Mists of Pandaria Classic Mistweaver Monk Rotation and Cooldowns

Before going through this page, we recommend you check out our Spell Summary page first, in order to get a baseline understanding of how our spells work.

Mistweaver Monk's rotation revolves around the generation and spending of Chi, our secondary resource. Our most powerful heals are gated behind Chi, where as our generators are often weaker, or on a cooldown, or both. To further complicate things, we have an actual DPS rotation as well that actively contributes to our healing via Eminence.

Your goals as a Mistweaver can largely be boiled down to two things: keep Renewing Mist on cooldown to ensure a steady supply of Chi, and keep an eye on your timers so you do not spend all your Chi prior to a large damage event. All that being said, there are three different "modes" of healing that a Mistweaver can do, that all have some fuzzy overlap with each other: Raid healing, Single target healing, and Eminence healing. These are not strict rotations, and you will need to flow between each of them from moment to moment, but they can be helpful to think about grouped up like this.

1. Uplift if at least six people have Renewing Mist. Make sure to use Thunder Focus Tea as well when it is available to refresh your Renewing Mists;
2. Chi Brew to generate Chi and to avoid over capping on its stacks;
3. Renewing Mist and Expel Harm on cooldown to generate Chi
4. Chi Burst aimed out from the melee stack towards the ranged;
5. Spinning Crane Kick if further healing is required, and Mana is not an issue.

1. Renewing Mist on cooldown to generate Chi during safe moments;
2. Soothing Mist the target taking damage. Spend Chi on Enveloping Mist if damage is more than Soothing Mist can handle.
3. Surging Mist into your Soothing mist target if damage is high enough to require it, but be mindful of the Mana cost.
4. Chi Brew to generate Chi or to avoid overcapping on its stacks;

1. Set up your Jade Serpent Statue within 20 yards of your group;
2. Tiger Palm if you have Muscle Memory and do not have your Tiger Power buff;
3. Blackout Kick if you have Muscle Memory and do not have your Serpent's Zeal buff;
4. Tiger Palm if you have the Muscle Memory buff;
5. Surging Mist if you have 5 stacks of Vital Mists;
6. Renewing Mist on cooldown to generate Chi;
7. Expel Harm to generate Chi, preferably if you are injured;
8. Jab to generate Chi and proc Muscle Memory;

It seems like a lot when listed like that, but the rotation is just making sure you maintain your Tiger Power and Serpent's Zeal buffs, then swapping between hitting Jab and hitting Tiger Palm over and over.

Most of the time, you will be healing using Eminence, while banking excess Chi for moments when you have to cast Uplift.

Mistweaver Monk is a little light on cooldowns when compared to other healers. We do not have any notable damage reductions to place on the raid like a Priest or a Paladin might, but we do bring potent snap AoE healing as well as other utility.

• Revival — Instantly heals your entire group for a large amount, while also removing any harmful Magical, Disease, or Poison effects. This is our raid cooldown, and while it may not be the strongest in terms of throughput, the fact that it delivers all its healing instantly in one GCD makes it very powerful.
• Life Cocoon — Places a large shield on the target that increases all HoT healing they receive while the shield remains intact. This is our external cooldown, great to throw on a Tank prior to damage, or even after to prevent follow up hits from being lethal.
• Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger — Summons a effigy of Xuen to fight with you for 45 seconds, attacking your target and cleaving damage onto 3 others every second. His damage is converted into healing though Eminence. This is a very powerful DPS cooldown especially on multi-target fights. Because the healing throughput of this cooldown takes place over a very long time, he shines during encounters with steady ticking damage.
• Mana Tea — Causes you to generate a Mana Tea stack for every 4 Chi you spend. Activating Mana tea will cause you to channel, consuming your stacks at a rate of 1 every 0.5s, and restoring 5% of your total Mana per stack consumed. This ability is how we maintain our Mana over the course of an encounter. While technically not a literal "cooldown", Mana Tea can be used like one - planning out moments of downtime in which you will be able to drink your tea and replenish your Mana prior to an intense healing check.
• Thunder Focus Tea — augments both our Surging Mist and Renewing Mist. Most of the time you will use this to refresh your Renewing Mist while snapshotting them to better stats.
• Zen Meditation — Causes you to take 90% less damage and redirect up to five harmful spells cast against your group towards you. The redirect does not work on AoE spells, it has to be a spell that is cast directly at one player. It follows the same rules as Grounding Totem. This spell as niche utility, we primarily use it for the 90% DR in order to solo soak mechanics.