Mistweaver's whole kit chains off one button. If Renewing Mist isn't rolling, Vivify has fewer cleave targets, Thunder Focus Tea has less to empower, and your melee uptime stops converting into healing. Here's what Healper actually checks in a Mistweaver log, and why it's weighted the way it is.
What top Mistweaver Monks actually did
Measured from 400 logs of top-performing Mistweaver Monks at keystone level 11 in Midnight Season 2 (Curse of Ula'tek), across 8 dungeons. These are measurements of what that cohort did, not targets anyone set - and the middle-half column matters more than the median, because it shows how much honest variation there is between good runs.
| What | Median | Middle half | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewing Mist uptime | 97.6% | 93.6-99.1% | 400 |
| Enveloping Mist uptime | 31.2% | 22.7-42.1% | 400 |
| Average mana through the run | 75.0% | 67.9-80.5% | 400 |
| Overhealing | 43.2% | 39.2-47.0% | 400 |
2 of those 400 runs had the healer bottom out on mana at some point (0.5%). Running dry is not rare at this level, and the spread in the mana column is why: the middle half of this cohort is a wide band, not a target.
The same corpus broken down per dungeon, with the cooldowns this spec actually pressed, is on the Mistweaver Monk benchmarks page. Mythic+ only: the raid brackets carry no per-log data in any season, so nothing here describes raid.
Renewing Mist: never cap charges
Renewing Mist is your single most important metric. With 3 charges and a roughly 9-second recharge. Renewing Mist is two charges baseline - a third is a talent - and the cohort's measured rate is in the table above. Every Renewing Mist you skip while sitting on charges is healing you permanently lose.
Rising Sun Kick and staying in melee
Rising Sun Kick converts damage into healing through Ancient Teachings and is tracked as a cast-per-minute rate, graded against the cohort in the table above rather than a fixed target. Master of Harmony cares less about RSK specifically and more about total melee engagement (RSK plus Blackout Kick combined), since both damage and healing build vitality for Aspect of Harmony. Standing at range to play it safe costs more healing than it looks like on the surface.
Thunder Focus Tea
Thunder Focus Tea empowers your next cast. Its base cooldown is 30 seconds with one charge. It's instant and has no real downside to using early, so a low rate usually means it's being held for a "better" moment instead of spent on cooldown.
Life Cocoon and your celestial cooldown
Life Cocoon's base cooldown is 120 seconds - talents shorten it - and Healper compares your uses against what top logs of the same fight and bracket did. It's meant to be used proactively on the tank or on anyone taking a heavy burst, not saved for emergencies. Invoke Yu'lon or Invoke Chi-Ji (whichever you've talented) is tracked the same way, also on a 120-second base cooldown; going a full pull without using either is treated as a bigger miss than using them a little early.
Mana
Mana is checked two ways - your average % across the fight, and whether you went fully OOM. Enveloping Mist is one of your more expensive spells, so spamming it on full-health targets instead of saving it for the tank or sustained damage is a common way Mistweavers run into mana trouble mid-key.
Want the exact scoring breakdown and percentile math behind all of this? See how we calculate your score.