Mistweaver Monk Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Dragonflight 10.2
On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Mistweaver Monk in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.
Talent Cheat Sheet for Mistweaver Monks
Ideally, the best method for selecting talents is to gain a robust understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and then select the one most suited to the job at hand. However, as general recommendations, the following builds work well for their intended purposes. To see how these talents affect your rotation, check out our rotation guide.
It should also be noted that talents are now able to be free-swapped outside of combat. They do not require a rest area, tome, or any other frictional mechanics, so feel free to experiment!
Best Talents for Mistweaver Monk
Generic Raid Talents for newer Mistweaver Monk
This build is optimal if you are still working on the fundamentals of Mistweaver.
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The Clouded Focus Build
This build is built more around raid healing using ramp windows.
The aim is to maintain as many Renewing Mists as possible, then we use
Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent to ramp up even more via
Rapid Diffusion culminating in a
Soothing Mist into
Vivify spam.
Once our ramp is set up, we can freely spam Vivifies until our ramp dies down.
Mythic+ or Small Groups
This build is aimed more towards dealing damage and semi-passive healing via
fistweaving. On the Monk side, it opts into more of utility like interrupts and CCs
in order to prevent damage before it even happens. Also, it leans more into
the DPS side of things since Mythic+ is much more DPS-centric. As for the
Mistweaver side, it is more of the same: leaning into dealing damage and relying
on Faeline Stomp and its supporting talents to take care of the maintenance
healing. Also, if you are finding you are in need of more frequent available cooldowns for Mythic+
swapping
Shaohao's Lessons for
Veil of Pride can be an excellent option.
Talent Explanations for Mistweaver Monks
Note that we do not explain EVERY Talent in the tree on this page. We only explain Talents that are part of our optimal builds. For full details and explanations of every Talent, please visit our Spells page via the button below.
Mistweaver Monk talent breakdown
The following is going to be a quick explanation of the dos and don'ts of talent selection. Keep in mind that this is a broad strokes guideline, and even "undesirable" talents can find use in niche encounters.
Class Talents
Row 1-4
![]() | A weak single target heal, that enables stronger healers to be cast during its channel. |
![]() | Our strongest single target DPS button, also interacts with other healing spells and talents. |
![]() | A powerful movement speed increase and snare break that we can cast on ourselves or other players. |
![]() | A passive damage increase to us that also buffs aspects of our healing based on talents like ![]() |
![]() | Allows us to dispel poisons and diseases as well. Due to its placement, it's sort of a no-brainer to pick unless there are literally neither of those debuffs in the content you are doing. |
![]() | Incapacitates a target, the effect breaks on any damage. Walking too close to paralyzed targets will still put you in combat with them, unlike some other CCs. However, they can still be knocked using ![]() |
![]() | Gives us an instant ![]() |
Row 5-7
![]() | Allows you to place a ghost and swap back and forth with it's position. It's an extremely powerful movement ability. |
![]() | Our interrupt, usually only needed for Mythic+ |
![]() | Increases Health by 15% and reduces damage taken by the same amount. |
![]() | A moderately strong frontal heal, mostly taken to unluck further nodes. |
![]() | Places an area on the ground that knocks all enemies out of it. Does not engage combat. |
![]() | Buffs ![]() |
![]() | Reduces magic damage taken by 60% and, removes all magic debuffs from you and applies them to their source. This can do insane damage when used to redirect certain abilities in high Mythic+ |
![]() | A damage reduction that prevents more damage, the bigger the hit you take. |
![]() | Grants you a stacking magic shield. It is very powerful against rot-type damage where you are not taking large, infrequent hits. |
Row 8-10
![]() | Increases healing taken by you and your allies within 10 yards. A very strong passive Monk buff. |
![]() | Its the same thing as ![]() |
![]() | Grants you a large 4s healing buff when healing targets below 35%. |
![]() | Passively increases the damage you deal. Good as filler or for Mythic+ |
![]() | Summons a totem that will channel healing into a target for 8 seconds whenever you cast ![]() ![]() |
![]() | A somewhat weak defensive option, but it can be taken if you need to maximize tankiness. |
Spec Talents
Row 1-4
![]() | Our big single target heal. Can be cast during ![]() |
![]() | Once our most powerful AoE heal, it has since lost favor to a more ![]() |
![]() | Our bread and butter HoT, if it overheals a target, it will jump to
another injured target within 20 yards. Also, if you cast a ![]() |
