Mistweaver Monk: First Impression of the New Monk Talent Trees in Dragonflight

Dragonflight Criado 10/9/2022 em 03:00 por Anomoly

To learn about the best PvE talent builds in Dragonflight for this class, and export these builds into the game, please check out our Brewmaster, Mistweaver, and Windwalker Monk class guides:
Brewmaster Monk Talent BuildsMistweaver Monk Talent BuildsWindwalker Monk Talent BuildsMonk Dragonflight Class Talent TreeMonk Dragonflight Talents - What's New

Vivificação Vivaz and Vivificar Aprimorado - The Vivificar Aprimorado 2 point talent is just a 40% buff to our current Vivificar power. It introduces the current aura buff Windwalker and Brewmaster have to Vivificar and allow us to select it. Then Vivificação Vivaz makes Vivificar instant cast. This allows Vivificar to be casted while moving and repositioning. Overall very good buffs to Vivificar Aprimorado in a portion of the class tree where you have plenty of points to spare.

Golpe Mão de Lança - And it's back! We have an interrupt. Enough said. Its a melee interrupt, which allows us to now help in both raids and Mythic+ with any particularly nasty casts. This is great!

Atenuar Ferimento / Magia Difusa - We have access to both of these defensive spells. While we do lose Fortifying Brew, we gain two overall better options.

Toque da Morte Aprimorado / Toque Fatal - While Toque da Morte Aprimorado is just adding back in Rank 2 of our current Toque da Morte, we also gain access to Toque Fatal which reduces Toque da Morte's cooldown by 2 minutes. This is a great set of nodes which basically give us the ability to talent into some priority damage for mobs. This could specific adds on a raid encounter, or mobs in a Mythic+ environment that need to die ASAP. Very nice set of additional utility through a spec traditionally seen only with Windwalker.

Dentro do Coração / Dose Generosa - Two new raid buffs allow us to bring something more than just Toque Místico. These provide either 2%/4% Leech or 2%/4% Avoidance to raid or party members around us. In any progression scenario, both of these should be taken. We will have enough points to pick both of these up easily. The only issue will be the range of the buffs, however, we should be able to maintain this 100% on melee without issue.

Fugir da Realidade - This provides some additional mobility to get out and then back into position or vise versa. The more interesting part of this ability is it's interaction with Vivificar. With it buffing Vivificar by 70%, this is a large healing increase across the raid. I will speak about this later in the article, but with the amount of potential Brumas da Renovação's we will have on the raid, a 70% increase to the healing they will do is massive.

Cerveja Fortificante locked behind Paralisia - In the current tree, if we wanted to talent into Cerveja Fortificante, we need to invest 2 points into Paralisia and then 2 points into both Cerveja Fortificante and the choice node after this, where we can reduce it's cooldown to 4 minutes. At 4 minutes, Cerveja Fortificante is not a cooldown we would want to invest 4 points into. Also, while we can move into Toque da Morte Aprimorado, our only other option is through Expel Harm, which is never going to be taken by Mistweavers. It just locks us into too many points for too little gain.

Onda de Chi and Estouro de Chi on a Choice Node - For Mistweaver Monks at least this is an easy choice. We will always take Estouro de Chi. I know that our other specs may swap between the two based on the type of fight, this option for us is clearly not a choice at all.

Ar Pesado and Graça da Garça - In the last, blue post we learned that Ar Pesado is getting redesigned, it originally interacted with Raio Jade Crepitante. Also, Graça da Garça just increases healing taken by 2%. While neither of these are particularly exciting options, they do sit in a weird place in our tree. The only path to it is through Roll, which adds another charge of Rolamento. We can already talent into Celerity later on in the tree, and 3 rolls will typically be overkill from a movement perspective. There are also no interesting nodes beyond Roll, which make going this path less desirable. This entire upper left section of the tree needs some work.

Final Two Rows of the Class Tree - The final two rows contain both our capstone abilities, and a Healing, Damage, or Damage Taken buff. With the second to last row, these to provide additional healing, damage, or defensive bonuses. They are not exactly amazing, but they do offer some level of power increase. Beyond these we are left to choose from 3 statues. These are Evocar Estátua de Serpente de Jade, Evocar Estátua do Tigre Branco, and Evocar Estátua do Boi Negro. Thematically these are very cool in terms of a healing, damage, and tanking option. In terms of practice, more than likely only Evocar Estátua do Tigre Branco will see any regular play. Evocar Estátua do Boi Negro potentially has some niche applications, but those would more than likely be around doing some weird Mythic+ shenanigans.

Evocar Estátua de Serpente de Jade - I broke out this statue from the above just to highlight the issues here. This statue requires a 2 point investment from any non healer spec, as they would need to talent into Soothing Mist. For Mistweaver specifically, the statue is just bad. Weak healing, and it is triggered by a spell we rarely use in any content. This needs another look. Any gameplay centered around Bruma Calmante really needs a full rework. The current model of maintaining an 8 second buff on a single target is both tedious and provides little actual healing gain. In my eyes, this is basically a blank box in terms of a talent we would ever seriously consider in its current form.

Monk Class Dragonflight Talent Tree - First ImpressionsGolpe Mão de LançaParalisiaEvocar Estátua do Tigre BrancoToque FatalMistweaver Dragonflight Class TreeMistweaver Dragonflight Talents - What’s New?

Restauro vs. Reviver - Blizzard has added a choice node around Reviver. You are choosing what type of dispel you would like to pair with your Reviver. The baseline still provides Magic dispel, while Restauro changes that to Disease and Poison. Restauro is also usable while stunned. This is an excellent change, as Mistweavers do suffer from not being able to use Reviver in certain portions of a fight, such as the final phase of Sylvanas or during the Fated Dispel affix. This is an excellent choice node.

