Mistweaver Monk Talents Guide

Patch 11.0.5 Last Updated: 26th Nov, 2024
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This build focuses around the spreading of Renewing Mist and its interaction with Zen Pulse after using Thunder Focus Tea. Remember to always use Rising Sun Kick on cooldown as it extends the duration of your existing Renewing Mists while also healing targets that currently have Renewing Mist or Enveloping Mist on them.

Your main cooldown Invoke Yu’lon, the jade serpent is a 3 minute cooldown reduced by triggering Gust of Mists. If played well you should be able to reduce it to a 2 minute cooldown which works for several of the raid bosses in War Within.

Most of your healing will come from using Vivify and its trigger of Invigorating Mists. Do keep in mind that because Invigorating Mists has reduced effectiveness beyond 5 targets you’ll want to make sure you don’t have too many Renewing Mists out at the same time. A good number of Renewing Mists to aim for is around 8 to 10 as it makes Invigorating Mists still somewhat effective.

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I highly recommend playing Rising Mist instead as it performs better. Do keep in mind that Tear of the Morning will use more mana and you might find yourself out of mana long before the boss is dead. In the end it's up to you as a player to choose what you feel comfortable with and want to play.

A few points within the capstone section can be altered. Unison can be swapped for either Legacy of Wisdom or Chrysalis. Unison is the highest throughput talent out of the three options, however the others are competitive and may suit certain situations better.

Peer Into Peace is a fantastic talent which was added in Dragonflight. It is designed to help redistribute our immense overhealing. This means that there is some finesse in deciding whether to continue overhealing an individual, to benefit your raid healing, or if it is necessary to swap targets to save another player. Generally, our ramp has now become much faster, as all of your Enveloping Mist casts are instant.

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A few class talent nodes have been altered for this build, as they are incredibly valuable in Mythic+.

If you would prefer to DPS, then Shaohao Lessons can be chosen. Generally, however, I would recommend Veil of Pride, especially in higher key levels.

Jadefire Stomp is the activator of Ancient Teachings. To ensure a Jadefire Stomp reset, you can stand in an old Jadefire Stomp and use Chi Burst on enemies. This is rarely needed anymore as the cooldown was lowered on Jadefire Stomp in The War Within, but if you do find yourself needing a reset use Chi Burst. Make sure to always keep this buff up as much as possible as it’s your main healing.

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Playstyle is close to the same as Celestial of Conduit raid build. Spread your Renewing Mists and Vivify for main healing. Make sure you use Rising Sun Kick and other core rotational spells and abilities.

The main difference to our other raid builds is that you actively have to use Thunder Focus Tea to benefit from your stored vitality in Aspect of Harmony. Make it a habit to always press Thunder Focus Tea right before damage events in raid to increase your healing output.

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Play this build the same way you would play Conduit of the Celestials in Mythic+. Difference being that you press Thunder Focus Tea to proc Aspect of Harmony healing increase. Most of your healing will still come from Jadefire Stomp and Ancient Teachings which heavily synergises with Aspect of Harmony for both damage and healing increase.

Class Talents

These talents are what I’d generally recommend for most content. The following talents are mandatory talents in the class tree for Mistweaver: Save Them All, Vivacious Vivification, Chi Proficiency, and Calming Presence.

In general, most of your other talent choices will be made based on what you, the group, or the content you are playing requires. Some talent points can be adjusted depending on the type of content that you intend to do (e.g., Soothing Mist can be dropped for a Rising Mist centric raid build). Diffuse Magic will often be far more helpful in Mythic+ compared to Yu’lon’s Grace, which is recommended for raiding (although it can have niche uses in Mythic+, as it scales off of maximum health).

Hero Talents

With The War Within Mistweaver two Hero Talent trees were added to Mistweaver, Conduit of the Celestials and Master of Harmony.

