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Choosing a healer for WoD...
Lord.Bachus
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What healers are good, and fun to play in WoD, both group raid and solo?
both PvE and PvP?
When and if i decide to buy, i want a 90 healer, to play the new content...
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Sigh, This is the kind of thinking that got us to where we are now..
Each healer basically plays the same with different animations.
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but then again you just didn't answer the question.
To OT: was a priest until I quit, was fun, however I decided to switch to a shaman now, I just hate being non-human now.
Shaman because I find them more versatile and soloing- I heard Shadow priest got nerfed.
I tested some older toons 50´s 60´s and 70´s ..... in Dungeons, and espescially Palladins seemed rather weak while healing in groups compared to the disciple priest.... Shaman just felt wrong to me withouth a melee attack, i know it ounds stupid but its my personall petpeeve, Orc shamans are frontline fighters that heal and healingwise he felt allright
In the end i am looking for a good performing healer with tons of diversity usable in groups
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If you want diversity i would recommend a druid.
Dps: check
Tank: check
Heal: Check
Druid healer is mostly "hot" based with some inormal and instant heals, and he gets to do shapeshifing and can fill all roles
Same goes for monk and paladin... All 3 roles... Tough i agree with you that druids have both melee adn range dps...
but that was not the diversity i was talking about, i am talking about the diversity inside the healer role, what healer class performs most fun things next to healing in a raid .... Things not being dps.... Like totems, crowd controll and paladin handspells
On top of that there is classes that can heal in different ways, like a disciple priest or a monk.. However i am very much affraid Blizzard pretty much ruined these in WOD..
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I really enjoyed Monk healing for the short time I played it during MoP. It just played different than the other healing classes, and seemed fairly potent. Of course, I didn't raid with my healer, so that could have all changed by endgame. Not sure how the current incarnation of that class fares.
HATED Pally healing.
Currently at mid levels Paladin healing feels severely underpowered....
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Log into the PTR... instant 90, geared... try them out in the 90 raids. You're wasting your time in the low level content, nothing is balanced for leveling, it's only balanced for end game.
Which would ruin most of the game for altoholics like me...
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I honestly feel like you're turning down each and every suggestion everyone is giving you, bu I'll give it a try lol.
As of 6.0.2, healing at least for lvl 90 content, has been definitely upped in difficuty. I really enjoy healing on my priest as discipline and the spec has a lot of diversity as well. You have your normal cast heals, you have your priest bubble, your smite/penance cast heals which is heal while dpsing (which has been nerfed quite a bit on 6.0.2) , your smite/penance/heal bubbles which are proc'd by your crits in either of those abilities, and there's also the different AoE heals like Holy Nova (instant cast blast) and Prayer of Mending/Healing (cast time targetted AoE).
I usually switch specs a lot because I'm a person that can't be doing the same role over and over again so I like change, but discipline is really fun and you won't get bored at all with all the different variety of abilities you have. Even with the recent ability pruning in 6.0.2 there is still a lot to do.
Holy in my opinion is fun too, but not funner than disc. Holy gives you different chakras which you must choose from in order to get different kinds of heals/abilities to use while you have the chakras activated. Hope this was of some help!
Haven't read any of the suggestions here but the only spec that fits your criteria would be a Resto Druid, they've R1 capable in every single PvP season in the past 3 years, best healer for RBGs and the most useful healer besides Resto Shammys in PvE this xpac.
I'd say Resto Druid, but it's really only between Druid or Shammy but Druids always seem to avoid the nerfs and shapeshifting is awesome.
Also, as cliche as it sounds, you can't really judge a classes strengths unless you're max level, and with 6.0 everything is balanced around level 100, some 2 and 4 sets can completely change the way you're healing and paying attention to procs and things like that, same with trinkets. If you really want to find your favorite healer you'll have to get each one to 100 imo.
Basically Druid is AoE/HoT healaer, Resto Shammy is AoE heals with OP totems, Disc Priest is about absorb heals so you need to know what mechanics hurt and when they're coming to be able to use Spirit Shell, Disc Priest also damages to heal during low/moderate damage mechanics, Holy Priest is more direct AoE healing like a regular healer in other games, HPally is more of a tank healer so you'll mostly be on 1 tank or the other tank, MW Monk is kind of like a Disc Priest and Shammy combined, with a healing statue, large AoE and damage resulting in heals/buffs, they also need to switch targets a LOT to be as effective as other healers.
