Mistweaver Monk Healing Gear, Legendaries, and Best in Slot (Legion 7.2.5)

This page is a gear reference for Mistweaver Monks. It lists your best items and Legendaries, gives you gearing advice, and shows you how you will be competing for loot with other classes.

The other pages of our Mistweaver Monk guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

About Our Reviewer

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Suplift, a long-time Mistweaver Monk theorycrafter who raids in Ego (the guild that resulted from the merger of Lotion and Entropy). You can follow him on Twitter: @suplift.

1. Best in Slot

For choosing your gear, we recommend checking out this spreadsheet (credit goes to Garg).

A special mention is warranted for the Drape of Shame Icon Drape of Shame cloak, which is essentially the best cloak you can use, without exception. If you have the option of equipping one, you should even in the face of a large (~40) item level disadvantage. Use this spreadsheet to determine the value of your Drape of Shame.

2. Tier 20 Set Bonuses

The Tier 20 Set Bonuses are both reasonably good, but you should look at their effects as passive, since trying to adjust your playstyle to maximise their effects is awkward and will cost you.

The Tier 19 2-piece set bonus provides a strong passive HPS increase. In order to be able to sustain the increased number of Uplifting Trance Icon Uplifting Trance procs, you practically have to use the Lifecycles Icon Lifecycles talent.

The 4-piece set bonus is also desirable, as it also provides a strong passive HPS increase. The implication of using this bonus is that you do not want to re-cast Essence Font until the HoT fades.

We will update this section to provide more detailed advice on which (if any) combination of Tier 19 and 20 Set Bonuses you should use.

3. Legendary Items

Legendary items have a high item level of 970, which makes them extremely strong. They are so strong, in fact, that a legendary item is always going to be worth equipping over any other item you might have in that slot.

However, there is a limitation on the number of legendary items you can have equipped at any one time (by default 1, but by now most players should be able to equip 2). Since some legendary items are better than others, if you have more items than the limit, you will have to choose which ones to equip.

Below, we will do our best to guide you through this process, as well as provide any other relevant information.

The ranking of legendary items depends on the content you are doing, either raiding or mythic+ dungeons.

3.1. Raiding

Velen's Future Sight: from a pure HPS perspective, this legendary is as strong as Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus. The strength of this legendary comes from its low cooldown, which makes it ideal for dealing with burst damage in Mythic encounters. You should be using this legendary as often as possible, ideally lining it up with predictable burst damage.
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus: is by far the best legendary item for a Mistweaver Monk. Not only is the HPS it provides very strong, but because Mistweavers lack defensive cooldowns, the shield it provides every 30 seconds increases your survivability greatly.
Ei'thas, Lunar Glides of Eramas: this legendary is essentially second or third-best, providing a solid HPS increase.
Shelter of Rin: with this legendary item, you can save charges of Sheilun's Gift and use Thunder Focus Tea-empowered Renewing Mist to do considerable burst healing. Aside from this, the item just provides a passive HPS increase. Unless there is a very large amount of burst damage against single targets, it is preferable to use Sheilun's Gift with fewer stacks (4-6) rather than waiting until you have 12.
Petrichor Lagniappe: this potentially allows you to fit another Revival into an encounter. If you are able to cast another Revival (which is actually effective), then this item is extremely powerful. Otherwise, it is just an item level 910 item.
Leggings of The Black Flame: this is the strongest legendary for Fistweaving, as it provides the largest HPS/Mana increase, on top of making Essence Font far more usable in a raid setting. It also provides amazing spot healing via Thunder Focus Tea with Effuse/ Enveloping Mist. Mistweavers, however, do not rate this item too highly.
Doorway to Nowhere: this is simply a passive throughput increase that requires no extra thought. This legendary can potentially be better than Leggings of The Black Flame, however it requires perfectly casting Essence Font on cooldown to achieve this. The random nature of the item is also pretty bad for healers in general. The stats of this cloak are also extremely bad, and it competes with a tier slot or Drape of Shame.
Sephuz's Secret: this can be a solid option for fights in which you are constantly dispelling and therefore where you can get it to proc often.
Ovyd's Winter Wrap: is not appealing for raiding, and it should be avoided.
Unison Spaulders: this is strong with heavy Enveloping Mist builds, as it makes your filler spell stronger, allowing you to save more Mana. The additional Soothing Mist beam is also a smart healing around the target, which means it will have little overhealing. It also scales off the Enveloping Mist amplification, which means it works rather well with Mist Wrap, and haste stacking. That said, compared to the other legendaries mentioned above it, it is the weaker choice.
Eye of Collidus the Warp-Watcher: this is a very weak legendary item that should not be considered.
Soul of the Grandmaster: this is extremely weak and should not be considered.

