Mistweaver Monk Healing Gear and Best in Slot — 12.1

Upon reaching Level 90 in Midnight, you have three main options to start gearing your character: Dungeons and Raids, PvP such as Arena or Battlegrounds, and world systems like Renown with the four main Reputations.

Once you can get invited to Mythic dungeons, be sure to complete each one during your first week, then look to see if you can find groups for your preferred style of play, be that Mythic+ or Rated PvP.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

Be Careful With Early Crafts!

Many Embellishments and cantrips on items from the Venomous Abyss were changed less than 24 hrs before the beginning of Season 2, and as such many recommendations are now in flux and have to be re-evaluated. Due to these changes, we highly recommend to hold off on crafting an item on Day 1. Unless you don't mind the recrafting cost or potentially crafting a slightly suboptimal item early on, it might be worth waiting for a few days until things have settled.

Make sure to check back to see if this warning has been removed.

OverallMythic+Raid

This list contains the highest all-around HPS setup from most sources for Mistweaver Monk. This does not take into account content-specific weights and instead opts for a primarily item-level-based approach.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

In Midnight Season 2, catalyzing a piece of gear into tier will cause it to retain its original stats, meaning choosing which pieces of gear to put into the catalyst becomes much more important.

• Helm: Gaze of the Coiled Watcher from Ula'tek in Venomous Abyss
• Shoulders: Somber Spaulders from Voidscar Arena
• Chest: Hide of Pestilence from Voidscar Arena
• Gloves: Monkey King's Fighting Fists from Entombed Sentinels in Venomous Abyss
• Legs: Coiled Hex Legguards from Coiled Altar in Venomous Abyss

FAQWhat Should I Be Taking from My Vault Early?

At the start of Season 2, Nebulous Voidcore's become available from your Vault instead of gear, with the exception of the first week. Spending these bonus rolls on Heroic Raid bosses also awards Mythic quality items at 1/6 on the upgrade track. The final Raid boss is particularly important, as it drops two extremely powerful cantrip items. As a result, you should prioritize taking a bonus roll from your Vault during the first two weeks and use your bonus rolls on the final boss on Heroic until you have obtained both items.

Mistweaver Monk

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Gaze of the Coiled Watcher Helm

Ula'tek Empowered Hex of Leeching

Monkey King's Fighting Fists Hands

The Great Vault or Entombed Sentinels

Aqirbane Reliquary Neck

Ula'tek

Primal Dinomancer's Belt Waist

King's Rest

Tassels of the Monkey King Shoulders

Catalyst and Voidscar Arena Silvermoon's Mending

Pantaloons of the Monkey King Legs

Catalyst and Coiled Altar Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Breakwater Boots Feet

Nymrissa Wavecaller Shaladrassil's Roots

Battle Gi of the Monkey King Chest

Catalyst and Voidscar Arena Mark of the Worldsoul

Ritual Binder's Ring Ring

King's Rest Silvermoon's Alacrity

Shirt

Alluring Bubbleband Ring

Nymrissa Wavecaller Silvermoon's Alacrity

Tabard

Wavecaller's Seastone Trinket

Nymrissa Wavecaller

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel Trinket

Nek'zali the Soulcoiler

Baleful Hexblade Main Hand

Coiled Altar Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Nocuous Focal Fang Off Hand

Altar of Fangs

This list contains the highest all-around HPS setup from Mythic+ and crafting for Mistweaver Monk. This does not take into account content-specific weights and instead opts for a primarily item-level-based approach.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

In Midnight Season 2, catalyzing a piece of gear into tier will cause it to retain its original stats, meaning choosing which pieces of gear to put into the catalyst becomes much more important.

• Helm: Spare Speaker's Hood
• Shoulders: Somber Spaulders
• Chest: Hide of Pestilence
• Gloves: Wear the regular tier piece
• Legs: Breeches of the Sacred Hall

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Den of Nalorakk: Your Weapon, Neck, and Boots drop here.
• Voidscar Arena: Has two pieces to catalyze into tier.
• Skyreach: Drops your BiS Trinket as well as a Ring and Belt.

Mistweaver Monk

1.2.

Best Gear from Mythic+

Spare Speaker's Hood Helm

Altar of Fangs Empowered Hex of Leeching

Monkey King's Fighting Fists Hands

The Great Vault

Yoke of the Charging Bear Neck

Den of Nalorakk

Primal Dinomancer's Belt Waist

King's Rest

Tassels of the Monkey King Shoulders

Catalyst and Voidscar Arena Silvermoon's Mending

Pantaloons of the Monkey King Legs

Catalyst and King's Rest Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Arctic Explorer's Legwraps Feet

Den of Nalorakk Shaladrassil's Roots

Battle Gi of the Monkey King Chest

Catalyst and Voidscar Arena Mark of the Worldsoul

Ritual Binder's Ring Ring

King's Rest Silvermoon's Alacrity

Shirt

Band of the Amani Warlord Ring

Altar of Fangs Silvermoon's Alacrity

Tabard

Stormbound Emblem of Dazar Trinket

King's Rest

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Freightrunner's Flask Trinket

Murder Row

Fallen Speaker's Staff Main Hand

Den of Nalorakk Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Off Hand

This list contains the highest all-around HPS setup from raid and crafting for Mistweaver Monk. This does not take into account content-specific weights and instead opts for a primarily item-level-based approach.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

In Midnight Season 2, catalyzing a piece of gear into tier will cause it to retain its original stats, meaning choosing which pieces of gear to put into the catalyst becomes much more important.

