Mistweaver Monk Raid Guide

Welcome to the Mistweaver Monk Raid 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 MonkRaid

Overall Healing

Excellent

Cooldown Strength

Strong

Utility

Weak

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 20 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 giving you another stack of Thunder Focus Tea and making it the enabler for Aspect of Harmony which splashes out the healing you have gathered in your Vitality resource that you will see as a buff.
• But overall Conduit of the Celestials is the stronger choice for Raid, so this guide will focus mainly on Conduit of the Celestials as the Hero Talent choice.

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

For Damage

1. Cast Rushing Wind Kickon cooldown.
2. Cast Blackout Kick on cooldown.
3. Cast Tiger Palm.
4. Cast Spinning Crane Kick if there are 4 or more enemies.

Cooldowns

Celestial Conduit

• This is a very strong healing cooldown that you can channel while moving, use it when you need a lot of healing as it deals increased healing based on targets hit.

Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent

• Your main healing cooldown as Mistweaver Monk, which heals allies, reduces the Mana cost of your Enveloping Mist, and paired with other talent nodes also gives you:
  • Celestial Harmony that gives a shield to 5 allies and your Enveloping Mist applies an extra HoT and 10% heal increase with Enveloping Breath.
  • Causing your Chi Cocoons from Celestial Harmony to now apply Enveloping Mist for 4 seconds when expired or consumed. It also increases the Soothing Breath from your Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent by 500%.
  • Invoker's Delight that gives you a 33% Haste buff for 20 seconds when you summon Yu'lon.

• You may cast more or less ‍Enveloping Mist, but you really wanna cast Vivify for when you need the big burst healing, use your Rushing Wind Kick on cooldown even during the ramp mainly to not let the buff run out.

Revival

• To maximize Revival, check for crucial magic, poison, or disease dispels in the encounter. Pairing it with 3 out of 4 buffs from Shaohao's Lessons boosts healing by a good amount. Its instant cast is ideal for heavy movement phases.

Sheilun's Gift with Shaohao's Lessons

• Sheilun's Gift with Shaohao's Lessons, is a powerful cooldown for both the initial heal and the 4 buffs: Lesson of Doubt, Lesson of Despair, Lesson of Fear, and Lesson of Anger. Cast Sheilun's Gift before you cast your healing cooldowns Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent and Revival.

Thunder Focus Tea with Secret Infusion

• Using Thunder Focus Tea with Secret Infusion provides both the empowerment and a 15% secondary stat buff, depending on the next spell cast. Generally use Renewing Mist for a 10-second duration increase and 15% haste from Secret Infusion. Use this ability before you cast your Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent to maximize the haste benefit.

Life Cocoon

• A high absorb external which can be a lifesaver for both other allies and yourself. Use it to save allies from dying, or combine it with Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent because of the talent Mists of Life that will grant Renewing Mist and Enveloping Mist on the target for increased total healing output.

Min maxing Sheilun's Gift with Shaohao's Lessons

• Use Sheilun's Gift before every Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent, regardless of how many stacks, and regardless of what buff it is. You can use 3 out of 4 buffs from Shaohao's Lessons to boost Revival output, but ideally, you don't mess up your Shaohao's Lessons buff that you want for your Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent.

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

• Blizzard introduced Stat drs, which you should 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 shouldn't consider this stat when choosing between two items.

• Here is a showcase of how powerful Leech is for a Healer: Breakdown of Mythic Fyrakk

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 scenario.

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
  • Deadly Emerald
  • Culminating Blasphemite -- Unique, use one of each gem colour to enhance your Blasphemite.
    • Quick Ruby
    • Quick Onyx
    • Quick Sapphire

Enchantments

For Mistweaver Monk there's almost no variance between races, but some have some potentially useful racials that could be good in certain raid encounters.

• Ancestral Call -- Mag'har Orc
  • 2 minute cooldown that gives you a high amount of secondary stats.
• Stoneform -- Dwarf
  • Can dispel Magic and Bleed debuffs. Has been useful in the past on some bosses with Bleeds.
• Arcane Torrent -- Blood Elf
  • 2 minute cooldown that gives you some mana back and rarely can be used to dispel enemies.
• Shadowmeld -- Night Elf
  • In raid rarely used, but you can use this racial to ignore certain targeted mechanics.
• Cannibalize -- Undead
  • Famously used in certain encounters, this racial can be used on corpses that are Humanoid or Undead to regenerate 7% of your health and Mana every 2 sec for 10 sec.

Recommendation:

Unless you are really min-maxing, you should play whatever you want, whether it's lore or aesthetics. However, Dwarf with their Stoneform helped out on Tindral Sageswift & Fyrakk the Blazing in the Amirdrassil Race to World First by having easy access to dispelling yourself at crucial points of the fights mentioned. And on Fyrakk the Blazing, Cannibalize could be used in Phase 2 on the smaller Undead adds that spawned.

But, 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. This combinded with the new Jade Bond talent making Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent also a 2 min cooldown, a great combination.
I therefore highly suggest playing Mag'har Orc for the upcoming raid.

Discover recommended macros for Mistweaver Monk during Raid encounters 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

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 Raids to make your life easier.

Addons

WeakAuras

Patch 11.1

Q: Why do I keep dying?

Q: Why do I keep running out of mana?

Credits

Written By: Velo

Reviewed By: Rycn