Talent Builds
Raid - Rising Mist
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This build is also commonly referenced as Rising Mist.
It’s very important to keep Rushing Wind Kick on cooldown at all times as it increases your healing and duration of existing Renewing Mists. During downtime when there’s nothing to heal you can use Blackout Kick in hopes of receiving resets of Rushing Wind Kick.
Use your Thunder Focus Tea whenever possible on Renewing Mist as that gives you a longer duration Renewing Mist and a bit of haste through Secret Infusion. Ideally you also pair this interaction together with your raid cooldown Invoke Yu’Lon, the Jade Serpent as the increased haste helps you cast more Enveloping Mists.
After you’ve used Thunder Focus Tea you’ll get a proc of Zen Pulse that can be triggered through Vivify. As this proc is available for an extended time you can hold off on Vivifying until there’s incoming raid damage or if there’s no good healing target for Vivify.
When using Conduit of the Celestials make sure you pair it with Thunder Focus Tea and Renewing Mist for the extra haste. After Conduit of the Celestials you have cooldown reduction for a limited time on Rushing Wind Kick and Renewing Mist. You’ll then alternate between the two spells to further reduce the cooldown of either of the two. This creates a ramping style where you’ll in a short time increase your number of Renewing Mists on the raid which can then be healed through Zen Pulse from your use of Thunder Focus Tea.
Mythic+
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Keep in mind that Master of Harmony focuses more on damage in Mythic+ than healing. Compared to Conduit of the Celestial builds you will have less healing for your group without access to the extra healing cooldown it would bring. So if you feel like you’re missing healing in your keystones don’t be afraid to change your hero talent tree to Conduit of the Celestials for that extra healing cooldown.
This build plays the same way you would play Conduit of the Celestials in Mythic+. Difference being that you press Thunder Focus Tea to proc Aspect of Harmony healing and damage increase. Most of your healing will still come from Jadefire Stomp and Ancient Teachings which heavily synergises with Aspect of Harmony for both damage and healing increase.
Aspect of Harmony has a vitality storing function in which healing you do gets stored as vitality that can be accessed later on through using Thunder Focus Tea. This same vitality can also be used for increasing your damage on a specific target or healing on your group.
After pressing Thunder Focus Tea your next attack on a target will put an Aspect of Harmony dot on the target. By using Rising Sun Kick and Blackout Kick on that target you’ll then increase the damage of that dot as your stored vitality is transferred to damage.
The healing component of Aspect of Harmony is triggered on your group whenever there’s health missing on someone and you’ve activated your Aspect of Harmony effect through Thunder Focus Tea.
Conduit of the Celestials builds will do more healing compared to Master of Harmony in Mythic+ as the latter one focuses more on dealing damage. The healing difference is mostly coming from having access to another healing cooldown through Conduit of the Celestials. Consider this as a safer option when playing keystones if you're not playing in a premade group that can coordinate defensives.
If you would prefer to DPS, then Shaohao Lessons can be chosen. Generally, however, I would recommend Veil of Pride, especially in higher key levels.
Jadefire Stomp is the activator for Ancient Teachings. To ensure a Jadefire Stomp reset, you can stand in an old Jadefire Stomp and use Chi Burst on enemies. This is rarely needed though as the cooldown was lowered on Jadefire Stomp in The War Within, but if you do find yourself needing a reset use Chi Burst. Make sure to always keep this buff up as much as possible as it’s your main healing.
Class Talents
These talents are what I’d generally recommend for most content. The following talents are mandatory talents in the class tree for Mistweaver: Save Them All, Vivacious Vivification, Chi Proficiency, and Calming Presence.
In general, most of your other talent choices will be made based on what you, the group, or the content you are playing requires. Some talent points can be adjusted depending on the type of content that you intend to do (e.g., Soothing Mist can be dropped for a Rising Mist centric raid build). Diffuse Magic will often be far more helpful as an active defensive in Mythic+ and Raid compared to Yu’lon’s Grace (although it can have niche uses in Mythic+, as it scales off of maximum health).
Hero Talents
With The War Within Mistweaver two Hero Talent trees were added to Mistweaver, Conduit of the Celestials and Master of Harmony.
