Mythic Kurog | Vault of Incarnates | The Ministry - Ragnaros | Mistweaver Monk PoV

Greetings all, this is my first Mythic Kurog kill. Unlike many unrefined and unclean pulls that end up in these first kill videos, this one in particular was quite surprisingly a clean kill for the most part besides the deaths at the very end due to people getting hit by the ice orbs.

I am quite happy for Mistweaver performance on this one for a first kill even if the parse itself isn't the most spectacular, but that's because of healer comp, CD assignments and the fact that bad rng and bad drops have left me a little bit behind in ilvl and main stat relative to other top monks. Furthermore, my uptime on "Save them All" was only 8% here while in top parses you will find that number closer to 20% or more, which makes a drastic difference in total throughput. In general, keep in mind that the uptime of this particular buff is extremely important to achieve top throughput, but this is something you don't have much control over. Typically, I have observed that you can achieve higher uptime on it when having 1-2 Holy Priests in the group, so you will definitely notice towards the end of the tier after people have achieved their BiS, that top parses in these hard healing fights have hpriests in them more often than not.

In retrospect, there are two areas that can see further improvement in my personal performance here after examining the VoD and the log that you can take note of:

1) The first one is my "Gust of MIsts" from Chi-Ji: I should have used "Tiger Palm - Blackout Kick" spam more often during Chi-Ji instead of applying more Enveloping Mists because that would have resulted in more effective healing instead of the extra Enveloping Breaths which overhealed by a lot. In turn, this would have meant higher throughput and this is something you have to actively think about when you play with Awakened Faeline and have stacked a lot of Mastery stat:
There is a point / threshold where spamming "Tiger Palm - Blackout Kick" and reserving Enveloping Mists only for someone that drops significantly low will result in better throughput under the right circumstances than constantly applying Env Mists after you get 3x stacks of Teaching of the Monastery.

2) The second area of improvement is the Ancient Teachings healing. There are moments where I could have used either Essence Font or Faeline more aggressively when Rising Sun Kick was close to come out of CD and healing was needed to get greater value out of Ancient Teachings. I could have easily gotten 7-10 more Ancient Teachings procs here. Unfortunately, I didn't have an Innervate or Evo's Source of Magic during progression, so I had to be more reserved with regards to mana spending. But if you get the resources in your group, you can easily play more aggressively and fit more Ancient Teachings procs in here, or use an Innervate to spam some extra high value Vivifies.

Any Mistweaver watching this who will pay attention to the two areas I mentioned above can certainly achieve a much greater throughput in this fight. Overall, it is a very fun fight and has a nice pace to it, but I find it unfortunate that more or less everyone has been using the same strat.

Moreover, it was found out during progression that the fire markers during fire phase can actually target your Chi-Ji, so be cautious of that. Also, these markers can screw up your Chi-Ji if you don't use good assignments for it and rng forces you to go bait these fires away during Chi-Ji, so make sure you set up appropriate timers that don't rely too much on rng. I have a strong feeling that this might have been one of the primary reasons Liquid benched Maevy (their Mistweaver at the time) during the race for World First considering that bad rng can cripple your performance if it occurs at inconvenient moments.

Have a good day and let me know your thoughts! I hope you enjoy the music this time too!

Songs used in this video:
1) GHOST DATA - Parallel Convergence (feat. =ODDEEO=)
2) Susumu Hirasawa - Parade

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 for their incredible music and only for entertainment purposes.

Talents used in the video:
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As promised, 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

For the ERT icons, I would still recommend to get the latest version from original author and simply edit it with my settings above to make it look like mine, just to avoid any bad code issues in the future due to it becoming dated.

My VuhDo Renewing Mists settings: https://imgur.com/a/b8FWEE3