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Mistweaver Monk in Shadowlands - Healing Strengths, Best Covenants, Soulbinds and Legendaries
Shadowlands
Publié
12/11/2020 à 21:02
par
Anomoly
Shadowlands launches on November 23rd / 24th and all classes will be getting new toys to play with -- from Covenant abilities, to Conduits and returning Legendary effects! This article, written by Anomoly, will provide details on the current state of Mistweaver Monk in Shadowlands, to help you to prepare for the upcoming expansion!
Introduction
Hello all! Welcome to another State of article here are Wowhead. My name is Anomoly, the Mistweaver guide writer here at Wowhead, and one of the Admins over at the
Peak of Serenity
discord. I will be talking through Mistweaver Monk and how we are currently feeling on beta and going into Shadowlands. We’ll go through this mostly from the aspect of Mythic+ and Raiding. Please note, as with any content, specifically Beta content, all of this is subject to change. There have already been a number of sweeping changes and we will probably see more in the weeks leading up to the expansion. If you do have any questions after reading through this, you are more than welcome to reach out on
Twitter
, the
Peak of Serenity
discord, or when I am live on
Twitch
.
For more detailed information, please check out the
Mistweaver Monk Class Guide
, which will be updated as we close in on Shadowlands launch.
Also, as a quick preview for what is to come, it looks like Mistweaver may not be as bad as it has been for the past two expansions!
Check out all our Shadowlands Launch Opinion articles by our Class Writers and members of the community! Click on any of the colored specs below to see what articles we've released so far.
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Protection Warrior
Class Changes and Talents
Mistweavers have gone through a number of changes since the last article on the state of Mistweavers was written back in early Alpha. You can reread that
article here
but at the time, we were looking like a half complete, half implemented class.
Since then we have seen the following spell changes:
Toucher mortel
- 15% damage increase was added to Rank 3. Also, Healing Spheres were removed from the tooltip, and they are not spawning.
Invocation de Yu’lon, le Serpent de jade
- This, along with
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
received a major rework back in August.
Invocation de Yu’lon, le Serpent de jade
now will cast
Brume apaisante
on an injured target, and also heal 4 nearby allies. The rank 2 of this spell, learned at 58, adds an additional healing HoT,
Harmonie céleste
, to 5 nearby targets when you heal with
Brume enveloppante
. This is a great buff to a previously lackluster cooldown.
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
- This was also reworked not only in August, but later changed. It now will heal up to 2 nearby allies with
Maîtrise : Bourrasque de brume
each time
Paume du tigre
,
Frappe du voile noir
, or
Coup tournoyant de la grue
is used. Along with this, each time to cast one of those spells, you gain a buff that reduces the mana cost and cast time of
Brume enveloppante
by 33%, stacking up to 3 times. Couple this with
Harmonie céleste
and you have a very strong
Brume enveloppante
spamming cooldown.
Armes de l’Ordre
- The heal that is triggered at the start and end of an
cast has had it’s spell power reduced to 40% from 250%.
Piétinement de ligne faë
- Now triggers on those targets in front of you for the heal, and the faeline will spawn directly under your feet.
Ordre des défunts
- This ability has gone through numerous bug fixes, so while it’s spell power has not been changed, it has gone through iterations to have the clones function as the tooltip states. They will now cast
Brume enveloppante
correctly.
There have also been a number of other changes around Soulbinds and Conduits, along with too many to describe bug fixes for existing abilities. The above highlights some of the major changes that have been put in place over the course of the Beta.
For Legendaries, we have seen a few updates to their legendaries. Briefly,
Fuir la réalité
was added as a fourth legendary. It will of course see little use in PvE when compared against the other options. There was a rework to
Larme matinale
though. The spell now read:
Casting Vivify or Enveloping Mist on a target with Renewing Mist has a 10% chance to spread the Renewing Mist to another target. Your Vivify healing through Renewing Mist is increased by 20% and your Enveloping Mist also heals allies with Renewing Mist for 20% of its healing.
The change itself is a gameplay change from the previous iteration, which was a direct port of our T18 set bonus. The change itself now provides additional rewards to healing players with
Brume de rénovation
already on them. It also provides additional bonuses to casting
Brume enveloppante
in a raid setting.
