How To Improve As Mistweaver Monk — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

While this advice is not important if you are not running Rising Mist or not actively DPSing, it is valuable to get into the habit of keeping an eye on where your Rising Sun Kick is in its cooldown. You always want to cast Blackout Kick as early into the cooldown of Rising Sun Kick as possible. This means that if you get off-cycle and have 1-3 global cooldowns before your next Rising Sun Kick, then its wise to do something else. You can spend a global cooldown or two casting Renewing Mist, or just catching up on healing in general before going back to DPS. If you really want to optimize, if you know your character just auto-attacked, then casting Crackling Jade Lightning for a single tick will be more DPS than Tiger Palm.

Casting Renewing Mist as close to on cooldown as possible is incredibly important as it is the driver for Vivify. In the past, Mistweavers could get away with letting a few casts slip here and there, but that type of play is much more punishing now. This is not to say that holding charges is a bad idea, but you should only do so with intent and for specific situations.

This is probably the biggest problem new Mistweavers have. Thunder Focus Tea is tremendously powerful over the course of a fight, and there is essentially never a situation in which we would want to hold it.