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Windwalker Monk Essences for the Heart of Azeroth - Shadowlands 9.0.1 Shadowlands 9.0.2
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Essences are a system of power progression for the
Heart of Azeroth
, which allows you to mix and match several legendary-quality effects. In this guide, you will learn everything you need to know about the available Essences in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, how to unlock them and increase their rank, as well as how well they compare with one another and which Major and Minor powers are best for your Windwalker Monk in .
For more details about this system, please read our
Heart of Azeroth Essence Overview
, which includes new essences added in
Patch 8.3
.
This page won't be updated for Shadowlands Pre-Patch and may be out of date.
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About the Author
This guide is written and maintained by Babylonius; former moderator on MMO-Champion; current owner and administrator of the
PeakofSerenity Monk class discord
; founder and Windwalker author of the Monk Class site,
PeakofSerenity.com
and those that came before it; Windwalker main since early Mists of Pandaria, guide writer/theorycrafter/teacher for almost that whole time.
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What are Essences?
Essences are a system of power progression for the Heart of Azeroth introduced in patch 8.2. These legendary-like bonuses are unlocked through pre-determined activities including dungeons, raids, open-world activities, PvP, reputations, and achievements, and come in four ranks: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. The second and third ranks add to or improve the base effect, while the last unlocks a flashy visual. Each Essence has a unique Major and Minor power, which can be socketed into the Heart of Azeroth upon completing a short introductory questline. For more information on available Essences and the drop locations for each rank, see our
Heart of Azeroth Essences Overview Guide
.
Essences may be changed in any rested area, or by using any
type item, but the same Essence cannot be used in multiple sockets, resulting in a total of 1 Major and 4 Minor powers active at any one time. You can pre-plan and preview your Essence setup in our
Essence Calculator
.
Learn more about Essences in our Essence Overview Guide
Account-Wide Essences for Alts
While Essences have been a chore to unlock on characters until Ny'alotha, Blizzard has introduced a new system in Patch 8.3 to speed up the process of obtaining Essences for subsequent characters: Echoes of Ny'alotha! Most current activities completed, like Mythic+, PvP, or Emissaries will reward a given number of Echoes, which can be traded at MOTHER at the Chamber of Heart for a Rank 3 Essence that you have already unlocked in another toon.
Learn more about Echoes of Ny'alotha in our Guide
Windwalker Monk Essence Recommendations
Raiding
Major:
Minors:
,
, and
or
Mythic Plus
Major:
or
Minors:
,
, and
or
Horrific Visions
Major:
Minor:
,
,
World Content
Major:
Minor:
, and just about anything else you want
Windwalker Monk Essence Simulations
We have comparative simulations for each of the different Major and Minor essence powers, courtesy of SimulationCraft, Bloodmallet, and other class tools. Don't forget that this is simply an overview; you can create your own comparisons as well as combinations of different essences you have unlocked on your character using
Raidbots
Top Gear function. If you are not already familiar with Raidbots and how to use it, take a look at our
How To Guide
.
Again, this is simply an overview. Certain Essences, such as Worldvein minor, may be worse in practice on encounters with heavy movement or when you are the only player in your group using it. Reference the Essence notes and recommendations below to see how your spec can best take advantage of each individual power.
Best Windwalker Monk Major Essences
While only one Major power can be used at a time, whichever Essence is socketed into the center node of the Heart of Azeroth will also activate its Minor Power, so both effects should be taken into consideration when determining which to use. Below is information about Major Essences you should consider using when playing a Windwalker Monk.
-
Source: PvP - Honor (click for details!)
Rank 1:
.
Rank 2:
, purchase from War Coordinator NPC.
Rank 3:
, purchase from War Coordinator NPC.
Rank 4:
, purchase from War Coordinator NPC.
Use on: Just about all the time once you have Rank 3.
This essence requires a little bit of planning in Mythic Plus, but is relatively easy to use in Raids. As your damage increases, so does the size of your crits, which this further modifies. This results in this essence becoming significantly stronger as your character gets stronger.
-
Source: PvP - Conquest (click for details!)
Rank 1: Earn 500 Conquest and claim a weekly PvP War Chest.
Rank 2: Reach 1,000 Rating in Rated PvP and claim your next weekly PvP War Chest.
