Category: New Alpha Build

Teahouse Final Landing and Updates

June is over and I’m home from my latest and last trip. In July, I’m gonna go full cave woman and you’ll have to ply me with a crowbar to get me out of my chair now. I’m here, and I’m gonna be here for a while. So now, let me update you on all that has been going on while I’ve been away!

Mistweaver Updates

Build 26926 (June 26)

Build 26936 (June 27)

  • Chi Burst now deals damage equal to 46% of attack power, down from 65.52%.

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Mistweaver Updates Recap

I’ve done my next-to-last journey for this month (one to go!) and I’ve got a few days at home to catch up on the news. There’s been a few updates in the mistweaver front that I’d like to go through, not to mention a few nerfs (sigh).

Mistweaver Updates

Build 26871 (June 19)

  • Vivify
    • Direct healing is now 105% of spell power, down from 120%.
    • Cleave healing is now 70% of spell power, down from 80%.
  • Renewing Mist
    • Now heals for 140% of spell power, down from 175%.
  • Soothing Mist
    • Now heals for 320% of spell power, down from 360%.

Build 26903 (June 22)

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New Beta Build – Renewing Mist Stacks

With the world’s shakiest internet connection, high up in the mountains, I’m writing to you between all the puppy walks, puppy playtimes and puppy-please-stop-biting-mes. A new beta build launched this night and we finally got the long-awaited change to Renewing Mist!

Mistweaver Changes

  • Renewing Mist
    • Uplifting Trance Removed
    • Renewing Mist now has 2 charges (Rank 2, learnt at level 42).
  • Vivify
    • The direct heal now heals for 120% of spell power, up from 105%.
    • The cleave heal on Renewing Mist targets now heals for 80% of spell power, up from 70%.

The Uplifting Trance part (4% chance to increase the healing of your next Vivify by 40%) of Renewing Mist has been removed. In exchange, we get 2 charges of Renewing Mist and a buff to Vivify instead. A happy trade, I’d say! I’m wishing I was back home to test the changes on beta, but I’m gonna be on puppy duty for a while longer.

Whatever you do Blizzard, don’t launch the pre-patch until I’m home. Just don’t!

Speaking of the pre-patch!

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Catch Up on Mistweaver News

Summer is a bit of a hectic time due to travelling, but I got the chance to do some catch up now when I’m home for the day. There have been two new builds to the Bfa beta while I was gone, plus a developer post on mistweavers that is very important. Let’s get to it!

Mistweaver Changes

Build 26734 (May 30)

  • Vivify
    • The direct heal now heals for 105% of spell power, up from 100%.
    • The cleave heal now heals for 70% of spell power, up from 60%.
  • Renewing Mist
    • Uplifting Trance now increases the healing of your next Vivify by 30%, down from 40%.

Build 26788 (June 8)

  • Thunder Focus Tea
    • Enveloping Mist: Immediately heals for 200% of spell power, down from 250%.
Original Post, June 8.

Next build will try 2 charges on Renewing Mist, and Uplifting Trance removed.

A little background for interest:
We try to be really careful about adding charges to baseline spells, since it’s a higher-complexity mechanic than simply having a cooldown. Essentially every spell is slightly more efficient with charges, since you don’t get the little bit of slippage when the cooldown comes up each time, and you can better sync it with other effects. So it’s always an attractive ask, because adding charges to anything improves spec performance. Renewing Mist is a better case due to bad feeling of every second lost slightly reducing Vivify efficiency for 20s, and this also helps the weirdness of wanting to start ramping it up 20s before any pull.

Uplifting Trance was added in Legion to try to give something that enforced a little more spell variance (pushing Vivify to top priority sometimes and not other times). By now, there are so many more spell interactions contributing to the “weaving” part of Mistweaving (Essence Font buffs other spells, Soothing Mist empowers other spells, Renewing Mist improves Vivify, etc.) that button choice is richer without sticking a proc in there. Since other things control when you want to use Vivify, this just feels like random variance that you can’t control.

Posted by Sigma.

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New Beta Build and Azerite Interface

A new build has been dropped on the beta! It’s a bit light on mistweaver changes, but the azerite armor has finally gotten its spanking new interface. Here are the relevant changes for any curious mistweavers!

Mistweaver Changes

  • Surging Mist (Honor Talent) now heals for 200% of attack power, up from 32.76%.

Azerite Traits

  • NEW Font of Life 
  • Misty Peaks now has a chance to grant haste based on ticks rather than jumps. It also has increased duration of 10 sec, up from 8 sec.
  • Tier 1 – Monk – Mistweaver – Vivify <DNT> has been name changed to Uplifted Spirits.

Azerite Armor Interface

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New Beta Build – Azerite Traits Changes and Additions

Another beta build has arrived, though there aren’t many mistweaver changes in this one. Instead, we get a sniff of upcoming Azerite Traits that will basically replace tier set bonuses. I suspect we’ve only seen the beginning of Azerite traits so far, and there are likely many more to come. But here’s a preview!

