Mistweaver Monk Raid Guide

• Aspect of Harmony stores "vitality", up to a certain amount, from 10% of your damage, and 20% of your healing, with overhealing at a reduced amount. Casting Thunder Focus Tea activates Aspect of Harmony for 10 seconds, making your spells draw out the amount of vitality stored, to deal 25% additional damage or healing over 8 seconds on the targets.
  • Through Coalescence which makes Aspect of Harmony have a chance of spreading to a nearby target, by dealing damage or healing. You also deal 10% more damage and healing to targets you healed with Aspect of Harmony.
• Path of Resurgence makes your Chi Burst increases all vitality store by 25% for 10 seconds.
• Harmonic Gambit enables Aspect of Harmony through your single target abilities to draw vitality to deal damage.
• Endless Draught gives your Thunder Focus Tea another charge.
• Overwhelming Force makes your single target abilities deal 15% more damage in a line in front of you.

When to use this Spec

• This is the Soothing Mist build which sort of makes you able to play as a ranged healer. You have to adjust the class talent tree based on the utility needed for the encounter. To make your life easier, boss-specific talent loadouts are available in the Nerub-ar Palace section.

Talent Adjustments

Spec Tree

• Added
  • Tear of Morning
    • The core talent for this build, that makes all your allies with your Renewing Mist, when you cast on an ally that already has a Renewing Mist on them, take 12% of the total healing from Enveloping Mist upfront, and 15% healing increased from Invigorating Mists cleave.
  • Peer Into Peace
    • This talent makes you able to keep casting Soothing Mist and switch targets when casting either Vivify or Enveloping Mist. It also increases the Soothing Mist channel by 4 seconds and 5% of overhealing you do on targets with Soothing Mist goes onto 3 nearby injured allies.
  • Trait #124873
    • The absorb amount of Life Cocoon is increased by 80%.
  • Unison
    • Your Soothing Mist also heals a second injured ally for 25% of the amount healed.
• Removed
  • Mending Proliferation
    • You will be casting Soothing Mist a lot and gain a lot of value from the other choice node talent.
  • Crane Style
    • You will not cast that many Rising Sun Kick with this build.
  • Uplifted Spirits
    • Less value with this build due to not casting as many Rising Sun Kick, but if this talent would make you gain another cast of Revival that would be crucial to defeat a boss, then take this talent and remove Healing Elixir.

Cast Renewing Mist so you never reach 2 stacks.
Cast Mana Tea before casting any Vivify and Enveloping Mist for the 30% mana cost reduction.
Cast Thunder Focus Tea on Renewing Mist to gain Haste through Secret Infusion.
Cast Soothing Mist on a target with Chi Harmony on them.
Cast Enveloping Mist for the healing itself and the healing increase.
Cast Vivify to heal the target and the raid.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when soaking Gruesome Disgorge.
• Externals
  • Use Life Cocoon as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox when you are gonna use Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent and there is movement needed during it.
• General
  • Use Tiger's Lust on an ally to help them reach their Gruesome Disgorge in time.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when targetd by Decimate.
• Externals
  • Use Life Cocoon as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox when you are gonna use Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent and there is movement needed during it.
• General
  • Use Tiger's Lust to help Decimate targets reach their assigned position.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when you are targeted by multiple Infested Spawn.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on people targeted by multiple Infested Spawn without their own defensive cooldown.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox when you are gonna use Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent and there is movement needed during it.
• General
  • Use Tiger's Lust on an ally to help them reach the boss quicker when he relocates.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Ensure you have Fortifying Brew active when targeted with Experimental Dosage.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on people targeted with Experimental Dosage.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox with your Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent to dodge the swirlies.
• General
  • Always keep Enveloping Mist on the tank targeted by Volatile Concoction to reduce raid damage.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

• Defensives
  • Use your Fortifying Brew when affected by Queensbane.
• Externals
  • If an ally does not have any defensive cooldown of their own left use Life Cocoon on them, otherwise keep it as a personal defensive.
• Paradox
  • Ask for it when the Nether Rift drag is happening and you are assigned to do a lot of healing with your Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent.
• General
  • Cast Enveloping Mist on Queensbane targets.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

Phase 1

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when Reckless Eruption and Venomous Rain overlap.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on Binding Webs targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• Paradox
  • Ask for it if you are assigned to play Binding Webs as you will have to do strong spot healing while on the move.
• General
  • The people in danger in this phase are the ones playing Binding Webs. Ensure you keep them healthy so they can fully focus on the mechanic without having to worry about other things.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Poison Bolt as this mechanic will easily kill your tank if ignored.

