Greetings all! After a long while I get to return back to my old server and faction that I used to play: Alliance side on Silvermoon. When going Alliance, the hardest decision is obviously which race to choose since they have so many cool races with quite useful perks. I went with the Mechagnome because I thought it would be very fun to see the mecha-diaper-chad in the healing leaderboards, and obviously for the Combat Analysis racial that provides the highest overall main stat.

Now regarding this fight, I have to say that even though this is the sixth boss that is cleared in progression, it feels extremely basic and lame as fight. There is no depth to it, it has a very simplified pattern that it follows which repeats until you kill the boss. It is also a fight where people stay spread for the most part and it makes it even less fun to heal as you cannot get great value from several spells, but it is not healing intensive so four healers are more than enough.

With respect to my Mistweaver performance in this fight, while it ended up being a top-ten log at the moment I am writing this, I don't deem it a particularly great performance and it made clear to me that after the changes to the class and the recent buffs, the balance has shifted a bit and certain talents are currently getting outshined by alternative options and I need to slightly re-adapt my playstyle.

First of all, let's start with mistakes: I get good value from first Chi-Ji but I end up losing value from second and third applications due to my positioning (especially during second one). Of course it doesn't help that we have to be spread due to mechanics because that way I cannot get good Enveloping Breath cleaves but with better personal positioning I certainly could have healed more with my Chi-Ji's Gust of Mists. This is definitely an area for improvement in future reclears.

Another area that requires improvement is my mana spending and using more mana potions during these fight. Currently after all these buffs we have gotten, Vivify cleaving is extremely potent and I need to take more advantage of it. In most cases you will have to call for an Innervate and sadly here I couldn't since our druid died early, but this raises the argument that I should have talented "Mana Tea" or even use a Chilling pot instead of Ultimate Power pot to spam more Vivifies. While reviewing this vod, I have noticed many excellent windows for Vivify spamming (especially during the two times on the platform). Another option is to use the "Conjured Chillglobe" trinket (which I don't currently own) to get more mana throughout the fight and in turn translate that into more healing. In short, all the buffs we have received in recent weeks make it clear once again that we go back to our old mana-hungry self that we recall from Shadowlands and we have to find ways to survive the battle with our mana bar.

Lastly, I opted for Upwelling in this fight due to my earlier mana issues that were making me go oom. But currently it has become clear to me that after RSK's damage buffs and all other healing buffs we have received, spamming more EFs during the fight and getting more value out of our Ancient Teachings (like in Shadowlands) is perhaps a better option if you can deal with the mana shortages when not picking up Upwelling. Upwelling is still a strong option if you have a lot of mastery and want to maximise the value of double mastery procs, but it falls behind when you instead stack crit like I do currently. In my case Focused Thunder would have been a better alternative.

I will not discuss Sheilun's Gift and Shaohao's lesson for now because it is still too early and there isn't much data yet in latest patch to derive a median performance for these two talents relative to other options. But they are certainly strong candidates, however they force you to adapt your gameplay around them quite a bit and plan ahead if you want to maximize their value. For some arbitrary reason, I personally find Mending Proliferation a decent option and I tend to favour it. In this fight I got 3450 HPS out of it, which is a decent value. But in the coming days I will have to thoroughly review the potencies of these talents after we get more data from logs in the new 10.0.5 patch.

Enjoy!

Songs used in this video:
1) Kebu - Michael's Anthem (Daniel Kandi Remix)
2) Dance With The Dead - Watching You

All rights of the music used in this video belong to their respective artists and studios. Usage of their music in this video is a mere tribute to their incredible music and is only for entertainment
purposes.

Talents used in the video:
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Here are my main WAs:
Mistweaver CD tracking: https://wago.io/UqyZea-hl
RSK / Teaching of Monastery tracking bar (created by StoneFace): https://wago.io/TUPA2yrgT
ERT icons (this my personal edit, original is by KazeShinu, all credits to him): https://wago.io/ZGl1l6WNh