Fonte de Vida / Infusão Secreta / Bruma Transbordante - A trio of old Azerite traits appears. These were all great traits at the time and are solid choices within our tree. They also are all within key areas of our tree and are easily reached. With the tree itself focusing a bit more on casting Bruma Envolvente, Bruma Transbordante will be a solid amount of throughput on any target taking damage. Infusão Secreta offers us some secondary stat boosts. We will generally be using Chá do Foco do Trovão to boost Chute do Sol Nascente, but this does give you options for targeted stat boosts at specific times.

Difusão Rápida / Brumas Dançantes / Picos Brumosos - Another trio of synergy talents that provide a number of different ways to spread both Brumas da Renovação and Bruma Envolvente across the raid. Difusão Rápida will add a random Brumas da Renovação with a 3 / 6 second duration after using Bruma Envolvente or Chute do Sol Nascente. With Chute do Sol Nascente being a common filler spell, you will be spreading a large number of Brumas da Renovação's on the raid. In addition, Brumas Dançantes provides a 10% at a Brumas da Renovação duplicating itself whenever you cast Brumas da Renovação or when Brumas da Renovação jumps to a new target. Expect to see this also boost the number of active Brumas da Renovação on the raid. Finally, Picos Brumosos, gives Brumas da Renovação a 5% / 10% chance to proc an Bruma Envolvente with 2 second duration. Giving your Brumas da Renovação or potentially Vivificar healing a solid boost on certain targets. This trio of talents provides a really exciting gameplay opportunity going into Dragonflight. We can also use these high periods of Brumas da Renovação on the raid along with Cloud Focus to really push a fairly large amount of healing.

Proliferação Recompositora / Chá de Fartura - One of our capstone choice nodes. Both of these are returning Legion legendary powers. In either case, while Chá de Fartura does grant a random Chá do Foco do Trovão buff, after using Chá do Foco do Trovão, it does suffer from just being random. You may get a proc you just cannot us or do not need in the instant. Proliferação Recompositora spreads the Bruma Envolvente healing amplification across the group. This may potentially be a solid choice with the amount of Bruma Envolvente casts we look to be throwing out in Dragonflight, however, it does suffer in where it is placed in the tree. It is awkward to spec into currently.

Pulso Zen - Returning for Dragonflight is Pulso Zen, which is a previous talent choice for Mistweaver Monks. This works by doing healing to and damage around a target that has enemies near them. This was a staple dungeon talent and will potentially return in Dragonflight. It's centrally located in the tree so it is relatively easy to spec into. There is a choice node beyond Pulso Zen that provides buffs directly to Pulso Zen. Reverberação Ecoante triggers Pulso Zen a second time as reduced effectiveness if both Brumas da Renovação and Bruma Envolvente are active on the target. The other choice, Bruma Acumulada, increases the healing and damage of Pulso Zen each time Bruma Calmante heals. Each of these give a choice based on if you are playing around Bruma Calmante or not. Overall a compelling option in the center of our tree.

Chi Nutrimental / Coalescência Calmante - Coalescência Calmante stacks a buff to Casulo de Vida each time you heal with Bruma Calmante. Chi Nutrimental increases heal over time effects on your Casulo de Vida target. While these may be more PvP focused talents, they are located on the left hand side of our tree and gate access to Sussurro de Yu'lon and Pisão Flamejade. Pisão Flamejade is more of a PvE ability and the talents above it are seemingly more PvP focused. It does create some tension in terms of talent choices, but honestly, you end up just completely ignoring this side of the tree.

Cerveja Pó de Osso / Brumas Resplandecentes / Cerveja da Abundância | Atenuação - The entire lower right hand side of our tree is dedicated to Cerveja Pó de Osso. Leaving Shadowlands, we lose many of the systems that buffed Cerveja Pó de Osso and made it a choice in the previous expansion. We lose the conduit and the buff to the conduit, along with our Soulbinds. Without these, Cerveja Pó de Osso is not very strong compared to your other talent choices. Along with this, to get to the capstone choice node of Cerveja da Abundância and Atenuação, we must talent into Brumas Resplandecentes. Mastery is not a great stat for Mistweavers in general, so talenting into something that randomly buffs said stat just feels bad. Also, as above, this is competing with an extremely strong center of our tree, which hurts this even more.

Uníssono along with Evocar Estátua de Serpente de Jade and Bruma Calmante - Uníssono as a capstone makes zero sense. I generally struggle to find a use for this talent is really any content out currently. It is low impact, does not interact with another of our kit beyond Bruma Calmante and is generally a boring buff for a max tier talent. Centering a capstone around boosting an 8 second channeled heal is just bad. The healing game today is just too quick, to take time out and just slowly channel a trickle of healing into a random second target. And while I am using Uníssono as a jumping off point for this, I think the larger issue is with Bruma Calmante itself. The current use of it centers around having talented into Concentração Anuviada for the purpose of not boosting our single target healing, but boosting our healing to Brumas da Renovação targets. Other than this talent synergy, Bruma Calmante is currently and will in the future rarely be cast. My point is that I think Bruma Calmante needs to be redesigned away from being just a channel and potentially towards being a buff or something only put out by Evocar Estátua de Serpente de Jade or Invocar Yu'lon, a Serpente de Jade. Remove the player channel component and allow it to boost player healing or provide a level of random healing to a specific target. Anything other than requiring us to channel for 8 seconds, or even trigger it every 8 seconds.

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