![]() | Our external cooldown. Places a big shield on the target and causes them to take extra healing from all HoTs. |
![]() | A short cooldown used to empower one of our basic rotational healing abilities |
![]() | Our primary mana management tool. Spending mana generates stacks
, and using this ability consumes those stacks and grants mana in return. Also, you gain a mini ![]() |
![]() | This Talent basically enables our DPS rotation, and is required in order to have a chance to reset ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Our big raid cooldown, instantly heals the whole group and dispels all magic, poison, and diseases from them. |
![]() | It's just ![]() |
![]() | Is what turns ![]() ![]() |
Row 5-7
![]() | One of our two personal steroid cooldowns. This one revolves around DPSing in order to heal as many targets as possible with the mastery procs you generate from ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | This is the other side of the Chi-Ji join. Yulon is about hard casting ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Will cause ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Most of the time, you'll take the reduced cooldown on ![]() |
![]() | A very powerful passive, especially when playing Invoke Yulon, as you will be blanketing the raid quite often with ![]() ![]() |
![]() | During either of your Invoke cooldowns, casting ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Makes you generate more Mana Tea stacks, just by playing right. |
Row 8-10
![]() | On its own, this is a very weak and lackluster talent, but it
is made incredibly fun and powerful by its subsequent Talent unlocks, and its synergy with ![]() |
![]() | Causes your ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Increase the chance to reset Faeline, which is a nice quality of life change, but the powerful aspect of this Talent is allowing ![]() |
![]() | Causes your DPS abilities to transfer damage into healing. Excellent maintenance healing during low damage moments. |
![]() | Ramps up your ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Shortens the cooldown and duration of our Invoke spells. It is very handy in Mythic+ for Chi-Ji and enables insane ramping gameplay in Raids using Yulon. |
![]() | Causes ![]() ![]() |
![]() | When paired with its subsequent talents, it makes for a powerful group cooldown that has the flexibility of being used early at a lower effectiveness. |
PvP Talents for Mistweaver Monks
Eminence reduces the cooldown of
Transcendence: Transfer by 15 seconds and allows you to port while stunned.
Counteract Magic removing hostile magic effects from your target causes you to deal 10% increased healing to them for 10 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
Dome of Mist causes
Enveloping Mist to place a shield on the target for 120% of its remaining healing, if it is dispelled.
Refreshing Breeze while channeling
Soothing Mist, you can a stacking buff increasing
Expel Harm's healing by 15% and allows it to dispel one Poison, Magic, and Disease effect from the target.
Healing Sphere places a small orb on the ground that heals friendly targets who walk over it while also removing all harmful magic DoT effects.
Zen Focus Tea causes you to be immune to silence and interrupt effects for 5 seconds on a 30-second cooldown.
Grapple Weapon allows you to shoot a rope at a target, disarming them of their weapons for 6 seconds on a 45-second cooldown.
Alpha Tiger Your first
Tiger Palm on a target grants 20% haste for 8 seconds.
Dematerialize causes you to take 30% less damage while stunned. This damage reduction decays by 10% per second.
Mighty Ox Kick Knocks back your opponent.
Peaceweaver Reduces
Revival's cooldown by 50% and makes targets hit by it immune to magic for 2 seconds.
Thunderous Focus Tea causes
Thunder Focus Tea to make your
Crackling Jade Lightning's knockback trigger instantly or causes
Essence Font to increase your movement speed by 70% and make you immune to movement-impairing effects.
Changelog
- 12 Nov. 2023: Slightly altered the recommended Clouded Focus talent build.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated all talent trees to reflect the Patch 10.2 changes
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated all talents trees to reflect the Mana Tea change, and other shuffling of talent positions.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1, and added the Clouded Focus build.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated to reflect the addition of the talent Legacy of Wisdom.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated to reflect the 10.0.5 talent tree rework.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Adjusted the talent selections for both Raiding and Mythic+.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 15 Nov. 2022: Fixed a typo regarding Enveloping Breath.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Dhaubbs a Mistweaver Monk theorycrafter, and moderator on the Monk Discord Peak of Serenity. He raids in Big Dumb Guild on Illidan-US, where he also produces encounter videos. You can follow him on Twitter, Twitch, and/or YouTube.
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