Improving Mistweaver for Arena

PVP Arenas
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With the design of, and changes made to, other healers in the past few expansions, Mistweaver has really fallen off in arena, as many have already noted. The most important of these changes center around instantly casted heals; as Mistweaver is light on these (they’re required to spec into Sheilun’s Gift with Emperor’s favor to even stay remotely viable), they’re extremely vulnerable to CC and interrupts. As many have long surmised, this was supposed to be part of the tradeoff for having excellent mobility, but the way things have developed, this is no longer in balance. So what could be done to help here? Note that I would only want to see these changes apply in Arena, or just PvP in general. (MW seems fine in PvE, but I’m not an expert on it.) So what could be done?

  1. Make Eminence baseline. MW uses this to dodge CC from stuns, which are incredibly common in PvP
  2. Make Zen Focus Tea baseline. Since MW has to stand still and cast, they could at least be uninterruptible some of the time, giving them some breathing room. They’d still be CCable during casts, of course. This is basically a required PvP talent in most matchups
  3. Do something about the apex/second-level of the MW talent tree. These levels seem to have good talents, but in reality, most are either underbaked for PvP or require points that are simply not available due to the requirement to get SG and talents like Peer Into Peace. Talents like Invoker’s Delight are essentially never taken as they are completely useless and should be reworked for PvP. Unison and Mending Proliferation could be set up so that both could be taken. There are a lot of things that could be done here, but something should be done
  4. Make Peer Into Peace baseline. I can’t imagine why this isn’t already the case
  5. Make Vivacious Vivification a choice node that allows the old behavior to be selected
  6. Either fix mastery or just rid of talents like Resplendent Mist. Right now, this is not worth taking for where it is in the tree
  7. Take Soothing Mist off the GCD. Due to the lack of instants, MW is likely the most global-starved healer in the game. This change would at least make healing less punishing. Every healer depends on getting precog, but MW’s dependency-level is outsized

Of course there are bigger changes they could make to seriously improve PvP (making it a separate sub-game like Plunderstorm) or using per-bracket tuning, but those are for a different thread.

Thank you

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they only listen to woez and they barely listen to woez.

wrap it up.

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What do we do to nerf the fact they’ve been the only healer you want in Rbg’s for the past decade and they’re good in 2s?

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Did you really mean to post this

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Best they can do is a 10% buff to vivify and a 5% buff to Cocoon’s absorb.

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wtb bfa mistweaver back i hate fistweaving

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That’s why I think there should be per-bracket tuning, because it doesn’t seem like they can balance well across them

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They’re unfortunately not gonna do any class changes prior to midnight, but they SHOULD buff the healing coefficient on ancient teachings to counteract the RWK damage nerf.