Hi,
since healers are apparently so hard that my healer buddy quit healing and went dps. I decided to pick up the slack and make a healer. I never healed before. Used to be tank and dps player only.
What healer would you recommend? Everywhere I look there is tier list about best healer in each category. But I like to play this and that. Some PvE some PvP. Some dungeons and some raids. And since I do not want to level and play multiple healers. I would prefer if the healer was jack of all trades and not necessarily easy to learn as a class but would not make learning healer role overly complicated.
Thereâs two types of healing, and itâs a preference⌠Proactive and Reactive, do you want to set up for incoming damage with HoTs and Absorbs or heal after said damage with direct AoE and ST heals.
Use mouseover macros.
Healing isnât inherently harder, but dopes not moving can make your life harder in pugs.
Honestly, proactive sounds more interesting but I bet it requires knowledge I donât have yet or weak auras I will be getting either way.
Yeah Mouseover macros are something I am looking into already.
I will start slow and learn. My biggest worry is that if I pick for example preservation evoker. Which I like the class fantasy of. The limited range will kneecap me in M+ or PvP. Or MW monk that I hear is amazing in BG blitz but shares but shares the monk curse and you need more skill to get average results.
It really depends on what level of content you are looking at.
You honestly canât go too far wrong with a mistweaver. They have some very different playstyles depending on whether you want to cast or punch stuff to heal. They also have great utility.
The only downside is the âcommunityâ doesnât consider them meta but every single one Iâve played with this season has surpassed my expectations dealing with hard parts of fights easily.
Frankly the most noob friendly healer there is, happens to also be one of the meta ones this season. Talking about resto shaman.
Generally you are right that proactive healing is the most difficult, since if you do not know the content/players, you are out of nowhere asked to heal enormous amounts.
For this reason even if we were talking about another season that shaman was not meta, I would still suggest it as a spec.
They have reactive healing, meaning that you see the damage being dealt, and have the tools to heal it, as well as a really intuitive kit:
Go with whatever healer sounds more appealing to you, donât look for easy or strong specs because that changes every patch and youâll naturally get better the more you play.
In my opinion the most important thing to have as a healer are good party/raid frames and mouseover macros, but not just regular mouseovers because thatâs gonna collapse your keybinds, you need mouseover attached to your main dps abilities. This is a good example:
Summary
#showtooltip Mind Blast
/cast [@mouseover,help,exists,nodead][help,exists,nodead]Power Word: Radiance;
/cast [@target,harm,nodead] Mind Blast
What this macro does is cast PW Radiance on your mouseover, if there is nothing youâre mouseovering then it casts Mind Blast on your target. Basically youâre a full DPS until you mouseover somebody.
My advice would be to create some trial characters. They start at lvl60, so a lot of the core functionality is ready and itâll give you a great idea of how the class/spec plays. Only you can decide which healer is right for you.
Once you find one you like, you can either pay to boost it lvl70 and continue playing (after the initial 3hrs) or create a fresh character and level it.
You can currently queue for Chromie âdungeonâ event and Dragonflight normal dungeons. Iâd recommend just sticking to the Chromie one as not sure how long queues would be for DF normal dungeons. You can also queue for most PvP quick matches too but youâll probably be slaughtered in there
Iâd give MW a shot. I played one for the first time in DF, monk as a class never appealed to me very much. I was blown away by how fun it is, how unique in certain ways.
As others said tho, it may depend on how high you want to aim. At the same time, the meta usually changes quite regularly anyway.
resto shaman has big kit but just healing through dmg aint working.
spaming chain heal or surge will let you go oom within 30 seconds.
resto is also strong because the utility but that is only good if you also use it
Cheers for all the advice. I will give it a shot on this monk and see where it leads me. I will take a look at Rsham and maybe a disc priest as I like the idea of healing through dmg
I got rdruid, rsham, disc/hpriest since sl now but what I also gather from mw right now it would be versatile pick all in all if one want to be best healer for blitz and still spec that is more than viable to heal m+ or raid. Mw has very strong healing output in general, and its mobile and come with overpowered cds that rule the game in blitz for one.
Disc I would not advice as its probably headed for nerf soon and in my opinion its pretty boring to play compared to hpriest which is worst healer currently in every content and about to get buffed soon. Rham is good in m+ but terrible in pvp right now, one of the worst like hpriest. All in all MW is your best and most versatile choise for all content now in my opinion from these choises presented. (only reason I dont mention hpala)
ps. priest is good for future along with that mw with its 2 healing specs so one is more likely to be viable in future than compare to rsham/rdruid/mw/hpala/evoker for example which all heal with one spec. Pure dps classes with 3 dps specs have same advantage over hybrid specs and cause how balancing work in wow that it always swings with huge sway one way or other between patches. Priest healer is good future proof to have in mind once get bored on mw or the like.
Either level up all healers and play the best one in the current patch, or level one and stick to it.
Thereâs no officially best healer, obviously. Balance changes every day. You can check out raiderio and warcraftlogs websites to get some statistics about currently popular specs.
A priest is unique because it has two very different healer specs, so there are some chances that one of those specs will be good enough. So if you have no better idea, play priest.
