Mistweaver Monk Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents (Legion 7.2)

Table of Contents

• +Introduction
  • 1. Class Overview
  • 2. Patch 7.2 Changes
  • 3. Patch 7.1.5 Changes
  • 4. Contents
  • 5. ChangeLog
• +Easy Mode
  • 1. The Basics
  • 2. Talent Choice
  • 3. Stat Choice
  • 4. Basic Playstyle
    • 4.1. Single Target Healing
  • 5. Raid Healing
  • 6. Cooldown Usage
  • 7. ChangeLog
• +Spell Summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Main Resource
  • 3. Basic Abilities
    • 3.1. Movement
  • 4. Important Procs
  • 5. Cooldowns
  • 6. ChangeLog
• ×Builds and Talents
  • 1. Talent Choices
  • 2. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
  • 3. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents
  • 4. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents
  • 5. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents
  • 6. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents
  • 7. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents
  • 8. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents
  • 9. ChangeLog
• +Artifact Traits and Relics
  • 1. Artifact Progression
  • 2. Relic Choice
    • 2.1. Raiding
      • 2.1.1. Mistweaving
      • 2.1.2. Fistweaving
    • 2.2. Mythic+
  • 3. ChangeLog
• +Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities
  • 1. Single Target Healing
  • 2. Raid Healing
  • 3. Fistweaving
  • 4. Cooldown Usage
  • 5. Optional Read: Mastering Your Mistweaver Monk
    • 5.1. Important Concepts
      • 5.1.1. Artifact Ability
      • 5.1.2. Soothing Mist
      • 5.1.3. Uplifting Trance
      • 5.1.4. Mastery: Gust of Mists
    • 5.2. Detailed Cooldown Usage
      • 5.2.1. Thunder Focus Tea
      • 5.2.2. Life Cocoon
      • 5.2.3. Revival
      • 5.2.4. Tier 1 Talents
      • 5.2.5. Tier 6 Talents
      • 5.2.6. Tier 7 Talents
    • 5.3. Roll and Transcendence
      • 5.3.1. Roll
      • 5.3.2. Transcendence
  • 6. ChangeLog
• +Stat Priority
  • 1. Basics
    • 1.1. Mistweaving
    • 1.2. Fistweaving
    • 1.3. Mythic+
  • 2. Getting a Better Understanding
    • 2.1. Statistics Explanations
  • 3. ChangeLog
• +Gems, Enchants, and Consumables
  • 1. Gems
    • 1.1. Mistweaving
    • 1.2. Fistweaving
    • 1.3. Mythic+
  • 2. Enchants
    • 2.1. Mistweaving
    • 2.2. Fistweaving
    • 2.3. Mythic+
  • 3. Consumables
  • 4. ChangeLog
• +Macros and Addons
  • 1. Macros
    • 1.1. Generic Macros for Monks
      • 1.1.1. Detox Mouseover Macro
      • 1.1.2. Tiger's Lust Mouseover Macro
      • 1.1.3. Ring of Peace Mouseover Macro
    • 1.2. Specific Macros for Mistweaver Monks
      • 1.2.1. Mouseover Macros
  • 2. Addons
    • 2.1. Generic Addons for Monks
      • 2.1.1. ElvUI
      • 2.1.2. Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs
      • 2.1.3. GTFO
      • 2.1.4. Parrot or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
      • 2.1.5. Weak Auras
      • 2.1.6. Recount / Skada / Details!
      • 2.1.7. Grid and GridClickSets (Optional)
    • 2.2. Specific Addons for Mistweaver Monks
  • 3. ChangeLog
• +Gear, Legendaries, and Best in Slot
  • 1. Best in Slot
  • 2. Tier 19 Set Bonuses
  • 3. Legendary Items
    • 3.1. Raiding
    • 3.2. Mythic+
  • 4. Loot Competition
  • 5. ChangeLog

General Information

On this page, we present the viable talent choices for Mistweaver Monks in World of Warcraft Legion 7.2. We detail what each of the talents do and in which situations they should be taken.