Conduit of the Celestials
Celestial Conduit
This tree focuses around the new Hero Talent Conduit of the Celestials which is a strong channeling AoE heal and damage talent on a 90 second cooldown. Make sure to pair it with Shaohao’s Lessons if talented into it for even stronger healing on your group.
Heart of the Jade Serpent
Heart of the Jade Serpent - After casting Sheilun’s Gift you’ll receive a cooldown reduction on several of your abilities. Duration of cooldown reduction is based on how many clouds your Sheilun’s Gift consume. The buff in itself doesn’t really have that much of an impact for your healing. However it does receive the 200% extra effectiveness from Unity Within so you have the option of intentionally triggering Heart of the Jade Serpent through using Celestial Conduit to have your Rising Sun Kick and Renewing Mist cooldown very short.
Courage of the White Tiger
Courage of the White Tiger has a chance to proc passively from your Tiger Palm and Vivify. When it procs, Xuen will damage your target and heal a nearby ally based on how much damage was done. You will also receive a stack of the buff Strength of the Black Ox.
You can guarantee a proc of this talent after using your Yu’lon or Chi-Ji cooldown.
Strength of the Black Ox
Strength of the Black Ox is an active buff allowing you to cast your Enveloping Mist faster and it also grants an absorb shield to allies around your Enveloping Mist target. The buff is consumed on casting Enveloping Mist until the next time you gain one from Courage of the White Tiger. So keep weaving in those Enveloping Mists on your group whenever you receive the buff.
Flight of the Red Crane
The intention of Flight of the Red Crane is to give you a stack of Mana Tea and doesn’t really impact your healing as the heal is so small. Also grants you 2% haste through the interaction with Inner Compass.
Inner Compass
Inner Compass is a flat percentage stat buff that cycles between your four secondary stats depending on which celestial last helped you.
Unity Within
Unity Within is your keystone talent at the bottom of the Hero Talent tree. At the end of your Celestial Conduit channel you’ll call upon all of your celestials at an increased effectiveness. Take note that you can end your Celestial Conduit channel early intentionally if you want this effect directly.
Master of Harmony
This tree focuses around the storage of vitality through your damage and healing spells. This stored vitality can then be used to deal additional healing or damage through the active decision of using Thunder Focus Tea.
Most parts of our hero talent tree are passives and you don’t really have to put much thought into it. Below are some comments regarding our hero talents' more impactful parts.
Aspect of Harmony
10% of your damage dealt and 30% of your healing is stored as vitality. Keep in mind that overhealing is reduced when storing vitality so there’s no use in intentionally overhealing someone. For 10 seconds after using Thunder Focus Tea your stored vitality will be used to make your spells do 40% additional healing over 8 sec.
Purified Spirit and Harmonic Gambit
Purified Spirit can act as a passive way to empty your stored vitality at the end of your Aspect of Harmony window. However you’re most likely going to use Harmonic Gambit as it synergises better with our playstyle of using our melee damage abilities for healing.
Path of Resurgence and Way of a Thousand Strikes
Due to our playstyle of actively pressing Rising Sun Kick as much as possible you’ll want to pick Way of a Thousand Strikes on this choice node. It synergises a lot better than actively having to press Chi Burst for Path of Resurgence procs.
Balanced Stratagem
This passive ability has no large impact on your healing or damage. Actively trying to pursue 5 stacks for a specific moment won’t really help you as a Mistweaver as we’re constantly pressing both our physical abilities and healing spells interchangeably. Consider this as a buff to your damage and healing that passively acts in the background.
Mantra of Purity and Mantra of Tenacity
Neither of the choices have any large impact on your playstyle, survivability or healing. Pick whichever option suits you best. Recommendation is picking Mantra of Purity as it’s increased healing, even if it’s a small amount.
Coalescence
Our last part of the hero talent tree acts as a healing and damage increase by actively targeting players and enemies that are affected by Aspect of Harmony being spread. Don’t put too much thought into this as in Mythic+ this will interact passively for you while playing. For raid your priority is to heal whoever’s missing health and not who’s got Aspect of Harmony on them at the moment.