I haven’t touched this Monk since 8.0 and I strictly played BM. Im very use to playing my Resto druid at this point which is a very straightforward healer so I understand this is a git gud issue.
In situations where heavy party-wide damage is going out and I need to quickly heal up absolutely everyone, how exactly do I do that?
Essence Font barely even moves health bars and 2 circulating Renewing Mists + Vivify only allows me to heal 3 people at a time which still leaves 2 other party members in danger.
Im always the healer in M+ so ive never witnessed how other MW’s are doing it
Yea, monk aoe heals arent the best, but tbh if your group isnt standing in stupid there’s very rarely a situation where all 5 are taking consistent heavy damage at the same time. Most of the time vivify / renewing mists so you can heal 2-3 targets works out well enough.
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Essence Font HoT causes your mastery to hit targets twice, so in dungeons you want to cast EF till everyone has the HoT, then cast a RM (If you have a charge) then go into casting vivifies. We actually have really decent AoE healing if you have correct azerite traits.
Edit: Sadly, mistweaver has gotten pretty bad for dungeons. It’s not the worst, but its nowhere near the best. We barely provide anything to a group nowadays, we don’t even do great AoE damage anymore.
If you are doing 5 man content and use the focused thunder talent (100 row) and know the damage is coming you can use thunder focus tea to get 4 renewing mists out on your group and then spam vivify on the one person who doesn’t have a renewing mist to hit all 5 party members, but this is a slow ramp up only. It doesn’t work as a reactionary quick heal.
Use thunder focus tea>renewing mist, wait 5 seconds>second charge of renewing mist>then the next two renewing mists on cool down.
At this time you will have 8 seconds of 4 renewing mists into 3 seconds of 5 renewing mists if you hit the fifth renewing mist on cd to spam vivifies to your hearts content. It takes about 20 seconds to ramp into and is very hard to do mid fight as during that 5 second window you cannot use any ability that would consume the second charge of thunder focus tea. I try to get the first mists out before combat starts so I don’t waste the second charge of tea.
On any dungeon where your party members are being derpy and taking a lot of extra damage I use this on every pull it’s up just to practice the timing and remembering to hit mist on each cool down. Sometimes bad groups can make you a better healer as you will have to use parts of your toolkit you don’t usually need.
Thank you for the replies everyone! I ran half a world tour of M0’s and eventually figured it out with the direction you guys provided and the other topics floating around.
I have to say though, the RM+Vivify combo for AoE heals still feels incredibly awkward coming from a Resto Druid…
I guess if I were to try to explain it… The Mistweaver kit provides fluid and focused gameplay UNTIL I need to toss out RM’s. Having to channel Soothing Mist and the instant cast heals that accompany it feels great until its time to come to a hard stop and remember to throw some RM’s out. Its a weird complaint but as someone with ADHD these hard stops in the middle of otherwise fluid gameplay seems to be the one thing preventing me from liking MW as much as my RDruid. Im one of those guys with ADHD that gets hyper-focus so remembering to toss out RMs is difficult. I may need to make an obnoxious screen flashing weak aura.
Also, small gripe… Soothing Mist needs to go back to being an indefinite channel IMO. Having it break after a few seconds just to cast it again feels weird… Another suggestion, being able to move again while channeling Soothing Mist would be a huge QoL improvement but I understand how annoying it is to deal with MWs in PvP and this would just bring that problem back.
There are a number of things between resto druid and MW monk that feel awkward just because of how completely different the 2 specs are in both spell style and spell rotation. Being preemptive in your hots as a druid is pretty much a requirement if you want to heal well at all, but being preemptive on a MW only means you’ll heal better than you normally would.
Honestly, I love the ReM cleave situation. I think it’s a fun way to set our playstyle apart from other healers. My usual rotation is to TFT into 2 30s ReM’s, and then not put up another ReM until right before I hit 2 charges again. This allows me to have 2 ReM’s again by the time the 30s timer for TFT is back up. So I’m basically 3 ReM’s on my group for 20s at a time, and 8-10s with only 2 ReM’s on the group. It’s constantly fluxxing between those. I also set my Weakaura up so that it doesn’t start shining until I hit 2 charges to prevent me from casting it at a wrong time (unless the situation really calls for it, like when you see you’re about to have 5 stacks of bursting). This, along with the double mastery proc on our EF HoT, makes for an incredibly cleave.