Mistweaver Monk PvP Talents and Builds (The War Within Pre-Patch)
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.
Clash is a great talent to use when targets are trying to run away from you when trying to
Leg Sweep. You can also use it to root enemies that are targetting your teammates.
Song of Chi-Ji. This gives Mistweavers a third way to crowd-control someone. You will now be able to use
Paralysis,
Leg Sweep,
Ring of Peace, and Song of Chi-ji to crowd control an enemy healer.
Overflowing Mists. Another talent that increases the healing of your
Enveloping Mist. This is a great talent versus teams with no purges.
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.
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.
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 10% damage to you, 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 10% damage to you, 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
- 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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