Mistweaver Monk in Shadowlands Alpha - Lackluster GCDs, Minimal Talent Changes, Mastery Issues

베타 2020/05/28 시간 02:56에 Jaydaa에 의해 작성됨

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This article is written by Jaydaa a veteran healer and contributing writer to both World of Warcraft content and other Blizzard games content here on Wowhead. I've been raiding in WoW for almost 15 years at various levels of progression. I've contributed to the theorycrafting of multiple healing classes, notably Mistweaver Monks and Restoration Druids. Find me on Twitter or on the Wowhead Discord.

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New Baseline Mistweaver Monk Abilities:

NEW - Works almost identically to the live version of with a Jade Serpent skin instead. The intial Shadowlands Class Update Blog suggested that this incarnation would also spawn healing spheres for nearby injured players, but currently on Alpha the functionality does not appear to be implemented. Reinforcing Monk ties to the Celestials of Pandaria is a win in my book, so this cooldown being added baseline is a nice addition to the toolkit. However, the cooldown is still a bit weak and bland overall. It's sorta this set and forget ability that you don't really interact with for either Mistweaver build besides seeing it speed around the battlefield. If Yu'lon left a healing increase on the target or interacted with mastery in some way, then I'd feel like I was engaging with the Celestial rather than him being a mindless pet.

NEW & NEW Rank 2 (Mistweaver Level 52) - For Mistweavers, the current iteration of 해악 축출 is suffering from a major identity crisis. To put the ability in perspective, the last time 해악 축출 was in our toolkit it was a cheap self-heal with small damage component, but also produced 1 chi when we still used that resource. The current incarnation allows us to hit ourselves and our 위안의 안개 target with 생기 충전 amount of healing while dealing a small amount of damage to a nearby enemy. While that may seem reasonable, when you factor in that 해악 축출 is more expensive than a 생기 충전, doesn't do any 특화: 안개 돌풍 healing, doesn't cleave to 소생의 안개 targets, and has a 15s cooldown, the problems start to emerge. Early datamining suggests that upon use you'll spawn a few additional Healing Spheres, but that functionality does not appear to be hooked up on Alpha if it's still intended.

NEW & NEW Rank 2 - A solid hard hitting ability on a 3 min cooldown. The return of 절명의 손길 is a nice addition to the base toolkit, but not gamebreaking. I do however love the enormous healing when using 절명의 손길 with 주학 츠지의 원령 up turning this purely damage based cooldown into a healing one albeit very niche. The intial Shadowlands Class Update Blog suggested that this incarnation would also spawn healing spheres for nearby injured players, but that functionality has yet to appear on Alpha.

Modified Mistweaver Monk Abilities

강화주 Turns your skin to stone, increasing your current and maximum health by 20%15%, and reducing damage taken by 20%15% for 15 sec.
Cooldown changed from 1.5 min cooldown to 2 min cooldown
A minor nerf to the primary Mistweaver defensive. While this isn't huge, the nerfs feel like this is done to accommodate 강화주 in the Windwalker toolkit which would warrant the nerfs and Mistweavers are just the casualties of this ability becoming class-wide.

특화: 안개 돌풍재활옥룡 위론의 원령안개오름치유의 구슬민활주결박회전 불꽃Talent Changes

NEW - Replaces 옥룡 위론의 원령 - Summons an effigy of Chi-Ji, the Red Crane for 25 sec. Chi-Ji causes you to become immune to all movement impairing effects, and increases your Physical damage by 25%.
Dealing Physical damage causes Chi-Ji to heal 3 nearby allies for 150% of all damage done.
Tier 6 Talent, in place of
The new 주학 츠지의 원령 is almost exactly like PvP talent with a few notable differences. At a 2 minute cooldown, you'll be using this spell less frequently but the duration has changed from 15s to 25s to help offset the cooldown. The huge win for this talent is the free mana cost. No longer will you pay a quarter of your mana or be forced to line it up with 마나 차 in order to just activate the ability. 주학 츠지의 원령 unfortunately has also inherited all the downside of the previous incarnation in which the player lacked control over who was being healed. We've all seen the clips where the hunter who's standing in the middle of nowhere is dying while the melee are all sitting at full health. Perhaps, the idle Chi-ji that we summon could instead be summoned to a particular location where the bird would replicate a portion of the healing in that particular area. Additionally, this talent still has no interaction with Mastery meaning you'll want to prioritize other stats to make the most out of this talent.

