Mistweaver Monk Mythic+ Guide

Welcome to the Mistweaver Monk Mythic+ guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! This guide covers everything you need to know to understand your character! Are you starting out and leveling up from 70? Check out the leveling guide!

Mistweaver MonkMythic+

Overall Healing

Strong

Strong

Average

Utility

Average

Survivability

Strong

Mobility

Strong

• Conduit of the Celestials gives you another cooldown Celestial Conduit, which offers very strong healing and damage for a 1.5 min cooldown. It also offers you great talent nodes such as Heart of the Jade Serpent that lowers the cooldown of some of your abilities, after a total of 10 stacks of Sheilun's Gift has been used. Conduit of the Celestials also enhances your other spells and gives you some utility as well.
• Master of Harmony focuses more on increasing your DPS output and has chances of being a strong choice if you wanna do high DPS.
• But overall Master of Harmony is the stronger choice for Mythic+ due to it's high dps throughput it provides at the cost of a on-demand cooldown, so this guide will be based on playing this hero talent.

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Your healing spells have a chance to apply Insurance! to their targets that heals them over 15 sec. Insurance! is consumed if an ally drops below 40% health to heal them.
• 4-Set: Casting Renewing Mist applies Insurance! for 6 sec on the target, and is increased by up to 50% in proportion to the coverage of Renewing Mist has on you and up to 10 allies.

This set increases the value that the talent Chi Harmony brings by guaranteeing the healing increase from the talent will apply to the 4-set bonus. Making casting Renewing Mist by itself a actual decent spot heal.

Priority List

General rotation

1. Apply Mystic Touch to all enemies by doing any damage to them.
2. Cast Jadefire Stomp and maintain the buff.
3. Cast Thunder Focus Tea and use Expel Harm or Rising Sun Kick for the Versatility buff, then cast Crackling Jade Lightning.
4. Spin to win with Spinning Crane Kick if there are 4+ enemies and you can heal the damage intake with it.
5. Cast Renewing Mist so you never reach 3 stacks.
6. Cast Sheilun's Gift whenever there's a large amount of healing needed.
7. Cast Thunder Focus Tea and use it on either Rising Sun Kick or Expel Harm for damage, or Enveloping Mist for instant cast spot heal.
8. Cast Rising Sun Kick on cooldown.
9. Cast Blackout Kick when you have any stacks of Teachings of the Monastery.
10. Cast Tiger Palm to gain Teachings of the Monastery stacks.
11. Cast Expel Harm for strong self-healing and damage.
12. Cast Vivify to heal an ally and the party.
13. Cast Soothing Mist if someone is in need of serious spot heal for a longer duration.

For Damage

1. Cast Jadefire Stomp and maintain the buff.
2. Cast Thunder Focus Tea.
3. Cast Rising Sun Kick
4. Cast Crackling Jade Lightning.
5. Cast Blackout Kick on cooldown.
6. Cast Tiger Palm.
7. Cast Spinning Crane Kick if there are 4 or more enemies and Thunder Focus Tea is on cooldown.

Cooldowns

Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane

• Your main healing cooldown as a Mistweaver Monk summons an effigy of Chi-Ji, that shields allies with Celestial Harmony, and your damage abilities reduce the cost and cast time of Enveloping Mist by 33% (up to 3 stacks) making it 100% free and instant cast.
  • Celestial Harmony gives a shield to 5 allies, and also makes your Enveloping Mist apply an extra HoT and 10% heal increase with Enveloping Breath.
  • Gift of the Celestials reduces the cooldown down to 1 min , but decreases duration to 12 sec.

• Before summoning Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane you should get 4x stacks of Teachings of the Monastery. This makes your next Blackout Kick hit 5 total times for a super strong heal through Ancient Teachings and Gust of Mists.

Sheilun's Gift

• Sheilun's Gift is a powerful cooldown due to its super strong heal, you can treat this as a cooldown by itself when it's at 10 stacks, but at lower stacks it can still be powerful, especially on targets with Chi Harmony on them. If used well, this can be a lifesaver for your party in many situations.

