IMPORTANT: Mistweavers are complete unviable in PVP in the current meta. I’ve created a chart from PVPleaderboards.com (data as of this post) to illustrate this massive rating and representation gap. Mistweavers are by far the least represented and has the lowest max CR in every bracket on both NA and EU. And it’s not even close.
EU 3v3
# of Players
Max Rating
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EU 2v2
# of Players
Max Rating
Disc Priest
584
2408
-
Disc Priest
793
2407
Resto Shaman
334
2387
-
Resto Shaman
311
2287
Holy Paladin
317
2443
-
Holy Paladin
406
2447
Resto Druid
85
2403
-
Resto Druid
121
2247
Mistweaver
57
2191
-
Mistweaver
29
2106
NA 3v3
# of Players
Max Rating
-
NA 2v2
# of Players
Max Rating
Disc Priest
551
2604
-
Disc Priest
567
2422
Resto Shaman
336
2487
-
Resto Shaman
284
2412
Holy Paladin
307
2443
-
Holy Paladin
780
2336
Resto Druid
94
2491
-
Resto Druid
107
2271
Mistweaver
65
2366
-
Mistweaver
44
2265
ISSUES:
I’m not going to write a wall of text complaining about how imbalanced PVP at the moment. I’m simply going to provide a list of issues which are contributing to why Mistweavers are doing so poorly.
Low throughput. As a Mistweaver, I can be spamming enveloping into vivifies on a kill target and not actually keep up with the damage while not being CC’d.
Extremely poor mana/heal ratios. Other healers are much more efficient and will regularly have >50% mana by the time a MW ooms.
Terrible team utility. Life cocoon is not even a noticeable defensive in this meta. It gets ripped off within 2 seconds.
Nerfs to baseline survivability. Fortifying Brew lost 5% damage reduction and 5% max health baseline, and cancel roll macros no longer work. Don’t underestimate how important cancel roll is to high level pvp.**
Loss of survivability tools from BFA. Burst of Life (20s off cocoon), Exit Strategy (5s off roll CD if hit), Secret Infusion (Mastery/Versa bonuses for healing or tankiness)
I don’t have recommendations of how to rebalance/redesign this miserable class. That’s not my job. I just hope someone from Blizzard notices this to pass on this feedback.
About Me: I was a top 100 rated MW (2764) in 2s in BFA Season 4 and peaked in the top 500 in 3s (2961). Despite the rating inflation, it’s still a fairly high level of PVP that is in the 99th percentile, if credibility matters at all to you.
Note to other Mistweavers: Don’t be passive. If you don’t provide feedback, the class will stay this way.
Mistweaver is ignored because the PvP community does not like Mistweavers. As you’ll see whenever Mistweaver is good whether it be in rated BG’s or arena, people start to complain
I remember MW in MOP. Man those were good times. Boosted account in full greens, just running circles around the melee dps. Oh you coming for me nerd? Disarm,disarm,stun,rollout autobots. Good times. Damn sucks they aren’t good now.
I keep crying about reverting to mop/wod MW but only because the spec felt complete. Healing and fistweaving was unique. Mechanically, it was very engaging with the secondary resource, requiring a lot of APM to simply put out heals.
Rdruid and MW are at the bottom together. Funny and ironic because they always fought to heal the same comps. MW filled the same role as Rdruid, but in a different way.
They simply have lost the plot for MW. Look at Expel Harm, for example. Garbo heal and waste of a global in this meta. They returned it and it serves no purpose. Why? Because they pruned secondary resource Chi. It was a primary Chi builder before. And when heals cost Chi, they healed way more than it does now. You simply popped EM and ran around, pushing in with Para on 15sec cd, interrupt and disable, being more aggressive.
WW has also lost the plot, but that is for another thread.
Sadly what I think is that the classes needs a rework on a mechanical level, which is sad because I dont believe we’ll get that until next xpack earliest if at all.
But I expect when mythic raid week drops we’ll see throughput buffs, and mana efficiency buffs. I think thats all we’ll get though.
