Mistweaver Monk Healing Gear and Best in Slot — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3

With the advent of Warforging, Titanforging and Corruption, true "best in slot" lists are a thing of the past. You should always be equipping items that will gain net you the greatest benefit based on your stat weights. To acquire said weights, use either WoW Analyzer or Healer Stat Weights.

The following is a ranking of trinkets used in a raiding environment. These ranks assume equal item level. For direct trinket comparison, use QELive made by Voulk.

1. Forbidden Obsidian Claw — Maut
2. Void-Twisted Titanshard — Ra-den the Despoiled
3. Peerless Alchemist Stone — Alchemy
4. Deferred Sentence — The Queen's Court
5. Luminous Jellyweed — Blackwater Behemoth

For general information about Corrupted gear, check out our Corrupted Items page.

There are a few desirable corruption effects for Mistweaver. You will likely want as many Versatile pieces as you can get. The versatility proc we gain from Secret Infusion being increased by 6-12% per piece is pretty powerful. Conversely, you could also aim to stack Severe pieces to increase your critical strike, as this synergizes nicely with Uplifted Spirits. If you are playing Rising Mist, grabbing a Glimpse of Clarity piece can be strong since cooldown reduction is fairly important for that build.

If you can afford the extra corruption to deal damage, having a piece with either Infinite Stars or Echoing Void can be useful, however the corruption per damage dealt is slightly inefficient for healers.

Patch 8.3 lets you add a socket to a piece of gear that did not previously have one using a Gouged Eye of N'zoth. For more information on how to obtain it, please go to our Horrific Visions Hub.

Patch 8.2 saw the introduction of a new type of item: Benthic gear. These items are generated from tokens acquired from completing Nazjatar content, or by spending Mana Pearls at vendors in your faction's local town. The base item level of this gear is 385, and can be upgraded by spending Mana Pearls. What makes these items unique, however, is each of them comes with an additional effect on top of their stat budget. Sometimes these effects are trivial, such as increasing your mount speed by 5% or giving you a chance to loot fish from slain enemies; however, some of the effects can be somewhat powerful for the right class.

For Mistweavers, only three of these pieces are worth examining. The first piece, Fathomstalker Gloves give Critical Strike, Versatility, and reduces Shadow damage taken by 3% while in Nazjatar and The Eternal Palace. This piece is desirable mostly for the stat distribution, however the damage reduction is nice for fights like Za'qul.

Second is Fathomstalker Handwraps, which give Critical Strike, Haste, and cause your Critical Strikes to have a chance to place a small heal over time effect on your character. This effect is worth 5-7 item levels.

Lastly, Poen's Deepsea Grips give Critical Strike, Mastery, and give your abilities a small chance to spawn droplets that either heal allies, or damage enemies.