Intermission 1

• General
  • Use Tiger's Lust for when you have to dodge.

Phase 2

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when Web Vortex happens.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on targets who accidentally received multiple stacks of Stinging Swarm.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox when you are gonna use Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent and there is movement needed during it.
• General
  • In phase 2, failing the dispel mechanic Stinging Swarm is the most common wipe. Ensure you keep these people healthy so they don't have to worry about anything but playing the mechanic.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Void Bolt, as this mechanic will easily kill your tank if ignored.

Intermission 2

• General
  • Use Tiger's Lust for when you have to dodge.
  • Whenever a raid member gets Impaled, ensure you spot heal them until they are freed.

Phase 3

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when Web Vortex happens.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on Binding Webs targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox when you are gonna use Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent and there is movement needed during it.
• General
  • The People in danger in this phase are the people playing Binding Webs. Ensure you keep them healthy so they can fully focus on the mechanic without having to worry about other things.
  • Dispel your tank as often as possible whenever he has multiple stacks of Void Bolt as this mechanic will easily kill your tank if ignored.

How To Use Your Healing Cooldowns

• These cooldowns were assigned with the primary goal of defeating the boss, rather than maximizing raw HPS.

Boss Tips

Phase 1

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew any time you have more stacks then expected from Frothy Toxin, or if you are not healthy before Silken Tomb hits.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on the tank with Feast absorb if needed, otherwise you can use it on targets without strong defensive cooldowns as those are the people most likely to die.
• Paradox
  • Ask for it if whenever you get knocked up in the air during your Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent, allowing you to keep ramping during the knock up and dodge the waves coming in from the soaks.
• General
  • There are a lot of very dangerous one-shot mechanics in this phase, make sure to prioritize your own survival and play mechanics to survive, the healing requirement in phase 1 is not as high as you may think, so play to live rather than maximizing your output will make you progress this boss faster.
  • You can make use of Transcendence a lot on this fight for knock ups and you can break your root or anyone else's root with Tiger's Lust.

Intermission

• General
  • Use the double jump from the talent Lighter Than Air to negate the Wrest grip mechanic, and use all your healing to top the raid before Wrest rather than after, play to win, not to maximize your output and letting people die.

Phase 2

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew when people are going through the Shadowgate for dispels and there is a Wrest grip at the same time.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on targets who walk through the Shadowgate to get a dispel, or if someone is very low health before Wrest.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox when you are gonna use Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent in this phase.
• General
  • Here you can also use Lighter Than Air to easily negate the Wrest grip mechanic.
  • Try to time your healing for when people walk through the Shadowgate and you are about to dispel, you want your side of the raid to be healthy before you dispel as it does a lot of damage.

Phase 3

• Defensives
  • Use Fortifying Brew if you get Royal Condemnation.
• Externals
  • Use your Life Cocoon on targets with Royal Condemnation.
• Paradox
  • Ask for Spatial Paradox with your last Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent in this phase.
• General
  • Your Ring of Peace will be crucial in this phase when the small adds spawn, make sure to time this, and place it well, as a small misplacement of the ring will make the small adds walk into the boss and it's a wipe.
  • You can completely dodge the incoming ring from Abyssal Infusion with Transcendence, this make you a excellent carrier of an essence on the 2nd set of this mechanic, where it usually is a bit more chaotic.
  • There is a lot of running in this phase, and mainly using personals and externals correctly on the 3 targets with Royal Condemnation, if the 3 targets, and everyone else survives, there will not be a big issue in healing the raid up afterwards, even with plenty of adds up, this phase is also very heavily play-to-win based, not about actual hps throughput.

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