It’s Like blizzard just doesn’t care about Mistweaver monks. Our damage is trash compared to other healers. We have no damage reduction or mitigation abilities like every other healing class. Our mana management in my opinion and a few others ive talked to, is worse than other healing classes. It Clear that literally no one on the development team, actually plays Mistweaver. There are many forums of monks asking for the same things, better dps and some sort of Dmg reduction, Yet no one listens. It’s sad and quite Frustrating.
A good idea would be this, Give Chi-Ji the damage Buff again, Then with Yulon, Instead of the 10% increase healing from soothing Breath, make it 10%-20% damage reduction. We deserve something seriously.
Even without damage reduction Mistweaver is still one of the best raid healers right now.
We can also see that DR doesn’t really matter in m+ as holy priest is still the king of that.
Our damage is only trash when comparing to resto shaman and holy priest in mythic plus OR full DPS no healing logs in raid.
Nobody listens for a few reasons.
We are fine
The solution would be either make a new Borrowed power for Mistweaver instead of working on 10.0
Just because we are not brought to the top 1% of keys doesn’t mean we are terrible. Mistweavers are able to do 28/27/26s literally showing we are fine.
For all the players responding to players venting about MW damage with,
“they’re fine”, or “Mistweavers are one of the best in raid right now”
My non-elite brain agrees that Fistweaving is in a decent place in raid and capable of high 20’s M+ content.
The forum complaints generally state “Mistweaver” so perhaps take off the ATotM leggo and run all that content and respond to the spec they are complaining about?
The same can be said for Holy Priest and their pigeon-holed leggo, with the exception that a priest can wear no leggo and still do massive healer dps (same with kyrian shaman).
Universally, most agree MW/FW doesnt have a place in PvP top end, but most healer specs don’t, if we consider current AWC comps.
MW does need a small dps boost for PvE, sure, but its FoTM that ironically prevents that from happening, unfortunately.
I assume this post is about PvE since i already have a thread regarding it in PvP active…
You should check out megasett, she does like MW m+ and raid stuff i think. she been playing like NF mw on tazavesh i think to get juicy damage output. (or join the monk discord, peak of serenity)
Besides the standard response of ‘ATotM isn’t the end-all-be-all of fistweaving’ the damage issue isn’t because of ATotM, it’s because the damage model we have is based around doing a steady amount over a long period.
If we are talking mistweaver as staying at range 100% of the time then yeah, the damage option is CJL and CJL is solid garbage.
It’s funny when I read the forums sometimes because the nicknames of “Fistweaving and Mistweaving” is kinda just dumb, because the spec is called Mistweaver, so if you complain about Mistweaver having issues, usually it would be expected you’re referring to the spec, not an almost removed “style” of play where you’re drastically worse in every regard in pve by playing “Ranged” Mistweaver.
Also that Mistweaver has always been a melee spec, where the only signs of being “Ranged” is just soothing mist(which is a heal) and cjl being a ranged damage ability (all melee classes have atleast 1 somewhere) so it’s interesting to see so many people so adamant it should be similarly as good when it never truly was.
You’ll find that’s the case for a lot of healers right now.
I’m running into the issue where this ability misses 8 times out of 10. I could use it against 7 mobs and hit 0-1 mobs with it while they are all directly in front of me. I don’t see how this ability contributes to massive amounts of damage if it doesn’t even work in the first place.
For me a “ranged” mistweaver is a playstyle where you’d comfortably sit midway between melee and casters. You’d use all your healing spells and would never have to rely on any of you dps abilities to extend HoTs or contribute to your heals. Instead of using SCK to apply your debuff you could use chi burst or (if the devs could finally figure out a better way to balance it) chi wave. The other issue I have is that our heals are mana heavy compared to a lot of other healers.
One of these days I’ll post my mock up for how I would love to see the mistweaving play style function. It’s my hope that with the new talent trees they can make the fistweaving and the more “ranged” mistweaving styles work in a way that both are viable and nearly equal. In a perfect world they would be separate specs altogether.