Fury channeled fully on cooldown (6.2/min) — and remember the combo rule: never the same ability twice in a row. Whirling Dragon Punch on refresh (2/min). Watch: never break your combo chain — it's Windwalker's core payoff; Momentum Boost (72.5% uptime) and Whirling Dragon Punch availability (69.9%), press when lit.

Real Opener Sequences — Mythic boss M2

Sample kills 2026-08-27 – 2026-09-05

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

LâyTwisting Nether · EU kill date 2026-09-03 Talents →

1

Roll 2

Tiger Palm 3

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger 4

Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 5

ZenithOff-GCD 6

Fists of Fury 7

Rising Sun Kick 8

Whirling Dragon Punch 9

Fists of Fury 10

Rising Sun Kick 11

Blackout Kick 12

Fists of Fury 13

Celestial Conduit

StyphiIllidan · US kill date 2026-09-02 Talents →

1

Tiger Palm 2

Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 3

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger 4

ZenithOff-GCD 5

Fists of Fury 6

Rising Sun Kick 7

Whirling Dragon Punch 8

Fists of Fury 9

Chi Explosion 10

Rising Sun Kick 11

Blackout Kick 12

Rushing Wind Kick 13

Fists of Fury

SîpRavencrest · EU kill date 2026-08-27 Hero talentConduit of the CelestialsTalents →

1

Tiger Palm 2

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger 3

Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 4

ZenithOff-GCD 5

Fists of Fury 6

Rising Sun Kick 7

Whirling Dragon Punch 8

Fists of Fury 9

Rising Sun Kick 10

Blackout Kick 11

Fists of Fury 12

Rushing Wind Kick 13

Tiger Palm

Burst key — from the top parses above Macro commands →

#showtooltip Tiger Palm
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Zenith
/cast Tiger Palm

A macro can fire only one global-cooldown ability per press — that is the game's limit, not ours. So a burst key is exactly: on-use trinkets + the off-GCD cooldowns top players press in their opener + one opener spell. Nothing else fits.

Off-GCD cooldowns pressed within the first 8 casts by at least 2 of the 3 sampled players, defensives and movement removed. Ends with the first on-GCD opener so everything fires in one press.

Slot 13 / 14: the data cannot tell which slot the on-use trinket sits in, so both are listed; the passive one just prints cannot use.

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Casts Per Minute — Raid Benchmark

Sample kills 2026-08-27 – 2026-09-05

Ability	Top-player CPM
Tiger Palm	11.0
Blackout Kick	7.8
Rising Sun Kick	7.6
Spinning Crane KickPassiveTriggered, not pressed — watch the buff, not the button.	6.9
Fists of Fury	6.4
Rushing Wind Kick	2.7
Whirling Dragon Punch	2.3
ZenithOff-GCD	0.9
Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD	0.7
Celestial Conduit	0.7
Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger	0.7
Unity WithinOff-GCD	0.7
Touch of KarmaOff-GCD	0.6
Roll	0.6

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.

Buff Uptimes to Watch

Buff	Top-player uptime
Rune of Masterful Cunning	86.3%
Momentum Boost	74.4%
Teachings of the Monastery	73.3%
Arcanoweave Insight	67.7%
Halazzi's Rite	60.0%
Elemental Resistance	49.6%
Earthliving Weapon	49.5%
Whirling Dragon Punch	47.3%
Chi-Ji's Swiftness	42.3%
Venomcursed Haste	41.3%

Mythic+ Differences 8 top key runs sampled Median run 29:08

AI coach — Mythic+

How to play: Slot Spinning Crane Kick into the combo chain on packs — the no-repeat rule still applies (Hit Combo at 97.3%). Channel Fists of Fury into the pack. Target swaps don't break your combo — swap to priority targets freely. Watch: that the combo buff stays up; pack size sets Crane Kick's frequency — worth chaining at 3+ targets.

Real AoE Opener — First Trash Pack

Sample kills 2026-09-02 – 2026-09-05

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.

XaehyunMok'Nathal · US kill date 2026-09-04 pull Defier Draghar · 31 enemies Hero talentConduit of the CelestialsTalents →

1

Roll 2

Tiger Palm 3

Roll 4

Rising Sun Kick 5

Tiger Palm 6

Blackout Kick 7

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger 8

Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 9

ZenithOff-GCD 10

Fists of Fury 11

Chi Explosion 12

Rising Sun Kick 13

Whirling Dragon Punch

ShakyaaIllidan · US kill date 2026-09-04 pull Defier Draghar · 24 enemies Talents →

1

Tiger Palm 2

Chi Explosion 3

Tiger Palm 4

Roll 5

Blackout Kick 6

Tiger Palm 7

Chi Explosion 8

Tiger Palm 9

Chi Explosion 10

Tiger Palm 11

Fortifying BrewOff-GCD 12

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger

ShakyaaIllidan · US kill date 2026-09-03 pull Bribed Captain · 38 enemies Talents →

1

Tiger Palm 2

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger 3

Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 4

ZenithOff-GCD 5

Fists of Fury 6

Chi Explosion 7

Rising Sun Kick 8

Fists of Fury 9

Whirling Dragon Punch 10

Chi Explosion 11

Zenith Stomp 12

Touch of KarmaOff-GCD 13

Fortifying BrewOff-GCD

Burst key — from the top parses above Macro commands →

#showtooltip Tiger Palm
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Zenith
/cast Tiger Palm

A macro can fire only one global-cooldown ability per press — that is the game's limit, not ours. So a burst key is exactly: on-use trinkets + the off-GCD cooldowns top players press in their opener + one opener spell. Nothing else fits.

