Mistweaver Monk The War Within 11.0.5 Guide

Patch 11.0.5 Last Updated: 26th Nov, 2024
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Introduction

Welcome to the Mistweaver Monk guide written by Tincell, part of Honolulu's raid team going into The War Within. I’ve dabbled in the likes of Discipline Priest and Holy Paladin for years of Cutting Edge progress until Mistweaver took hold of me. As a Mistweaver enjoyer my fellow guildies will never hear the end of how awesome we are for everything between Raiding, Mythic+ and outrunning every other class with our great mobility.

Mistweaver is an incredibly strong specialisation. We excel at targeted spot-healing, but are also incredible at healing a large raid group. We have a strong 1-minute cooldown, making us extremely flexible in any raid composition. This is also a great boon in Mythic+, and we have a variety of tools which make us an asset in any 5-man group.

Mistweaver is, however, quite unique from other healers. In raid, we function closest to Discipline. In M+, we are closest to a hybrid of Holy Paladin and Discipline, although with many key differences. A lot of our healing comes directly from our DPS, although we are able to pump insane amounts of healing into individuals. The fact that we are quite unique makes Mistweaver potentially quite intimidating for new players, although I’d argue it is by far the most fun healer in The War Within!

What has changed

Class tuning after 11.0.5 release

  • Courage of the White Tiger damage increased by 35%. Small buff when using Conduit of the Celestials hero talents as it will increase both damage and healing from Xuen procs.
  • All healing increased by 6%.
  • Spinning Crane Kick damage to healing transfer with Awakened Jadefire increased to 110% from previous 90%.
  • Rushing Wind Kick damage increased by 150%
  • Rushing Wind Kick increases healing over time of Renewing Mist by 100% for 4 seconds. Used to be 50% before class tuning.
  • Yu’lon’s Whisper healing increased by 400%. This changes nothing for mistweavers as the healing is too low to have any impact.
  • Jade Bond was nerfed lowering Gust of Mists healing increase to 20% from previous 60%. This change was mostly done to rein in the overperforming playstyle of using Chiji on Broodtwister.

Patch 11.0.5 changes

The War Within changes

Mistweaver has received several changes to both talent trees going into The War Within. We won’t cover every change and instead focus on the most important ones below.