Mistweaver Monk Healing Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Season 1

Ideally, the best method for selecting talents is to gain a robust understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and then select the one most suited to the job at hand. However, as general recommendations, the following builds work well for their intended purposes. To see how these talents affect your rotation, check out our rotation guide.

It should also be noted that talents are now able to be free-swapped outside of combat. They do not require a rest area, tome, or any other frictional mechanics, so feel free to experiment!

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Best Talents for Mistweaver Monk

Rising Mist Raid Talents Conduit of the Celestials Mythic+ Talents Delve Soloing

2.1.

Rising Mist Build

This build plays into the "DPS into healing" aspects of our kit. The goals is to maintain a large amount of Renewing Mists during our Invoke windows and aggressively spot heal with Vivify outside of your cooldowns. Rushing Wind Kick also needs to be cast on cooldown to maximize the HoT extension effect it brings.

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2.2.

Mythic+ Conduit of the Celestials

This build is aimed more towards dealing damage and semi-passive healing via Ancient Teachings. On the Monk side, it opts into more utility like CCs in order to prevent damage before it even happens. It leans more into the DPS side of things since Mythic+ is much more DPS-centric. As for the Mistweaver side, it is more of the same; leaning into dealing damage and relying on Ancient Teachings and Way of the Crane to take care of the maintenance healing. The brunt of the throughput of this build comes from your Renewing Mist coverage, so be sure to keep every member of your group HoT'd up to make best use of Misty Coalescence.

Celestial Conduit provides an extra group cooldown to counter moments of high sustained damage, while also providing a bit of DPS as well. Strength of the Black Ox procs happen fairly frequently and allow for great spot healing thanks to it cast time reduction on Enveloping Mist, along with a small group-wide shield.

Mistweaver Monk Mythic+ Page

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2.3.

Delve Soloing

The Delves build is largely the same as our Mythic+ Build while taking talents to create distance on your enemies like Crashing Momentum.

In general, you will want to pull as aggressively as you can while using your Ancient Teachings talents and Spinning Crane Kick to keep yourself alive. If you find that your passive healing is being outstripped by your damage intake, then HoT yourself up, and if that's still not enough, then make use of your mobility and Crashing Momentum in order to create some breathing room for you to be able to heal yourself.

It should be noted that Windwalker is likely the superior option for solo delve content, as the moment-to-moment gameplay is extremely similar, but Windwalker will just put out more DPS. In both instances, you will be in melee, hitting Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, and Rising Sun Kick, however Windwalker at least has a fully fleshed-out damage kit and isn't at the whims of our dear NPC Veleera Sanguinar to follow and attack the correct targets.

Midnight has introduced additional capstone abilities to each spec's tree called Apex Talents. These abilities are separate from the rest of the tree, and require you to be level 81 before you can invest points into them. Mistweaver's Apex talent is called Spirit Font. Below we will list what each of the four ranks of Spirit Font will provide to you:

1. Spiritfont — Causes your Vivify and Rising Sun Kick to grant you a buff that causes your next Enveloping Mist to channel Soothing Mist onto up to 5 targets at 20% effectiveness. If a target is at max Health, the Soothing Mist will jump to a new target, or split its healing among the other 4 targets.
2. Spiritfont — Rising Sun Kick damage is increased by 10%/20% and Enveloping Mist healing is increased by 10%/20%. This bonus is increased by 50% while Spirit Font is active.
3. Spiritfont — Thunder Focus Tea activates Spirit Font, and applies Chi Cocoons to targeted allies at 30% effectiveness.

The effect of Spirit Font is largely passive, however, because its activation is predicated on casting Enveloping Mist, it does pose some conflicts with our Conduit of the Celestials hero talent tree. CotC has us casting Enveloping Mist rationally in order to get value from Strength of the Black Ox. As such, when running Spirit Font, you will need to be aware of your procs and weigh whether or not you want to hold an Enveloping Mist cast for an upcoming damage event in order to line up your Spirit Font healing and shielding.

Mistweaver Monk has access to two powerful Hero Talent trees, each of which augment out gameplay in different ways: Conduit of the Celestials and Master of Harmony.

Conduit of the Celestials centers around calling forth the power of the August body to empower your spells. These procs such as Courage of the White Tiger cause your rotational abilities to do additional healing and damage, while also triggering secondary effects like Strength of the Black Ox to allow your to shield your group from damage.

It's on-use ability Celestial Conduit is a powerful group wide damage and healing cooldown that you will be able to activate with relative frequency. On a 90 second cooldown you will channel a large amount of healing split between your group, while also dealing AoE damage to any enemies nearby.

Master of Harmony revolves around storing vital energy within you in order to release it after drinking a Thunder Focus Tea. For the next 10 seconds, this to cause your spells and abilities to do extra damage and healing in the form of a Hot/Dot.

The identity of this talent tree is generally centered on dealing extra damage through passives like Overwhelming Force, and the versatility of being able to spend your stored energy on DPS abilities during times of low HPS requirements.

• Eminence reduces the cooldown of Transcendence: Transfer by 15 seconds and allows you to port while stunned.
• Counteract Magic removing hostile magic effects from your target causes you to deal 10% increased healing to them for 10 seconds, stacking up to three times.
• Refreshing Breeze while channeling Soothing Mist, you can a stacking buff increasing Expel Harm's healing by 15% and allows it to dispel one Poison, Magic, and Disease effect from the target.
• Healing Sphere places a small orb on the ground that heals friendly targets who walk over it while also removing all harmful magic DoT effects.
• Zen Focus Tea causes you to be immune to silence and interrupt effects for 5 seconds on a 30-second cooldown.
• Grapple Weapon allows you to shoot a rope at a target, disarming them of their weapons for 6 seconds on a 45-second cooldown.
• Alpha Tiger Your first Tiger Palm on a target grants 20% haste for 8 seconds.
• Dematerialize causes you to take 30% less damage while stunned. This damage reduction decays by 10% per second.
• Mighty Ox Kick Knocks back your opponent.
• Peaceweaver Reduces Revival's cooldown by 50% and makes targets hit by it immune to magic for 2 seconds.
• Thunderous Focus Tea causes Thunder Focus Tea to make your Crackling Jade Lightning's knockback trigger instantly or causes Essence Font to increase your movement speed by 70% and make you immune to movement-impairing effects.