Mistweaver Monk Healing Guide — The War Within (11.0.5)

The Mistweaver specialization is versatile, and different talent choices can allow it to fit the requirements of a raid very well. Mistweavers can, therefore, heal both tanks and the raid very well.

Based on talent choices, Mistweavers can be either unparalleled tank healers with strong area of effect throughput or damage-dealing mobile raid healers.

Strengths

• Extremely powerful single-target healing.
• Is able to deal damage while healing.
• Hyper mobile thanks to Chi Torpedo / Roll, Tiger's Lust, and Transcendence.
• Very tanky due to a plethora of personal damage reduction cooldowns.
• Able to cast a large amount of healing spells while moving.
• Strong crowd control options by way of Paralysis, Leg Sweep, and Ring of Peace.
• Able to apply the 5% Physical damage debuff, Mystic Touch to enemies.

Weaknesses

• Mana management can be difficult for newer players to pick up.
• Historically bad scaling as an expansion progresses.
• Does not offer a damage reduction cooldown to the raid.

If you are interested in playing a Mistweaver, but are not yet at max level, consider taking a look at our leveling guide!

Before you start leveling, you should consider setting up your addons to allow yourself some time to become familiar with them. It can be sort of overwhelming to try and set everything up all at once after reaching max level and once you have already built up some muscle memory. Feel free to browse our recommended add-ons page, which is linked below.

Like all healers, a Mistweaver needs to have a solid understanding of their spells so that they know which one to use in any given context. Unlike DPS, who can follow a rotation or priority queue, Healers are much more contextual.

Your aim needs to be maximizing efficient casts to squeeze the most healing out of your Mana bar. A high uptime and coverage of Renewing Mist is ideal is almost every situation for a Mistweaver as it is the driver for an enormous swath of our healing via Vivify, Invigorating Mists, Zen Pulse, and the myriad of other supporting talents. You should be looking to use your cooldowns such as Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent, Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane and Revival as frequently as the fight allows, as these large cooldowns generally result in the strongest throughput (and by proxy mana efficiency) that our kit has to offer. Lastly, to keep up with your mana consumption, you should be mindful to use Mana Tea enough as to not overcap your stacks, as well as timing it before large healing events so that you can make the most of the mana cost reduction that it provides.

If you are a beginner and would like to familiarize yourself with the spec, you should check out the Spell Summary and Easy Mode pages are linked below.

However, if you are familiar with Mistweaver Monks or just need to get a quick build in a hurry, then feel free to head straight to our Talents and Rotation pages.

Gearing can seem a little daunting at first, but there are certain stats that provide more benefit to Mistweaver than others. However, once you get an idea of the value of these stats, then you can begin to intuit which pieces are likely better than others. You can find out how our stats affect our characters, as well as a list of Best in Slot gear from the current raid tier, in the links below.

In that same vein, you will need to enchant your gear, as well as select consumables such as food and phials. For simple stat buffs, it can be pretty easy to just follow your stat priority, but for more complicated effects like weapon enchants, be sure to check out our Enchants and Gems pages.

Once you have reached the end game, your goals will shift significantly. Below are some handy guides centered around the late-game avenues of progression that WoW has to offer, from raiding to dungeons to PvP.

While it might seem as though the goal of a healer is to keep people alive through healing, your goal is actually no different than any other role: to kill bosses and clear content. Most of the time, that means you will be healing; however, when there is little to no healing required, then you ought to be spending your time dealing damage. Being able to consistently deal high damage while also keeping the raid healthy is the mark of a great healer.

If you are finding your performance to be lacking a bit, then you should check out our guide linked below that goes over common mistakes, as well as external tools that judge your performance and show you specifically where you need to improve.