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More on the Mistweaver Monk 5.4 Mana Tea Change

Blizzard announced a few days ago that they are reducing the mana return on Mana Tea from 4% to 2%.  Mistweavers are currently the healing spec that is using the least amount of spirit – in fact most high end raiding Mistweaver Monks are choosing the Throne of Thunder drops that do not have spirit, or reforging out of every bit of spirit that they can – it isn’t unusual to see MW with the only spirit gems being Purified Imperial Amethyst, and only used when it is to meet a desired gem socket bonus, such as the tier chest.  Seeing a Mistweaver with 5k spirit is pretty normal, and yes, that is even those clearing 13/13H.

Blizzard has finally commented on the change, and confirms it is to address the fact that Mistweavers are trying to drop as much spirit as they possibly can.

The fact that a 50% nerf to Mana Tea feels like a 50% nerf to your overall mana regen should indicate why the change was necessary. We want healers to want Spirit. When a healing class is actively avoiding Spirit whenever possible, there’s a problem.

That said, there’s still a lot of work and discussion going on here. We’re probably not going to keep this particular change. The overall goal is simply that you care about Spirit, and we’ll be rebalancing as necessary.

It might also mean that Mistweavers should be picking up some spirit pieces where they have opted for non-spirit pieces, such as rings and off-hands, otherwise some could be in for a world of hurt once 5.4 hits.

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Mistweaver’s Mana Tea now restores half the mana

Mistweaver Monk’s Mana Tea has been completely nerfed on the latest PTR build patch notes.  Instead of Mana Tea restoring 4% of maximum mana per stack, it now restores only 2%.

This change will be a major concern for Mistweavers, especially because many Mistweavers have reduced their spirit levels to 5-8k overall spirit.  This means that Mistweavers will have to increase their spirit or rely more on Resto Shaman’s Mana Tide totem.

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Mistweaver Monk T16 tier bonuses

Mistweaver Monk T16 2pc and 4pc bonuses have been announced, and introduces an absorb for mistweavers.

Blizzard is bringing another absorb to a class without one currently, perhaps to test how well monk mastery interacts as an absorb.  Unfortunately, it is tied to Gift of the Serpent which is bound to make some Mistweavers pretty unhappy.  With the exception of high end raiders pushing progression content, healing spheres aren’t very often deliberately run over by players to heal, it is more likely a player moves for something else and just happens to have a sphere in his or her path that heals.

For those confused about the wording on the 4pc, it essentially means that it is a single targeted extra Chi Wave healing bolt, not once that is bounced from another person.  In theory, this should mean it would be a slightly “smarter” heal compared to a bounce.

With the 2pc bonus, it could end up being that mastery becomes a better stat for mistweavers than it has been this entire expansion.  Or they are perhaps putting it upon mistweavers to nag their raiders to run over the healing spheres since they have an added absorb because spheres have been very underused.  And it could be baby steps to making mastery into a real absorb for mistweavers not tied to a tier bonus.

Remember this is the PTR, so things could vastly change and get updated before 5.4 hits.

Forum Discussion on Monk T16 here

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Mistweaver Monk Revival no longer dispels Matter Swap

If you have killed or are working on heroic Dark Animus, one of the most useful raid cooldowns, Mistweaver’s Revival, is pretty much a death sentence to anyone who has Matter Swap when the monk pops it.  So monks either would have to time it extremely carefully, or would have to assassinate one of their fellow raiders with the dispel portion of Revival for the greater good of keeping the rest of the raid alive after a bad Interrupting Jolt.

Good news for Mistweavers and raid leaders, the June 4th hotfixes finally included a change that sees Revival no longer dispelling Matter Swap.

Monk’s Revival ability will no longer dispel the Matter Swap debuff.

I only wish this happened while we were working on this boss for progression!  Blizzard also made a change where players will no longer get multiple Matter Swap debuffs together.

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Mistweaver Monk’s Chi Wave is “Smart Healing”

One of the 5.3 changes with monks was that Chi Wave, instead of healing pets or other targets that weren’t raid members, it became a “smart heal”.  In the Icy Veins dev interview, someone questioned whether seeing a glyphed Chi Wave option was possible, in order to get more control.

We fixed this for 5.3. Chi Wave now does “smart healing,” so it will prioritize injured players over pets. It can still be wasted on the wrong target, but it’s hard to predict which target players consider the right one to be. Overall, it’s still a really dominant talent and not in imminent danger of not being taken. Making it too easy to use might make the other talents even less attractive.

The full Icy Veins interview is here.

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Mistweaver Revival Buffed in 5.3 for 25M raids

Mistweavers who raid in 25M raids have just received a huge buff to Revival.

Revival now has a healing cap of 15 raid members (up from 6) when used in a 25-player instance.

This change did surprise me, to be honest, as Revival has been a pretty powerful healing coolddown to use in raiding this expansion.  But Tranquility did also receive their own buff, so it could be related.

Now, will Healing Tide see its own buff as well?  Nothing yet, but it wouldn’t be a stretch, since it only heals 5 players currently per tick.