주학 츠지의 원령특화: 안개 돌풍기의 물결옥룡 조각상 소환Covenant Abilities

Kyrian:
질서의 무기 - Probably the most powerful covenant ability for Mistweaver Monks so far, but very expensive and has a few limitations. For mana expense, you'll be paying the direct mana cost of 질서의 무기 which is about 2.5 생기 충전, the 정수의 샘 prior to casting the ability so you're granted the 정수의 샘 reset, and three additional 정수의 샘 while the ability is up to make the most out of the AoE healing pulse for each 정수의 샘 channel start and end. Factor in filling with 생기 충전 between 정수의 샘 casts to make good use of the increased mastery and that's an absolute ton of mana. Luckily, the throughput of the extra mastery and the AoE pulse can be worth it as the AoE pulse currently heals for a little more than a 재활 but unfortunately the range seems to be around 8-12 yds meaning you'll need the raid to be stacked up or have a decent melee clump in order to make good use of this extra healing.

청지기 소환 - The steward offers some quality of life options like free talent changes or a vendor to sell things, but it essentially boils down to 평온의 약병, a glorified healthstone for all intents and purposes. The healing will be nice and contribute albeit minimally to throughput, and the bleed and curse dispel for Mistweaver Monks could come in handy as you can't normally dispel those; however, the circumstances where the phial will be invaluable will be few and far between compared to other covenant abilities which are more universally valuable.

Venthyr:
망자의 연맹 - The adepts summoned via this ability offer both damage and and healing, but overall the healing increase especially for a 3 minute cooldown seems weak in its current iteration. Healing adepts mostly heal with 위안의 안개 and I couldn't quite seem to get them to cast 포용의 안개 despite being spec'd as Mistweaver. Fairly underwhelming in its current state from a healing throughput standpoint. Could use some fine tuning to feel more impactful at a 3min cooldown. Having the Tiger Adepts use 해오름차기 that works with 안개오름 could go a long way in tying in fistweaving with this covenant.

어둠의 문 - Quite possibly the star of the covenant signature abilities, it's hard to say no to a 35yd teleport with a minute cooldown even if it has a 1.5s cast time. This type of movement is almost universally valuable and it's hard to think of an occasion where it'd be useless. Full Venthyr dungeon groups can plan skips around this ability. As a Mistweaver Monk, our mobility is top notch, but I will never say no to more.

Necrolord:
골분주 - While this sounds okay on paper if you do the math this equates to 3.75% more healing/damage to targets affected by 골분주. At a 1 min cooldown and 10s duration that's less than 1% healing gained from the healing/damage replication and even less when you factor in the GCD spent to cast it. The extra 특화: 안개 돌풍 healing will be nice but comes in at slightly less than a third of a 생기 충전 in terms of value. Cool in theory but needs some numbers behind it to feel impactful. Perhaps an upfront large heal similar to 폭우 would go a long way to making this ability feel viable. Also the extra damage is applied as Shadow Damage meaning Fistweavers can't even utilize the extra damage with 주학 츠지의 원령 to have it heal.

살덩이창조 - This extra self survivability will be nice and as an absorb will contribute minimally to overall throughput, but where this one loses me is the 4s channel. Adding another long channel to Mistweaver's toolkit alongside 정수의 샘 is not exactly something we want. I would really like to see the channel time reduced or allowing this ability to channel while moving would go a long way to making this ability more palatable. Even with those changes it's a bit of a hard sell against the other movement oriented covenant signature abilities.

Night Fae:
페이 지맥 울리기 - The main advocate for using this ability is it's free and you'll make fairly frequent use out of it at a 30s cooldown. Unfortunately there are many downsides. First, the upfront damage doesn't translate to healing. Because the damage is nature, it can't be used in conjuction with 주학 츠지의 원령 to heal. There's also no upfront healing component only the damage component. The healing component for this spell is only the 정수의 샘 bolts and your group will need to be stacked up to utilize them. Consider this a small free 정수의 샘 every 30s and it's not bad but with a few tweaks it could be way better.