The other pages of our Mistweaver Monk guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

About Our Reviewer

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Suplift, a long-time Mistweaver Monk theorycrafter who raids in Lotion. You can follow him on Twitter: @suplift.

1. Talent Choices

Level	Choices
15	✔ Chi Burst	? Zen Pulse	✘ Chi Wave
30	? Chi Torpedo	? Tiger's Lust	? Celerity
45	✔ Lifecycles	✔ Spirit of the Crane	✔ Mist Wrap
60	? Ring of Peace	? Song of Chi-Ji	✔ Leg Sweep
75	✔ Healing Elixir	✔ Diffuse Magic	✔ Dampen Harm
90	✘ Refreshing Jade Wind	✔ Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane	✔ Summon Jade Serpent Statue
100	✔ Mana Tea	✔ Focused Thunder	✔ Rising Thunder

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 Tranquil Mind and Codex of the Tranquil Mind can be used to temporarily allow players to change talents anywhere, as long as they are out of combat.

2. Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents

✔ Chi Burst

? Zen Pulse

✘ Chi Wave

• 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 cone in front of you.
• Zen Pulse is an active ability with a 15-second cooldown, which damages all enemies within 8 yards of the targeted ally, healing the ally for a certain amount for each damaged enemy.
• 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.

The default choice for raiding should be Chi Burst. Alternatively, in encounters with heavy tank damage and a high amount of adds, you should take Zen Pulse instead. Zen Pulse is also a great choice in dungeons (including Mythic+).

Chi Wave is a poor choice and should never be taken.

3. Tier 2 (Level 30) Talents

? Chi Torpedo

? Tiger's Lust

? Celerity

• 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.
• Celerity passively increases the number of charges of Roll by 1, and reduces its cooldown by 5 seconds.

In this tier that revolves around movement, the choice depends on your preference and on the requirements of the encounter.

Tiger's Lust is a great choice for a movement speed boost, and this should probably be your default choice, as it is not linked to Roll and is therefore more versatile. Celerity is a good choice if you use Roll often, and otherwise you can take Chi Torpedo for encounters that require extended periods of movement.

4. Tier 3 (Level 45) Talents

✔ Lifecycles

✔ Spirit of the Crane

✔ Mist Wrap

• Lifecycles causes Enveloping Mist to reduce the Mana cost of your next Vivify by 20%, and also causes Vivify to reduce the Mana cost of your next Enveloping Mist by 20%. Both of these effects apply to the first spell cast within 15 seconds.
• Spirit of the Crane causes your Tiger Palm to make your next Blackout Kick or Rising Sun Kick restore 1% of your maximum Mana.
• Mist Wrap increase the duration of Enveloping Mist by 1 second, and its healing bonus by 10%. It also allows you to channel Soothing Mist while moving.

All the talents in this tier are viable, in different situations.

Mist Wrap is best for shorter fights with heavy sustained single target damage, focused on a few targets. Mist Wrap is also the best choice for Mythic+ dungeons, where you require high single target HPS.

Spirit of the Crane is the default talent for Fistweaving, as it provides the most sustain/HPS due to the free Rising Sun Kick resets. Spirit of the Crane can also be taken when not Fistweaving, if you plan on using Essence Font more than Enveloping Mist or Vivify. Taking this talent is mandatory if you are using Refreshing Jade Wind as your tier 6 talent.

Lifecycles is the standard choice for fights where you plan on casting Vivify a lot, as Lifecycles provides the most Mana sustain. Additionally, if you cannot accommodate all the global cooldowns that Spirit of the Crane requires, you can take Lifecyles in combination with Rising Thunder (in tier 7).

5. Tier 4 (Level 60) Talents

? Ring of Peace

? Song of Chi-Ji

✔ Leg Sweep

• Ring of Peace is an active ability with a 45-second cooldown. It forms a ring at the targeted location, which lasts for 8 seconds. During this time, any enemies who enter the ring will be knocked out of it.
• 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.
• Leg Sweep is an active ability with a 45-second cooldown, which stuns all enemies within a 5-yard radius of you for 5 seconds.