3.2. Mythic+

For Mythic+, the considerations for choosing your legendary change somewhat.

Velen's Future Sight: this legendary is even stronger in Mythic+ dungeons, and if you have it, you should make a point of using it without exception.
Ei'thas, Lunar Glides of Eramas: this legendary is very strong for Mythic+ dungeons from a Mana efficiency stand point. Also, because the effect is so strong, you do not need to talent Rising Thunder in 5-man content to utilise it, but it is still strongly encouraged.
Sephuz's Secret: this legendary gains power due to you being better able to use the effect in Mythic+. It can be timed in relation to large bursts of damage on your group with the use of Paralysis or Leg Sweep.
Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus: this is very helpful for dealing with random 1-shot mechanics present in Mythic+.
Ovyd's Winter Wrap: this loses a lot of its randomness problems in smaller groups, so it is a far stronger legendary here. Vivify is much more heavily utilised in Mythic+, making this legendary even stronger. The legendary itself also has the two best stats for healing in Mythic+.
Shelter of Rin: this offers around the same healing as Leggings of The Black Flame, but is great for dealing with predictable group damage, such as from Lantern of Darkness.
Leggings of The Black Flame: this helps with Mana sustain (worse than Ei'thas, Lunar Glides of Eramas), and potentially gives you more Thunder Focus Tea-empowered Enveloping Mist/ Effuse, which is very relevant for the burst damage in Mythic+.
Doorway to Nowhere: this is simply a passive throughput increase that requires no extra thought. This legendary can potentially be better than Leggings of The Black Flame, however it requires perfectly casting Essence Font on cooldown to achieve this. The random nature of the item is also pretty bad for healers in general. The stats of this cloak are also extremely bad, and it competes with a tier slot or Drape of Shame.
Unison Spaulders: this is strong for Mana sustain for Tyrannical bosses. Aside from this, however, it does not see much usage, as you will be consistently breaking Soothing Mist to deal with high group damage on trash.
Petrichor Lagniappe: this allows you to use Revival far more frequently, which can be a lifesaver in Mythic+.
Eye of Collidus the Warp-Watcher: this is weak for the same reason why Unison Spaulders is weak; you simply do not have the time to channel Soothing Mist that much in Mythic+.
Soul of the Grandmaster: this is extremely weak and should not be considered.

4. Loot Competition

Regarding the loot you will get from raid or dungeon bosses, you will compete with other classes in the following cases:

Item Type	Competing Classes
Tier Tokens	Hunters, Brewmaster/Windwalker Monks, Shamans, and Warriors
Leather Armor	Demon Hunters, Druids, Brewmaster/Windwalker Monks, and Rogues
Amulets Cloaks Rings	Everyone
Trinkets	Restoration Druids, Holy Paladins, Discipline/Holy Priests, and Restoration Shamans

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5. ChangeLog

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15 Jun. 2017: Fixed an issue where Shelter of Rin was listed twice in the raiding legendary ranking.
13 Jun. 2017: Updated legendary item recommendations and added a mention of Tier 20 Set Bonuses.
27 Mar. 2017: Added a link to a spreadsheet to help evaluate the Drape of Shame, and updated legendary rankings.
25 Jan. 2017: Updated link to trinket spreadsheet.
20 Jan. 2017: Updated link to spreadsheet and made slight tweaks to the Ei'thas, Lunar Glides of Eramas recommendation.
17 Jan. 2017: Slightly reworded Tier 19 Set Bonus recommendations.
10 Jan. 2017: Added Set Bonus recommendations, and updated the legendary rankings/discussion.
29 Aug. 2016: Updated for Legion's launch.
18 Jul. 2016: Updated for the Legion pre-patch.