Mistweaver Monk Midnight Talents Guide

Currently in Midnight Conduit of the Celestial is the favoured Hero talent tree for both Raid and Mythic+. This does not stop you from playing Master of Harmony just know that Conduit of the Celestial outperforms it in all content.

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Below you’ll find some notable class talents that are really good for Mistweaver in our Monk class tree:

• Elusive Mists - 6% damage reduction on demand whenever you Soothing Mist someone might not sound like much, but it can save the day sometimes.
• Paralysis - Removes Enrage through Pressure Points talent. Can also be used to reset spellcasts on enemies that can be incapacitated if there’s no interrupt available.
• Vivacious Vivification - Instant Vivify casts after every use of Rising Sun Kick really helps your rotation feeling quick and fluid. No need to stand still casting Vivify.
• Ring of Peace - Can be used to knockback enemies or stop them from going inside the circle. Can also be used to reset spellcasts of knockable enemies if there’s no interrupt available.
• Windwalking - If you’re the only monk in your group this will be greatly appreciated as it increases movement speed in a 10 yard area around you.
• Transcendence - Has plenty of usage where you can preplan your movement. Can be used to counter knockbacks, teleport over wave mechanics and behind walls or other objects.
• Save Them All - Considered a mandatory class talent for Mistweaver as it increases your healing done to targets based on how much health they are missing.
• Celestial Determination - niche talent that makes you nearly immune to slows while your celestial is active. Can see play on some mechanics impeding you with slows allowing you to run out quickly. However at those points you usually roll out instead as slow doesn't impact it.

There are several notable talents and their interactions in the Mistweaver talent tree that you have to be aware of.

Starting with Rising Sun Kick and Rushing Wind Kick, these two can be somewhat confusing at first. If talented into Rushing Wind Kick, it will replace Rising Sun Kick. This also means that any modifiers and talents that work for Rising Sun Kick will also work for Rushing Wind Kick.

The same goes for Vivify and Sheilun’s Gift. If talented into the latter, it replaces Vivify, which also changes how Invigorating Mists work. Where, if you’re using Vivify, you cleave heal onto all targets with Renewing Mist and with Sheilun's Gift you instead have increased healing on your primary target.

There’s also the interaction of our talent Morning Breeze, where you now gain increased damage on Rising Sun Kick, the more mastery you have. Do keep in mind that mastery is generally considered a Mistweaver's worst stat for healing. So increased damage does come at the cost of less healing.

Focus Thunder sees great use when you want to spread more Renewing Mist. This does, however, have the effect that you have to use both charges before it can proc Deep Clarity and its guaranteed Zen Pulse.

The choice node of Way of the Serpent and Way of the Crane makes for an interesting selection of playstyles. Way Of The Serpent will allow you to cast Soothing Mist while moving, which is great for healing and it will also increase the healing of Vivify and Renewing Mist. Clearly, this is targeted towards a raid setting.

Way Of The Crane, on the other hand, emphasises your damage rotation, which primarily sees play in Mythic+, increasing your damage output and in connection to that, your total overall damage to healing transfer with Jadefire Teachings.

In Midnight, Mistweaver Monk gets access to the Spiritfront Apex Talent:

• Spiritfont - using Rising Sun Kick or Vivify has a chance to proc Spiritfont, which causes your next Enveloping Mist to channel Soothing Mist into 5 allies for 8 seconds.
• Spiritfont - Damage increase for Rising Sun Kick and healing increase for Enveloping Mist.
• Spiritfont - Spiritfont is activated on the use of Thunder Focus Tea and applies small Chi Cocoon to targeted allies

Of specific interest with our Apex talents are the interaction of Spiritfont’s Soothing Mist passive interaction with the talent Elusive Mists, as it does grant the damage reduction to everyone. Not that the damage reduction is high in any way, it does, however, add up in the end.

As of right now, in Midnight Season 1, Spiritfont will not start a channel of Soothing Mist onto already fully healed targets and therefore not give that target damage reduction. Something to keep in mind if you’re ever to choose when you trigger Spiritfont through Thunder Focus Tea.

Conduit of the Celestials

The hero talent tree is divided into active and passive interactions where some will require you to actively proc the effect through usage of Celestial Conduit, Thunder Focus Tea or Enveloping Mist. Throughout the tree there’s also several passive interactions of Celestials triggering granting you passive bonuses.

Celestial Conduit

Celestial Conduit is a strong channeling AoE heal and damage talent on a 90 second cooldown. This will radiate healing and damage around you and allows for movement while channeling as long as you don't cast any other abilities.

Temple Training or Xuen’s Guidance

For Mistweaver as a healer the first choice will be one taken for most encounters as Temple Training increases your Enveloping Mist, Vivify and Sheilun's Gift healing. Xuen’s Guidance would only ever be picked if you want to heavily lean into healer damage done - which rarely is a thing needed.

Niuzao’s Protection or Jade Sanctuary

In most content Jade Sanctuary is the better pick as it gives you damage reduction while channeling Celestial Conduit. There could be certain bosses or mechanics that do enough damage to make Niuzao's Protection worth picking up as it would add an absorb shield to yourself when using Fortifying Brew. However it’s generally more advantageous to have access to separate damage reduction instances instead of only one in Fortifying Brew.

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 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 Invoke Yu’lon or Invoke 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 Mist on your group whenever you receive the buff.

Restore Balance or Yu’lon’s Knowledge

This talent choice node is similar to the choice of picking Temple Training or Xuen's Guidance. If you’re leaning more towards healer damage, Yu'lon's Knowledge is preferred. If you’re in a raid environment where healing matters, Restore Balance would be the talent to pick up as it increases your healing while using your major healing ability Invoke Chi-Ji or Invoke Yu’lon cooldown.

Heart of the Jade Serpent

After using Thunder Focus Tea you’ll receive a 8 second long cooldown reduction on Thunder Focus Tea, Life Cocoon, Renewing Mist and Rising Sun Kick/Rushing Wind Kick. The buff in itself doesn’t really have that much of an impact for 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 through using Celestial Conduit to have your Rising Sun Kick and Renewing Mist cooldown very short.

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.

Passive effects:

• Chi-Ji’s Swiftness increases your movement speed by 75% while channeling Celestial Conduit and 15% for 3 sec after any Celestial has assisted you.
• Stampede of the Ancients affects Strength Of The Black Ox increasing its effect by 400% on your primary target, e.g. the one you casted Enveloping Mist on when you had the buff.
• Path of the Falling Star increases the healing and damage of Celestial Conduit when only hitting one target and reduces the passive by 20% for every target above one. This passive helps out in content where you weren’t really getting a lot of healing or damage output from Celestial Conduit when only hitting one target. Open world content, raid and dungeon bosses and similar one target encounters.
• Inner Compass is a flat percentage stat buff that cycles between your four secondary stats depending on which celestial last helped you. Not something you have to actively think about as it will naturally happen throughout an encounter.
• Yu’lon’s Avatar makes it so that Vivify and Sheilun's Gift have a chance to proc Heart Of The Jade Serpent for 4 seconds. This passive has a proc rate of around 1.5 times per minute.
• Flowing Wisdom will increase your haste by 10% while Heart Of The Jade Serpent is active.

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.

Harmonic Surge - This was the 2-/4pc-tier effect in the last season of The War Within which has been made into a hero talent going forward in Midnight. It’s considered an active ability as you have to use Thunder Focus Tea to give you the guaranteed Tiger Palm / Vivify procs. There’s also the passive interaction with Potential Energy giving you a guaranteed Harmonic Surge on your next Tiger Palm / Vivify after casting Rising Sun Kick.