Other than the rework to
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
, talents themselves have remained largely the same.
Invocation d’une statue du Serpent de jade
does have an 8 second cast time on it’s cast of
Brume apaisante
to mirror the players. This does not change the situations you would use that talent in though. For reference the below is a fairly standard talent build for the start of Shadowlands in both raids and mythic+.
There are a few talents you can swap around situationally:
As always,
Diffusion de la magie
will generally be the more useful defensive talent, however, based on specific boss fights
Atténuation du mal
may be the more appropriate choice.
Remontée d’eau
vs
Brume levante
will be a talent row you can swap between. In terms of power, they end up relatively even, with
Remontée d’eau
being the easier option to maintain and gain the most benefit from.
The standard Mythic+ build does not change much for Mistweaver Monks going into Shadowlands. You will be playing the new
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
talent if you have selected Kyrian but other than that, the remainder of the build remains the same as it was in Battle for Azeroth.
As always,
Diffusion de la magie
will generally be the more useful defensive talent, however, based on affixes or specific dungeons,
Atténuation du mal
may be the more appropriate choice.
Anneau de paix
continues to be strong in dungeons to cover multiple scenarios such as moving mobs out of or into certain other abilities, interrupting caster mobs, or pushing portions of packs away for specific pulls..
In terms of Conduit and Soulbind changes, since the original article was written, and lot of these were finally fleshed out and we also had the Soulbind tree’s themselves flipped. The biggest change has been to move the previous capstone Soulbind Abilities to the first row of the Soulbinds. This is key in Necrolord as the Soul Bind ability from
Emeni
is now on the first rank. This will allow for a high uptime on the Intellect buff. Along with this, since the current damage patterns in Castle Nathria look to align with
Breuvage poussière-d’os
you will have the intellect available when you need it.
Be sure to head over to the
Baseline Changes Guide
for additional details.
Leveling Perks
The Mistweaver leveling perks are pretty straight forward. You will end up getting the following four updates to existing spells.
Toucher mortel
(Level 52) - Using Touch of Death will now increase your physical damage by 15% for 10 seconds after using it.
Extraction du mal
(Level 54) - Expel Harm is now castable during
Brume apaisante
and will also heal your
Brume apaisante
target.
Paralysie
(Level 56) - Reduces the cooldown of Paralysis by 15 seconds. Ok?
Harmonie céleste
(Level 58) - While
Invocation de Yu’lon, le Serpent de jade
or
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
are active, each cast of
Brume enveloppante
will heal up to 6 nearby targets and also increase healing they receive from you by 10%.
The only ability of note above is
Harmonie céleste
. This turns your 3 minute cooldowns into actual healing spells. They will now cause you to prioritize using your Celestials as true power increase cooldowns. You will want to pair
Invocation de Yu’lon, le Serpent de jade
or
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
with large damage events and cast as many
Brume enveloppante
spells as you can during the buff.
If you are using
Invocation de Yu’lon, le Serpent de jade
, you will pair it when you can, with
Thé de mana
to offset the high mana cast of the
Brume enveloppante
casts during the buff. When using
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
, you will want to pair this with
Armes de l’Ordre
from Kyrian for the large Mastery increase. You will also want to make sure you stay in melee range the entire duration of the buff to cast as many damage spells as you can to gain stacks of the buff.
Mistweaver Monk Covenant Abilities
I had been waiting to write this section because it has been a roller coaster for Mistweavers on beta. While the covenant abilities themselves have remained largely unchanged since the original implementation on Alpha, the power of each has swung wildly. I will say at some point over the course of the beta, each of the 4 has been what I would consider the best covenant.
I expect anything I have written here, will end up being rendered moot by Blizzard during the next tuning pass. So if you aren’t reading this on November 8th, 2020 at 9:34pm ET, then it may or may not be correct.
Kyrian
Armes de l’Ordre
- This grants a 10% mastery buff, along with resetting the cooldown of
. Each time you start and end a cast
while
Armes de l’Ordre
is active, a fairly strong heal is triggered by the ability. This turns
in an even stronger AOE healing ability. However, you will more than likely use this in tandem with
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
to boost the Mastery healing from the damage you do during the buff. This plays nicely into the Fistweaving playstyle that comes with taking
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
, so if you want to continue to pursue that playstyle, you can with Kyrian.
