20121026

A. Since 20121012, my level 14 mistweaver monk has progressed to level 54, and has had 40 dungeon runs, 3 as dps, 37 as heals.  At this point, the mechanics of the mistweaver seem stronger to me than those of holy priest or restoration druid.

As a questing character, my mistweaver is not particularly strong, but still serviceable.  I found both holy priest and restoration druid to be only slightly better than useless for questing.

I waited until level 33 to start running the mistweaver as heals.  At level 49, the character was fairly robust with the healing spell set

------Soothing Mist
------Renewing Mist
------Chi Wave
------Surging Mist
------Enveloping Mist

By level 54, the following have been added:

------Life Cocoon
------Spinning Crane Kick
------Chi Brew

plus some improvements in questing (or dungeon) survivability.

B. I have not been running my level 51 Windwalker (dps) monk much lately, but I have been quite satisfied with its spell set, particularly spinning crane kick and fists of fury. The windwalker is my second favourite dps character, though well behind my unholy death knight.

C.  The third version of monk is specified by 'Brewmaster,' and is designed for tanking.

I have completely stalled on my level 14 panda monk Brewmaster.  The male panda is just too awkward and gawky looking for my taste.

I have created a new Night Elf monk Brewmaster that uses mining to build its toughness.

As with the mistweaver, it looks like the brewmaster will not be all that good until perhaps level 35.