Easy healer for 9.1?

PVP Arenas
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Hey i want to heal in arena/rbg which healing spec would be easy to start with? I was thinking holy paladin or holy priest, maybe something else?

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cant go wrong with priest, holy paladin also been strong so far this xpac, atm holy priest is meta, but there will be a shift into MW monks in the future due to them getting alot of buffs and utility bumps.
Good luck

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Shaman, Rdruid, Hpriest/Dpriest :slight_smile:

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Undead mw monk meta inc in 9.1 :grimacing:

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Oh god, I hated every season, where monks were meta. Doesnt matter what spec was it.

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Hpaladins are getting mana nerfed again, so don’t go holy. Prot paladins will be strong AF early season though, which these days counts as a healer.

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Is there any healer that is almost always good? I want my first healer to be “safe”.

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Priest, Druid for sure

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The guy is asking for a easy healer, I don’t think rsham and druids are easy in PvP (I might be wrong !).

I would say hpala, I don’t see how any pala spec could be difficult to play.

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In 2s rn hpala is one of the worst healers (while not really easy either).
The heals are just okish, the CDs are good and the CC is quite bad. (speaking of 2s only)
Easiest heal rn is pretty much hpriest, not sure how efficient the hpriest is gonna be in 9.1 tho.

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MW going to be potent healer, maybe even top pick in 9.1. But druid and priest will always be solid choices.

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Maybe, but for once someone isn’t asking for the strongest but the easiest

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I know people are saying mw monk is goign to op in 9.1. But I main mw for years and still do now. But playing on the ptr the only real difference is I can survive stuns better just like all the other healers. MW monks still can’t help do any real dmg like all the other healers and their healing still isn’t the best thats for sure. Stick to priest…

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Hpala is the easiest pvp healer then I would say MW monk then resto sham and holy priest then rdruid then disc. But its really depends how you play them. You can either be a healbot who stays behind and only heal (and blame your teammates that they didnt carry you enough) or you can play as a healer meant to be played in pvp so you heal and do as much dps as you can in kill Windows.
If you do the second almost every healer equally hard. There is a huge difference between good and okayish healers.

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Im leaning towards holy paladin, priest, and shaman. I dont really like druid and monk. I cant deciede. :frowning:

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Shaman isn’t hard but I would say it’s more complex than pala, you need to rotate CD, you need to cast also, totem can be destroyed so placement is key, paladin is more straightforward and probably less frustrating to play for a beginner healer. But if you like to have a lot of spells, like every class had 10 years ago, if you like shaman lore spirits, wolfs and stuff, go rsham

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No. Priest aren’t safe, they have most of the time been considered mediocre.

After bfa and now sl I wouldn’t say there’s any “safe” healers to roll anymore. Holy paladins had their easy street for decent amount of time but it looks like that ended with mana nerfs.

This. Any comp that allows for a more passive gameplay is obviously going to be easier.

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I prefer less buttons. I played LoL for 8 years im used to fewer buttons. :grinning:

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^ That. Since hpalas are getting their mana nerfed again, they’re gonna be pigeonholed to only play with either mages or whatever is the most overtuned DPS in the game. Nothing inbetween. No alternative. They’ll be stuck only playing quick games, or with something that allows them to drink a lot.

Which is why prot pala will be soo much better, and it’s easier to play as well. Since the damage is being buffed for a lot of specs in 9.1, together with some OP legendaries, when you play with 2 dps as a prot pala where you all have interrupts, and you’ve even got a short cd silence on top of it for an extra psuedo-interrupt, it’ll be as straightforward and simple as you can get. Your damage is strong as well.
Your judgement cooldown is shorter as well, which together with the new judgement dispel honor talent basically gets rid of the one downside of not playing as holy.

Holy right now, in this patch, is a lot about playing for damage output to keep the games quick. Holy doesn’t win the long games without a team that can literally speaking create enough space while surviving on their own for the hpala to drink, because the mana runs out.
Holy is getting both their burst damage nerfed as well as their mana nerfed, so there’s no real reason to pick holy over prot next season. At least until they throw some balance hotfixes into it.

(Don’t get me wrong, the damage output possible as holy is ridiculous. Shouldn’t be a thing, so it’s good that they’re nerfing it. Should honestly be nerfed by more. But the mana nerfs are overkill, by a lot.)

TL;DR:
Prot will be easier than holy next season. Since you’ll have less things to think about, no need to hard cast as much, and more pressure output while also being tankier.

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Im even more confused than before i created this topic. Im not really sure what i want to do anymore.

Maybe i should just play rogue or mage since they always seem to be meta. :joy: