New MW buffs on 10.2 PTR!

Classes Monk
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Blackout Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
Tiger Palm damage increased by 50%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 5%.
Faeline Stomp healing and damage increased by 150% (was 100%).
Ancient Teachings of the Monastery may now stack up to 4 times (was 3).
Essence Font now heals 5 targets (was 6).
Essence Font healing increased by 40%.
Developers’ note: We aren’t looking to heavily push Essence Font rotationally in Guardians of the Dream, but it’s total healing output has fallen further behind than is comfortable and this may help Faeline Stomp’s initial heal feel more impactful.

Should mean that EF is worth pressing in raid again? And for Faeline build, you won’t have to do tp>bok instead of tp>tp>bok as it wasted a stack. Seems like nice changes :smiley:

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Over the past weekend I finally tried out Mistweaver for the first time, as it was the only healer I’ve never played. I was shocked how much fun I had with the spec, and it quickly became a contender for my 10.2 main. These changes reinforce it and the buffs are very exciting for fistweaving!

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I am happy for you all but these buffs to fistweaving has caused me to drop my monk. I can’t continue to play caster mw anymore when we are getting shafted by blizzard. Good luck to any future MW’s out there, i’ve decided to main another class. I’ll still stop by on monk forums here and there. :saluting_face:

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You can still play caster MW, still very strong in 10.2.

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I agree it’s still very strong. For a more hybrid build player like myself I’m super excited for 10.2.

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Damage buffs are very welcome :+1:

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Indeed, very nice!
Could bring us to be on par with Disc priest, holy pally or evoker.

How is the theory craft? SCK still viable or has TP > TP > BOK rotation pulled ahead in numbers?

Nice to see the changes on essence font too! Balanced around 5 targets

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These are some extremely strong changes.

Blackout Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
Tiger Palm damage increased by 50%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
Ancient Teachings of the Monastery may now stack up to 4 times (was 3).

These are wild.

Faeline Stomp healing and damage increased by 150% (was 100%).

This is INSANE to me.

Essence Font now heals 5 targets (was 6).
Essence Font healing increased by 40%.

This is wild also, because it makes the HoT stronger too.

Raid Fistweaver is about to eat real good in 10.2.

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Yes the gap between MW and FW should be smaller. Also giving a choice on Essence Font vs CF/Vivify ramping.

More importantly EF could be worth casting in M+, while moving or when away from melee range.

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Some nice buffs. Esp the EF changes and damage buffs. I’m hoping to run AT again in raids.

I still wont be picking up fey line for m+ any time soon though. All the buffs in the world cant make this a fun ability for me. Good buffs though.

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Ancient Teachings of the Monastery may now stack up to 4 times (was 3).

I’m confused. Did they mean regular Teachings of the Monastery? I didn’t know Ancient TM stacked?

Vs

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My guess is whoever put the notes together combined the old name(s) of the 2 abilities or just got confused.

Chances are they meant to say that “Teaching of the Monastery now stacks to 4 instead of 3”

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That’s what I assumed but you know how that goes. I’ll have to amend my weakaura suite to show the extra stack.

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please don’t

yes that’s what they meant

clouded focus is still by far the best way to go in raid. literally none of these changes really mean anything in raid also. they’re great for AT/FLS in M+ but we’re talking about like a 2k dps increase in raid and you still don’t use essence font

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Sorry to see you go, sorry a few others are so toxic they cant stow their own emotions enough to atleast show some maturity.

I dont even play a healer and the toxicity i see towards other monks is really surprising.

Also wont be maining my ww monk dont want to be stuck into this toxic drama that seems to be going on.

Again really sorry to see you leave, good luck though. Hope to see you around.

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Moonguard player who caps out at 17s thinks he deserves to insult anyone. Pretty hilarious tbh

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The caster paladin’s and caster monks should move on. Caster melee doesn’t feel good and being at ranged doesn’t let you use your level 1 spells to kick and punch. I don’t get why the desire to make a melee ranged so badly. There are better healers that are intended to cast at range.

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I tend to agree. There’s a variety of ranged, traditional spellcaster healers in the game, that cover a wide variety of different gameplay styles and themes. Having two of the six healers be focused on a much more unique melee gameplay style is great, and I think Blizz should be leaning more into what makes those playstyles work and reinforce them with better talents geared for it.

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All that matters is Armoredon and AoTC then i dip for the season, but at least i do it with fistweaving dignity

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Exactly this, i hate how everyone wants to homogenize a unique playstyle like fistweaver and make it play like the other caster healers. We need variety and Fistweaver brings it.

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