Frappe de clarté
- This increases the Mastery gain and duration of
Armes de l’Ordre
. You will potentially skip this as the duration of
Armes de l’Ordre
is already longer than
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
. The increased Mastery, however, does offer some benefits depending on how Conduit balancing ends up.
Invocation de régisseur
- This summons a little steward that provides some different things like a free talent change or a vendor. The big draw, however, is
Flasque de sérénité
, which is a healing potion that does not share the same cooldown as health potions. The potion also removes bleeds, which may end up being useful in Castle Nathria, however, they have been changing the damage of abilities from bleeds, so it may not be as useful in the live raid.
Venthyr
Ordre des défunts
- This ability casts a mirror that various monk adepts spawn out of. There are 3 types, each aligning to the 3 monk specs. This spell has gone through a number of bug fixes and in its current state it is a strong 3 minute cooldown, however, there are still instances of the adepts not casting or inconsistently casting
Brume enveloppante
. As a dual DPS / HPS cooldown it is strong.
Reflets imprégnés
- So you get more damage and healing out of the adepts. Sure. This will more than likely be an easy conduit to slot into your soulbind if you do select Venthyr
Porte des ombres
- Very situational in terms of power. Monk is already an extremely mobile healer so moving quickly from place to place is not something we struggle with. The ability also has a cast time which will limit its usefulness in combat. You may be able to use this to skip packs in Mythic+ or positionally setup for certain encounters. You are however, at the mercy of WoW’s pathing, which is suspect at best. Even when you have full line of sight of your target location.
Night Fae
Piétinement de ligne faë
- First off, this is hands down the most beautiful ability ever implemented in this game. Now that we got that out of the way, the ability will heal allies in front of you, along with placing a faeline on the ground. Allies are also healed by an
bolt when hit by the faeline. While the damage of this ability was recently nerfed the healing component was untouched. This is a strong frontal AOE healing ability on a short 30 seconds cooldown. It is competitive with the other covenants in terms of its healing output.
Voie des Faë
- So this increases the damage of
Piétinement de ligne faë
. There is no healing increase, so this conduit can be largely ignored and skipped.
Forme d’âme
- This is another mobility cooldown. This will instantly blink you forward 15 yards and also grants a 50% movement increase for 15 seconds. I have already said above that Monks have a large number of mobility spells and cooldowns. Having another blink is nice, but there isn’t a huge benefit for monks on this one. If you do like to potentially roleplay as a spectral fox, you now have a pathway to live out that fantasy in WoW.
Necrolord
Breuvage poussière-d’os
- Necrolord has had its ups and down over the course of the Beta. It started out in an extremely bugged state, with
Vivifier
from all 3 specs cleaving on to anyone hit by
Breuvage poussière-d’os
. Currently, the spell has been fixed and is functioning just as it’s tooltip suggests. It allows you to cast an AOE ability that applies a buff to allies hit for 10 seconds. During those 10 seconds,
Maîtrise : Bourrasque de brume
healing is increased by 42%. On a 1 minute cooldown, this does align with a lot of the current damage patterns in Castle Nathria.
To touch on a recent change,
Houblon à moelle
, the Necrolord Covenant conduit, was providing a large amount of cooldown reduction, because it had a chance to proc on an individual healing event. With a spell like
Vent de jade rafraîchissant
, you can have 10 or more events per second. This previously allowed up to greatly reduce the cooldown of
Breuvage poussière-d’os
. A change recently though, has capped the cooldown reduction at 2.5 seconds. While this does reduce the overall number of casts, it is still a powerful cooldown.
Houblon à moelle
- This provides more healing from
Breuvage poussière-d’os
, along with a small reduction in its cooldown. This is still a no brainer in terms of if you are Necrolord, you will equip this conduit.
Chair recomposée
- This is a 4 second channeled ability that provides a shield that is equal to 20% of your maximum health. If you are near a corpse, this shield is increased to 50%. This ability will be someone difficult to use since you have to channel for 4 seconds for the full benefit. For any telegraphed damage, you will generally have a cooldown being used, so the additional buff may not be needed. Also, because it is channeled, it cannot be used as an emergency button. This may see some situational use where you have the time to cast it before a damage event, but in general, I don’t see how useful this will be.
