Mistweaver Monk Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Shadowlands 9.2.5

Level	Choices
15	✓ Mist Wrap	✗ Chi Wave	✓ Chi Burst
25	✗ Celerity	✓ Chi Torpedo	✓ Tiger's Lust
30	✓ Lifecycles	? Spirit of the Crane	✓ Mana Tea
35	✗ Tiger Tail Sweep	✗ Song of Chi-Ji	✓ Ring of Peace
40	✗ Healing Elixir	✓ Diffuse Magic	✓ Dampen Harm
45	✓ Summon Jade Serpent Statue	✓ Refreshing Jade Wind	✓ Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane
50	✗ Focused Thunder	? Upwelling	✓ Rising Mist

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

✔ Mist Wrap

✘ Chi Wave

✔ Chi Burst

• 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.

✘ Celerity

✔ Chi Torpedo

✔ Tiger's Lust

• 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.

✔ Lifecycles

? Spirit of the Crane

✔ Mana Tea

• 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.

✘ Tiger Tail Sweep

✘ Song of Chi-Ji

✔ Ring of Peace

• 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.

✘ Healing Elixir

✔ Diffuse Magic

✔ Dampen Harm

• 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.

✔ Summon Jade Serpent Statue

✔ Refreshing Jade Wind

✔ Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane

• 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.

✘ Focused Thunder

? Upwelling

✔ Rising Mist

• 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.

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.

• 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.