Playstyle & Rotation
Mistweaver has a straightforward playstyle of keeping your abilities on cooldown at all times throughout a fight. Heavily favoring knowing what mechanics and damage patterns are coming up in an encounter to prepare accordingly with your major cooldowns Invoke Yul’lon, the Jade Serpent, or Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane, and Revival.
Rising Sun Kick and Rushing Wind Kick are interchangeable with some differences in their interactions. Wherever a tooltip specifies Rising Sun Kick it will also work for Rushing Wind Kick. The same goes for Vivify and Sheilun's Gift. Rushing Wind Kick and Vivify see more play in raid, while Rising Sun Kick and Sheilun’s Gift are generally used in Mythic+ content.
General Mistweaver rules to live by:
- Vivify if someone is at risk of dying
- Keep Renewing Mist and Rising Sun Kick on cooldown at all times.
- Thunder Focus Tea whenever it’s available
- Don’t use all of your high impact cooldowns at the same time. There’s no need to use Revival and Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane/Invoke Yul’lon, the Jade Serpent at the same time for healing purposes.
- Make sure to use Mana Tea whenever there’s time for it
- Fill in any remaining time with Blackout Kick and Tiger Palm
This ends up with a playstyle where you’ll constantly press something; if it's not healing abilities you’re going to press damage abilities to trigger resets of Rising Sun Kick, which helps you maintain uptime on Renewing Mist.
After using Thunder Focus Tea, you’ll get a proc of Zen Pulse if talented into Deep Clarity that can be triggered through Vivify. This proc is available for an extended time, so you can hold off on Vivifying until there’s incoming raid damage or if there’s no good healing target for Vivify. Just don't hold off for too long, as you want to keep using Vivify after every Rushing Wind Kick.
Conduit of the Celestial
Use your Thunder Focus Tea whenever possible on Renewing Mist as that gives you a longer duration Renewing Mist and the interaction between Heart Jade Serpent and Flowing Wisdom.
Using Celestial Conduit gives you cooldown reduction for a limited time on Rushing Wind Kick and Renewing Mist. Alternate between casting the two spells to further reduce the cooldown of either of the two. This creates a ramping style where you, in a short timespan, increase your number of Renewing Mists on the raid, which can then be healed through Zen Pulse from your use of Thunder Focus Tea.
Other than that, there’s nothing really that changes your playstyle when using Conduit of the Celestial hero talents. The tree puts everything else in your toolkit of healing spells into overdrive when you trigger it actively through Celestial Conduit, Unity Within, and Heart Of The Jade Serpent.
Master of Harmony
Keep in mind that Master of Harmony focuses more on damage in Mythic+ than healing. In comparison to a Conduit of the Celestial build, you will have less healing for your group without access to the extra healing cooldown Celestial Conduit brings. If you feel like you’re missing healing in your keystones, don’t be afraid to change your hero talent tree to Conduit of the Celestials for that extra healing cooldown.
This build plays the same way you would play Conduit of the Celestials in Mythic+. The difference being that you press Thunder Focus Tea to proc Aspect Of Harmony healing and damage increase. Most of your healing will still come from Ancient Teachings, which heavily synergizes with Aspect Of Harmony for a healing increase.
Aspect Of Harmony has a vitality storing function in which healing and damage you do get stored as vitality that can be accessed later on through using Thunder Focus Tea. This same vitality can also be used for increasing your healing later on.
The healing component of Aspect Of Harmony is triggered on your group whenever there’s health missing on someone, and you’ve activated your Aspect of Harmony effect through Thunder Focus Tea.
Most of these effects are passive and will happen throughout an encounter without any special interactions. Keep healing your group and damaging the boss, and you’ll take advantage of the hero talent tree passively along the way.
Cooldown Usage
Invoke Yu’lon, the Jade Serpent / Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane
Your celestial will be up for 12 or 25 seconds, depending on if you’ve talented into Gift of the Celestials or not. If playing the longer duration, it’s inefficient to spam cast Enveloping Mist. Improvise your rotation depending on what your raid or group needs during your Celestial window. Below you’ll find a set of recommendations regarding the two celestial options.
