Mistweaver Monk PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.0.5)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Mistweaver Monk and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Mistweaver Monk PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Mistweaver Monks
Here is the build for Mistweaver Monk if you want to play from range and focus on casted healing:
Here is the build for Mistweaver Monk if you want to play more aggressive and "Fistweave":
While the above calculator provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Talents Summary
Monk Tree Talent Highlights
- Spear Hand Strike. This is a melee-ranged kick that will be useful in almost every matchup. Use this to interrupt incoming crowd control.
- Escape from Reality. Originally a legendary in Shadowlands, this talent allows you to port a second time within 10 seconds of using Transcendence: Transfer. This is crucial versus melee cleaves that target you.
- Lighter Than Air is a great talent to use when targets are trying to run away from you when trying to Leg Sweep.
- Song of Chi-Ji. This gives Mistweavers a third way to crowd-control someone. You will now be able to use Paralysis, Leg Sweep, and Song of Chi-ji to crowd control an enemy healer.
Mistweaver Monk Tree Talent Highlights
- Mist Wrap. Enveloping Mist is crucial to Mistweaver healing, and increasing its healing and duration makes it even better.
- Focused Thunder. This gives you more flexibility when you are using Thunder Focus Tea and works well with the Clouded Focus talent.
- Overflowing Mists. Another talent that increases the healing of your Enveloping Mist. This is a great talent versus teams with no purges.
- Chi Harmony is a crucial talent to take for both Mistweaver and Fistweaver. This makes it so your Renewing Mist makes the target receive additional healing for 8 seconds after used. This is a mandatory talent to keep your teammates alive.
- Jadefire Teachings/ Rushing Wind Kick is a very important choice node. Rushing Wind Kick, in combination with Crane Style, gives Mistweavers a much more aggressive playstyle. Weave this into your rotation to heal from your damaging spells. Jadefire Teachings will be used in combination with Jade Empowerment to deal damage/healing from range.
PvP Talents for Mistweaver Monks
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Mandatory PvP Talents
Peaceweaver reduces the cooldown of Revival and makes you immune to magical effects for a short period afterward. This is an amazing PvP talent to use versus teams with magic damage and in Rated Battlegrounds.
Zen Spheres places a sphere of Hope or Despair over the target. This is a great talent to increase the overall damage output of your team and increase the healing you do to your target. Only one can be active at the same time:
- Sphere of Hope increases your healing done to the target by 15%.
- Sphere of Despair makes the target deal 3% less damage, and takes 10% increased damage from all sources.
Situational PvP Talents
Zen Focus Tea helps Mistweavers deal with one of their greatest weaknesses, being interrupted. Because most healing spells Mistweaver have are used while channeling Soothing Mist, being interrupted is very common. Use Zen Focus Tea versus teams with multiple interrupts, especially verses classes with long interrupts (Mages, Warlocks, Rogues).
Grapple Weapon disarms the enemy for 6 seconds. This can be crucial utility against teams with a melee DPS on it. This is also a great option when playing against Death Knights. When you Disarm them, they will not be able to heal and can result in you killing them.
Eminence allows you to use Transcendence: Transfer while stunned. This talent can be useful versus teams with mobile melee specs on them (Demon Hunter, Windwalker, Feral Druid) or against teams that rely on setup to get kills (Jungle and RMP).
PvP Talents for Fistweaver Monks
Mistweaver is unique, as it has two different playstyles in one specialization. 'Fistweaver' is a much more aggressive playstyle, using the Ancient Teachings talent to convert physical damage to healing. Here are the best PvP talents if you plan on playing this way:
Mandatory PvP Talents
Peaceweaver reduces the cooldown of Revival and makes you immune to magical effects for a short period afterward. This is an amazing PvP talent to use versus teams with magic damage and in Rated Battlegrounds.
Zen Spheres places a sphere of Hope or Despair over the target. This is a great talent to increase the overall damage output of your team and increase the healing you do to your target. Only one can be active at the same time:
- Sphere of Hope increases your healing done to the target by 15%.
- Sphere of Despair makes the target deal 3% less damage, and takes 10% increased damage from all sources.
Situational PvP Talents
Alpha Tiger gives you a 20% Haste bonus whenever you hit a new target with Tiger Palm. Use this versus Shaman to get the buff from hitting their totems or Hunters/Warlocks to get the buff from their pets.
Jadefire Accord reduces the cooldown of Jadefire Stomp and snares enemies struck by it by 60%. Use this if you are playing mobile targets to slow them.
Grapple Weapon disarms the enemy for 6 seconds. This can be crucial utility against teams with a melee DPS on it. This is also a great option when playing against Death Knights. When you Disarm them, they will not be able to heal and can result in you killing them.
Eminence allows you to use Transcendence: Transfer while stunned. This talent can be useful versus teams with mobile melee specs on them (Demon Hunter, Windwalker, Feral Druid) or against teams that rely on setup to get kills (Jungle and RMP).
Changelog
- 03 Nov. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated Recommended PvP Talents.
- Updated Recommended Fistweaver PvP Talents.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- Updated Recommended Talents.
- Updated Fistweaver Talents.
- 12 Sep. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 26 Jul. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 30 Jun. 2024: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 22 Mar. 2024: Updated Talent Trees for 10.2.6.
- 24 Jan. 2024: Updated Talent Tree.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated Recommended Talents for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated Recommended Talents for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 05 May 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.
- Updated Talent Calculator.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- Updated Talent Tree.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 06 Feb. 2023: Updated Recommended Talents.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Updated Talents for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated Best talents.
- 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.
- 22 Feb. 2022: No Updates made for 9.2.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Updated Tier 3 Regular Talent.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 02 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP talents.
- 08 Mar. 2021: Updated Tier 6 Regular Talents.
- Updated Talent Table.
- 26 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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