영혼형상 As someone who adored 야수 탈주, it's nice to see this come back as an option although more watered down. Blinks and teleports are universally valuable and while it might not be the Venthyr ability this is a strong second place option. You likely won't be coming up with skips for such a limited 10 yard blink, but you get 3 in the 12s duration so you may have some opportunities to blink over some particularly nasty mechanics. Comes with a cosmetic collecting minigame which is fantastic.

Kyrian질서의 무기VenthyrLackluster GCDs

마나 차 - In BFA, 마나 차 was placed on the GCD and given a 2s duration increase to compensate similar to 정신 자극. If 정신 자극 feels like a lackluster GCD then 마나 차 should feel even worse for much of the same reasons. First, there's no upfront benefit of 마나 차. You activate the ability but there isn't this feeling of instantly feeling more powerful. Instead you feel like the leaky faucet that is mana usage on Mistweaver Monk is a little less leaky. Because it's only 50% mana reduction, yes you can spam more spells but you still have to be conscious of how much mana you're spending because it's not completely free. Finally, because it's a 1.5min cooldown instead of the 3min cooldown of 정신 자극 you have to spend twice the GCDs for relatively the same benefit. Taking 마나 차 off the GCD returns the ability to a more strategic use without the awkward GCD downtime. This would fit well with the other drinks of the toolkit 집중의 천둥 차, 강화주, and 치유의 비약. If it's not removed from the GCD, then 마나 차 at the very least needs to feel impactful upon activation. A small mana injection or healing steroid would go a long way here.

옥룡 위론의 원령 & 주학 츠지의 원령 - While these are somewhat new to Shadowlands, their BFA incarnations had lackluster GCDs and it stands to reason they'll suffer the same in Shadowlands without some changes. 옥룡 위론의 원령 doesn't feel powerful often times feeling more like a glorified 치유의 토템 than invoking a magnificent Celestial of Pandaria. Yes, you get this trickle of healing, but there's no interaction with the Celestial beyond that. I don't feel more powerful when Yu'lon is on the battlefield. 주학 츠지의 원령 is slightly better because when you activate the ability you get the movement impairment immunity and then you feel empowered, but you still have that GCD downtime. A double damage buff to the first ability a players uses would make that GCD feel more impactful.

Personal Wishlist

특화: 안개 돌풍 - In case it wasn't completely obvious from the above article. I have some issues with Mistweaver Monk Mastery. If Mastery doesn't affect more aspects of the toolkit, then stats like Critical Strike and Versatility will continue to dominate and provide scaling issues for Mistweavers throughout the course of an expansion. This issue is further compounded when you have additional systems (Azerite and Essences) that provide a substantial amount of throughput but don't interact with Mastery. Hopefully, Covenants, Soulbinds, Conduits, and Legendaries for Mistweavers will take this into account. While I don't want to return to hidden coefficients when Mastery interacted with every spell, I think there's a healthier compromise than what currently exists, especially as it pertains to both Mistweaving and the popular Fistweaving builds of today.

Fistweaving - As part of the original class fantasy of Mistweavers, I hope this core dichotomy continues to be carved out. Healing as a master of melee martial arts should be embraced as fully as 빛의 자락 Holy Paladins. Core systems of Shadowlands like Legendaries, Soulbind, Conduits should take this playstyle into consideration and offer ways to support it.

Crane and Serpent Customization - As these two playstyles coexist for Mistweaver Monks, so too should the cosmetics to match. I want to fully embrace the crane fistweaving style with red cosmetics for 해오름차기 or 회전 학다리차기.

기의 물결 - This talent hasn't felt good since nearly its inception, but as someone who has played with the Druid Necrolord Covenant ability 적응의 무리 I know what a fun back and forth ability feels like. I'm definitely not wanting to homogenize the two abilities, but if 기의 물결 took a few steps in the direction of 적응의 무리 I definitely wouldn't complain.

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