Picking a Covenant
So for all the marbles, which one is the best?! At this point, based on the current tuning Necrolord provides the best increase in terms of healing in Raids, while Kyrian has a slight edge in Mythic+. They are currently each balanced fairly well, so you would not be making a very poor choice in terms of selecting either of the current options.
Having said the above, the other two options, Venthyr and Night Fae are not too far off in terms of power so with tuning over the next few weeks, this has the chance to still shift again.
Be sure to check out the
Monk Covenant Overview
for more details
Best Soulbinds for Mistweaver Monk
So we have gone through the Covenants and Conduits, now onto the final of the three systems that work together to provide the main new system for Shadowlands. As I mentioned earlier, there are two main Covenants that you will end up leaning towards, with each being chosen depending on your playstyle. Either can be used, however, in the case of Kyrian you will more than likely be pairing this with
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
. While not an exclusive reason to pick Kyrian, you will want to avoid using
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
without it.
So without further ado, I give you the recommended Soulbind setups. First up is Kyrian, which will use Kleia:
With Kleia the main draw is
Frappes vaillantes
and the healing effect it provides. While this was currently updated to just affect party members, it is still a strong Soulbind ability. You will want to make sure you are grouped with individuals you will be near. So if you are playing at ranged, make sure the majority of your group is also ranged, and vice versa with respect to melee positioning. The remained of the tree is filled out to allow to pick up a second Potency conduit and slot in
Lien de jade
for the cooldown reduction and healing increase on your celestials.
In terms of second best Soulbinds, you would be looking at Pelegos leveraging
Méditation de combat
for the Mastery increase and then
Renoncement au passé
for the Versatility bonus.
And now for Necrolord and your Emeni Soulbind:
Montrer l’exemple
leads the charge with this Soulbind. With the 1 minute cooldown on
Breuvage poussière-d’os
, like I have said before, this will line up with a number of large damage abilities in Castle Nathria. You will want to pick up both Potency conduits in this tree as the current capstone abilities are fairly lackluster. You are also able to pick up a strong defensive conduit in
Ingrédients fortifiants
. The key though is
Houblon à moelle
and the power increase to
Breuvage poussière-d’os
. While nothing too exciting, this is a strong setup for the first tier.
For Necrolord your choice beyond Emeni is limited. Bonesmith Heirmir would be your backup. It's not a great backup in terms of available abilities, but you would gain access to
Rêveries forge-nées
, which allows you to continue to heal or damage if you take fatal damage. You also have access to
Arsenal d’Heirmir : gemme médullaire
as an increase to your critical strikes. Not super overwhelming, but a nice bonus. In general though, Necrolord doesn't have the strongest backup Soulbinds.
Mistweaver Monk Legendaries
Shadowlands reintroduces the concept of legendary items back into the game. These will be a bit different than other legendaries in that you are able craft them directly, after obtaining the appropriate power. This allows for significantly more control over which powers you are able to use in specific content.
General Monk Legendary Powers
Fuir la réalité
- After you use
Transcendance : Transfert
, you can use
Transcendance : Transfert
again within 10 sec, ignoring its cooldown.
During this time, if you cast
Vivifier
on yourself, its healing is increased by 70% and 50% of its cost is refunded.
Slot: Neck, Chest
Potentially a PvP centric legendary. The effect will see little use in almost all PvE content.
Toucher fatal
-
Toucher mortel
cooldown reduced by 120 sec.
Slot: Wrist, Finger
An interesting legendary in terms of where it may find use. In terms of lowering the cooldown to 1 minute, this may see some play in Mythic+ to help quickly target and DPS certain mobs. Also with Rank 3 of
Toucher mortel
, you can couple this with providing some meaningful DPS on a 1 minute cooldown.
Délice de l’invocateur
- You gain 33% haste for 20 sec after summoning your Celestial.
Slot: Head, Shoulder
This one will be interesting as the haste buff will allow for some additional casts while the Celestials are active. I still see some of the Mistweaver specific ones being stronger, but once we can equip more than 1 legendary, this one may come into play.
Roulé-boulé
- During , you are immune to roots and snares.
Slot: Waist, Feet
Just another PvP oriented legendary. With
Soif du tigre
available I doubt this is ever equipped.
