Mistweavers are incredibly broken right now, and I am very sad that we are not one of the specs getting some love in the next reset. As it currently stands, Mistweavers have severe mana issues compared to all other healers, are getting declined from M+ groups because we simply can’t keep up at the higher levels as other healers, and have to work our tails off to even try and be on par or just under what other healing classes are putting out in the tougher current content.
I have been playing Mistweaver since MoP, this is my main & you can check my armory history if you don’t believe me, but this is the worst shape this spec has ever been in, even after the Legion rehauls. It is very discouraging to just not be able to put out the heals necessary in higher keys.
We honestly need a whole rework to the spec again to bring us back to pre-Legion, but for right now, reducing the mana cost of some of our spells & increasing healing output by a small percentage would be a welcome starting step to fixing the spec.
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At the very least Blizz should be able to roll out some mana reduction and damage buffs in a hotfix. There’s no reason for mistweavers to have such high mana costs when our throughput and cooldowns are worse than all of the other healers.
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I always save my Innervate for the poor mistweavers. 
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Someone has to be last.
As a former Monk main I’m here to tell you…the wait for Blizz to make changes to the least played class in the game is going to be a long one. Save yourself the grief and reroll.
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I’d rather see mw get more throughput. They should keep their identity as the arcane mage of healers.
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It’s okay to be last. But right now its borderline unplayable. There is a difference.
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There is a big difference between being last, and going around the track backwards.
There are a lot of problems with mistweavers, and they could use a bit of a stepping stone to get over their hurdles.
Being least played shouldn’t matter; it’s still a class, something needs to be done to bring them up a bit. I don’t want to see other healers nerfed, I’d rather see the ones that are below par brought up to be competitive with them.
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The data says MW is fine, even after removing the KT cheese.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26#metric=hps
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The “data” doesn’t match what the majority of Mistweavers are experiencing. If you took a peek at the Monk forums, the WoW Subreddit, Twitter responses to WarcraftDevs etc, you will see many Mistweavers are claiming to have severe mana issues.
Also, this is for Castle Nathria, where we have a little booster with potential Innervate, etc. We are extremely weak in M+ currently, barely functional in the high keys due to mana problems.
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peeps complain about m+ and pvp and you say everything is fine because of raid logs
think you missed logic class
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I’d be cool with this if we changed Mana Tea back to actually restoring mana over time instead of being a short mana-saving CD. It would give MW a more active playstyle and interesting niche.
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Least played = Least payed.
Blizz has finite resources and chooses to spend them on addressing issues that affect more players. This is a logical business plan.
Honestly I think it is true… mw IMO needs some love. Whenever I’m in a group, I always see mw struggling.
Blizzard doesn’t balance for M+.
See BFA RDruids as example #1.
Haha, careful now! Bringing out data to a “feels” thread makes people angry, because they don’t want to admit that maybe some people are using the spec in ways they should be learning from.
MW for all the loud hype from a few seems to be doing very well for itself. And no, it’s not just Sun King, they’re top median healers even in a very challenging (probably the most challenging) fight in CN… mythic Stone Generals.
Obviously the spec isn’t entirely broken if it’s capable of that. There are plenty worse off.
Like Holy Priest. They need work, and the data supports this.
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Yes, but that doesnt mean you can outright ignore a class for that reason. You still need to give them resources.
I dread M+ for the mana struggle. It hurts my soul. I’ve been avoiding high level keys because I simply don’t want to let the group down. : ‘(
All Blizz needs to do is compare the current state of Rest Shammy’s and Mistweavers.
I play both and it’s night and day. I prefer the Mistweaver play style but my Resto Shammy brings far more utility, doesn’t have mana issues and has similar throughput.
I really think the biggest issue for most of these Class and Spec issues is Blizz designs things with internal sims without playing the game. I run into that with devs in my business as well. That’s the only way I can imagine the current Mana costs for Mistweaver spells being implemented.
How many x-pacs in a row have we seen top players bring up issues for various specs during Beta only to be ignored then proven to be right later on?
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yeah the mana leak makes me sweaty while the shammy in my group is casually pulling same healing 
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