Conduit of the Celestials

Celestial Conduit

This tree focuses around the new Hero Talent Conduit of the Celestials which is a strong channeling AoE heal and damage talent on a 90 second cooldown. Make sure to pair it with Shaohao’s Lessons if talented into it for even stronger healing on your group.

Heart of the Jade Serpent

Heart of the Jade Serpent - After consuming 10 stacks of Sheilun’s Gift (20 if using Veil of Pride) you’ll receive a cooldown reduction on several of your abilities. The buff in itself doesn’t really have that much of an impact to your healing. However it does receive the 200% extra effectiveness from Unity Within so you have the option of intentionally triggering Heart of the Jade Serpent after using Celestial Conduit to make your Rising Sun Kick and Renewing Mist cooldown very short.

Courage of the White Tiger

Courage of the White Tiger has a chance to proc passively from your Tiger Palm and Vivify. When it procs, Xuen will damage your target and and heal a nearby ally based on how much damage was done. You will also receive a stack of the buff Strength of the Black Ox.

You can guarantee a proc of this talent after using your Yu’lon or Chi-Ji cooldown.

Strength of the Black Ox

Strength of the Black Ox is an active buff allowing you to cast your Enveloping Mist faster and it also grants an absorb shield to allies around your Enveloping Mist target. The buff is consumed on casting Enveloping Mist until the next time you gain one from Courage of the White Tiger. So keep weaving in those Enveloping Mists on your group whenever you receive the buff.

Flight of the Red Crane

The intention of Flight of the Red Crane is to give you a stack of Mana Tea and doesn’t really impact your healing as the heal is so small. Also grants you 2% haste through the interaction with Inner Compass.

Inner Compass

Inner Compass is a flat percentage stat buff that cycles between your four secondary stats depending on which celestial last helped you.

Unity Within

Unity Within is your keystone talent at the bottom of the Hero Talent tree. At the end of your Celestial Conduit channel you’ll call upon all of your celestials at an increased effectiveness. Take note that you can end your Celestial Conduit channel early intentionally if you want this effect directly.

Master of Harmony

This tree focuses around the storage of vitality through your damage and healing spells. This stored vitality can then be used to deal additional healing or damage through the active decision of using Thunder Focus Tea.

Most parts of our hero talent tree are passives and you don’t really have to put much thought into it. Below are some comments regarding our hero talents' more impactful parts.

Aspect of Harmony

10% of your damage dealt and 30% of your healing is stored as vitality. Keep in mind that overhealing is reduced when storing vitality so there’s no use in intentionally overhealing someone. For 10 seconds after using Thunder Focus Tea your stored vitality will be used to make your spells do 40% additional healing over 8 sec.

Purified Spirit and Harmonic Gambit

Purified Spirit can act as a passive way to empty your stored vitality at the end of your Aspect of Harmony window. However you’re most likely going to use Harmonic Gambit as it synergises better with our playstyle of using our melee damage abilities for healing.

Path of Resurgence and Way of a Thousand Strikes

Due to our playstyle of actively pressing Rising Sun Kick as much as possible you’ll want to pick Way of a Thousand Strikes on this choice node. It synergises a lot better than actively having to press Chi Burst for Path of Resurgence procs.

Balanced Stratagem

This passive ability has no large impact on your healing or damage. Actively trying to pursue 5 stacks for a specific moment won’t really help you as a Mistweaver as we’re constantly pressing both our physical abilities and healing spells interchangeably. Consider this as a buff to your damage and healing that passively acts in the background.

Mantra of Purity and Mantra of Tenacity

Neither of the choices have any large impact on your playstyle, survivability or healing. Pick whichever option suits you best. Recommendation is picking Mantra of Purity as it’s increased healing, even if it’s a small amount.

Coalescence

Our last part of the hero talent tree acts as a healing and damage increase by actively targeting players and enemies that are affected by Aspect of Harmony being spread. Don’t put too much thought into this as in Mythic+ this will interact passively for you while playing. For raid your priority is to heal whoever’s missing health and not who’s got Aspect of Harmony on them at the moment.