Brewmaster Monk
Master of Harmony
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Brewmaster Monk (Master of Harmony) deals 68% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 12 of 12) and 69% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 10 of 11).
At a glance
4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · share of manual DPS kept
| Fight | Manual DPS | SBA + cooldown | SBA alone | Assisted Highlight | Rank (SBA + cooldown) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M+ dungeon | 163,504 | 67.7%−32.30% | 61.8%−38.18% | 64.8%−35.16% | 12 of 12 |
| Raid boss | 153,163 | 69.4%−30.63% | 64.3%−35.73% | 70.8%−29.18% | 10 of 11 |
What the assistant costs
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
- Manual163.5Kreference
- SBA + cooldown110.7K68% of manual
- SBA alone101.1K62% of manual
- Assisted Highlight106.0K65% of manual
Cooldowns and defensives
Cooldowns in SBA + cooldown
The button alone never presses these. In SBA + cooldown you press them on your own keys, with your potion and on-use trinket, and the simulator presses them on time.
Defensives the button never presses
Checked in game: they are not in the Single-Button Assistant's list. Press them yourself.
Best talents for the button
Our standard build is already the best we found for one-button play on a raid boss.
Best of 345 builds tested with the button on the raid boss (2026-10-22): our standard build, the 3 most played builds on Warcraft Logs for this hero talent, then every single talent swap from the best of them. Defensive talents are locked: the search never trades survival for damage.
Searched on the raid boss only: SimulationCraft does not support tanks in its dungeon fight, so AoE talents for Mythic+ are not tested.
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Where the damage comes from
M+ dungeon · 4-piece set · SimulationCraft's talents · data as of 2026-10-23 12:52 UTC
Damage per second and casts per ability, averaged over the simulated fights. Pets and summons show their own name in brackets.
| Ability | Manual | SBA + cooldown | SBA + cooldown vs manual |
|---|---|---|---|
 Tiger Palm | 16.4K10.0% · 77.3 casts | 10.8K9.8% · 51.8 casts | −5,606 |
 Blackout Kick | 14.5K8.9% · 77.8 casts | 13.6K12.3% · 75 casts | −924 |
 Harmonic Surge (Damage AoE Tiger Palm) | 14.5K8.9% | 2,0121.8% | −12.5K |
 Aspect of Harmony | 11.6K7.1% · 374.1 casts | 7,7757.0% · 151.5 casts | −3,784 |
 Keg Smash | 10.8K6.6% · 56.8 casts | 10.1K9.1% · 45.8 casts | −739 |
 Overwhelming Force (Tiger Palm) | 10.4K6.3% | 3,4573.1% | −6,912 |
| Harmonic Surge (Damage ST Tiger Palm) | 8,6565.3% | 4,4804.0% | −4,176 |
 Stomp | 8,4525.2% · 28.6 casts | 6,8356.2% · 23.1 casts | −1,617 |
 Font of Venomous Rage | 8,2535.0% · 2 casts | 3,7473.4% · 2 casts | −4,506 |
 Breath of Fire | 6,7084.1% · 57.5 casts | 5,8535.3% · 43.7 casts | −855 |
 Chi Burst | 6,0753.7% · 11.3 casts | 6,6366.0% · 10.2 casts | +561 |
 Empty Barrel | 5,4253.3% | – | −5,425 |
 Purified Spirit | 5,2003.2% · 4.2 casts | – | −5,200 |
| Overwhelming Force (Blackout Kick) | 5,0533.1% | 4,6794.2% | −374 |
 Guillotine | 4,8182.9% · 21.1 casts | 4,8784.4% · 21.1 casts | +60 |
 Touch of Death | – | 3,9053.5% · 2.8 casts | +3,905 |
| Melee (Main Hand) | 3,5872.2% · 114.9 casts | 3,6003.2% · 115.3 casts | +13 |
 Dragonfire Brew | 3,1751.9% · 105.6 casts | 3,0412.7% · 78.5 casts | −134 |
 Fuel on the Fire | 3,1641.9% | 2,2932.1% | −871 |
| Venom Splatter | 2,8201.7% | 1,4931.3% | −1,327 |
 Fiery Shrapnel | 2,5841.6% | 2,6072.4% | +23 |
 Exploding Keg | 1,8791.1% · 5.3 casts | 1,5381.4% · 2.8 casts | −341 |
| Special Delivery | 1,6231.0% · 22.5 casts | – | −1,623 |
| Stomp (Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox) | 1,6161.0% · 17.7 casts | 1,4561.3% · 17.4 casts | −160 |
| Breath of Fire (DoT) | 1,1200.7% · 130.1 casts | 1,1771.1% · 135.4 casts | +57 |
 Rune of Unleashed Fire | 1,1460.7% · 54.1 casts | 1,1551.0% · 54.7 casts | +9 |
 Aflame | 1,0890.7% | 1,1111.0% | +22 |
 Jan'alai's Flames | 1,0530.6% · 6.1 casts | 1,0641.0% · 6.1 casts | +11 |
 Empty the Cellar | 8520.5% · 4.2 casts | – | −852 |
 Spinning Crane Kick (Tick) | – | 7450.7% | +745 |
 Rune of Lingering | 3240.2% · 54.1 casts | 3360.3% · 54.7 casts | +12 |
| Melee (Main Hand) (Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox) | 3180.2% · 40.7 casts | 3180.3% · 40.9 casts | +0 |
| Exploding Keg (Proc) | 2880.2% | 1480.1% | −140 |
| Celestial Flames | 1840.1% | – | −184 |
| Expel Harm | 210.0% | – | −21 |
| Total | 163.7K | 110.8K | −52.8K |
A dash means the ability was never used in that mode. Damage is attributed the way SimulationCraft reports it, so a pet's damage appears under the pet.
Questions about Brewmaster Monk (Master of Harmony)
How much DPS does Brewmaster Monk (Master of Harmony) lose with the Single-Button Assistant?
With the Single-Button Assistant and its cooldowns, Brewmaster Monk (Master of Harmony) deals 68% of perfect manual play in M+ dungeons (rank 12 of 12) and 69% of perfect manual play on a raid boss (rank 10 of 11).
Related builds
Other hero talents of Brewmaster Monk
DPS lost with SBA + cooldown, 4-piece set, SimulationCraft's talents (a top player's build for the hero talents SimulationCraft has no profile for). All specs · Ranking
How it's measured, and its limits
- SBA + cooldown is a best case: the simulator never misplays. It is always better to sim your own character.
- Manual play is SimulationCraft's own rotation executed perfectly, so it is an upper bound for what a person can do, not a typical player.
- Assisted Highlight assumes every suggestion is seen and pressed at once, which is generous for a player reading the highlight.
- The M+ dungeon is SimulationCraft's own DungeonSlice fight style, its approximation of Mythic+ pulls, not a specific dungeon route. Nothing hits the tank there, so SimulationCraft does not support it for tanks.
- The raid boss is SimulationCraft's Patchwerk fight with a boss that hits the tank. Only damage is compared: survival is not measured.
Full method, reliability rule and patches: Sources · Simulated with SimulationCraft 1210-01 (WoW 12.1.5.70575) 710c240 +16 patches, 10,000 iterations per figure.