• Helm: Gaze of the Coiled Watcher
• Shoulders: Wear the regular tier peice
• Chest: Vestment of the Awakening
• Gloves: Wear the regular tier piece
• Legs: Coiled Hex Legguards

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

Need to share a BiS list with your raid leader, or just want to zero in on the most important bosses and loot? We've got you covered!

• Gaze of the Coiled Watcher and Aqirbane Reliquary: Both uniquely powerful items, both drop from Ula'tek.
• Nymrissa Wavecaller: Drops our BiS trinket, ring, and offhand, and boots, making it a very loot-dense fight for us.
• Baleful Hexblade: Our BiS weapon - naturally a high value item to receive. Drops from Coiled Altar.

Mistweaver Monk

1.3.

Best Gear from Raid

Gaze of the Coiled Watcher Helm

Ula'tek Empowered Hex of Leeching

Monkey King's Fighting Fists Hands

Catalyst or Entombed Sentinels

Aqirbane Reliquary Neck

Ula'tek

Sash of the Forlorn Vessel Waist

Coiled Altar

Tassels of the Monkey King Shoulders

Catalyst or Lost Explorers Silvermoon's Mending

Pantaloons of the Monkey King Legs

Catalyst and Coiled Altar Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Adherent's Silken Shroud Cloak

Crafted by Tailoring

Breakwater Boots Feet

Nymrissa Wavecaller Shaladrassil's Roots

Battle Gi of the Monkey King Chest

Catalyst and Nek'zali Mark of the Worldsoul

Apex Brute's Claw Ring Ring

Sszorak Silvermoon's Alacrity

Shirt

Alluring Bubbleband Ring

Nymrissa Wavecaller Silvermoon's Alacrity

Tabard

Wavecaller's Seastone Trinket

Nymrissa Wavecaller

Silvermoon Agent's Deflectors Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel Trinket

Nek'zali the Soulcoiler

Baleful Hexblade Main Hand

Coiled Altar Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Frostscale's Mystic Frond Off Hand

Nymrissa Wavecaller

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

For healers like Mistweaver, trinkets that are often referred to as "stat sticks" are usually a very safe pick. Unlike DPS, where random procs are very rarely wasted, healers do not always have health bars to heal. A powerful proc can go totally unused if it does not line up with moments of extreme damage. Usually, a strong trinket for us will be an item that has static Intellect and a proc with a high uptime of either Haste or Critical Strike.

Click for Mistweaver Monk Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Item
S Tier	Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel
A Tier	Wavecaller's Seastone Hex Lord's Dooming Idol Stormbound Emblem of Dazar Gebbo's Bottomless Bag
B Tier	Freightrunner's Flask Mycolic Medicine Ruby Whelp Shell
C Tier	Lightspire Core Drum of Renewed Bonds Glorious Crusader's Keepsake

Patch 12.0.5 is (re)introducing two new systems to aid in gearing up your character:

• Nebulous Voidcores can be used to acquire a random item from specific bosses or dungeons. This system has bad-luck protection built in, in that once you receive a particular item from this method, you will no longer be able to roll that item again (until you receive everything from that source's loot table).
• Ascendant Voidcores can be used to further increase the item level weapons and trinkets up to a maximum of 298! This system will only be available on max rank Hero & Myth track items, as well as Radiance-Crafted pieces.

The items that you choose to target will largely be a function of what items you already have as well as what content you have available to you. For the short-term, it can be valuable to send your rolls on any upgrade in order to get a burst of ilvl, however that comes at the cost of long-term character growth, and may hamper your future progression. Our generation recommendation is to save your rolls for high value items - a loose priority is listed below:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Myth Track Mainhand
2. Mythic Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel
3. Early on: Heroic Ula'tek to attempt to get Gaze of the Coiled Watcher on Myth track
4. Mythic Wavecaller's Seastone
5. Remaining BiS List items

Crafted items provide powerful bonus effects to gear called Embellishments. The effects can fairly radically increase the power of a particular item slot. Your character can have a maximum of two Embellishments. The cost of these Embellishments however, is that crafted gear cannot reach the same maximum item level as Myth track pieces, meaning usually you will want to put Embellishments on gear slots that has the lowest stat budget possible: wrists and cloaks. That way you get all the power of the Embellishment, while minimizing the stat loss from the items. Alternatively, you can opt use one of your Embellishments on a weapon; over the long term this is sub optimal, however it provides the most radical boost in power at the start of a season, or for new characters.

Mistweaver Embellishment Priority

• For Armor: Arcanoweave Lining
• For Weapons: Darkmoon Sigil: Void

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

Helmets, Belts, and Bracers can all be socketed using the Miasmic Jewelbinder consumable which is acquired by skipping your Great Vault selection. Doing so will earn you tokens, and six of those tokens can be exchanged for the Miasmic Jewelbinder, which adds a socket to any eligible piece of gear acquired in Season 2.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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