I haven't made a very serious post in a while, so I'd like to discuss my viewpoint on the mistweaver monk. The mistweaver is the monk healing class, and has a very distinct kit, very much like the old healers, where they had extreme variation in the kinds of spells used (i.e. regrowth was not a flash heal, healing touch was a main healing spell, nourish didn't exist. I was a resto druid in tbc if you can't already tell). I'll go ahead and explain the basic healing for a mistweaver for those who don't know. The mistweaver main spell(nourish, holy light) is a channeled hot, sort of like a drain life that heals the target, or like penance and rejuvenation morphed into one spell. All of their healing is linked to having this going at all times. They have a regular flash heal type spell, however this spell is INSTANT CAST while channeling soothing mists. Disc priests, eat your heart out. The third main healing ability is a riptide with a two second cast that is also instant cast while channeling. Now this instant cast while channeling poses some great benefits as well as challenges for the monk. Obviously, instant cast every time flash heals are amazing. This could single handedly stop wipes and tank deaths. However, it costs a whopping six percent of base mana, so ooming with the new set mana pools will be the norm if you spam it as allowed. Also, kurrinaxx will be hell on earth for our poor monk friends. Any fight with that much movement will be as such.
In terms of gearing, they can use leather. This allows the use of cogspinner goggles and all of those lovely things. Your healing due to a spammable instant cast flash heal will be out of the ballparks, possibly the best of anything we've yet seen. Thelse 2.0. This will devalue spellpower A LOT. Due to this spamming however, spirit is going to be a huge concern to be able to sustain that much healing. Items like dalewind trousers, lei of lillies, and eye of adaegus are certainly going to be bis. Obviously alanna's embrace is impossible to obtain. They can be gnomes, so trinkets are already decided. I can see mistweavers being a great asset to fifty in the future.