These talents have no meaningful impact on your gameplay and will not affect your performance. Therefore, you can choose them based on your own preference or the crowd-control requirements of the encounter.

That said, you will probably find Leg Sweep to be the best choice in most encounters, unless you specifically require the crowd-control benefits of the other talents.

6. Tier 5 (Level 75) Talents

✔ Healing Elixir

✔ Diffuse Magic

✔ Dampen Harm

• Healing Elixir is an active ability with 2 charges and a 30-second recharge time. It heals you for 15% of your maximum health, and it procs automatically when you have less than 35% health (provided you have at least one charge available).
• 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%.
• 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 of talent in this tier is determined by the type of damage present in the encounter.

We recommend Healing Elixir for fights without heavy, predictable damage, but which instead require you to consistently deal with incoming damage.

Dampen Harm is recommended for fights that have predictable bursts of high Physical damage, while Diffuse Magic is preferred for fights with predictable bursts of high magic damage.

7. Tier 6 (Level 90) Talents

✘ Refreshing Jade Wind

✔ Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane

✔ Summon Jade Serpent Statue

• Refreshing Jade Wind is an active ability with a 6-second cooldown (reduced by Haste). It heals up to 6 allies in an 8-yard radius around you over its 6-second duration (also reduced by Haste). While active, the healing of Essence Font is also increased by 20%.
• Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane is an active ability with a 3-minute cooldown. It summons a pet that for 45 seconds heals nearby allies with its Crane Heal ability. There is a pet bar that allows you to control the pet and decide specifically who to heal.
• Summon Jade Serpent Statue is an active ability with a 10-second cooldown, which places a stationary statue that does not attack at the target location. The statue persists until killed, and while active it mirrors your casts of Soothing Mist (on the same targets), but with 50% efficiency.

In this tier, we recommend choosing either Summon Jade Serpent Statue or Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane. We recommend Summon Jade Serpent Statue for fights with heavy tank damage, where it will not result in too much overhealing. For other fights, as well as for Mythic+ dungeons, we recommend Invoke Chi Ji, the Red Crane.

Refreshing Jade Wind is not currently worth taking.

8. Tier 7 (Level 100) Talents

✔ Mana Tea

✔ Focused Thunder

✔ Rising Thunder

• Mana Tea is an active ability with a 90-second cooldown. It reduces the Mana cost of your spells by 50% for 10 seconds.
• Focused Thunder causes Thunder Focus Tea to empower your next 2 spells, up from just 1.
• Rising Thunder causes Rising Sun Kick to reset the cooldown on Thunder Focus Tea.

Mana Tea is the strongest choice when not Fistweaving, as it provides the most Mana sustain compared to Focused Thunder, scales well with haste, and can be used on every type of fight.

For Mythic+, you should always take Focused Thunder. This primarily because Thunder Focus Tea-empowered Enveloping Mist is very strong for burst spot healing, and it offering enough Mana sustain to be strong for when Mana is a concern. Aside from Mythic+, Focused Thunder is really only worth taking together with Refreshing Jade Wind in the previous tier, if you are making extensive use of Essence Font on the move.

Rising Thunder is a slight HPS loss compared to Mana Tea, however it is very strong for sustained spread healing, and offers a lot of free DPS to your group. We do not recommend using this talent for Mythic progression, but at other levels of progression it can be a viable choice.

9. ChangeLog

• 27 Mar. 2017: Updated Tier 1 talents to include Chi Wave instead of Mistwalk.
• 10 Jan. 2017: Updated talent descriptions to account for Patch 7.1.5 and also made slight updates to the evaluations of some talents.
• 07 Sep. 2016: Added a small note for Tier 3 talents, regarding when Lifecycles is viable.
• 29 Aug. 2016: Updated for Legion's launch.
• 22 Jul. 2016: Updated the Lifecyles Mana reduction amounts to 20%.
• 21 Jul. 2016: Changed the evaluation of Mana Tea to mention that it is a good choice on fights that last longer than 2 minutes.
• 18 Jul. 2016: Updated for the Legion pre-patch.