With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Mistweaver Monk Writer, JuneMW, offers a retrospective highlighting Mistweaver's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.
As Dragonflight's changes to classes begin to slow down in the ramp up before the next expansion, The War Within, it seems like a good time to talk about how Mistweaver Monks have fared throughout it all! An entirely revamped talent system, getting rid of six solitary choices, in favor of something resembling what exists in Classic, tier sets that progressed in power through the expansion, and all of the incremental changes we've received from the last beta build up until now!
Throughout Dragonflight, Mistweaver has been one of the specializations that has received a great deal of work, addressing major concerns with its gameplay, getting small quality of life improvements, having entire abilities reworked into versions that are more active and woven into the rest of our kit. But that's not to say all of the nails sticking out have been hammered back down, there're still some awkward design spaces that need to be addressed.
This section will be covering most of the changes Mistweaver received heading into Dragonflight from Shadowlands, as well as the iterations we've received, both good and...not so good.
Talent Overhaul
Even though it's been with us for only a little over a year, the talent overhaul is one of the