Stat Priority Stat summaries for Mistweaver Monk and the stat priority to help with itemization, enchants, gems and consumables for optimizing your Healer ability.; Gems, Enchants & Consumables An always up-to-date list of the best gems, enchants and consumables for a Mistweaver Monk trying to maximize Healer effectiveness. World of Warcraft Patch 8.1 Battle for Azeroth (BfA) BEST HEALER TRINKETS & AZERITE TRAITS from Battle of Dazar'alor raid. This is an overview aimed at all healing classes in terms of what items. Welcome to our Mistweaver Monk BiS List, or as we also call it, Top Picks. This is a page where you can find the statistical distribution of gear, talents, and other choices among Top 1% of the best performing Raiders of this class and specialization in World of Warcraft. Lucky for the Mistweaver healing spec, Monks do have access to staves which means they’ll be flying high with one of the strongest heirloom weapons available. Brewmaster (Tank) and Windwalker (Melee DPS) Both of these specs use Agility as their primary stat, so many of our gear choices will be very simple. Welcome to our Mistweaver Monk healing guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.4. Here, you will learneverything you need to know about playing a Mistweaver Monk in a raid environment,although most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

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On this page, we present you with the best gems and enchants fora Mistweaver Monk in World of Warcraft MoP 5.4.We also list the best consumables (food, flasks, and potions) andprofession-specific perks.

Make sure to check our GearOptimisation Guide, which serves as a support guide for this page.

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

1. Gems↑top

There are two ways to gem as a Mistweaver Monk. The first is the standardway, which provides you with Spirit. The second is used only at high gearlevels, when Spirit is not a priority, and when you wish to increase yourthroughput.

1.1. Standard

SocketsGems
Revitalizing Primal Diamond or Courageous Primal Diamond (better)
Misty Wild Jade/Perfect Misty Alexandrite
Potent Vermilion Onyx/Perfect Potent Tiger Opal
Smooth Sun's Radiance/Perfect Smooth Sunstone or Smooth Serpent's Eye (JC)

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1.2. High Gear Levels (Throughput)

SocketsGems
Burning Primal Diamond or Courageous Primal Diamond (better)
  • Brilliant Primordial Ruby/Perfect Brilliant Pandarian Garnet or Brilliant Serpent's Eye (JC) OR
  • Potent Vermilion Onyx/Perfect Potent Tiger Opal
  • Purified Imperial Amethyst/Perfect Purified Roguestone OR
  • Misty Wild Jade/Perfect Misty Alexandrite
Potent Vermilion Onyx/Perfect Potent Tiger Opal

2. Enchants↑top

SlotMain EnchantmentsExtra Enchantments
Shoulders
  • Secret Crane Wing Inscription (Inscription)
Back
  • Lightweave Embroidery (Tailoring)
ChestEnchant Chest - Glorious Stats
Wrists
  • Fur Lining - Intellect (Leatherworking)
Socket Bracer (Blacksmithing)
HandsEnchant Gloves - Superior Mastery
  • Synapse Springs (Engineering)
  • Socket Gloves (Blacksmithing)
WaistLiving Steel Belt Buckle
Legs
  • Pearlescent Spellthread (cheaper)
  • Master's Spellthread (Tailoring)
FeetEnchant Boots - Pandaren's Step
RingsEnchant Ring - Greater Intellect (Enchanting)
WeaponEnchant Weapon - Jade Spirit
Off-HandEnchant Off-Hand - Major Intellect

Note that Extra Enchantments can be applied to an item in addition to aMain Enchantment.

3. Consumables↑top

3.1. Food

If you are comfortable with your mana regeneration, you should eatfood that gives you Intellect. You will be granted:

  • 300 Intellect by Mogu Fish Stew, Spiced Blossom Soup, or Pandaren Treasure Noodle Soup;
  • 275 Intellect by Braised Turtle, Deluxe Noodle Soup, Banquet of the Pot, orGreat Banquet of the Pot;
  • 250 Intellect by Swirling Mist Soup, Noodle Soup, or any of other banquets.

If you are not comfortable with your mana regeneration, you should eatfood that gives you Spirit. You will be granted:

  • 300 Spirit by Steamed Crab Surprise, Farmer's Delight, or Pandaren Treasure Noodle Soup;
  • 275 Spirit by Fire Spirit Salmon, Deluxe Noodle Soup, Banquet of the Steamer, orGreat Banquet of the Steamer;
  • 250 Spirit by Shrimp Dumplings, Noodle Soup, or any of other banquets.

3.2. Flask

If you are comfortable with your mana regeneration,your flask should be a Flask of the Warm Sun.

