I’ve played WoW a long time ago. I’m gonna start playing now again but I’m not certain what healer class should I choose to master.
Basically, during the event I’ve leveled all classes, just to get them to 70. I enjoy playing each of them to be honest but I want to focus on one to get to the endgame, especially I’m gonna play with friends, mythic+, raids etc.
I’ve been following multiple tier lists. Looks like the best ones would be Paladin, Shaman, Druid or Evoker. Some tier lists on popular wow pages says the best one would be probably Shaman or Druid but I’ve watched few YT videos stating that for e.g. Druid would be fine for mythic+ but for raids it would be terrible.
so, I’m asking about your opinion. Should I choose Shaman as it seems to be the best option considering both dungeons and raids? Difficulty of the class doesn’t matter as I would at least try to master. Few years ago I played Holy Priest and pushed it to the extend of performance but looks like it’s gonna be lucking of desired tools this season.
I’d personally say: Pick the class & spec you enjoy playing the most. Though I can’t say for the people you play with, but I rather want someone who enjoys what they play and get good at what they enjoy playing with rather than someone who follows whatever is good right now.
That being said, if you do want to play the meta game, go for it! In the end it’s you that should enjoy playing the game.
Depending on who you ask either choice could be right (or wrong)! But in the end it is up to you. Both have their positives and negatives but I don’t think that either reason is wrong.
Forget about tier lists. All healing specs have a distinctive healing style, and you’ll perform the best with the style that matches your preferences and how you play.
I eventually settled on shaman because I prefer a reactive healer with a lot of utility (interrupt, totems for many situations, stun, stop), but others get better results from a preemptive healer (like druid), enjoy a melee-oriented healer more (FW mistweaver, paladin), etc. Some people may want a battle rez, others prefer a strong group buff or heroism/BL, etc.
Try out different healers, see what works for you. You can do well with any of them.
Personally I’m going preservation evoker + mistweaver. I enjoy both for different reasons, and they seem reasonably tuned for now.
Historically shamans are only allowed 1 season in the sun before being smashed back down with the nerf hammer. If I personally was committing to it, it would be with the understanding that I’m picking a new main for S2.
Tbh I may go for shaman as a 3rd option. Hitting 80 on alts seems very very easy and maybe I can have all of them at 580+ by the time heroic week starts.
I know these is generally sensible advice… but as someone who struggled and nearly quit the game over the state of their preferred healer in 10.0… there’s a point below which a spec stops being fun even if it is mechanically excellent for your personal play style.
If there’s anything in that spot rn it’s probably disc priest, but I don’t think the gulf is as big as it was between MW (F tier) and prevoker (S+ tier) at Dragonflight launch.
But that said, fairly sure every healer is perfectly competent for filling your vault from +10s every week. Unless you’re going very very high, it doesn’t matter too much and indeed it’s better to go for one you like the gameplay of
Tier lists are made by people who play high lvl M+ so it’s often biased.
For example, Rsham are not often on the top of these lists but it’s definitely S-tier to carry groups in low/mid keys.
I will quote my colleague
That’s very true, unless you want to do VHL keys / raids and then you better have 3 or 4 different healers and play fotm.
If you want melee healer : monk / pal or even Druid
You like being GCD locked : Rdruid
Want some anticipation : DiscPriest / Rdruid
Want to enrage because people are spread 40 y of each other : Evoker or Rsham
You like filling bars : Rsham or HolyPriest
Usually, Rsham and HolyPriest are considered beginner friendly and Disc Priest not.
Prevoker, Rdruid, Rsham looks strong. You mention Rsham multiple times and its high on terms of powerlevel and will be fine for the content you listed so go with rsham. Im going to play both rdruid and rshaman self as I enjoy both of their themes and gameplay and thankfully both look to be doing good in end game.
