Mistweaver Monk Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Shadowlands 9.2
On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Mistweaver Monk in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2. 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 Choices for Mistweaver Monk
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15 |
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25 |
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30 |
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35 |
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40 |
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45 |
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50 |
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Talents can be freely changed when out of combat and in a rested XP area
(such as an inn or a capital city). Moreover, Tome of the Still Mind and
Codex of the Still Mind can be used to temporarily allow players to change
talents anywhere, as long as they are out of combat.
Talent Cheat Sheet for Mistweaver Monks
Ideally, the best method for selecting talents is to gain a robust understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, then selecting 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.
Raids and Large Group Content
- Level 15:
Chi Burst
- Level 25:
Chi Torpedo or
Tiger's Lust
- Level 30:
Mana Tea
- Level 35:
Ring of Peace
- Level 40:
Diffuse Magic or
Dampen Harm
- Level 45:
Refreshing Jade Wind
- Level 50:
Rising Mist
This build works in most contexts, however if you would like a look at specific choices in the current raid, feel free to take a look at our raid guide.
Mythic+ or Small Groups
- Level 15:
Mist Wrap
- Level 25:
Chi Torpedo or
Tiger's Lust
- Level 30:
Mana Tea
- Level 35:
Ring of Peace
- Level 40:
Diffuse Magic or
Dampen Harm
- Level 45:
Summon Jade Serpent Statue or
Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane
- Level 50:
Rising Mist
The aim of this build is to focus more on keeping a tank alive during high damage that can be found in Mythic+. If you want a more detailed look at Mythic+ check out our Mythic+ section.
Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Mist Wrap increase the duration of
Enveloping Mist by 1 second, and its healing bonus by 10%.
Chi Wave is an active ability with a 15-second cooldown. It is essentially a chain-heal that bounces to the 7 nearest targets (within 25 yards). The bounces target allies and enemies alternatively. Each target that the wave bounces to is healed or damaged (Nature damage), depending on their alignment. The healing portion of Chi Wave is a smart heal, in the sense that it prefers healing low health players.
Chi Burst is an active ability with a 30-second cooldown. It heals all friendly targets, and damages all hostile targets in a 40-yard line in front of you.
This row is a choice between Chi Burst and
Mist Wrap.
If your
Enveloping Mist targets need more healing, and you will not
get good value from Chi Burst, then it wise to go with Mist Wrap.
If you are able to regularly use Chi Burst to hit 6 or more
players, or will not be casting Enveloping Mist, then Chi Burst will be
the better pick. It is also important to note that Mist Wrap also buffs the
healing of both
Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane and
Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent because the duration of
Enveloping Breath
is directly tied to the duration of
Enveloping Mist.
Chi Wave is a poor choice and should never be taken.
Tier 2 (Level 25) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Celerity passively increases the number of charges of
Roll by 1, and reduces its cooldown by 5 seconds.
Chi Torpedo replaces
Roll. It causes you to roll a moderate distance in front of you (further than Roll), increasing your movement speed by 30% for 10 seconds. This effect stacks up to 2 times.
Tiger's Lust is an active ability with a 30-second cooldown, which removes all roots and snares from the target, and grants them 70% increased movement speed for 6 seconds. It can be used either on yourself or on an ally.
This row is a choice between Tiger's Lust and
Chi Torpedo. In terms of mobility, Chi Torpedo provides the most for
the least amount of GCDs spent. If there is a specific root that needs
dispelling or a player needs an external speed buff, then Tiger's Lust is a
good choice.
Celerity has essentially no use as it is outclassed by both
Chi Torpedo and
Tiger's Lust in any given situation.
Tier 3 (Level 30) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Lifecycles causes
Enveloping Mist to reduce the Mana cost of your next
Vivify by 25%, and also causes
Vivify to reduce the Mana cost of your next
Enveloping Mist by 25%. Both of these effects apply to the first spell cast within 15 seconds.
Spirit of the Crane causes your
Teachings of the Monastery-empowered
Blackout Kicks to restore 0.65% of your maximum Mana.
Mana Tea is an active ability with a 90-second cooldown. It reduces the Mana cost of your spells by 50% for 12 seconds.
All the talents in this tier are viable, in different situations.
Lifecycles should be chosen if you are needing to cast
Enveloping Mist regularly.
Spirit of the Crane is a solid pick if you find yourself able to DPS
often. However, given that it now competes with Mana Tea, the amount of time
required to DPS in order to overcome the Mana saved is difficult to achieve.
Mana Tea is a good pick if you are able to use it as close to
on cooldown as possible and should be taken if the Mana it saves is
greater than that saved or generated by the other two options. This will depend
on your gear and how close to on cooldown you can reasonably cast Mana Tea. As
it stands, given its versatility and the ever increasing strength of Tanks,
this should generally be your default talent choice.
Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Ring of Peace is an active ability with a 45-second cooldown. It forms a ring at the targeted location, which lasts for 5 seconds. During this time, most enemies who enter the ring will be knocked out of it. Has no effect on bosses and certain enemies resistant to crowd control.
Song of Chi-Ji is an active ability with a 15-second cooldown. It creates a cloud that travels slowly forwards in the direction you were facing when cast. Enemies who come in contact with the cloud are put to sleep, being disoriented for 20 seconds. Damage done to them can break the effect.