Off-GCD cooldowns pressed within the first 8 casts by at least 1 of the 3 sampled players, defensives and movement removed. Ends with the first on-GCD opener so everything fires in one press.

Slot 13 / 14: the data cannot tell which slot the on-use trinket sits in, so both are listed; the passive one just prints cannot use.

Real Single-Target Opener — First Boss

Sample kills 2026-09-02 – 2026-09-05

XaehyunMok'Nathal · US kill date 2026-09-04 pull Melidrussa Chillworn Hero talentConduit of the CelestialsTalents →

1

Rising Sun Kick 2

Tiger Palm 3

Chi Explosion 4

Blackout Kick 5

Tiger Palm 6

ZenithOff-GCD 7

Fists of Fury 8

Chi Explosion 9

Rushing Wind Kick 10

Rising Sun Kick 11

Fists of Fury 12

Whirling Dragon Punch 13

Zenith Stomp

ShakyaaIllidan · US kill date 2026-09-04 pull Melidrussa Chillworn Talents →

1

Chi Explosion 2

Tiger Palm 3

Chi Explosion 4

Tiger Palm 5

Blackout Kick 6

Tiger Palm 7

Blackout Kick 8

Leg Sweep 9

Rushing Wind Kick 10

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger 11

Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD 12

ZenithOff-GCD 13

Fists of Fury

ShakyaaIllidan · US kill date 2026-09-03 pull Kystia Manaheart Talents →

1

Chi Explosion 2

Roll 3

Blackout Kick 4

Tiger Palm 5

ZenithOff-GCD 6

Fists of Fury 7

Chi Explosion 8

Rising Sun Kick 9

Whirling Dragon Punch 10

Chi Explosion 11

Fists of Fury

Burst key — from the top parses above Macro commands →

#showtooltip Chi Explosion
/cast Zenith
/cast Chi Explosion

A macro can fire only one global-cooldown ability per press — that is the game's limit, not ours. So a burst key is exactly: on-use trinkets + the off-GCD cooldowns top players press in their opener + one opener spell. Nothing else fits.

Off-GCD cooldowns pressed within the first 8 casts by at least 2 of the 3 sampled players, defensives and movement removed. Ends with the first on-GCD opener so everything fires in one press.

Casts Per Minute — Mythic+ Benchmark

Sample kills 2026-09-02 – 2026-09-05

Ability	Top-player CPM
Tiger Palm	9.6
Spinning Crane KickPassiveTriggered, not pressed — watch the buff, not the button.	8.5
Rising Sun Kick	6.1
Fists of Fury	5.6
Blackout Kick	4.8
Rushing Wind Kick	2.1
Whirling Dragon Punch	1.9
Zenith Stomp	1.5
Roll	1.0
ZenithOff-GCD	0.8
Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger	0.6
Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD	0.6
Celestial Conduit	0.6
Touch of Death	0.4

Mythic+ Buff Uptimes

Buff	Top-player uptime
Hit Combo	97.1%
Vivacious Vivification	90.6%
Skyfire Heel	86.7%
Teachings of the Monastery	77.8%
Yu'lon's Grace	69.4%
Momentum Boost	66.7%
Arcanoweave Insight	63.0%
Combat Wisdom	41.4%
Whirling Dragon Punch	37.8%
Blackout Kick!	36.2%

Spec macros · 12.1 5 macros

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.

Spell names below are shown in this site's language — . Your game client must use the same language, or the macro will say unknown spell.

Detox (mouseover)

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

Dispels the mouseover ally, otherwise your target

Tiger's Lust (mouseover)

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

Frees the mouseover ally, otherwise your target

Tiger Palm without cancelling channels

#showtooltip Tiger Palm
/cast [nochanneling][channeling:Spinning Crane Kick] Tiger Palm

Spam safely during Fists of Fury / Crackling Jade Lightning / Celestial Conduit; same pattern works for any filler

Whirling Dragon Punch / Strike of the Windlord (one key)

#showtooltip [known:392983] Strike of the Windlord; Whirling Dragon Punch
/stopmacro [channeling:Fists of Fury]
/stopmacro [channeling:Celestial Conduit]
/cast [known:152175] Whirling Dragon Punch
/cast [known:392983] Strike of the Windlord

Both talents on one bind, will not clip your channels

Zenith + trinket + potion

#showtooltip Zenith
/use [pet][known:450615]13
/use [mod:shift,pet][mod:shift,known:450615]item:245898
/use [mod:shift,pet][mod:shift,known:450615]item:241308
/cast Zenith

Trinket in slot 13 fires with Zenith; hold Shift to also pop the potion (item IDs are the current tier's potions, replace if yours differ)

Keybind suggestion by casts per minute

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	11.0
`2`	Blackout Kick	7.8
`3`	Rising Sun Kick	7.6
`4`	Fists of Fury	6.4
`5`	Rushing Wind Kick	2.7
`Z`	Whirling Dragon Punch	2.3
`X`	Zenith Stomp	1.5
`C`	Roll	1.0
`V`	ZenithOff-GCD	0.9
`R`	Voracious Heart of Ula'tekOff-GCD	0.7
`F`	Celestial Conduit	0.7
`T`	Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger	0.7
`G`	Unity WithinOff-GCD	0.7
`Shift+1`	Touch of KarmaOff-GCD	0.6
`Shift+2`	Touch of Death	0.4
—	Spinning Crane KickPassiveTriggered, not pressed — watch the buff, not the button.	8.5

Monk Windwalker Rotation & Opener

Real Opener Sequences — Mythic boss M2

Casts Per Minute — Raid Benchmark

Buff Uptimes to Watch

Real AoE Opener — First Trash Pack

Real Single-Target Opener — First Boss

Casts Per Minute — Mythic+ Benchmark

Mythic+ Buff Uptimes

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