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I’m currently maining a Mistweaver Monk:

Level 90

Female Night Elf

Mistweaver Monk

296 average item level

Miraceth-Terenas

Professions

Midnight Leatherworking		100/100
Midnight Skinning		100/100
Midnight Cooking		100/100
Midnight Fishing		110/300

Mythic+

Altar of Fangs	+9	31:31	273
Den of Nalorakk	+7	22:22	271
Ruby Life Pools	+8	27:05	276
The Blinding Vale	+9	33:10	271
Voidscar Arena	+8	26:29	279
Total M+ rating			1371

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It’s a really fun spec to play. It has a surprising amount of damage output for a healer, and a lot of passive healing to help with maintenance in dungeons. I’m mostly focused on running Mythic+ keys, doing open world/solo content, and a bit of collecting.

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History and alts

I’ve played World of Warcraft on and off again for years. I started playing properly when Battle for Azeroth was current, carried on into Shadowlands, then only briefly dipped into the following expansions. I’m back for Midnight, and am enjoying it so far.

In BfA I mained a Beast Mastery Hunter, who switched over to Marksmanship for Shadowlands as it was a significant free DPS increase. When I took a break from WoW, I ended up playing a lot of Final Fantasy XIV and really enjoyed healing there. When I came back to WoW I rolled a Holy Priest, and started out playing Midnight with that. It started to feel a bit underwhelming as we pushed out of the really low level Mythic+ keys, though. It’s not particularly well rated this expansion, and as a direct healer it wasn’t particularly impressive. In FFXIV the direct healers tend to have very powerful healing spells to make up for their lack of shields. Holy Priest has mediocre healing spells, and doesn’t really have a good way of mitigating incoming damage, or maintaining people. I started trying out other healing specs, and really liked the MW Monk.

I didn’t think I was going to like it because it’s a melee class, but I’ve been really enjoying it so far. It does a large amount of passive healing as you do damage, can put a large shield on a people, and still has some useful cooldowns for fixing things. It also handily scratches the “healers should be doing damage” itch that FFXIV has instilled in me. I’m actually much happier as a melee in dungeons than I thought I’d be; it helps being close to the tank to keep track of what’s going on (and where they’re running off to!). It’s also fun in solo content: it puts out enough damage that things don’t take too long to kill, and has terrific self-sustain. When I was playing Priest I’d switch to Shadow (the DPS spec) for most solo content, but I don’t feel the need to switch away from Mistweaver.

I’ve also levelled some alts this expansion. Mechath was a character I played when I dipped into Dragonflight, but I’m mostly just using it for gathering now. Methach I levelled to use as a tank for achievements; I don’t think I want to play one in any serious content, though. Finally, Hirameth I levelled as another healer (before I tried Mistweaver) but didn’t really get on with it.

Level 90

Female Human

Beast Mastery Hunter

278 average item level

Chetham-Terenas

Professions

Midnight Engineering		76/100
Midnight Skinning		100/100
Midnight Cooking		1/100
Midnight Fishing		4/300

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Level 90

Female Void Elf

Holy Priest

280 average item level

Methrica-Terenas

Professions

Midnight Alchemy		100/100
Midnight Engineering		92/100
Midnight Cooking		1/100
Midnight Fishing		4/300

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Level 90

Female Dracthyr

Augmentation Evoker

227 average item level

Mechath-Terenas

Professions

Midnight Herbalism		96/100
Midnight Mining		100/100
Dragon Isles Cooking		16/100
Khaz Algar Fishing		1/300

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Level 90

Female Lightforged Draenei

Holy Paladin

272 average item level

Methach-Terenas

Professions

Midnight Blacksmithing		44/105
Midnight Enchanting		35/100
Dragon Isles Fishing		4/100

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Level 90

Female Dwarf

Restoration Shaman

292 average item level

Hirameth-Terenas

Professions

Midnight Inscription		37/100
Midnight Fishing		35/300

Mythic+

Altar of Fangs	+5	20:16	227
Ruby Life Pools	+2	14:51	170
Total M+ rating			397

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