Other players can only see FLS when it’s casted but it goes away. I wish this wasn’t the case actually
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This makes no sense. Mistweavers have the option for both.
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Tbh i dont care about the color. What was good about blue is that it has high contrast compared to all the other ground effects in the game. I have the feeling that green will be a lot worse to see. Same goes for red. Therefore i would rather have it be blue again.
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They should have given it just a hint of the sparkling yellow color that enveloping mist has mixed in with the green.
Nymue is gonna be hilarious with all the various shades of green going on the ground.
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It’s a biproduct of the whole “Fistweaver” name for the teachings build 
It’s ridiculous is my point, the spec is called mistweaver. All builds of mistweaver are mistweavers… Not sure why that has to be said, but I guess I’ll say it. Fistweaving is a term that only causes confusion because there’s no real consensus on what it means.
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I mean fistweaving was never an official term made by Blizzard. Monk’s didn’t heal with their fists at all for a few expansions; especially when they still had the Chi resource. I believe it was Legion was when the Fistweaving term started to coin and make its place
I seem to recall topping both DPS and HPS meters on certain raid bosses in MoP as MW. Blackout kick didn’t have a target cap and dealt a LOT more damage and healing.
But yeah, with recent talent trees and all these hybrid builds it’s hard to define what counts as “fistweaving” so it makes more sense to just define which talents you use.
Blackout Kick didn’t heal other players or at all until 5.3.0 where you were healed 20% of the damage done if the target was in front of you. And you had to spend 3 chi to cast a blackout kick, sacrificing your biggest heals for some damage and self-heal. This was removed by the next patch.
Yeah annoys me too like with teachings your still weaving in healing spells not just stand on faeline and spin.
Yes they did originally via Serpents Zeal, Eminence and Jade Serpent Statue Mistweaver Monk since the beginning was a Melee healer capable of healing through damage not that hard to look this up
Edit: Too add onto this from my understanding seems that Spinning Crane Kick used to double as an aoe heal as well originally
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Oh God… Luckily I’m using Clouded Focus for Nymue even though I don’t understand the Clouded Focus build as well.
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Sure they have the option for both, but realistically Faeline is about ancient concordance and awakened Faeline which clearly have synergies with Chi ji and NOT yuulon hence Faeline stomp should be chi ji themed and not yuulon
Using the term fistweaver is not ridiculous there are very clearly two archetypal playstyles within the mistweaver spec, fistweaving and mistweaving
No need to bring all the fistweaver hate and complaints
Is the clouded focus - Rising mist raid build mistweaver or fistweaver?
A clouded focus rising mist build would be considered fistweaver to me.
Fistweaver is any build that takes Ancient Concordance, Awakened Faeline, or Rising Mist
Mistweaver is like a Jade Serpent Statue / Unison / calming coalescence / peaceful mending / clouded focus
But its playstyle is a full blown caster that just presses rising sun kick every 10 seconds.
Okay how about if your filler is SooM then you are a MW
If your filler is Tiger Palm / Blackout Kick your a FW
This way your rotation falls under MW, fair?
There are 3.
Caster, Hybrid and Fistweaver.
Caster would be defined as one whose majority of healing done comes from spell casts, like Vivify, or one who spends most of the encounter with a cast bar. And, of course, the RSK to extend HoTs ect.
Hybrid would be defined as one who incorporates AT alongside casting. In my eyes, I’d see it as AT lightly deals with passive Rot while contributing lightly to damage, but most of the healing would still come from spell casts.
Fistweaving would be defined as a large majority of healing would come from AT and Awakened Faeline, and most globals would be coming from melee abilities. This also incorporates Faeline Stomp and its relevant buffs it provides.
Now, this isn’t all definitive, because there is a level of potential nuance that can arise. This is just generally how I look at it all.
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This might not be the case anymore
Fistweaving in raid is actually potentially viable option
my last heroic clear I did several bosses just purely pumping dps and did more healing than with CF/RM (which actually made me do a big re itemization for more haste because the healing was so impressive)
The fistweaving healing profile is actually really ideal for many of the “Sludgefist”-esque fights in this raid (Igirra, Larodar, Council, Nymue, Tindral are all great fistweaving bosses because of the constant slam damage that just needs constant healing — man getting that awakened Faeline on tindral roots feels good)
Just having a fistweaver pumping out damage healing was a much needed complement to our raid’s healing profile as it greatly smooths out all that slam damage
It was viable all expansion. Now, this patch, it’s competitive, so you might see more people doing it.
I prefer Crit myself.
I’d say it’s good on every boss rn, but it does HEAVILY excel in cleave fights. It gets disgusting when you properly line things up.
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