Mistweaver Changes

  • Life Cocoon now absorbs [(((Spell power * 12.6) + 0)) * (1 + Versatility)], up from * 9.
  • Mistweaver Monk passive has been boosted by 40%.
  • Chrysalis (Honor Talent) now reduced the cooldown of Life Cocoon by 30 sec, down from 90 sec.

Monk Azerite Traits

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New Beta Build – Mistweaver Buffs and Changes!

A new beta build came last night and there are new mistweaver changes implemented based on recent feedback! I’m glad to see that there’s a fruitful discussion between developers and mistweavers. Or at least, I assume so, looking at the changes that keep rolling in. I don’t visit forums very often, I like my happy corner here, but I don’t doubt that there’s lots of good mistweaver feedback from all corners of the internet!

Mistweaver Changes

  • Revival now heals for 200% of spell power, up from 180%.
  • Soothing Mist  – Each tick of SooM now has a chance to cause a Gust of Mist heal on the target.
  • Thunder Focus Tea
    • Renewing Mist: Changed to ‘Increases duration by 10 sec’ from ‘Not triggering the cooldown’ of the next Renewing Mist cast.
    • Enveloping Mist: The extra heal now heals for 250% of spell power, up from 130% (instant EvM aspect removed).
    • Removed Essence Font: Channels 100% faster.
    • NEW Rising Sun Kick: Reduces the cooldown of your next Rising Sun Kick by 9 sec.
  • The cleave heal of Vivify now heals for 60% of spell power, up from 45%.
  • Lifecycles now has 25% reduced mana cost of the next Vivify/Enveloping Mist cast, up from 20%.
  • Rising Mist now heals for 15% of spell power, down from 20%.

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New Beta Build – Mistweaver Changes, War Mode, and More

The Bfa beta was updated last night with a new build. Today we got some minor changes to mistweavers, and a blue post on the new war mode. I got to say, I’m starting to warm up to the idea of world pvp. Always having active honor talents and being able to go full on bounty hunter seems kind of fun!

Mistweaver Changes

Azerite Trait Changes

  • NEW Fit to Burst – Drinking Purifying Brew while at Heavy Stagger causes your next 3 melee abilities to heal you for 360.
  • NEW Misty Peaks – When your Renewing Mists jumps, you have a 10% chance to gain 128 Haste for 8 seconds.
  • Sunrise Technique now has a damage over time aspect.

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New Alpha Build and Mistweaver Talents

Another wave of changes has hit the BFA Alpha. This time around, Mistweavers’ talent tree has been scrambled around, while two old talents are gone and replaced with two sparkling new ones.  Take a look below!

Mistweaver Changes

Talents:

  • Zen Pulse Removed
  • Rising Thunder Removed
  • Essence Well NEW
    • For every 6 sec Essence Font spends off cooldown, your next Essence Font may be channeled for 1 additional second.
      The duration of Essence Font’s heal over time is increased by 4 sec.
    • Note: Baseline channel is 3 sec, this talent pushes that to a maximum of 6 seconds (before haste). Once it’s off cooldown, you can see the tooltip changes the channel time. It takes 18 sec to hit the max duration, but it ticks up by the decimals (channel time 3.0 sec, 3.1 sec, 3.2 sec, etc until it hits 6 sec).
  • Rising Mist NEW
    • Rising Sun Kick heals all allies with your Renewing Mist, Enveloping Mist, or Essence Font for (20% of Spell power), and extends those effects by 2 sec.
  • Mist Wrap no longer allows Soothing Mist to be channeled while moving.
  • Many talents have switched places and the talent tree looks like this now:

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New Alpha Build and I Got in!

After killing Argus Mythic, I finally got access to the Battle for Azeroth alpha! Now I can check out all the changes by myself, and keep you freshly updated. Speaking of changes, a new build rolled out and it seems that Blizzard has turned its eye to healers. Down below are all the changes they’ve made to Mistweavers.

Mistweaver Changes

  • Effuse has been removed.
  • Mastery: Gust of Mists is no longer activated by Effuse.
  • Soothing Mist  is now an active ability:
    • Heals the target for (360% of Spell power) over 8 sec. While channeling, Enveloping Mist and Vivify may be cast instantly on the target.
  • Rising Sun Kick  now deals 115% of attack power damage, up from 106.86%.
  • Spinning Crane Kick  now deals 10% of attack power damage, down from 16.38%.
  • Thunder Focus Tea
    • No longer empowers Effuse.
    • Enveloping Mist: Instant cast and immediately heals for (130% of Spell power).
  • Vivify Causes a surge of invigorating mists, around the target, healing them and their 2 nearest injured allies for (75%) healing the target for (100% of Spell power) and all allies with your Renewing Mist active for (60% of Spell power).
    • Cost changed from 4.0% of base mana to 3.2% of base mana.
  • Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane now heals for 30% of attack power, up from 22.113%.
  • Mana Tea duration has increased to 12 sec, up from 10 sec.
  • Summon Jade Serpent Statue now heals for 16% of spell power, changed from 50% of the Mistweaver’s Soothing Mist.
  • Way of the Crane no longer removes stun effects.
  • Paralysis now has a cooldown of 45 sec, down from 1 min.

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