Mistweaver Monk Review of Master of Harmony Hero Talents - Harmony, Vitality & Thunder Focus Tea
07.05.2024 - 11:09
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Blizzard revealed nearly all the Hero Talent Trees including 6 new ones with the launch of the War Within Alpha.
Our Mistweaver guide writer, JuneMW, offers an early review of the Mastery of Harmony Hero Talents that play to the strengths of both versions of Mistweaver while allowing the individual abilities to shine through the new vitality mechanic.
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. With the release of Alpha, Blizzard has previewed most Hero Talents Trees coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
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Master of Harmony Mistweaver Monk Review
With the recent launch of The War Within's alpha, Mistweaver's second Hero Talent tree has been unofficially unannounced! Shared with Brewmasters, this tree is currently not fully implemented on the alpha, so any sort of specific interactions this tree has is still unknown, but there's still plenty going on in the tree! Before we get into all the interactions and implications this talent tree has, we need to get acquainted with the talents!
Talent Walkthrough
Keystone: Aspect of Harmony
While this ability seems fairly straightforward, talents further down the tree augment this heavily. As a baseline, we gain a secondary resource, vitality, which is comprised of 20% of all healing we do and 10% of all the damage we do to this pool. In order to actually access this stored reservoir, we have to cast Thunder Focus Tea and use the modified spell, and from then, any healing we do will then leave a healing-over-time effect on players healed, healing them for an additional 25% of the healing of the originating spell, until either the 10 seconds are done, or you've exhausted your pool of vitality. The cap for storing vitality appears to be 100% of your current health, so taking Ancient Teachings for the extra Stamina while it's active gives you just that much bigger of a reservoir. Other effects could be used to raise this cap (Power Word: Fortitude continues being amazing for our throughput), but their cooldowns are a little too long to reliably have for every time we'll want to use the stored healing.
Based on the limited testing done so far, the healing (and damage) this spell does will be under its own spell ID, making any speculated interactions from more of a particular cast not possible.
Because it's paired with Thunder Focus Tea, increasing our healing by 25% (up to a limit) can be done with every instance of