Mistweaver Monk Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Mistweaver Monk Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Rising Sun Kick deals 30% increased damage and Rushing Wind Kick’s healing is increased by 100%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Rising Sun Kick and Rushing Wind Kick have a chance to cause their next cast to ignore their cooldown and have their mana cost reduced by 100%.

Tier Set Discussion:

This initially was looking like it was going to be a great tier set for Mistweaver with the focus on increasing our casts of Rising Sun Kick or Rushing Wind Kick. However after several rounds of PTR testing the current state of the tier set is sadly outperformed by our season 1 tier set numerically.

Until either the Season 1 Tier Set is nerfed or Season 2's Tier Set is buffed, or we see other impactful changes it doesn’t hold that much of a value for early raiding progress. As we reach higher ilvl on our pieces there’s still a point to be made about swapping your tier set for the increased stamina.

You should prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Mistweaver Monk, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Pair any of the following trinkets together from raid or Mythic+.

Trinkets from Raids

Wavecaller's Seastone - Haste stat trinket that grants intellect throughout the fight. Great option for a passive stats increase throughout an encounter.

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - Random stat procs are still somewhat decent for a mistweaver as we’re constantly pressing something and our overall healing is constantly going on.

Hex Lord's Dooming Idol - Haste trinkets are always great for mistweaver. However this one comes at the cost of lowering your overall intellect which is not that great for constant HPS in a raid environment. It could see play where you actively need a large boost of intellect for a specific mechanic with your cooldowns.

Preternatural Antivenom - Critical strike trinket without main stats, however with the playstyle of monk healing spreading heals on everyone in raid constantly this will have no issue triggering its trinket effect on whomever would need it. Tuning is a bit low on the trinket making it worse than other available options, including trinkets from Mythic+.

Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel - This will most likely be your go to trinket for Mythic+ as it grants an on demand 5 man damage absorption on a 2 minute cooldown. It also does great in raid overall as one of your best-in-slot trinkets.

Trinkets from Mythic+

Unstable Felheart Crystal - Pairing this on-use single target damage absorption trinket on a 2 minute cooldown with the other 2 minute trinket (Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel) gives you a good set of trinkets to deal with both group wide damage and single target damage incoming damage.

However, the tuning of it makes it worse than Season 1 trinket options at previous season max ilvl.

Seed Of Radiant Hope - As this trinket is on a 1 minute 30 second cooldown it won’t compete with the other 2 minute cooldown trinkets and can be paired with them. Acts as a good emergency heal on a specific target protecting them from dropping low.

It is important to keep in mind that damage absorption effects will always be stronger as it increase the effective max health of your ally.

For early progress value it’s worth crafting a 2-hand staff using just sparks and no crests, and then recrafting to mythic when you have mythic crests. If your guild doesn’t clear the entire tier on Mythic level within 8 weeks you should hold off on crafting and try and get a weapon from M+ vault instead.

One Recommended crafting order is:

1. 2-hand weapon, Aln’hara Cane. This will require 4 Spark Of Tides and can be crafted with the Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt embellishment
2. Any high intellect armor piece that’s not a tier piece slot. Waist, boots and shoulders are great options. Pair these with the Arcanoweave Lining embellishment or Adorned Fang embellishment.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

Ascendant Venomstones

Returning in Patch 12.1.5, the Ascendant Venomstone can be used to further increase the item level of fully-upgraded Weapons, Trinkets and Necklaces.

Once your item is ‘Ascendant Venomforged’ you will no longer be able to upgrade it. Items from Mythic Coiled Altar and Ula'tek will not be upgradable.

The upgrade priority is as follows:

Myth Track Weapon > Crafted Weapon > Trinkets > Offhand > Necklace

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Mistweaver Monk:

• Row 1: Rune of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune of Self Mending
• Row 3: Rune of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune of Burning Haste
• Row 5: Rune of Residual Energy

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.