If you are not comfortable with your mana regeneration,your flask should be a Flask of Falling Leaves.

3.3. Potion

During the encounter, your best choice for a potion will beMaster Mana Potion, which instant grants you 30,000 mana, orPotion of Focus, which grants you 45,000 mana over 10 seconds(provided you do not need to perform any action during this time).

4. Summing-up Profession Perks↑top

Choosing a profession for your Mistweaver Monk can impact your raidperformance. As a rule, you should shy away from gathering professions (withthe exception of Herbalism), which leaves the following viable professions forraiding:

ProfessionPerks
TailoringProvides a gain of approximately 320 Intellect through Lightweave Embroidery or a gain of approximately 750 Spirit through Darkglow Embroidery, instead of +180 Intellect from Enchant Cloak - Superior Intellect. It also provides Sanctified Spellthread, a much cheaper equivalent of Greater Pearlescent Spellthread, the usual leg enchant.
BlacksmithingProvides a 320 Intellect gain through two extra sockets, Socket Bracer and Socket Gloves, in which you can fit 2 Brilliant Primordial Ruby.
JewelcraftingProvides a 320 Intellect gain through the ability of using 2 Brilliant Serpent's Eye.
AlchemyProvides an 320 Intellect gain to your flask through Mixology.
EnchantingProvides a 320 Intellect gain through Enchant Ring - Greater Intellect.
EngineeringProvides +1,920 Intellect for 10 seconds every minute through Synapse Springs (the overall gain is +320 Intellect). This isparticularly powerful if paired with a Thunder Focus Tea/Upliftcombination
InscriptionProvides a 320 Intellect gain through Secret Crane Wing Inscription.
LeatherworkingProvides a 320 Intellect gain through Fur Lining - Intellect.
HerbalismProvides a 480 Haste Rating gain in average through Lifeblood.

5. Changelog↑top

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  • 22 Jul. 2014: Made the gems and enchant consistent with theupdated stat priority (which values Critical Strike Rating highly).
  • 13 Jan. 2014: Added new food items added in patch 5.4.
  • 10 Sep. 2013: Patch 5.4 update.
    • Removed Frag Belt, following its nerf.
    • Added a mention of using Thunder Focus Tea and Uplift withSynapse Springs.
    • Added two Critical Strike Rating hybrid gems to the suggestions in section1.2.
  • 20 May 2013: Patch 5.3 update: nothing to change.
  • 24 Apr. 2013: Added legendary meta-gem.
  • 20 Apr. 2013: Added throughput-oriented gemming.
  • 02 Apr. 2013: Removed green-quality gems.

Comparing trinkets can be difficult, with each available at a range of different item levels. To make it a little easier, we’ll compare all trinkets at an accessible 400 ilvl. Some trinkets have niche uses like excelling in single target healing, or offering a shield. We’ll address those below.

  • Raid Rankings

    • Best in Slot:Azsharas Font of Power, Deferred Sentence, Luminous Jellyweed, Alchemist Stone
    • Diamond Tier: Mirror of Entwined Fate, Ward of Envelopment, Incandescent Sliver (Situational), Void Stone (Situational)
    • Gold Tier: Fang of Intertwined Essence, Enthrallers Bindstone, Conch of Dark Whispers, Sinister Gladiators Insignia, Sinister Gladiator’s Medallion, Za’qul’s Portal Key, Moonstone of Zin Azshari
    • Silver Tier: Zoatroid Egg Sac, Ingenious Mana Battery, Ignition Mage’s Fuse, Crest of Pa’ku, Sea Giant’s Tidestone, Lady Waycrest’s Music Box
    • Bronze Tier: Revitalizing Voodoo Totem, Balefire Branch

  • Mythic+ Rankings

    • Best in Slot: Azshara’s Font of Power, Deferred Sentence, Luminous Jellyweed, Alchemist Stone
    • Diamond Tier: Mirror of Entwined Fate, Ward of Envelopment, Void Stone (Dungeon Dependent)
    • Gold Tier: Sinister Gladiators Badge, Sinister Gladiator’s Insignia, Moonstone of Zin Azshari, Conch of Dark Whispers, Sinister Gladiator’s Medallion, Sea Giant’s Tidestone, Crest of Pa’ku, Ignition Mage’s Fuse
    • Silver Tier: Incandescent Sliver, Zoatroid Egg Sac, Za’qul’s Portal Key, Revitalizing Voodoo Totem, Lady Waycrest’s Music Box, Balefire Branch
    • Bronze Tier: Fang of Intertwined Essence, Ingenious Mana Battery

These are my trinkets: X (400 ilvl), Y (385 ilvl), Z (430 ilvl). Which should I use?

