I see a few posts on this topic and a few that I agree with. I feel as if there are a lot of players on here that don’t understand how to fistweave or realize that healing on a mistweaver monk is not the same as rolling HoTs on a druid. I have personally played every healer in the game (besides evoker) for the last up-teen years. I shied away from MW monk for the longest time. I just picked up the playstyle 3 days ago. Got to level 70, bought AH gear, and got to the M+ grind. I have just reached 1k IO, 383 ilvl, and really enjoying the class. It is extremely fun. I mained a VDH with 2200 IO pushing 17s/18s, I want to get this MW up there and call it my main. Every 5 item levels you get, actually feels good. You can notice the difference in your heals.
I did my research, watched Toxic (#1 MW) on YouTube and learned the playstyle. I was 360 ilvl pushing 10s and 11s. I am only doing my key to avoid the no invites to groups. What I can say is that I have timed every dungeon with at least +2.
There are somethings that need tweaked and buffed, I do not know what those are right now until I push a little higher. What I can say is that if I can do this anyone can. It is a fun class that is not played often at high keys so it doesn’t become recognized.