Whenever people talk about mistweaver, or what they have heard, or seen, they come to the conclusion that mistweaver is the worst healer.
They come to this conclusion due to two (2) misconceptions:
- Mistweaver requires casting to heal (in clutch moments, no big instant healing)
- Mistweavers are easily killed
The only grounded negative opinion is that Life Cocoon is a “fake” cd… because a 60K shield is worthless by today’s dps standards and this ability should be significantly buffed.
Today i would like to address these misconceptions.
PLEASE SKIP TO PART 1A.) i removed the toxic part of this post and just left some information derived ========================================================
Rising Sun Revival conduit.
Rising Sun Revival heals someone for ~2K over 8s, or ~6K over 8s if you hit 3 people.
Wow. What a great use of a conduit slot.
Mana Tea, over the duration of 10s, vs Lifecycles casting Env>Viv>Viv>Viv>Env equates to a ~2K mana difference… this is to mediate the idea that even in a perfect Mana Tea window, which is very unlikely, the difference is still so insignificant… so for the other 1.4mins while Mana Tea is on cd, its pretty obvious that you’ll be losing significantly more mana than that via Lifecycles.
Any argument referring to “well this is good for dampening” can refer back to this bolded text: by the time you’re at 0% mana w/ Mana Tea (/ Focused Thunder) the Lifecycles mistweaver will still be at +35% mana.
PART 1A.) ====================================================
These players will, along with many others that have no idea what they’re talking about, convincingly demoralize you from playing mistweaver because; lets reiterate the misconceptions we’re here to debunk:
- Mistweaver requires casting to heal (in clutch moments, no big instant healing)
- Mistweavers are easily killed
Well as for the first, mistweaver doesn’t require hard-casting to heal. You will be told, and witness, a mistweaver trying to channel soothing mist, in attempt to make it through 1 global to vivify their target, just to get kicked and lose the match in vain. “Wow, mistweaver sucks!”, you will exclaim.
Well, what if that target had Bonedust on them?
What if that target had Essence Font on them?
You now might be thinking to yourself, well that’s a lot of globals, AND you have to cast Essence Font, it will just get kicked! To this i say; well for one, bonedust brew procs pretty often through unity, and due to the Bone Marrow Hops conduit lowering the cd of Bonedust Brew, effective on proc brews, the uptime on Bonedust Brew, specifically in moments where you need it, is pretty consistent- should this be by your own hand pre-emptively or a proc.
For another, i would say that you can cast Essence Font and cancel Essence Font, while still providing the buff to 3 people (intended target), faster than peoples’ brains can react to it. I’ve stood in front of friends, who stand there waiting to kick me on Essence Font, just for me to instantly cancel-cast it; the buff comes out incredibly fast is the point i’m trying to make > optimally you should be cancel-casting ~14s before you think you’ll potentially need instant healing.
People read the first part of Upwelling talent and immediately it boggles their mind about longer casting duration “Wow, that will surely get kicked. This talent sucks!” only to miss the second part of the talent, duration of buff increased by 4s. That means w/ 2set+Upwelling and a .3s channel you can have three (3) 14s buffs up. (Note: Your alternative is getting a second charge of Thunder Focus Tea, which is almost always spent on a Vivify that is already -45% mana reduced)
Well how is any of this instant healing?
Gust of Mists = 5.5K
Essence Font = 5.5K × 2 = 11K
Resplendent Mists conduit = 30% chance to make Gust of Mists proc for 100% more healing
(5.5K × 2)~2 = 16.5-22K
+Crit
((5.5K × 2)~2)~2 = 27.5-44K
on Bonedust Brew = (5.5K × 2)2 + (7 × 2) = 36K
w/ resplendent ((5.5K × 2)~2)2 + (7 × 2) = 47-58K
+Crit
(((5.5K × 2)~2)~2)2 + (7 × 2) = 69-102K
POV you hit Renewing Mists-
That’s a lot of instant healing. That’s crazy i thought mistweaver didn’t have any!
a little bit of practice, figuring out the timings, knocking out some oldschool tendencies, you’ll be instant casting in no time.
Note: All of these extra heals apply the Bone Marrow Hops conduit, which reduces the cd of Bonedust Brew, and the extra gusts (including dusted gusts) apply the Jade Bond conduit, which lowers the cd of Chiji.
Speaking of Chiji, what was that second misconception?
- Mistweavers are easily killed
Well, if all that instant healing wasn’t enough, if teleporting through walls while stunned wasn’t enough, if dematerialize wasn’t enough, well at least we still have Chiji. Y’know all that math you see above? Take all that, now apply it to 2 targets, put it on every global for 24s, useable through silence/kick, and add +40% on all of it from instant cast free Enveloping Mists, then throw in a half-effective Enveloping Mists just like Yu’lon. (heals through shadowy duel btw)
If Chiji is up, no one can die.
That’s a little bit of an exaggeration, but if you’re like stunned, you have 30% wall or you can teleport (or both), you got instant healing, and when you’re not stunned you heal everyone to full hp every global. The real trick with Chiji is learning when/how to use it. You say “play chiji” to one of the examples above, they’re going to scoff, and when they play it they’re going to run in like its Way of the Crane from legion cause that’s all they know. I generally use Chiji pretty defensively, when the enemy team is trying to keep pressure up; there is just nothing they can do into Chiji without heavy cc on you- it can heal through ret wings, war banners, dk grippy hands, its incredible in the right hands. Not to mention the whole time you’re basically not spending mana, you’re lowering the cd on Chiji through Jade Bonds conduit, and increasing the chance to proc Bonedust Brew through SCK/etc hitting people.
If you ever run Jade serpent statue, the thing that heals on and off in LoS/range for 1K/hps, thinking that it is providing anything to the match, you are diluted. You’re trading the absolute biggest mistweaver cd in the game, for a passive heal that will lead to your death, your teammates death, anytime, when enemy cds are up, down, dots are ticking on you, anywhere, the statue provides absolutely no value. Deselect it and don’t reselect it for the rest of the expansion.
Wow, look at that. You’ve reached the end! Congratulations. Now you know that mistweaver, not only has the highest healing throughput in the game, the best mana efficiency in the game (even while using Essence Font), a disarm, the ability to port traps/cc/stuns, passive wall, can stop tranquility/smokebomb, dispel sepsis, massive instant healing, and is incredibly hard to kill, you can go live your mistweaver dreams!
Mistweaver isn’t bad, the people who “play it” are.
PLEASE READ SOME OF THE THREAD BEFORE REPLYING BASED ON THIS INITIAL POST.
Incase it wasn’t obvious, here is the new build:
Talents:
- Mist Wrap
- Chi Torpedo (Tiger’s Lust as needed)
- Lifecycles
- Ring of Peace (Song of Chiji as needed)
- Diffuse Magic (Healing Elixir ONLY if you’re fighting 2 physical)
- Invoke Chi-ji, the Red Crane
- Upwelling
Honor Talents vary but generally Peaceweaver, Eminence, then trade Chrysalis out as needed Dematerialize, Grapple, Zen Focus Tea.
Conduits:
- Bone marrow Hops
- Fortifying Ingredients
- Jade Bond
- Lingering Numbness (Swift Transference, preference)
- Resplendent Mist
- Harm Denial
You’re welcome.