Tiger Tail Sweep increases the range of
Leg Sweep by 2 yards and reduces its cooldown by 10 seconds.
Ring of Peace is always the correct pick, outside of wildly
specific niche situations. The value of having both
Leg Sweep and an
area denial knock back is too high to even consider the other options.
Tier 5 (Level 40) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Diffuse Magic is an active ability with a 90-second cooldown. It transfers all magical debuffs from you onto their caster, where possible. Additionally, for 6 seconds, it reduces all magic damage taken by 60%.
Healing Elixir is an active ability with 2 charges and a 30-second recharge time that heals you for 15% of your maximum health.
Dampen Harm is an active ability with a 2-minute cooldown. For 10 seconds, all damage you take is reduced by 20% to 50%, with larger attacks having their damage reduced by more than smaller attacks.
The choice here will depend on the type of damage you need to avoid during
an encounter. If it is magic, then take Diffuse Magic, otherwise take
Dampen Harm.
Tier 6 (Level 45) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Summon Jade Serpent Statue is an active ability with a 10-second cooldown, which places a stationary statue at the target location. The statue persists for 15 minutes, or until killed, and while active it will channel a small heal into the target of your
Soothing Mist. It will continue channeling for 8 seconds or until you either select a new target, or the current target move 100 yards away from the statue.
Refreshing Jade Wind is an active ability with a 9-second cooldown (reduced by Haste). It heals up to 6 allies in an 10-yard radius around you over its 9-second duration (also reduced by Haste).
Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane is an active ability with a 3-minute cooldown. It summons a pet that for 25 seconds that attacks enemies and causes your
Blackout Kicks,
Rising Sun Kicks and
Spinning Crane Kicks to heal 2 nearby allies for 100% of your Mastery, as well as grant you a stacking buff that reduces the cost and cast time of your next
Enveloping Mist. It replaces
Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent.
Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane is a good all-round default pick. It
does a good amount of healing while also being free. The healing you do during
this cooldown being free is important to consider, because the alternative is
Yu'lon, who takes a significant Mana commitment.
Summon Jade Serpent Statue is good when you can maintain high uptime
and minimal overhealing. However because its duration is only 8 seconds, it does
require a considerable investment of GCDs in order to maintain its uptime. This
should only be considered if you need to focus a particular target with sustained
healing.
Refreshing Jade Wind is a powerful pick for stacked group healing. Any
time you are able to regularly hit 6 people over the duration, this is a solid
pick. Once you acquire the
Mistweaver Monk 4-Piece bonus, this talent becomes
significantly stronger, and should be taken in most situations.
Tier 7 (Level 50) Talents for Mistweaver Monks
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Focused Thunder causes
Thunder Focus Tea to empower your next 2 spells, up from just 1.
Upwelling allows
Essence Font to be channeled for an additional second for every 6 seconds that it remains off cooldown. This bonus caps after 18 seconds, doubling the length of Essence Font's cast. In addition, it also extends the length of Essence Font's healing over time effect by 4 seconds.
Rising Mist causes
Rising Sun Kick to heal everyone buffed by your healing over time effects and extends their duration by 2 seconds.
Upwelling is a good low effort pick, perfect
for players just picking up the spec, or players wanting to focus
more on paying attention to the mechanics of a particular raid
encounter.
Rising Mist is the talent that makes the "Fistweaving" build
viable. It affects all of our active HoT spells, meaning not only
Renewing Mist and
Enveloping Mist, but the HoT from
Essence Font as well. The HoT extension makes it possible to have a
large number of
Renewing Mists out at any one time, drastically
increasing the efficiency of
Vivify. On most raid
encounters this talent will marginally increase your utility to the
raid by increasing your damage.
Focused Thunder is no longer viable after the buffs to
Rising Mist.
PvP Talents (War Mode)
With the release of Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard removed dedicated PvE and PvP servers and replaced them with War Mode. Opting into War Mode makes you eligible for world PvP, while also allowing you to use your PvP talents in the open world.
PvP Talents for Mistweaver Monks
Eminence reduces the cooldown of
Transcendence: Transfer by 20 seconds.
Counteract Magic increases the healing done by
Renewing Mist by 135% when the target is affected by a magic DoT spell.
Dome of Mist causes
Enveloping Mist to place a shield on the target for 100% of its remaining healing, if it is dispelled.
Surging Mist is a very low cost single-target heal that applies a buff to the target, which increases the healing they receive from Surging Mist by 50%. This stacks up to 2 times.
Refreshing Breeze increases the healing of
Vivify by 20% and also causes the direct heal from Vivify to refresh the duration of
Essence Font HoTs.
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 45-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.
Chrysalis reduces the cooldown of
Life Cocoon by 45 seconds.
For general purposes in the outdoor world, we recommend using
Refreshing Breeze,
Chrysalis, and
Zen Focus Tea.
Changelog
- 19 Feb. 2022: Added mention of how the 9.2 tier effects Refreshing Jade Wind.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.5.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for 9.0.5.
- 24 Nov. 2020: Updated For Shadowlands Release: Removed old PvP talents as well as a link to Azerite Essences
- 09 Nov. 2020: Rewrote Jade Serpent Statue's explanation.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands 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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