Rank 3: Collect
from your weekly PvP War Chest.
Rank 4: Reach Elite rank and claim your next weekly PvP War Chest.
Use on: Single Target Content; if you're sure that you can get the maximum worth out of it, which you likely cannot.
For more information about the strengths and drawbacks of this essence, check out
the article on PeakofSerenity.com
.
You will want to use it on the most injured friendly target you have available to you, as close to its 10 second cooldown as possible. It does not require your target to be healed at all to generate Chi, and passes Tiger Palm even at less than 1/10th its maximum strength. The easiest way to do this will be with a @targetoftarget, @mouseover, @focus, or @name macro in order to target the active tank since they're most likely to be missing some health.
You can use it to reach and maintain Chi at cap during Mythic Plus although, depending on the length of the pull, unless you are also maintaining SCK stacks, you'll still want to go through our normal opener, minimizing the effect of this. You'll also want to make sure its available off cooldown for as soon as you can use it to get its damage into a target.
-
Source: Mythic+ (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete a +4 Mythic dungeon in season 3.
Rank 2: Complete a +7 Mythic dungeon in season 3.
Rank 3: Combine 15
from the weekly cache.
Rank 4: Complete
.
Use on: Anytime you can hit more than 3 targets on a fight, aren't as concerned with single target damage, and aren't using an above essence.
Another straightforward essence, press it on cooldown when as many targets are lined up as best they can.
You'll want to try to find a good window of 3-4 seconds where you won't need to cast anything every 90 seconds as it does have a channel time. You'll also want to aim carefully as the beam is narrow. Finally, you want to time it for hitting the maximum amount of targets as it scales very well with multiple targets.
-
Source: Island Expeditions (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete the weekly quest
/
.
Rank 2: Combine
from island expeditions.
Rank 3: Complete the mission chain starting with "A Disturbing Rumor".
Rank 4: Complete a specific
mission.
Use on: Raid encounters where several other raid members are using it and without significant movement.
This is a really cool essence that can result in some damage for yourself and others, although you can benefit from this while just having the Minor. When run with multiple other in your raid you can maintain a very high uptime, for a lot of bonus stats.
-
Source: Mini-Visions and Uldum Accord Reputation (click for details!)
Rank 1:
Patch 8.3 Intro Questline
Rank 2:
Combine 3
obtained from the Weekly Mini-Vision quest.
Rank 3:
Purchase from the Uldum Accord after becoming
Exalted
for 50
Rank 4:
Randomly obtained from
- Uldum Accord Paragon reputation.
Use on: When you, for some reason, don't have one of the above options.
This is a really fun essence that can be used carefully by a skilled player to get a ton of cooldown reduction and extra damage. Its likely that this can be incredibly strong in the right hands.
-
Source: Azshara's Eternal Palace (click for details!)
Rank 1: Combine 9
.
Rank 2: Combine 18
.
Rank 3: Combine 27
.
Rank 4: Defeat Queen Azshara on Mythic difficulty.
Use on: Single target content once you reach Rank 3. The 3% damage bonus during its uptime is very important to its strength.
This is a very easy to use Essence that can be pretty strong. There's not much to it, just use it on cooldown. Ideally you use it on pull or a few seconds before any other big cooldowns.
-
Source: Heart of Azeroth level (click for details!)
Rank 1:
.
Rank 2: Neck level 54 and
.
Rank 3: Neck level 60 and
.
Rank 4: Neck level 70 and
.
Use on: Single target if you don't have, or if you're going to just miss getting another use out of,
due to fight timings.
This essence is straightforward, just press it on cooldown as long as the target doesn't currently have the debuff from a previous use.
-
Use on: Multi-target if you don't have
or struggle to line the targets up.
This essence is heavily dependent on how you use it, if you're able to get lucky with the auto-kills or correctly time targets dying to take advantage of the damage bonus that you get.
-
Source: Nazjatar Reputation (click for details!)
Rank 1: Honored, purchase for 10
.
Rank 2: Revered, purchase for 25
.
Rank 3: Exalted, purchase for 50
.
Rank 4: Nazjatar reputation Paragon cache.
Like
, it is difficult for Windwalker to take advantage of this essence due to very low reliance on Crit.