Mistweaver Specific Legendary Powers
Enseignements ancestraux du monastère
- After casting
, your
Paume du tigre
,
Frappe du voile noir
and
Coup de pied du soleil levant
heal an injured ally within 20 yards for 250% of the damage done. Lasts 15 sec.
Slot: Wrist, Hands
Fistweaving is alive and well. This legendary received an update to it’s trigger a few weeks ago, which allows Blizzard to increase the healing effect. While this may see play when paired with
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
, I believe the other legendaries will offer stronger healing going into the first tier. However, I enjoy this and agree with adding a trigger spell to it. I don’t know if
is the spell I would have chosen, but the design direction allows it to be more powerful versus just a passive damage to healing conversion. One thing to note, in the hotfixes this week, they did change the trigger for the buff to apply at the end of the
, not the beginning. This is a solid change, specifically for the usefulness of this in raiding.
Focalisateur nébuleux
- Healing with
Brume enveloppante
or
Vivifier
while channeling
Brume apaisante
increases their healing done by 15% and reduces their mana cost by 15%. Stacks up to 3 times.
When your
Brume apaisante
channel ends, this effect is cancelled.
Slot: Neck, Wrist
So if you ever wanted to keep one person alive really well, here is the legendary for you. It makes our single target healing extremely efficient, and boosts it to somewhat absurd levels. The major issue is that the buff immediately ends when the
Brume apaisante
channel ends. This means any movement, or having to cast on a different target drops the buff immediately. The situations where this could be used are very specific, however, when it comes to those situations where a large amount of focused healing is needed, this legendary gives us the best ability to produce that healing.
Larme matinale
- Casting
Vivifier
or
Brume enveloppante
on a target with
Brume de rénovation
has a 10% chance to spread the
Brume de rénovation
to another target.
Your
Vivifier
healing through
Brume de rénovation
is increased by 20% and your
Brume enveloppante
also heals allies with
Brume de rénovation
for 20% of its healing.
Slot: Head, Waist
Ahh, and now onto our beloved
Larme matinale
. The famous T18 set bonus has now been changed and reworked. It is just as powerful as it was before, but reworked to allow us to spread
Brume de rénovation
and also cleave heal when casting
Brume enveloppante
. This will end up increasing the value of casting
Brume enveloppante
in a raid. It also will increase in value due to the new Celestials and their interaction with
Brume enveloppante
and
Harmonie céleste
. All around this will be a candidate for the top legendary for Mistweaver.
Murmure de Yu’lon
- Activating
Thé de concentration foudroyante
causes you to exhale the breath of Yu'lon, healing up to 6 allies within 15 yards for over 2 sec.
Slot: Shoulder, Finger
Original Source: Legion Artifact Trait
Souffle céleste
And now for one of the more boring legendaries. It essentially is just a free AOE heal each time you hit
Thé de concentration foudroyante
.
With the current tuning, this is extremely strong, and will be the best legendary you can use at the start of the expansion. The biggest issue will be if Blizzard makes any tuning for this. If they do end up reducing its power, this will fall in rankings proportional to its changes. Right now, at the spell power values, this is extremely strong in both raids and mythic+.
Welp, Blizzard did this. With a Hotfix this week they reduced the spellpower coefficient and now will occupy the space of a more middle of the road legendary in terms of power.
Picking a Legendary
We are flush with choice to be honest. There are 3 legendaries that are usable and in certain situations would be considered the best choice.
Larme matinale
,
Enseignements ancestraux du monastère
, and
Délice de l’invocateur
are all strong options. Each has their own situational uses and potential playstyle impacts.
Enseignements ancestraux du monastère
will of course be used when you can spent the majority of your time in melee and can cover damage easily using the passive buff.
Larme matinale
will bolster your primarily healing spells, and also buff the use of
Brume enveloppante
in all content. Finally,
Délice de l’invocateur
allows for some additional GCD breakpoints to be met, which in turn will boost the power we can gain from our Celestials.
To speak specifically on the recent changes to
Murmure de Yu’lon
, while it falls from the top spot in terms of power, it is by no means unusable. As a simple, passive increase in healing to your group, it's solid. It is just not the outlier it once was after the hotfix.
