Mistweaver Monk PvP Talents and Builds (The War Within Pre-Patch)

Last updated on Jul 23, 2024 at 18:21 by Mysticall 10 comments

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.

1.

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.

2.

Talents Summary

2.1.

Monk Tree Talent Highlights

  • Spear Hand Strike Icon 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 Icon Escape from Reality. Originally a legendary in Shadowlands, this talent allows you to port a second time within 10 seconds of using Transcendence: Transfer Icon Transcendence: Transfer. This is crucial versus melee cleaves that target you.
  • Clash Icon Clash is a great talent to use when targets are trying to run away from you when trying to Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep. You can also use it to root enemies that are targetting your teammates.
  • Song of Chi-Ji Icon Song of Chi-Ji. This gives Mistweavers a third way to crowd-control someone. You will now be able to use Paralysis Icon Paralysis, Leg Sweep Icon Leg Sweep, Ring of Peace Icon Ring of Peace, and Song of Chi-ji to crowd control an enemy healer.
  • Overflowing Mists Icon Overflowing Mists. Another talent that increases the healing of your Enveloping Mist Icon Enveloping Mist. This is a great talent versus teams with no purges.
2.2.

Mistweaver Monk Tree Talent Highlights

  • Mist Wrap Icon Mist Wrap. Enveloping Mist Icon Enveloping Mist is crucial to Mistweaver healing, and increasing its healing and duration makes it even better.
  • Focused Thunder Icon Focused Thunder. This gives you more flexibility when you are using Thunder Focus Tea Icon Thunder Focus Tea and works well with the Clouded Focus Icon Clouded Focus talent.
  • Chi Harmony Icon Chi Harmony is a crucial talent to take for both Mistweaver and Fistweaver. This makes it so your Renewing Mist Icon Renewing Mist makes the target receive additional healing for 8 seconds after used. This is a mandatory talent to keep your teammates alive.
3.

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.

3.1.

Mandatory PvP Talents

Peaceweaver Icon Peaceweaver reduces the cooldown of Revival Icon 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 Icon 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 Icon Sphere of Hope increases your healing done to the target by 15%.
  • Sphere of Despair Icon Sphere of Despair makes the target deal 10% damage to you, and takes 10% increased damage from all sources.
3.2.

Situational PvP Talents

Zen Focus Tea Icon 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 Icon Soothing Mist, being interrupted is very common. Use Zen Focus Tea Icon Zen Focus Tea versus teams with multiple interrupts, especially verses classes with long interrupts (Mages, Warlocks, Rogues).

Grapple Weapon Icon 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 Icon Eminence allows you to use Transcendence: Transfer Icon 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).

4.

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 Icon Ancient Teachings talent to convert physical damage to healing. Here are the best PvP talents if you plan on playing this way:

4.1.

Mandatory PvP Talents

Peaceweaver Icon Peaceweaver reduces the cooldown of Revival Icon 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 Icon 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 Icon Sphere of Hope increases your healing done to the target by 15%.
  • Sphere of Despair Icon Sphere of Despair makes the target deal 10% damage to you, and takes 10% increased damage from all sources.
4.2.

Situational PvP Talents

Alpha Tiger Icon Alpha Tiger gives you a 20% Haste bonus whenever you hit a new target with Tiger Palm Icon 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 Icon Jadefire Accord reduces the cooldown of Jadefire Stomp Icon Jadefire Stomp and snares enemies struck by it by 60%. Use this if you are playing mobile targets to slow them.

Grapple Weapon Icon 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 Icon Eminence allows you to use Transcendence: Transfer Icon 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).

5.

Changelog

  • 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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