Windwalker Monk Stat Priority - Midnight

By Babylonius Updated: 2026/02/25

Best Stats for Windwalker Monk

Stat Priority

Agility
Haste
Critical Strike
Mastery
Versatility

Stat Priority

Agility
Haste
Mastery
Critical Strike
Versatility

Stats ExplainedAgility

Critical Strike: Increases the chance that abilities deal 100% increased damage. With changes going into Midnight, this has become a significantly stronger secondary stat.

Haste: Increases energy regeneration, reduces cooldown of Fists of Fury, Rising Sun Kick, and Whirling Dragon Punch. After the changes made for the start of The War Within, this is a very strong secondary stat.

Mastery: Increases the damage of abilities, provided they are not a repeat of the previous cast. Even with the changes in Midnight, Mastery remains a very strong secondary stat.

Versatility: Increases all damage dealt, healing done, and reduces damage taken. Can be a good stat, but generally behind the other three.

Sim Your Windwalker Monksimming your characterRaidbots Diminishing Returns in

Critical Strike - Above 1380 rating

Haste - Above 1320 rating

Mastery - Above 1380 rating

Versatility - Above 1620 rating

Example
Let's assume you gain 1% Haste for 10 Haste Rating. When above the diminishing return breakpoint, 10 Haste Rating would give you 0.9% Haste instead, resulting in a 10% reduction from what you gained previously.
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Comments

Comment by 1145909

Stats are so confusing to me now. Don't understand how a DPS spec can value versatility over everything else. And how haste can be last when monks aren't necessarily resource capped all the time. Please explain how vers is being chosen by so many DPS specs in BfA?

Comment by Amanamanzaman

Haste is so under rated, but if you are using Invoker's Delight, it becomes highly desirable.Since every ww "guru" claims that it`s the best one for ww, than the additional haste will make it even better.
I agree with @lepigpen,we are almost never capped with our chi.There are not many, but there are enough situations where additional chi regeneration would be extremely helpful, like in raid boss fights, to justify haste as a good stat.
Also, looks like things changed from BfA.
Whenever I simed my ww in BfA, versatility was the best stat by far, but in SL, agility is much better(back to basics where the primary stat is the best),and haste outperforms versatility in each and every simulation I did.
So..gurus..pls rethink :P

Comment by Aajaay

I have a question. I'm having a problem with my agility the other day it was 1400 now it like 1338 now what is my base agility if Im windwalker at level 60? do I then add all my gear scores?

Comment by Virus2001

"Best Stats for WW Monk
For Shadowlands, you should aim for the following stat priority:
Agility > Versatility > Critical Strike = Mastery > Haste"

So what is best for DF?

Comment by shadelineheart

Ever since TWW started I've completely tanked in my DPS. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong with the rotation and SimC constantly wants me to get more Mastery than anything else even though all the guides says it's our least desired stat. Seriously, wth

Comment by Elunario

Does the tuning change from Oct 8 affect the stat priority and moves Mastery up?

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Comment by Thoridann

TWW Season 2:

Is there a diminishing return on our Stats now? What do I want my stat soft caps to look like? Does Mastery have a cap?

Comment by shadelineheart

So I'm just gonna say it; wtf is with the guide? Sitting at ilvl 233 and my highest stats are sitting at 44% mastery (510). The guide for Midnight S1 says diminishing for mastery is "Mastery - Above 1380 rating"
That math ain't mathing unless somehow I'm gonna get double the stat amounts in HC raid. Besides that, if Shadow Pan's best stats are Crit Haste, why is EVERY SIM I RUN; which is a constant NAG when asking people 'what loot do I pick?' 'JuSt SiM iT." tells me to GET MORE MASTERY AND THROW CRIT AND HASTE AWAY? So which is it. Follow this guide and focus on Crit Haste mainly until these 1000 diminishing, or SImming? Cause I'm sick of hearing one thing, reading another.

Windwalker Monk Stat Priority - Midnight

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