Mistweaver Monk PvP Rotation and Playstyle (Dragonflight 10.2)
PvP requires you to perform various actions in the course of a duel, match, or battleground: interrupting/silencing enemies, healing your teammates and yourself, defending yourself, keeping yourself alive, etc. It is a game mode that fully utilises your kit, especially spells that are rarely used in PvE. On this page, we go through all the spells you need to use in PvP as a Mistweaver Monk, how you should use them, and we explain what your playstyle should be.
This page is part of our Mistweaver Monk PvP Guide.
Playstyle for Mistweaver Monks
The main role for a Mistweaver Monk, besides keeping your team alive, is to always keep your team offensive and take advantage of your mobility.
To keep your team offensive, you will push in with your team to try to get
Leg Sweep stuns the entire enemy team. Use
Paralysis on healers
and
Leg Sweep them once it is over. Be careful not to use all of your
mobility to reach the enemy healer. This will make it easy for teams to make
swaps to you.
Taking advantage of your mobility is crucial. Mistweavers are one of the
squishiest healers. Use abilities like Chi Torpedo and
Transcendence: Transfer to push in with your team and push out if they
swap to you.
Transcendence: Transfer does have a relatively long
cooldown, so make sure it is available when you overextend with abilities like
Leg Sweep.
Before Gates Open
Before the gates open, you should make sure to have multiple stacks of water in your bags. This is important because you can run out of Mana quickly, and having the option to drink is crucial. Sometimes you can bait the team in overextending by starting to drink (making them think you will be out of action for a while). This can open up the potential for a kill.
Make sure your team has a strategy for crowd control, and remember that
your Paralysis/
Song of Chi-Ji will break from any damage.
The Opener
Healers do not really have an "opener" as such. As a Mistweaver, you want to do two things when the gate opens.
- Put down your
Summon Jade Serpent Statue if you are talented into it.
- Place your
Transcendence portal in a safe place (such as behind a pillar).
After this, start putting Renewing Mist on your teammates so they
have some healing on them. This should be easy because you have two charges
of
Renewing Mist. If you think the enemy team will focus you at the
start, put a charge on yourself.
The other team is going to try to force your trinket in the opener so they
have an advantage later in the game. Use Transcendence: Transfer to
avoid incoming crowd control on you, and hold on to your trinket for as long
as you can.
Healing Techniques
Burst Healing
Use this if the enemy team uses their cooldowns to try to kill a teammate.
- Cast
Life Cocoon.
- Use
Renewing Mist.
- Use
Soothing Mist.
- Use
Vivify.
- Use
Expel Harm.
If you do not have Life Cocoon, do the following.
- Use
Zen Spheres on you or your teammate.
- Use
Renewing Mist.
- Channel
Soothing Mist on your teammate taking damage.
- Use
Thunder Focus Tea.
- Use
Vivify.
- Use
Enveloping Mist.
- Use
Vivify
- Use
Expel Harm.
- Use
Revival/
Restoral if your team is taking heavy spread damage.
Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent is an extremely powerful cooldown that gives you powerful single-target healing. Follow this up with an
Enveloping Mist to do a large amount of healing.
- Channel
Mana Tea when the enemy team is running away or not using burst cooldowns.
Sustained Damage Healing
Use this to heal sustained damage throughout the fight (damage done when the other team does not have burst cooldowns available).
- Use
Zen Spheres on you or your teammate.
- Use
Renewing Mist every time it comes off cooldown.
- Cast
Enveloping Mist on party members that are being targeted by the enemy team.
- Use
Vivify for both single-target and spread healing.
- Use
Thunder Focus Tea. After using Thunder Focus Tea:
- If your teammate is extremely low, use
Enveloping Mist. If they are not, use
Vivify.
- Use
Vivify.
- If your teammate is extremely low, use
- Use
Expel Harm to heal both you and your teammate, as well as generate
Healing Spheres.
Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent is an extremely powerful cooldown that gives you powerful single-target healing. Follow this up with an
Enveloping Mist to do a large amount of healing.
- Channel
Mana Tea when the enemy team is running away or not using burst cooldowns.
Spread Damage Healing
When there is spread damage (a single teammate is not being focused), do the following.
- Use
Zen Spheres on you or your teammate.
- Keep
Renewing Mist on all teammates.
- Use
Healing Sphere where your teammates are standing, if you are using this PvP talent.
- Use
Enveloping Mist on teammates that are low on health (prioritize the lowest health target).
- Use
Revival/
Restoral if needed.
- Use
Expel Harm to heal both you and your teammate
- Channel
Mana Tea when the enemy team is running away or not using burst cooldowns.
Defensives
Leg Sweep should be used for crowd control on the enemy healer most of the time. If you are being focused and cannot get away or receive help from your teammates, use
Leg Sweep to stun enemies near you.
Transcendence can be used to teleport behind pillars. Use this when you push in for a
Leg Sweep and
Transcendence: Transfer back before you get swapped to. If an enemy is casting crowd control on you, you can teleport before their cast finishes to avoid being crowd controlled.
Fortifying Brew is a damage reduction spell that also increases your health. This works well with
Healing Elixir and, if you play with a Warlock, Healthstones. Use this when
Transcendence is on cooldown and you cannot get away from the enemy team.
Paralysis can be used when you have been interrupted. If the enemy team is trying to kill one of your teammates and you get interrupted, use Paralysis on one of the enemy DPS to prevent their damage. You can also use Paralysis to interrupt casts, including to avoid incoming crowd control.
Provoke can be used to taunt enemy pets. Using this on a pet 1-2 seconds before being in crowd control can cause the pet to attack you and break the crowd control. For example, taunting a Mage's Water Elemental right before a
Polymorph cast will cause the elemental to release you.
Macros
It is advised to use Macros to use abilities on enemies or allies without having to target them. For this reason, we have a page dedicated to them.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated all Healing Rotations for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 05 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated all healing rotations.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Healing rotations.
- 30 Jan. 2022: Review for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1 PvP Season.
- 21 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 01 Aug. 2022: Reviewed for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 23 Feb. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Updated all Healing rotations.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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