Monk Hero Talents — The War Within (11.0.7)

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Mistweaver Monk, check out our Talents page:

Conduit of the Celestials is our strongest Hero Talent for many scenarios. It provides strong utility, throughput, and defensive capabilities, while slotting into our current play style very neatly. The gameplay centers around a powerful 90 second healing and damage cooldown that's supported by random procs and buffs peppered in by the other talents in the tree.

Master of Harmony's gameplay is based around using your DPS and healing abilities to charge a "healing battery". When you cast Thunder Focus Tea, for 10 seconds all your heals will draw from the battery and place a HoT on the target for 25% of the amount healed. In theory this tree is kind of neat and has some interesting ideas going for it. That being said, it performs slightly worse on average than Conduit of the Celestials in a raid environment.

Both Conduit of the Celestials and Master of Harmony perform excellently in Mythic+, and which you choose to use will depend largely on your goals and/or experience. Conduit provides an extra throughput cooldown which can be extremely valuable while pugging or if you are uncomfortable with the dungeons you are running. Master of Harmony on the other hand, loses this safety net in exchange for a substantial DPS increase.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Mistweaver Monk

Conduit of the Celestials Raid Build Conduit of the Celestials Mythic+ Build Master of Harmony Mythic+ Build

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Best Conduit of the Celestials Raid Build for Mistweaver Monk

Conduit of the Celestials offers us two choices to customize the tree for our particular purposes. The first is between Niuzao's Protection and Jade Sanctuary. Most of the time we will be taking the former, as adding a shield to our most powerful defensive is generally going to be better than gaining a damage reduction that is tied to throughput cooldown.

Our second choice is between Inner Compass and August Dynasty, and seeing as how Jadefire Stomp is not a talent that we use in raids, you should take Inner Compass.

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Best Conduit of the Celestials Mythic+ Build for Mistweaver Monk

Conduit of the Celestials in Mythic+ is almost identical to the raid build, however we swap out Inner Compass for August Dynasty. If you find that you are not needed the extra healing, you can also change out Temple Training for Xuen's Guidance.

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Best Master of Harmony Build for Mistweaver Monk

Master of Harmony offers an enormous amount of bonus damage to our kit making it an ideal choice for Mythic+. The extra charges of Thunder Focus Tea from Endless Draught allows us to make use of Jade Empowerment more often, granting us higher overall damage in a key, as well as extra throughput on particularly nasty trash packs.

The moment to moment gameplay of Conduit of the Celestials revolves largely around spending Strength of the Black Ox procs that we get from Courage of the White Tiger. We gain these procs by doing your rotation normally, so you just need to be cognizant of when you have them available to you so that you can spot heal someone in need, while also proccing shields on your group. It should also be noted that you are guaranteed a proc when using either Tiger Palm or Vivify for the first time after you invoke either of your Celestials.

At the risk of somewhat burying the lead, the standout ability of Conduit of the Celestials is obviously Celestial Conduit. This is a very powerful healing cooldown that can be used frequently due to its short recharge time, and thanks to Unity Within it will also proc significant cooldown reduction on all your rotational cooldowns as well as Life Cocoon.

Master of Harmony requires you to be a bit more aware of when you press Thunder Focus Tea. You want to make sure you are set up to deal the most amount of damage you can during these windows, so getting 4 stacks of Teachings of the Monastery prior to using Thunder Focus Tea is important. This will allow you to quickly apply your Aspect of Harmony DoT to as many targets as possible, but also to ramp that damage up via Coalescence.