Hello all!
Was hoping for some recommendations on healer to play as a first time healer in arena, conflicting information I’ve found
Skill Capped recommend Evoker / Holy Pala
Others say Holy Priest / MW Monk as Evoker is hard and Pala is trading CDs
I know nothing of these specs other but I would love to practice whilst my friend practices his Shadow priest !
Also we dont push high rating if that matters -
Holy pala(caster version) and Holy priest imo.
MW, you need to be good with mobility and its weak vs CC.
Shaman, too many keybinds and weak heals.
Druid, proactive healer, meaning you need to stay on top of dmg with hots, if you fall behind it can be daunting.
Disc, quite easy, but you need to weave in dmg as well. Also proactive healer. Lots of DMG reduction so you kinda need to know when to press them, falling behind is really bad on this spec.
Evoker, limited range, echo mechanic can be annoying for noobs, but it has VERY strong heals. Weak vs CC when shroud is not up.
Awesome thank you for the reply, how best to distinguish between caster and im assuming melee Holy pala builds? Do they use different hero talents at all?
I’m surprised skill capped would recommend evoker for noob healers. It seems very punishing to play compared to most healers.
You go regular wings instead of melee wings, and you also go herald of the sun instead of lightsmith. As for the rest of the talents, I’m not quite sure. Most paladins play melee wings because it’s stronger, but it’s a lot harder to learn.
Caster Mistweaver is the easiest healer to understand and heal with efficiently.
Life Cocoon is a very forgiving cooldown. And you can go anywhere.
Once you figure out positioning it’s pretty easy to pull off some wins by passively healing from max range without ever interacting with the enemy team.
Holy pala can dish great heals while disc priest can survive atomic bomb and do ton sh1t of damage.
All healer specs are noob friendly. Just press a button to top someone from 10% to 100%
How can you not be sure but at the same time give advice to someone? Melee wings is the easiest for people that wants to try out holy paladin. You do good healing with it and also insane damage pressure.
Thats not so bright advice to someone that wants to try out mistweaver. Look, almost every spec has mobility to reach you and instant CC/interrupt you. Mistweaver is very suspectible to interrupts. Fistweaver is just better.
Disc priest for sure, or holy even…
Why?
because those specs are not completly dependable what your teammates gonna do, with other classes there can be alot of automatic lose situations, for example your mates not use defensives when they need to etc. Im not saying those situations are good for priests either but they are not neccesary automatic lose situations and you still have chance to salvage situation. Priests are also reason why alot of DPS players saw high ratting, they are capable to turn noob into decent player.
Holy pala hands down. Tons of warriors and other physical dmg dealers so you basically should win against them on default, their heals are instant that they can spam while go slap hoj on enemy healer which nobody pays any attention on low mmr of hpala crossing the map to hoj, nor the repe you can then follow to cast on the healer while your sac or bop is holding for long enough you finish the repe and go back spamming holy shocks. Can also blind people with honor talent with a short cast which nobody has eyes to kick even before they are blinded. Arguably one of the easiest and most efficient healers to start shuffle currently. Different story once you get higher, but the question were for beginner so for them and for the beginner levels it is the best.
Fistweaver is better but it’s harder to play than the AFK caster playstyle because you’re more exposed and need to make more meaningful choices, that can be severely punished.
From a complete noob’s point of view, caster is easier, even if Fistweaver is “better” once mastered.
As for interrupts, this is no longer that true.
Mistweaver has:
Caster MW still needs to cast Soothing Mist sometimes, but not as often as it used to, and you can get kick immunity twice with TFT.
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