Thunder Focus Tea

• Use Thunder Focus Tea on Rising Sun Kick for a cooldown reset, or you can also use it on Expel Harm for a heal absorb from Chi Cocoon for survivability. You can also use it on Enveloping Mist for an instant cast spot heal if necessary.
  • With the talent Jade Empowerment, your Crackling Jade Lightning will do a lot of healing, especially if there are up to 5 enemies you can hit, this will deal a very high amount of healing, making it a very strong cooldown in terms of healing.

Life Cocoon

• A high absorb external, Life Cocoon, can be a lifesaver for both allies and yourself. You can use it before a high-damage event to save some personal cooldowns on your allies, or so you can entirely focus on healing the rest of the group.

Spin to win or Ancient Teachings for healing?

1. If you have Thunder Focus Tea ready, then cast it and right after you should cast Crackling Jade Lightning before anything, this is for both dps and healing, especially when there are multiple targets you can hit.
2. If there are 7+ enemies, then spin to win with Spinning Crane Kick and Awakened Jadefire for the most healing.
3. On 4-6 enemies then keep casting Spinning Crane Kick for damage, but only if you can heal through the damage intake.
4. If there are 1-3 Jadefire Stomp and Ancient Concordance with Ancient Teachings is by far more healing and damage. Even with 4-6 enemies, this is generally better than Spinning Crane Kick for healing, it can depend on how much damage the tank is taking, and the pattern of damage intake.

If you can't do either of the above to sustain enough healing for your group, then you need to start using cooldowns. Activate Sheilun's Gift to top the group when health bars are going low, Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane is a huge boost to your healing especially with Blackout Kick during Jadefire Stomp with the talent Ancient Concordance.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

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Affixes

The Affix system got revamped going into The War Within Season 1 retiring most Affixes as well as introducing new kiss-curse ones while also changing on which key level these appear.

• +4 Affixes -- Rotates on a weekly basis
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
  • Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar
• +7 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis
  • Tyrannical
  • Fortified
• +10 Affixes -- Alternates between each other on a weekly basis, is always the opposite of the +7 Affix
  • Tyrannical
  • Fortified
• +12 Affix
  • Xal'atath's Guile -- Replaces the +4 Affix

Following you get some useful tips for handling different Mythic+ Affixes as a Mistweaver Monk.

• Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
  • UseRing of Peace and Leg Sweep on any big stack of orbs.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
  • You can cleave off the Void Emissary with your Blackout Kick through Jadefire Stomp and Ancient Concordance for more healing while helping to kill it.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Oblivion
  • Use Roll and soak as many orbs as possible.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
  • Use Detox on cooldown whenever this is active.

Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Mythic+ dungeons as a Mistweaver Monk. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

Blizzard introduced Stat DRs that you need to be aware of. To get to know what those are and why you have to care about them click here to get to our detailed stat DR resource post!

Tertiary

• Avoidance - Reduces damage taken from AoE effects.
• Leech - Returns a portion of your damage and healing done as healing to you. (Excludes self healing)
• Speed - increases movement speed. (Does stack with other movement speed abilities)

The only time you should think about picking a lower item level is if it has Leech or Avoidance. Speed is nice to have, but you should generally ignore that stat.

Here is a showcase of how powerful Leech is for a Healer:

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to our recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the dungeon.

Active Trinket alternatives

• Gallagio Bottle Service
  • On-use that heals injured allies over 4 sec and after gives you increased haste.

Passive Trinket alternatives

• Mister Pick-Me-Up
  • Does a decent amount of healing, this will be better when you are still uncomfortable with the spec.
• Mug's Moxie Jug
  • Strong stat stick as well, gives your spells a chance to grant you some Crit that stacks up but doesn't refresh the duration.
• Reverb Radio
  • Strong stat stick, that gives you a high average of your preferred secondary stat.