-
Source: Nazjatar Bodyguards (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete
/
.
Rank 2: Complete
/
.
Rank 3: Obtain
/
.
Rank 4: Obtain
/
.
This essence gives us resources that can be difficult to spend due to having both Energy and Chi to worry about. In AOE situations where you can more easily dump resources it will be much easier to use, but still not overly strong in sustained situations.
-
Source: Operation Mechagon (click for details!)
Rank 1: Defeat King Mechagon.
Rank 2:
from King Mechagon and craft
.
Rank 3: Combine 4
, dropped by King Mechagon.
Rank 4: Obtain
.
Its strength heavily depends on the timing and frequency of its proc. Generally its not going to be very useful.
-
Source: Horrific Visions (click for details!)
Rank 1:
Defeat Alleria or Thrall and loot the end-of-run Cursed Chest in Horrific Visions.
Rank 2:
Complete the Lost Areas (Tier II) and loot the end-of-run Chests in Horrific Visions.
Rank 3:
Combine 45
obtained from end-of-run Corrupted (Tier III) and Lost (Tier II) Chests.
Rank 4:
Complete the
Achievement.
Can be useful if it helps raid members to get more damage and frequency out of their majors, but its use is very niche and there are better choices.
-
Source: Ny'alotha Raid (click for details!)
Rank 1:
Combine 15
, obtained from Prophet Skitra, Ra'den the Despoiled, Vexiona, Il'gynoth, N'zoth the Corruptor
Rank 2:
Combine 30
, obtained from Prophet Skitra, Ra'den the Despoiled, Vexiona, Il'gynoth, N'zoth the Corruptor
Rank 3:
Combine 60
, obtained from Prophet Skitra, Ra'den the Despoiled, Vexiona, Il'gynoth, N'zoth the Corruptor
Rank 4:
Mythic: N'zoth
Windalker has access to enough essences to choose from, its not likely that you'll need to borrow someone else's essence power.
-
Source: World PvP (click for details!)
Rank 1: Complete
/
.
Rank 2: Obtain
.
Rank 3: Collect
from weekly Call to Arms quests.
Rank 4: Obtain
.
This essence is really bad, and it should feel bad.
Best Windwalker Monk Minor Essences
Two additional Minor Essence slots can be unlocked over time, providing additional benefit. While the above rankings already detailed several minor bonuses, the rankings below consider only the Minor or how it might interact when using it alongside a different Major Essence. Anything not listed is currently considered undesirable or has no noteworthy interaction.
-
Use on: All the time.
This minor is very strong and the corruption reduction helps you gain even more damage.
-
Use on: Anytime others are using it and there's limited movement.
This is one that you can actively help your allies around you, and they can help you. It will be super easy for Melee to keep it up just about 100% of the time with just 2-3 people using the Major and the rest using the Minor. The strength of this minor does struggle to keep up if you're constantly moving.
-
Use on: Anytime you're not using it for a Major
At Rank 2 or higher you're able to maintain the stacks with ease, giving a big chunk of Versatility. Chances are, you'll be using this as a Major most of the time anyway.
-
After the buffs this received, coupled with limited availability of Crit on Nyalotha gear, this becomes a very strong minor.
-
Use on: Single target situations
In single target situations, this minor is very strong. It continuously pumps out a lot of damage without any management.
-
Use on: Whenever there’s multiple targets to hit, especially if they’re Aberrations.
This does decent levels of damage that scale nicely with multiple targets.
-
Use on: Any instanced content
The Minor can be strong, and be one you might want to have almost all the time, specially in longer fights or Mythic Plus.
-
Use on: Any time
This is a very easy to use Essence and can be pretty strong if you get the bonus damage at a good time. Overall a nice essence to have.
-
Use on: Single Target
Windwalkers can make use of some Haste, and as long as you won't drop your stacks, its better than nothing.
-
Although the Major is strong, and the Major and Minor are strong together, but by itself, there are better Minors to use.
-
If you thought the Major was bad, this Minor is worse.
-
Windwalker is already struggling to spend all our resources, getting half them back randomly without any control won't make it any easier.
-
Can be useful in very specific circumstances, but there are generally much better options for each scenario.
-
Can be useful in very specific circumstances, but there are generally much better options for each scenario.
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