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 Chi Burst 2 Keg Smash 3 Invoke Niuzao, the Black OxOff-GCD 4 Breath of Fire 5 Keg Smash 6 Breath of Fire 7 Keg Smash 8 Breath of Fire 9 Exploding Keg 10 Keg Smash 11 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 12 Breath of Fire 13 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 14 Blackout Kick 15 Keg Smash

1 Keg Smash 2 Invoke Niuzao, the Black OxOff-GCD 3 Light's Potential 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 14 Tiger Palm 15 Keg Smash

1 Keg Smash 2 Invoke Niuzao, the Black OxOff-GCD 3 Light's Potential 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 12 Keg Smash 13 Blackout Kick 14 Breath of Fire 15 Tiger Palm

#showtooltip Keg Smash
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox
/cast Keg Smash

Ability	Top-player CPM
Keg Smash	10.9
Blackout Kick	10.9
Breath of Fire	10.5
Tiger Palm	10.5
Purifying BrewOff-GCD	6.0
Celestial Infusion	1.9
Chi Burst	1.4
RollOff-GCD	1.3
Exploding Keg	0.9
Expel Harm	0.9
Black Ox BrewOff-GCD	0.7
Invoke Niuzao, the Black OxOff-GCD	0.6
Tiger's Lust	0.4
Touch of Death	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 OxOff-GCD

1 Breath of Fire 2 Blackout Kick 3 Tiger Palm 4 Keg Smash 5 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 6 Celestial Infusion 7 RollOff-GCD 8 Blackout Kick 9 Tiger Palm 10 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 11 RollOff-GCD

1 Spinning Crane Kick 2 Summon Black Ox Statue 3 Transcendence: Transfer 4 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 5 Keg Smash 6 Keg Smash 7 Breath of Fire 8 Celestial Infusion 9 Purifying BrewOff-GCD 10 Keg Smash 11 Blackout Kick

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

The Patch 12.1 Omnium Folio has five rune rows. This is what the sampled top logs actually run in each row, read from the runes' own damage, healing and buff traces. Bold = most picked. Rows 1 and 5 are procs, so their share is inferred from the traces they leave.

Row	Raid	Mythic+
Row 1	Rune of Unleashed Fire 90% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 10%	Rune of Unleashed Fire 92% Rune of Void-Touched Orbs 8%
Row 2	Rune of Self-Mending 59% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 23% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 8%	Rune of Self-Mending 69% Rune of Void-Tainted Shell 28% Rune of Lynxlike Reflexes 3%
Row 3	Rune of Lingering 100%	Rune of Lingering 100%
Row 4	Rune of the Versatile Warrior 64% Rune of Critical Power 28% Rune of Masterful Cunning 8%	Rune of the Versatile Warrior 67% Rune of Critical Power 20% Rune of Burning Haste 8% Rune of Masterful Cunning 3%
Row 5	Rune of Overload 100%	Rune of Overload 100%

The GearInsight addon shows the same table next to your own current runes and can switch every row to the recommended one in one click.

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	10.9
3	Blackout Kick	10.9
4	Breath of Fire	10.5
5	Purifying BrewOff-GCD	8.1
Z	Celestial Infusion	2.4
X	Chi Burst	1.4
C	RollOff-GCD	1.4
V	Exploding Keg	0.9
R	Expel Harm	0.9
F	Black Ox BrewOff-GCD	0.9
T	Invoke Niuzao, the Black OxOff-GCD	0.6
G	Tiger's Lust	0.4
Shift+1	Touch of Death	0.4
Shift+2	Fortifying BrewOff-GCD	0.3