Monk · DPS
Windwalker Monk rotation assistant for World of Warcraft
Combo strikes unbroken across every target the fight throws in.
Rice Rotations reads your Windwalker Monk from the game picture, decides which ability comes next, and presses the key for it from a second PC or a virtual machine. It runs on World of Warcraft Midnight retail and on Mists of Pandaria Classic, and the profile is included in the same subscription as the other thirty-nine specializations.
How the Windwalker Monk profile plays
Windwalker is a dual resource spec with a lot of buttons. Rice keeps Chi and Energy from capping, keeps the Rising Sun Kick and Blackout Kick cooldown reduction cycle turning, and spends Fists of Fury and Whirling Dragon Punch inside their windows instead of on sight.
DPS is about never wasting a global. Rice keeps your builder and spender priority correct through procs and haste changes, lines burst cooldowns up with the window they are meant for, and switches to the multi-target priority when the pull is actually stacked rather than when a timer says so.
The profile reacts to the pull instead of replaying a fixed list: interrupts fire on casts that matter, dispels go out when a debuff lands, and cooldowns are held for the burst window rather than used the moment they come up. Dozens of Windwalker Monk settings decide how aggressive or how conservative that behaviour is, so a raid night and a Mythic+ push can use different profiles of the same spec.
Cooldowns and burst windows
Storm, Earth and Fire or Serenity is opened with resources banked and Invoke Xuen lined up, so the burst is spenders only. Touch of Karma is used on incoming damage rather than as damage filler.
What the Windwalker Monk rotation handles
- Chi and Energy kept from capping
- Rising Sun Kick and Blackout Kick reduction cycle maintained
- Fists of Fury and Whirling Dragon Punch used in window
- Spear Hand Strike on interrupts, Touch of Karma and Diffuse Magic on damage
Raid, Mythic+ and the rest
Single target guards the cooldown reduction loop. On packs it moves to Spinning Crane Kick with Mark of the Crane stacks maintained, which is a bookkeeping job hands lose immediately during a big pull.
Raid nights, Mythic+ keystones, delves, world content and levelling alts. Rice Rotations is built and tuned for PvE, so there are no arena or battleground profiles. The desktop client is Windows only.
Setup and safety
Nothing is attached to the game: there is no injection, no memory reading and no unlocker. Rice runs on a second PC or a virtual machine, reads your gaming PC as a video stream and sends keystrokes back, so the machine running World of Warcraft only ever sees keyboard input arriving.
- Built and tuned for PvE. No arena or battleground profiles.
- Midnight retail is supported.
- Classic is Mists of Pandaria only, so no Era, no Wrath, no other ruleset.
Windwalker Monk questions
- Windwalker has too many buttons. Is that the point?
- Largely, yes. It is one of the highest actions-per-minute specs in the game, so an assistant that never misses a global is worth the most here.
- Does it keep Mark of the Crane stacks up?
- On multi target the profile maintains the stacks as part of the priority instead of dropping them mid pull.
Other Monk specializations
Browse every supported specialization or see what is included per spec.