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Master the Spec: Trinkets in Detail

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Slot

Stat Sticks

BFA has more stat sticks than you can shake a… stick at. We generally prefer sticks with intellect main stat (like the Conch of Dark Whispers) over secondary stats. They’re mostly worth the same amount of average stats over a fight but intellect trinkets have more of their strength allocated to static, consistent power which is desirable as a healer. When comparing two stat sticks you usually just pick whichever is higher item level.

Stat sticks can be categorized as either on-use trinkets or random procs. On-use trinkets provide fewer stats but make up for it in power since they can be used at the same time as Way of the Crane, a big maximum-Upwelling-stack Essence Font, or just a high damage moment in the fight.

Random Proc Stat Sticks

  • Conch of Dark Whispers has a 25% uptime and provides an average of 194 crit.
  • Za’qul’s Portal Key has a 25% uptime and provides an average of 387 intellect.
  • Sinister Gladiator’s Insignia has a 50% uptime and provides an average of 424 intellect.

On-use Stat Sticks

  • Azshara’s Font of Power has a 25% uptime and provides an average of 551 intellect at the cost of a 4 second channel time every 2 minutes. Expect a moderate nerf before the raid goes live.
  • Ignition Mage’s Fuse has about a 17% uptime and provides an average of 130 haste. You’ll average much higher during the trinket duration. It’s tougher to take strong advantage of the haste window as a mistweaver.
  • Balefire Branch has about a 22% uptime and provides an average of 244 intellect if you aren’t hit by anything. This is underbudget and useless in any situation where you’re taking damage while it’s active. There are much stronger alternatives in its niche.
  • Dread Gladiator’s Medallion has about a 17% uptime and provides an average of 156 vers.

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Raw Healing Procs

Trinkets with a flat healing portion were given a massive buff in 8.2 and now compete well with stat sticks. Interestingly this makes Ward and Mirror fantastic trinkets while the Eternal Palace variations are undertuned.

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  • Deferred Sentence adds about 1350 HPS (after secondary stats). This is much stronger than the PTR iteration suggested it would be.
  • Lady Waycrest’s Music Box (proc) adds about 433 HPS (after secondary stats). Adding the set ring doesn’t really impact its healing contribution.
  • Luminous Jellyweed (proc) adds up to 1083 HPS. The buff on the target lasts for two minutes and you’re likely to get full healing value on any difficult fight. It’s excellent.
  • Mirror of Entwined Fate (on-use) adds an incredible 917 HPS and provides great life saving potential. With the 8.2 buffs this is a very good trinket to have in your toolbox when Eternal Palace opens.
  • Ward of Envelopment (on-use) adds about 833 HPS which is incredible for an on-use absorb trinket. You’ll pop this whenever you’re expecting raid damage and you can use it for its strong throughput alone. Don’t save it for when the raid is low – aim to maximize your casts per fight.
  • Void Stone (on-use) adds up to 1050 HPS however it’s reduced by any healing they receive while it’s active. That turns it into a bit of a niche trinket since you’ll frequently get far less out of it than advertised. It’s a little better in Mythic+ where you can better control the flow of healing but it’s still tough to take it over a Mirror or good stat trinket.
  • Zoatroid Egg Sac adds about 667 HPS which isn’t great but it does add a Versatility buff to the target. The issue is that the Versatility scales with how much shield is left and a 10k shield doesn’t tend to last very long.

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The Rest

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They always throw in a trinkets that don’t quite hit the same formulas as those above. This section covers mana trinkets and the rest.

  • Fangs of Intertwined Essence returns about 3711 mana per minute (about half a Blessing of Wisdom). This is a 7% increase to your natural mana regeneration. Consider macroing it into one of your abilities so that you don’t miss any uses. Essence Font is a decent candidate.
  • The Alchemist Stones are hybrid trinkets crafted through Alchemy. They offer a stat proc (that averages 358 intellect) and a bonus to mana potions which is worth 10,000 mana per fight if you use a Potion of Replenishment. 8.2 Alchemist Stones also have a socket. You also get a very nifty bonus to your healing potions if you remember to use them. You definitely remember to use them, right?
  • Revitalising Voodoo Totem is an on-use trinket with that provides a slow, stacking single target HoT. The on-use heals for around 34,000 HP total for a per-minute average of nearly 23,000. This is a reasonable amount but it’s delivered in a clunky way since the HoT ramps up slowly (so, a poor emergency tool) and you give up stronger raid healing to equip it. Item level is still the big key when it comes to trinkets so if you accidentally pull a 425 Leech version from your weekly chest then try and use it on a tank or debuffed player.

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