damage buff for mistweavers?

[Totaltotemic]

yes actually it is, thanks to the Tiger Palm +1% mana change, healing with Jab+TP (and other free stuff) is about mana neutral

Jab bug is being fixed with it going back up to its proper 11,700. That makes the TP buff bring it to the same as live, which is not mana neutral. You don't get 4,500 mana per second, it's just not going to happen.

[DirewolfX]

With Ascendance (345k mana):

1% mana = 3,450 mana

Jab = -11,700 mana

Jab x4 = -46,800 mana
TP x4 = +13,800 mana; +1 mana tea charge (xcrit)
1 mana tea = 13,800 mana * (1 + crit)

Worst case (no crit), you're spending 19,200 mana every 8 GCDs.
Best case, you're spending 5400 mana every 8 GCDs.

Depending on your spirit and crit, it can be close to mana neutral. 8 GCDs = 1.6x your in combat regen rate (8 seconds over 5 seconds). My 10k spirit is about 11k combat regen every 5 seconds, so I'd get back around 19000 mana from spirit during this time. If I crit even once or twice on mana tea per fight, I'll get back enough to cover the difference

The exact formula to be mana neutral is:
Ascendance: CombatRegen * 1.6 + Crit% * 13800 - 19200 >= 0
Non-Ascendance: CombatRegen * 1.6 + Crit% * 12000 - 22800 >= 0

Give my combat regen of 11840 (~10.3k spirit), I'd need ~1.8% crit for Ascendance or ~32.1% crit without Ascendance. (Although practically, Power Strikes and Chi Brew provide their own additional regen from mana tea, so it would balance out somewhat).

[Totaltotemic]

Okay, I phrased that poorly. Yes, it is pretty easy to get a mana-neutral rotation of Jab/TP/Jab/TP ad infinitum. Unfortunately, that's not what any sane person would actually do in a raid. Assuming no other forms of healing, we'll will want to spread ReM on CD and Blackout Kick every 30 seconds to keep SZ up. If all you want to do is put up yellow numbers, then yeah, you can probably do that forever if you try hard enough. If you want to actually heal though, you will still have a limited mana pool.

[DirewolfX]

Yeah, I totally agree with you there... I actually started doing the math to prove you right, but it turned out the other way around.

The changes do give us a potentially interesting niche of "we really need more DPS, but we can't fully afford to drop another healer." We can do say 50-70% of a DPS's damage, and then pop into heavy healing mode for spike damage phases. If you run with a mana positive TP rotation, you can possibly do some really stupid stuff during the spike damage, like glyphing Uplift and spamming the crap out of it, then recover mana with your DPS rotation before the next big spike phase. I suppose it's somewhere between a traditional healer and a hybrid class with a big healing cooldown like Spriest or DPS shaman.

[Deleted]

yes actually it is, thanks to the Tiger Palm +1% mana change, healing with Jab+TP (and other free stuff) is about mana neutral

No it's not neutral at all

With 9k spirit 19% cc,
with RenM on CD , Chi wave on cd, and then rotation with jab/TP/maintain serpent's zeal

i'm up to 70k healing, 45/50k dps, and oom within 8min30

With raids buffs, flasks, mana tide perhaps it's neutral but i don't think so

[Deleted]

It takes 12000 spirit theoretically without any raid buffs.

[Luqt]

With Ascendance (345k mana):
The exact formula to be mana neutral is:
Ascendance: CombatRegen * 1.6 + Crit% * 13800 - 19200 >= 0
Non-Ascendance: CombatRegen * 1.6 + Crit% * 12000 - 22800 >= 0

Give my combat regen of 11840 (~10.3k spirit), I'd need ~1.8% crit for Ascendance or ~32.1% crit without Ascendance. (Although practically, Power Strikes and Chi Brew provide their own additional regen from mana tea, so it would balance out somewhat).

After giving it some thought I was questioning myself how (with no ascension) I would get almost the same mp5 as my combat regen after spending 44,800 mana and getting 12000 mana from 4x TP and 14902 mana from mana tea. Then I realized that you were adding the mana tea gains twice, resulting in an inflated mana regen :P Very interesting post nevertheless.

For Non-Ascension it would be:
CombatRegen * 1.6 + crit% * 12000 - 34800 >= 0

I have 11611 spirit, thus I have 12553 combat regen and 24.19% crit.

According to the formula I would have 187 surplus mana which seems a lot more legit. Lets say I had 25% crit and I wanted spirit for a mana neutral (no surplus or deficit):

I would need 12375 combat regen, with a base combat regen of 6000 it would mean I would need 6375 combat regen from spirit. Since in combat 1 spirit = 0,56435 mp5, 11296 spirit would be the spirit required for mana neutral fistweaving, using TP as the chi 'dump'. In practice, I would need 1 double mana tea proc every 4 times I spend 4 chi.

