Monk Mistweaver Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Life CocoonOff-GCD 2 Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD 3 Renewing Mist 4 Renewing Mist 5 Rushing Wind Kick 6 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 7 Renewing Mist 8 Rushing Wind Kick 9 Renewing Mist 10 Enveloping Mist 11 Rushing Wind Kick 12 Blackout Kick 13 Tiger Palm 14 Blackout Kick 15 Rushing Wind Kick

1 Life CocoonOff-GCD 2 Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD 3 Renewing Mist 4 Renewing Mist 5 Rushing Wind Kick 6 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 7 Renewing Mist 8 Rushing Wind Kick 9 Mana Tea 10 Enveloping Mist 11 Renewing Mist 12 Rushing Wind Kick 13 Enveloping Mist 14 Rushing Wind Kick 15 Mana Tea

1 Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD 2 Renewing Mist 3 Renewing Mist 4 Rushing Wind Kick 5 Vivify 6 Enveloping Mist 7 Renewing Mist 8 Rushing Wind Kick 9 Vivify 10 Enveloping Mist 11 Enveloping Mist 12 Rushing Wind Kick 13 Vivify 14 Soothing Mist 15 Enveloping Mist

#showtooltip Renewing Mist
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Life Cocoon
/cast Thunder Focus Tea
/cast Renewing Mist

Ability	Top-player CPM
Vivify	14.0
Rushing Wind Kick	13.6
Renewing Mist	9.8
Enveloping Mist	9.3
Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD	2.7
Mana Tea	2.7
Soothing Mist	1.7
Life CocoonOff-GCD	1.0
Roll	0.7
Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.7
Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent	0.6
Detox	0.6
Celestial Conduit	0.6
Fortifying BrewOff-GCD	0.4

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Renewing Mist 2 Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD 3 Soothing Mist 4 Rising Sun Kick 5 Rising Sun Kick 6 Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane 7 Rising Sun Kick 8 Life CocoonOff-GCD 9 Blackout Kick 10 Enveloping Mist 11 Spinning Crane Kick 12 Rising Sun Kick 13 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 14 Sheilun's Gift 15 Hex Lord's DoomOff-GCD

1 Renewing Mist 2 Rising Sun Kick 3 Roll 4 Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel 5 Life CocoonOff-GCD 6 Fortifying BrewOff-GCD 7 Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane 8 Rising Sun Kick 9 Liquid LusterOff-GCD 10 Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD 11 Rising Sun Kick 12 Rising Sun Kick 13 Rising Sun Kick 14 Enveloping Mist 15 Spinning Crane Kick

1 Renewing Mist 2 Renewing Mist 3 Renewing Mist 4 Rising Sun Kick 5 Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD 6 Rising Sun Kick 7 Leg Sweep 8 Spinning Crane Kick 9 Rising Sun Kick 10 Spinning Crane Kick 11 Rising Sun Kick 12 Ring of Peace 13 Rising Sun Kick 14 Spinning Crane Kick 15 Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane

#showtooltip Renewing Mist
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Thunder Focus Tea
/cast Life Cocoon
/cast Renewing Mist

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip Soothing Mist
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Soothing Mist

#showtooltip Detox
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Detox;Detox

#showtooltip Tiger's Lust
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Tiger's Lust;Tiger's Lust

#showtooltip Spear Hand Strike
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Spear Hand Strike

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Rising Sun Kick	16.0
2	Vivify	14.0
3	Rushing Wind Kick	13.6
4	Renewing Mist	9.8
5	Enveloping Mist	9.3
Z	Spinning Crane Kick	8.4
X	Tiger Palm	5.9
C	Blackout Kick	5.7
V	Thunder Focus TeaOff-GCD	2.7
R	Mana Tea	2.7
F	Soothing Mist	1.7
T	Sheilun's Gift	1.7
G	Roll	1.2
Shift+1	Life CocoonOff-GCD	1.0
Shift+2	Soulcoiler Ritual Vessel	0.7
Shift+3	Invoke Chi-Ji, the Red Crane	0.7
Shift+4	Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent	0.6
Shift+5	Detox	0.6
Shift+Z	Celestial Conduit	0.6
Shift+X	Fortifying BrewOff-GCD	0.4