(Coming from somebody who was 14/14H over 6 months ago, take it how you wish)
I'm liking my holy priest, I know I know everyone else is Disc lol..... I tried it I couldn't keep anyone alive with it, Holy to me feels more comfortable but that's also just me.... I guess I will have to try Disc as my off-spec and see....
I feel in lower dungeons no matter what you play your gonna be spamming heals, especially because Tanks atm are still trying to pull like before the stat squish. And some of the mobs now hit like a truck there is a couple mobs in LBRS that was killing a 14k tank in two, three, hit's I mean it's kinda cray-cray...... It's like they did the stat squish but didn't actually tune the mobs so there still hitting for 7 and 8k.....
I agree with you, its a pitty they towned down the dps healing of discipline... But priests with 2 healing specs seem to stil be the ultimate healing class.... And priests can do all their stuff with one set of gear...
next to that i am leaning towards Shaman, just because they have so much options to choose from, they allways have
i think i will choose priest as my insta 90, and then play my 70 Shaman to 100 normally
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That's a pretty good option, my main is a shammy and I heal a lot on it, and it's also such a fun class with riptide and healing rain. Healing tide totem is also a life saver... Have fun with your new priest!
depends on your playstyle, i used to play Shaman restoration, it is really good for the raid heal, especially in a situation where all raid health are low,
now i play Druid, it's really nice too, the HoT's are really awesome to keep the tank alive in raids, also mushroom is good for the overall raid health, if you have 2 druid in a raid, it really help since it stacks
priest are mostly single target and does a really high heal numbers if you care at all,
i think every healer class are good, just how you want it to play out
So What Now?
I have 3 healing characters at the moment. Resto shaman, discipline priest, resto druid. Can you elaborate on how these 3 classes heal the same ? And do be specific please.
To answer the OP's question, it all comes down to personal taste and play style. Personally, i had the most fun with the druid. Very versatile with great survivability and very potent at healing in fights or situations with heavy movement involved. If you're new to the healing stuff then the resto shaman is a very good choice as well since he is both potent and easy to learn.
OP, play which one you most enjoy. This is WoW if any healer is "weaker" they will retune to either make all others just as weak or buff to balance.
Never play flavor of the month builds in WoW as they will surely be nerfed. That is unless you really enjoy playing the FOTM class, just be prepared to be nerfed :-)
Ididnt ask for performance..... i asked for fun... (and good)
seems like for endgame Druid and Holy priests will be the preferred raid healers
and discipline and paladin will be the preferred tank healers
leaving Monk and shaman trailing behind.... i can see shamans getting a raidspot for their utillity somewhere, but i think monks will be left untouched as healers this expansion, not that they are bad or not fun, no they are probably my favourite healer gameplaywise. and they can stand their man perfectly in 5 mans..... but with a lot of 10 man raids, they will miss the boat a lot... in favor of priests..
Everyone will want to have a holy priest that can switch to disc in their raid...
And healing and tanking are not about numbers, they are about having the best tools for the job .... seems like priests are the only healers that can do all jobs all the time.. with a little switching between holy and discipline
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Check this video:
Healers comparation for WoD.
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Yes, i found that just after i started this topic, quite some nice information there, however heavily tainted with the guys opinion ( nothing wrong with that, because he shares many of the things i like myself )
I like this one (not a video) even more, it has all the facts nicely put together on paper..
http://healiocentric.wordpress.com/healing-guides/choosing-a-healing-class/
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I always loved healing in WoW and since i couldn't decide what class was the most fun, i went with three mains, all healers back in my time.
Today i ordered WoD to go back to WoW after 4 years. Unlike back then, i don't have the time anymore to maintain three chars and keep them on top. Unless WoD makes playing/gearing various chars more friendly then it was back then, i will have to stick to one healing class only. I.e. i won't have the time to grind out garrisons, reputation, sets for several chars etc.
In case i'll have to pick one of my three healers, it'll be a tough choice to make and i couldn't do that right now. Whatever healer i chose, i miss out on too much fun leaving the others sitting on the shelf. So i will jump into WoD, snoop around and see how trying to juggle with three healers will work out for me.