With Ascension:
CombatRegen * 1.6 + crit% * 13800 - 33000 >= 0

For a mana neutral approach at 25% crit; combat regen required = 9843.75, combat regen from spirit required = 3844, spirit required = 6811. As DirectwolfX rightly pointed out, the main source for the mp5 value of Ascension (the extra mana gain from mana tea stacks) is already quantified in this value whilst for Non-Ascension (chi brew or PS) it isn't. If the mp5 value weren't to be included then it would make the calculation slightly restrained since in 5.2 the mp5 value of Ascension will also rise with the change to Tiger Palm providing 1% mana upon use.

[DirewolfX]

After giving it some thought I was questioning myself how (with no ascension) I would get almost the same mp5 as my combat regen after spending 44,800 mana and getting 12000 mana from 4x TP and 14902 mana from mana tea. Then I realized that you were adding the mana tea gains twice, resulting in an inflated mana regen :P Very interesting post nevertheless.

I'm not adding them twice:

4x jab = 44800 mana spent
4x tiger palm = 13800 mana gained (1% per TP) + 1 guaranteed mana tea (13800 mana) + crit chance of another mana tea (13800 mana)
This takes 8 seconds so 1.6x combat regen

Mana gained: 13800 + 13800 + crit%*13800 + 1.6*combatRegen

[Mithfin]

FUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Tell me. What is the difference between a person without any talents picked who spent 44800 mana for 4 chi and a person with chi brew who just used it? THe answer is: 44800 mana. After the 1st person spent his mana, they are IN THE SAME STATE IN TERMS OF CHI. THe BOTH spend that chi, they both gain mana from tiger palms, they both gain tea stacks. YOU CAN'T COUNT IT AS A BENEFIT OF CHI BREW.

[Restofari]

a chi wave/jab/tiger palm/surging mist/blackout kick/mana tea rotation is mana neutral on the PTR
you don't need to do the math, just standing at a test dummy proves it
(tested with 11.5k spirit, 15% crit, chi brew, no raid/flask)

renewing mist and uplift is what drains our mana quickly
my argument was about switching between both of these rotations
you just gotta be smarter now about when to do what

tiger palm for saving mana in low dmg phases
that's definitely better than soothing mist
and uplift for throughput in high dmg phases

given a mana neutral rotation to fall back on does make the jab fix more bearable
yes the healing isn't that strong (still decent), but dps and mana efficiency are seriously overpowered
the real advantage is that it lets us spend even more mana when we really need it

[Luqt]

I'm not adding them twice:

4x jab = 44800 mana spent
4x tiger palm = 13800 mana gained (1% per TP) + 1 guaranteed mana tea (13800 mana) + crit chance of another mana tea (13800 mana)
This takes 8 seconds so 1.6x combat regen

Mana gained: 13800 + 13800 + crit%*13800 + 1.6*combatRegen

Derp, I need to l2maths lol

We're both right but I was looking at crit % as a multiplicative percentage (24% crit as 1.24), so I was already taking into account a guaranteed mana tea but didn't see it on your formula. Sorry!

[TheTrueM4gg0t]

No it's not neutral at all

With 9k spirit 19% cc,
with RenM on CD , Chi wave on cd, and then rotation with jab/TP/maintain serpent's zeal

I said jab+TP rota (+free stuff, as Chi Torpedo, Chi Wave) is about mana neutral. ReM and Uplift (+Envelope) are the mana drainers.
I mentioned the jab+TP alone, because thats what you can then do when there are lulls in damage while retaining/gaining mana, of course I wasn't trying to say that healing overall has become free as MW...

I'm still not trusting all this stuff, there will defenetly be a lot of number tweaks before this goes live...
I do really like the idea though. a not to expensive jab+TP gives us the spothealing ability we've been lacking a bit. (I know, Healing Spheres, but they are a pain, haven't found any good addons yet to makeing spothealing efficient with that spell)

[Servasus]

Holy hell Mistweaver is OP on PTR as of the latest build. At 505 ilevel I can burst 115k (~4M damage) on rare mobs in Pandaria, and I sustained 60k dps and 65k hps on Guardians LFR without even dropping below 40% mana at a reduced 463 ilevel.

If I could get into a damn normal mode raid I'd have a clearer idea of how healing and damage is gonna be but if I'm doing 60k dps and 65k hps on LFR dogs at a reduced 463 ilevel, I can only imagine this is going to get nerfed hard before it hits live. Fistweaving is practically the only intelligent way to go at this point. More mana efficient, helps beats enrage timers by QUITE A LOT, and dishes out a competitive hps when compared to traditional healing style.

Don't get me wrong. I'm having a hell lot of fun with it, but it's probably not gonna make live.

[Tavin]

Exactly what i wanted. My mist weaver to get a damage buff but a healing nerf (chi wave and burst mostly).
What? This patch will pretty much force us to fistweave and use zen sphere.

[Postaldude]

Exactly what i wanted. My mist weaver to get a damage buff but a healing nerf (chi wave and burst mostly).
What? This patch will pretty much force us to fistweave and use zen sphere.

Funny cuz Zen Sphere is complete garbage on ptr atm

[Deleted]

The ONLY and unique choice since yesterday is Chi burst

They totally screwed us with Zen sphere and chi wave

And no we are far far from OP, just look at all the raid tests movies, and see how all monks are far behind over heals, even on ptr
So if we can balance this with some 60k dps, it appears totally fair