This feedback is part of my healer feedback and wishlist on every healer for 11.2. I have every healer at 680+, 3100 io+, HoF CE on most of them (probably all of them soon), and my current highest IO is over 3800. I am not an expert but I feel as though my credentials are probably above the average person’s.
Mistweaver received a lot of attention going into 11.0 and 11.1 and after years of neglect that’s been a breath of fresh air. I actually have very few complaints with Mistweaver as a whole, I think the class is largely insanely strong with a lot of cool and niche things they can do. I only have two major complaints and one is purely a complaint.
11.2 Feedback
No major complaints for 11.2 specifically. The title was a reference to MW’s 90 different healing amps (Enveloping Mist, Shaohao’s, Chi Harmony, etc) stealing from their baseline power but that was just changed last week before I posted this so I no longer need to comment on it.
Fun, and this one is subjective
In Raid there are largely two viable builds for Mistweaver, however the majority of players choose the “Yulon” build. This is pretty cool because supporting two play-styles is pretty hard to do especially with 2 Hero talents for 4 possible combinations.
I love the current Meta M+ build for Mistweaver. However whether you choose Conduit or Aspect you basically always play the same build, and you play it basically the same way. The title there says ‘partially’ subjective because the Hero talents were made to add variety. Between two Hero talents I think it’s okay if all the same talents are picked if you play the class in a different capacity (obviously if different talents are picked the playstyle is almost assuredly different so that’s a given). An example of this is Prot Warrior. Warriors take basically all of the same talents between Thane and Colossus. That’s okay because Thane has a much higher priority on thunderclap, much less priority on revenge, more rage generation, way better snap-threat and 1.5 less defensives. So when you swap to either Hero tree, you feel it. It does feel different to play even if 99% of the talents are the same. Just something to break up the gameplay. Personally I think MoH should steal the TFT CDR from Conduit and Conduit should have a node that buffs their celestials more or something but to each their own and that’s just my opinion.
I always struggle to do my 8 Weekly keys on my Mistweaver because I just get bored. Every other class except Druid I can do my 8 Weekly keys and still be ready to do 8 more because I’m just having fun testing builds and trying different hero talents even if they are sub-optimal… Mistweaver I’m bored after just 4 Keys usually. There is basically no way to make Caster or Rushing wind build work in M+ without feeling super janky. There are some keys timed without Jadefire and even fewer without Ancient Teachings… There’s a reason like 95% + of the keys are played the exact same way. And like I said it’s not that you can’t play without a few talent changes but the result doesn’t even feel good or close to as good as the meta build… So for me personally I always return to the meta build. And if there was even a trade off like “Yes I chose to do less damage but do more healing” or vice versa, that’d be fine. But the build that does the most damage, also does the most healing lol.
So yeah, my only gripe here is I just wish there was slightly better support for a caster play-style in M+ or better distinction of playstyles between Conduit and Master of Harmony.