Healer Rotation & Cooldowns
This rotation offers a general priority list for Mistweaver Monk abilities, along with key cooldowns at the bottom. It's based on a standard build and is here to help while we work on a smarter, build-aware system. If you are very new to the game or this class, we added info on the new assisted rotation features at the bottom of this guide. Updated for the latest patch in World of Warcraft: The War Within (11.1.7).
Single Target
Maintain Renewing Mist on cooldown and prepare for high damage phases.
Use Vivify as your main heal, supported by Soothing Mist for sustained damage. Apply Enveloping Mist for heavy damage and Life Cocoon in emergencies.
AoE
Ensure Renewing Mist is spread across multiple targets.
Spread Renewing Mist and use Vivify for group healing. Activate Invoke Yulon, The Jade Serpent during intense damage phases and Chi Burst for large groups.
Cooldowns
Use Thunder Focus Tea often for empowered spells. Life Cocoon shields critical targets, while Revival handles raid-wide emergencies. Leverage Invoke Chi Ji, The Red Crane and Invoke Yulon, The Jade Serpent for sustained healing during heavy damage phases.
New to Class? Try Assisted Rotation
Patch 11.1.7 introduced new features that make it eaiser to pick and play new characters. These new settings can be enabled from settings » gameplay enhancements:
- Single-Button Assistant
- Assisted Highlight
- Cooldown Manager
If you are new to World of Warcraft or a certain class, enabling Assisted Highlight and Cooldown Manager can help you learn which abilities to prioritize and use.
While the Single-Button Assistant can be a much easier and more accessible way to play the game, it does come with a slight performance hit due to a small GCD penalty, as you will have to wait 25% longer in between spells and abilities.
To see which specs are best with the Single-Button Assistant feature, you can check out our DPS Rankings which uses SimC to sim every class using this feature.