For Raid environments, you’ll be using Invoke Yu’lon, the Jade Serpent, and always start with this cast sequence:
- Use Thunder Focus Tea with Renewing Mist for the extra haste you gain from Secret Infusion. Keep in mind that Secret Infusion is always active so if you already have haste you can skip using Thunder Focus Tea if you don’t wanna proc Spiritfont.
- Invoke Yu’lon, the Jade Serpent
- Enveloping Mist 2 times
- Renewing Mist
- Rushing Wind Kick to extend your Renewing Mist and Enveloping Mist through Rising Mist
- Use your instant Vivify cast from Vivacious Vivifaction
- Repeat from Step 2
In a Mythic+ setting you’ll be using Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane which generally follows this cast sequence:
- Use Thunder Focus Tea with Enveloping Mist for the extra versatility from Secret Infusion. This will also trigger Spiritfont.
- Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane
- Use as many instant casts of Enveloping Mist you need to cover your group
- Rising Sun Kick to transfer damage to healing through Jadefire Teachings.
- Blackout Kick using the 4 stacks of Teaching of the Monastery you gained from Invoking Chi-Ji and the talent Celestial Harmony
- Use Rising Sun Kick again if it was reset from the Blackout Kick
- Sheilun's Gift or Enveloping Mist anyone in need of direct healing.
- Tiger Palm and Blackout Kick to build stacks of Teaching of the Monastery that can be used to get resets on Rising Sun Kick cooldown.
Revival
In a Mythic+ group Revival is great for instantly topping everyone's health and removing any harmful effects. Due to reduced scaling beyond 5 targets Revival doesn’t really do that much healing in a raid environment. However it has always been great at dealing with raidwide dispels when needed.
If a raid encounter requires you to not accidentally dispel Magic effects make sure to talent into Restoral.
Life Cocoon
As an external Life Cocoon is not that great, as it doesn’t bring any damage reduction, it only acts as a damage absorption. Great for clutch saves of someone at the risk of dying or when you need to increase the effective max hp of your tank. If talented in Refreshment, you should make sure to use Life Cocoon on cooldown when in a raid to get Mana Tea stacks.
Defensives
Fortifying Brew, your primary defensive on a 2 minute cooldown. Used for high damage events as it both increases your max hp and your damage reduction. Can be paired with Expeditious Fortification to make it a 1.5minute cooldown.
Jade Sanctuary, while channeling Celestial Conduit you gain damage reduction.
Diffuse Magic, adds a passive effect to Fortifying Brew returning any harmful effects to its original caster. This rarely sees any play as a talent as most spells outside of PVP don’t interact with Diffuse Magic and cant be returned.
Yu’lon’s Grace, passive magic absorb shield that stacks in combat. Great passive reduction for your overall damage intake.
Martial Instincts, grants you Avoidance which will also help in reducing the overall damage intake from Area of Effect spell damage (spells not directly targeting you).
Flow of Chi, reduces your damage taken by 5% while your heath is between 35% to 90% of your maximum hp.
Chi Warding, passive heal on yourself whenever you take magic damage.
Dance of the Wind, stacking physical damage reduction until you receive a physical attack. Great passive for mechanics where you take a large physical hit occasionally allowing the talent to stack up in between hits.
Elusive Mists, gives 6% damage reduction to your target of Soothing Mist. This interaction also works with Soothing Mist from Spiritfont.
Utility
- Tiger’s Lust - increases your target's movement speed and it also removes roots and snares. Can be used on yourself and others.
- Roll - your primary mobility spell which rolls you towards the direction you’re moving. Together with Lighter Than Air you can easily roll and dash towards any location you need to reach in a short time.
- Transcendence - leaves a spirit under you when cast. Using Transcendence: Transfer will teleport you back to the spirit.
- Detox - your dispel for any Magic effects. If talented into Improved Detox you can also dispel poison and disease effects.
Crowd Control
- Ring of Peace and Song of Chi-Ji share a talent choice node. Ring Of Peace places a ring on the ground that can be used to knock away enemies or prevent them from entering the circle. Song Of Chi-Ji can be used to disorient enemies, however it will put you in combat.
- Paralysis - used to incapacitate a target for 1 minute, if used on max range you’ll not get into combat with the target. Can also be paired with Pressure Points to remove enrage effects from its target.
- Leg Sweep - stuns all enemies in a 6 yard circle around you for 3 seconds. When paired with Tiger Tail Sweep this range increases to a total of 10 yards around you.