With the current content, and the focus on a first legendary,
Murmure de Yu’lon
would be the initial pick for crafting. This one is tough though, because of how passive it is, any tuning by Blizzard will impact the usefulness of this item in the future.
Larme matinale
would be the go to pick. As a strong buff to our key healing spells in
Vivifier
and
Brume enveloppante
, it will be strong. It also promotes the use of
Brume enveloppante
more in raids, as it increases it's mana efficiency and with
Harmonie céleste
procing off the use of it while our Celestials are active
Mistweaver Monk Conduits
Conduits are an interesting batch in terms of usefulness for Mistweaver. They are split into 3 different categories:
Potency - Which provides a damage / healing buff, and includes changes to Covenant abilities.
Endurance - Which provide defensive bonuses
Finesse - Which provide additional utility bonuses
In general, you will target Potency Conduits when you can, but keep in mind they also that conduits do enable Soulbind abilities. This means you may forego a Potency conduit and instead slot in an Endurance or Finesse conduit.
Potency Conduits
Let’s go through Potency conduits first:
Lien de jade
- Abilities that activate Gust of Mist reduce the cooldown on by 0.3 sec, and healing is increased by 6.3%.
Chi nourrissant
-
Cocon de vie
increases healing over time received by an additional 18.8%, and this effect lingers for an additional 6 sec after the cocoon is removed.
Brume resplendissante
-
Bourrasque de brume
has a 30% chance to do 50.0% more healing.
Renaissance du soleil levant
-
Coup de pied du soleil levant
reduces the remaining cooldown on
Regain
by 1.0 sec, and
Regain
heals targets for 12.5% of
Regain
's heal over 10 sec.
Frappe de clarté
(Kyrian) -
Armes de l’Ordre
's duration is increased by 5.0 sec, and it increases your Mastery by an additional (1.25 * 1)% .
Reflets imprégnés
(Venthyr) -
Ordre des défunts
monks deal 36.3% more damage and healing.
Houblon à moelle
(Necrolord) -
Breuvage poussière-d’os
's Shadow damage or healing is increased by 40.0%, and when Bonedust Brew deals Shadow damage or healing, its cooldown is reduced by 0.5 sec.
Voie des Faë
(Night Fae) - Increases the initial damage of
Piétinement de ligne faë
by 10.5% per target hit by that damage, up to a maximum of 52.5% additional damage.
For Conduit rating, I will leave the Covenant specific ones to the side, as certain ones will be must haves, and others will be overtaken by the Mistweaver specific conduits.
Lien de jade
- With this conduit, you end up with both an increase to your two Celestials, along with the ability to lower the cooldown on these 3 minute cooldowns. With the fact that the cooldown reduction is triggered on
Maîtrise : Bourrasque de brume
procs, you should be able to see reductions in the 20-30 second range, under normal conditions. The cooldown reduction does currently trigger on each
Maîtrise : Bourrasque de brume
so if a target with the
HoT is healed, that would be 2 separate cooldown reduction events.
Renaissance du soleil levant
- While not overly powerful, in the context of the other conduits available this is our next best choice. Utilizing
Coup de pied du soleil levant
on cooldown, you should expect a potential 10-15 second reduction on
Regain
. Not amazing if you cannot make use of the cooldown reduction. Also the healing HoT portion, while helpful, doesn’t really push overall
Regain
healing that much higher
Brume resplendissante
- A chance at more
Maîtrise : Bourrasque de brume
healing. In a world where if we needed more healing from
Maîtrise : Bourrasque de brume
we would already be channeling a lot of our single target healing power into a single ally, a proc from this will more than likely be overkill.
Chi nourrissant
- So they brought back our Legion artifact ability, but they made a change that made it usable. It is still not great, as
Cocon de vie
is mostly used to cover pre-damage vs post, but the HOT increase does allow for the player to be topped up quicker, even after the shield fades.
In terms of Covenant specific conduits. 3 of the 4 are essentially must haves, with the final conduits, basically useless in terms of Mistweaver. You would equip these conduits based on the covenant you select.
Frappe de clarté
- Kyrian - With this, you gain an increase in the duration of
Armes de l’Ordre
along with an increase in the Mastery gain. While this is mostly going to be paired with
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
, so you will gain nothing from the increase in the duration of the buff. The Mastery healing increase is a great bonus also, particularly with
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
scaling fully off of our Mastery.