Embellishments

• Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension 1x
  • Gives you a random secondary stat every 8 seconds when in combat, that stacks up to 10 times.
• Writhing Armor Banding 1x
  • Doubles the effect of your Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension embellishment.

Remaining Sparks

• Crafted items are 675 item level and regular items are 678 on max item level, therefore, it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

• Phials
  • Flask of Tempered Swiftness
• Food
  • Feast of the Divine Day
• Combat Potion
  • Algari Mana Potion -- Recommended
  • Potion Bomb of Recovery
• Health Potion
  • Algari Healing Potion
• Weapon Oil
  • Algari Mana Oil
• Augment Rune
  • Crystallized Augment Rune
• Sockets
  • Versatile Emerald
  • Elusive Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem colour to enhance your Blasphemite.
    • Versatile Ruby
    • Versatile Onyx
    • Quick Sapphire

Enchantments

For min-maxing a Mistweaver Monk in Mythic+ Dungeons, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your characters. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

• Shadowmeld -- Night Elf
  • Turns you invisible, any action, movement, or suffering any damage breaks this effect.
    
• Stoneform -- Dwarf
  • Removes all magic, bleed, poison, and disease effects and reduces physical damage taken.
    
• Ancestral Call -- Mag'har Orc
  • 2 minute cooldown that gives you a high amount of secondary stats.

Recommendation:

For this coming patch, Mag'har Orc is going to be a very good choice due to their racial Ancestral Call, on a 2 min cooldown, which grants you a massive amount of one secondary stat for 15 sec, now choosing one of your 2 highest secondary stats, you can treat this as a smaller cooldown by itself to enhance your output even outside of your cooldowns.

Discover recommended macros for Mistweaver Monk during Mythic+ dungeons and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

Mouseover Macros

All spells in this Mistweaver Monk Mythic+ Guide are available as mouseover macros for your convenience!

Vivify

/cast [@mouseover, help] Vivify; Vivify

Enveloping Mist

/cast [@mouseover, help] Enveloping Mist; Enveloping Mist

Renewing Mist

/cast [@mouseover, help] Renewing Mist; Renewing Mist

Soothing Mist

/cast [@mouseover, help] Soothing Mist; Soothing Mist

Sheilun's Gift

/cast [@mouseover, help] Sheilun's Gift; Sheilun's Gift

Life Cocoon

/cast [@mouseover, help] Life Cocoon; Life Cocoon

Detox

/cast [@mouseover, help] Detox; Detox

Recommended Macros

Makes you spinn faster with Spinning Crane Kick

#showtooltip
/cast !Spinning Crane Kick

Your Ring of Peace instantly goes off when you press the button without having to confirm click, use with caution.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Ring of Peace

Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Mistweaver Monk, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Mythic+ Dungeons to make your life easier.

Addons

• OmniCD --- Party CD Tracker
  • Addon to track your party members' Cooldowns, mandatory for Mythic+.
• Shadowed Unit Frames --- Party/Raidframe Addon
  • Simplistic addon to replace your Unitframes and other UI Elements with a more clean look.
• Vuhdo --- Party/Raidframe Addon
  • Addon to replace your Unitframes.
• WeakAuras --- Jack of all trades
  • WeakAura allows players to create and customize graphical displays of game information. These displays, known as "auras" can show various aspects such as buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, health, and other important events.
• Plater --- Nameplate Addon
  • Plater is a nameplate addon with an extraordinary amount of settings out of the box. Debuff tracking, threat coloring, support for scripting similar to WeakAuras + the WeakAuras-Companion for Mod/Script/Profile updates.
• BigWigs -- BossMods Addon
  • BigWigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific raid encounter.
• Details --- Damage Meter
  • Shows you Damage/Healing throughout the encounter.

WeakAuras

These WeakAuras are recommended for optimal performance in raids as a Mistweaver Monk.

Sheilun's Gift

Shows how many stacks you have and if you play Shaohao's Lessons, what buff is next.

Shaohao's Lessons

Displays the current Lessons buff you have up and the duration.

