There's plenty of room for argument on the topic of "best healer" in the game. And with some big changes coming to paladins in the upcoming 2.1 patch, the debate will only intensify. We've got priests with their versatile array of healing spells; paladins with their excellent mana efficiency and great buffs; druids with HoT domination and in-combat rez; and shamans with powerful (but difficult to use) totem buffs and self-rez as wipe protection. We could spend all day arguing the pros and cons of each class in a raid or small-group setting without coming to a conclusion!But let's overlook the debate for now and just ask this basic question: who's actually out there healing you? A priest? A paladin? A druid? A shaman? A rogue with a good supply of bandages?
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4-21-2007 @ 8:59AM
priest said...
In my experience, it's still priests, outside of highly organised guild runs, your average pug still prefers a priest to anything else.
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4-21-2007 @ 9:06AM
kevinjammie said...
In all the runs I've ever been in it's always the druid with the priest backing them up.
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4-21-2007 @ 9:16AM
Smithra said...
in Arena, it's my good friend the Paladin.
Everywhere else I see mostly priests, some paladins and the rare druid. Most of the druids I see these days are feral either for tanking or dps. I've yet to see a shaman main-heal.
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4-21-2007 @ 9:45AM
Adam said...
In my guild, most of our healers are Paladins. Our priests are shadow, our Druids are feral or balance, and our shamans are...well, we don't really have shamans.
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4-21-2007 @ 9:55AM
Eric said...
I heal myself!
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4-21-2007 @ 10:36AM
Mats said...
Being horde, I have seen shaman main healers all over the place. However, druids and priests are more common as main healers.
Seen paladins heal here and there of late, and they are good at it.
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4-21-2007 @ 10:51AM
Jon said...
As a priest, I've healed in almost every five man I've been in, although I have been occasionally given the chance to go shadow and DPS while a pally heals.
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4-21-2007 @ 11:01AM
blitz1988 said...
Mostly Paladins, althought I've seen a few Shamans lately... Priests seem to love Shadow, and druids mostly take the role of a tank...
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4-21-2007 @ 11:44AM
Ltw said...
As a hunter, I actually get most of my heals from Priests rather than the other classes. Usually as my Ice Trap crackles and thuds to life, i'll get a heal tossed to me from the priests since they realize i probably just took 2K in damage before it activated.
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4-21-2007 @ 12:29PM
seperioth said...
Yah i'm a druid. I main healed a 20man raid the other day with no complications. No freak outs. Had over 380k in healing. Priests and pallys and resto druids back me up. I'm feral/resto build with the feral pts helping my healing.
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4-21-2007 @ 1:03PM
Riktopher said...
In an odd mage/2 locks/2 rogues SM Armory run I did around 38 (as one of the rogues) the other rogue and one lock had bandage duty.
Yes, we succeeded.
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4-21-2007 @ 2:15PM
GuitarBurst05 said...
I rarely do PUGs, and our guild healer is a Paladin. I much prefer finding a pally than a priest, even though I suppose that's going to change with the patch. Problem is, most priests love shadow, and a shadow priest is just a freaking joke. Can't heal like a healer, can't DPS like a DPSer.
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4-21-2007 @ 2:40PM
Lori said...
Hey ppl, you do realize that the Shadow Priests are likely makeing the main healers job easier with 30% of their shadow damage healing all in the party via Vampiric Embrace. The are probably helping the mana pool with Vampiric Touch, as well.
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4-21-2007 @ 2:44PM
Argent said...
good priests >>> good paladins = good druids > mediocre priests > mediocre druids > mediocre paladins.
it pretty much works out ot be like that. 2.1 knocks good paladins down to be about equal to mediocre priests (of which there are a lot more than good paladins - most of the latter re-rolled a long time ago.)
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4-21-2007 @ 3:05PM
Chad said...
With my main being a warlock, I generally try to run with priests (shadow or not). Its just seemed to work out a bit better.
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4-21-2007 @ 4:19PM
10pound said...
duh...paladins of course.
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4-21-2007 @ 4:36PM
monkeywraith said...
i havent seen many priests healing lately, most are shadow, which is great, makes healing, which is usually my job (feral/resto druid), easier. usually, if i am not healing, it is a paladin. i know most of you are going to disagree with me on this, but despite mana efficiency, paladins dont quite heal for enough and end up having trouble keeping up when main healing. say what you want, that is what i see. unfortunately, i see very few 70 shaman ... just more incentive to level mine :P
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4-21-2007 @ 7:20PM
haust said...
Currently for Karazhan we use the 4 healing classes.
Being a priest, I /cry because I'm not 3rd in the healmeter (yes I know it's useless).
Lately our paladin started to heal the MT :) I feel bad since the devs decided to nerf paladins because we (priests) complained about our class problems.
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4-21-2007 @ 7:21PM
haust said...
"I /cry because I'm not 3rd in the healmeter"
erf read "I /cry because I'm 3rd in the healmeter"
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4-21-2007 @ 7:46PM
Tigraine said...
My guild has one pretty inactive Holy Priest that just logs in for Raids.
All other healing is either done by our 3 Holy Pallys or by that one Resto shaman.
But as a Warrior I mainly group with paladins, they somehow never run out of mana when I just pull one group after another without mana breaks.
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