Reflets imprégnés
- Venthyr - It's a flat increase. Equip it. That’s it basically.
Houblon à moelle
- Necrolord - It’s a flat increase. Equip it. Do I sound like a broken record yet? The biggest thing here, is yes, the increase to healing is great, and will outshine our Mistweaver specific Potency Conduits. The cooldown reduction was hotfixed last week and capped at 2.5 second of reduction. While it does limit the number of times you can cast this, it does not affect its impact on your healing. It will still be useful and pairing this with Emeni (
Emeni: Necrolord Covenant Soulbind in Shadowlands - Abilities, Row Unlocks, Conduits
) and
Montrer l’exemple
provide a boost to your main stat.
Endurance Conduits
Endurance conduits are up next. These are going to provide pretty straight forward defensive bonuses or in some cases, increase the healing of an ability that already does zero healing.
Ingrédients fortifiants
-
Boisson fortifiante
grants you a shield equal to 12.0% of your maximum health for 15 sec.
Souffle isolant
- When casting
Vivifier
on yourself, its healing is increased by 15.0%, and it has a 30% chance to refund its cost.
Refus du mal
-
Extraction du mal
's healing is increased by 25.0%.
Ingrédients fortifiants
- Generally the strongest of the 3 endurance conduits available. The shield it provides is a nice bonus on top of an already strong defensive cooldown. Mistweavers in general are fair hardy healers, so while we don’t need the additional defensive capabilities, they are nice in the case.
Souffle isolant
- A conduit focused solely on you healing yourself is generally not great. As a healer, you have full control over your own hitpoints and can understand if you have a defensive or other ability up to mitigate upcoming damage, versus spending a GCD to heal yourself with
Vivifier
. Only should be taken if for some reason you need to run two Endurance conduits because of SoulBind abilities.
Refus du mal
- It increases the healing of an ability that shouldn’t be on your bars anyway. ;)
Finesse Conduits
And finally Finesse conduits:
Chute étourdissante
- Targets affected by your
Balayement de jambe
deal 6.3% less damage for 5 sec.
Engourdissement persistant
- When
Paralysie
ends, your target's movement speed is reduced by 40.0% for 5 sec.
Transfert rapide
-
Transcendance : Transfert
increases your movement speed by 12.5% for 5 sec.
Art de la chute
-
Frappe du voile noir
has a 6.0% chance to grant a charge of
Roulade
.
So I am not even going to do a list here.
Chute étourdissante
is the only one worth taking in any situation, if at all. The debuff does apply after the stun is finished, which is great, so it does get some usefulness. Beyond that, the rest of these are really just forgettable.
For more details, you can check out the full list of
conduits here
.
Conclusion
So are we destined for another expansion at the bottom of the barrel? At this point, not even close. With the covenant choices available, and legendary powers we are flush with choice in terms of both playstyle and overall power.
With both of our Celestials,
Invocation de Yu’lon, le Serpent de jade
/
Invocation de Chi Ji, la Grue rouge
, we shore up a previous weakness of not having a power increasing cooldown. Couple this, with the fact that our covenants and legendaries compliment this and allow us to choose a specific playstyle gives all Mistweaver players some level of choice. Also, with the current tuning on legendaries, we end up with 2 or 3 very solid choices where the different potentially comes down to personal choice versus just an overwhelming numerical advantage.
Meaningful choice may be back, at least for Mistweaver this expansion.
While I have focused mainly on the positives, Mistweaver is still thought of as a non-viable or weaker healer. The majority of complaints will focus on our lack of a damage reduction cooldown or strong "utility", such as
Bénédiction de protection
. These things are all true, however, going into the first tier, I believe the community may be weighing past performance too heavily and slightly underselling Mistweavers. Would I love to see us given a damage reduction cooldown, or a way to push additional damage . . . Of course! But with the inclusion of our new Celestial cooldown, and the power granted by the expansion systems, our output will be sought after. We are also one of the more durable healers in terms of our mobility and strong personal defensive cooldowns.
There is one hesitation though. We don’t have
Carapace spirituelle
so we won’t be top of the meters, but Hey, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
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