Patch 11.1

Mistweaver

• Developers’ notes: We’re making several updates to Mistweaver focused on smoothing out their healing output on varying target sizes and shifting rotational damage priority to a more intuitive space (when players should optimally use each offensive spell should be more obvious).
• New Talent: Emperor’s Favor – Sheilun’s Gift’s healing is increased by 150% and its cast time is reduced by 100%, but it now only heals a single ally.
• Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Now reduces physical damage taken by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you receive a physical attack.
• Jade Empowerment has been redesigned – Increases Crackling Jade Lightning’s damage by 2000% to its primary target and cleaves 4 additional enemies at 25% effectiveness.
• Yu’lon’s Whisper healing increased by 100%.
• Blackout Kick damage increased by 75%.
• Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 30%.
• Jadefire Awakening now causes Blackout Kick to cleave 2 additional enemies at 20% effectiveness (was 70%).
• Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane now causes 3 Gust of Mists per target (was 1), but only activates once per Blackout Kick and Rushing Wind Kick cast.Developers’ notes: Teachings of the Monastery Blackout Kicks will continue to function to activate additional gusts but not from their cleave damage.
• Sheilun’s Gift’s talent location has been moved up to above the final talent gate and now connects with Focused Thunder.
• Jade Bond has been redesigned – Chi Cocoons now apply Enveloping Mist for 4 seconds when they expire or are consumed, and Chi-Ji’s Gusts of Mists healing is increased by 40% (was 20%) and Yu’lon’s Soothing Breath healing is increased by 500%.Developers’ notes: These changes to Jade Bond are intended to refocus Chi-Ji into a powerful cooldown that encourages more intentional uses. We’re reducing the baseline cooldown of both Celestials to account for the loss of dynamic cooldown reduction and increasing the effectiveness of Chi Cocoons cast by longer cooldown Celestials to make intentional uses of this longer cooldown feel more immediately impactful.
• The cooldowns of Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane and Invoke Yu’lon, the Jade Serpent have been reduced to base 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
• Chi Cocoon’s absorb amount now scales with the cooldown of your celestial (now 100% more effective when not using Gift of the Celestials).
• Jade Empowerment now increases Crackling Jade Lightning’s damage by 3000% (was 2000%) and cleaves at 10% effectiveness (was 25%).
• Lotus Infusion increases healing taken by 10% (was 8%).Developers’ notes: We’re making a small adjustment to Lotus Infusion given that we’re expecting the upcoming class set to influence talent decisions around this talent node and we’d like Lotus Infusion to remain a viable, more passive option for those who prefer it.
• Yu’lon’s Whisper healing increased by 30%.
• Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 40% (was 30%).
• Fixed an issue that caused Enveloping Mists caused by Misty Peaks or Jade Bond to cancel Celestial Conduit.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed spells to be cast during Mana Tea’s channel.
• Jade Empowerment now deals 2500% (was 3000%) additional damage to its primary target and cleaves at 15% effectiveness (was 10%).
• Liberation of Undermine set bonus – Insurance! healing increased by 15%.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Liberation of Undermine 4-set bonus to sometimes increase the healing of Insurance! by more than intended.
• Mending Proliferation now prefers players.
• Conduit of the CelestialsCelestial Conduit damage increased by 225%.
• Heart of the Jade Serpent now triggers on every cast of Sheilun’s Gift and scales its duration with the number of clouds consumed.Developers’ notes: The goal for this change is to reduce the amount of tracking required to optimally use Heart of the Jade Serpent.
• Celestial Conduit damage increased by 30%.
• August Dynasty no longer has a proc cooldown (was 8 seconds).
• Master of HarmonyOverwhelming Force damage decreased to 5% (was 15%).

Q: Why do I keep dying?

A: Start using Life Cocoon as your own defensive cooldown.

Q: Why do I keep running out of mana?

A: You need to make good use of Mana Tea, and you may be casting too many Enveloping Mist.

Credits

Written By: Velo

Reviewed By: Rycn