Why is this still a thing, stop pushing this bullsht spec in PVP. Its ridiculous
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Presumably because they consider it to be an attractive entry into healing for dps players.
Sort of like a melee version of Discipline.
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This doesnt justify the absolute abomination of a spec it is. Never casts, hardly any counter play too it, heals off anything it can touch and has all the tools to re-engage off CC + porting CC + insane self defensives + low CD cocoon.
meanwhile my 3min CD link and 2min CD tide die instantly to one RSK from a FW. no to mention the amount of scripters killing totems as they spawn.
May every Fistweaver get endless Boomy lobbies.
Ehhhh, I feel like it has some pretty horrific matchups unless enabled by a ret.
Let us not mention those.
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Why? user of them yourself? or maybe you have the addon called weakauras blaring monitor wide healthbars to click and oneshot it like everyone else. One class cooldowns almost completely made irrelevant by one addon.
Not at last check. 
I just hit the nameplate close to my character.
I feel like if one person on the other team chains a few CCs together (e.g. Cyclone), the monk falls horribly behind.
2 min cd healer trinket being buffed to 90 second cooldown ontop of all the cc in the game being nerfed really pushed fistweaver over the edge
This same exact design fistweaver would be borderline unviable in mop or most other expansions because they would just be perma ccd if they tried running it down mid.
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Aren’t fistweavers a sitting duck for CCs out in the open?
I can see a 3s comp built specifically around it, but fistweavers seem less effective and very vulnerable in RSS.
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Well they often roll with a pack of wild melee and one being ret so any cc on them either breaks, is trinketed, or is dispelled by ret. Cyclone is one of the few that really punishes them.
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Ah, I see. Whenever I run into fistweavers in RSS, it seems like free wins for the other healer if anyone throws out a few CCs on the monk. They seem very weak into some specs.
Is that on your Hpal? Bops can really make it hard for them sometimes if no dispels for it. It really depends on what’s all in the lobby but I’ve queued into a few on my lock and they’ve done really well. 2x War+DH or something and they’re just in the thick of it all game blasting away. Its basically like triple melee on you every game and the healer needs to use every gcd to keep you alive and you need to dodge 3 kicks, 7 stuns, etc. to get a cast off.
Oh no, just on random specs.
I play at a lower MMR and in RSS so it’s YOLO and uncoordinated, but I’ve noticed fistweavers really fall behind once people realize someone just needs to CC the monk a few times.
Yeah that definitely can happen. It seems to me so many things are very lobby dependent right now, even more so than in the past. Not sure if that’s just my perception or reality.
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Not sure if it’s the same for everyone else but I rarely see healers trash talk, except almost every fistweaver lobby I’ve ran into.
They’re always fighting with someone and I’ve seen more than one say something like “if I’m not cced”, wonder why that happens rofl
if your monk is not in crowd control you should let them use their short cooldown cacoon instead of wasting a defensive
Err, what I mean is that they seem to complain about being easy cc targets, wonder why
I think FW is a neat concept, but is way too binary atm and it ends up being oppressive or useless.
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I only fistweave when I’m in a melee comp and we just focus on one player, which doesn’t really happen that often because I really love castweaver, seems to have the best of both worlds.