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Post by
Adamsm
Which ever one you personally want to play, because really, that's all that matters. All healing classes are good at what they do in 5.1.
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Post by
Lunarine
Every healer can top charts if you know how to play your class well.
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Adamsm
Every healer can top charts if you know how to play your class well.
^ This times a thousand.
Also, never ever ever choose a class based on that; you know eventually a nerf bat will come down. Learn the class, play the class, enjoy the class, and don't expect random internet strangers to make the choice for you.
Post by
Discolando
There has to be one healer that tops the charts..
A healer's job isn't to top the charts. It's to keep the raid/group alive. Anyone can snipe heals and end up on the top of a nearly meaningless chart.
Post by
voodoopimp
There's not really "charts" when it comes to healing. If your group doesn't die, you're a good healer. So pick the one whose style you like best, because that's probably the one you'll be best at.
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Post by
Azrile
Top of the charts is going to mean they also have the best gear. By the time you get leveled up and have decent gear, the charts will change.
Chasing the charts is stupid, you will just end up with a character you don´t like playing, and no spec is ever overpowered to any real extent. The same is true for DPS. If you are looking at the charts now, by the time you get BIS gear (which is what people at the top have).. there will be a whole different tier with different raid bosses, different trash and those charts will change drastically, especially considering there are a ton of patch changes coming.
Post by
Trishi
As a long-term healer, I'd have to say that some healers ARE better/worse than others, even without valueing in preferences. Holy Priests seem to be lacking in the tank-healer department compared to a lot of the other healers, and Holy Paladins aren't exactly awesome at raid-healing either. While it is true that you
can
perform perfectly well as
anything
(IE: No one dies that you should have been able to save), it's worth keeping in mind that some healers
are
better suited for some roles than the others.
Priests, at least, have the benefit of having two vastly different types of healing, or 3 if you count Atonement healing. I'm not too fond of Priests myself, but that should be a good start for anyone new to healing.
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Top of the charts is going to mean they also have the best gear. By the time you get leveled up and have decent gear, the charts will change.
Chasing the charts is stupid, you will just end up with a character you don´t like playing, and no spec is ever overpowered to any real extent. The same is true for DPS. If you are looking at the charts now, by the time you get BIS gear (which is what people at the top have).. there will be a whole different tier with different raid bosses, different trash and those charts will change drastically, especially considering there are a ton of patch changes coming.
I recall plenty of people who "Topped the Healing Done / HPS charts", while being unreliable, at best, during the last 25% of the fight. They simple ran out of mana. Worst healers we've ever had as a raid.
Which is why you should never try to chart healing. If you want to "top the charts", stick to damage dealers.
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cephadex
As a long time holy priest healer, I would say don't roll holy priest. I'm of the opinion they'd made it excruciatingly frustrating to play in MoP, especially while healing prior to max level. It's not that you can't top the charts, it's that it's become a real pain. Druid healers have more instant cast heals. I'd heard someone say it's "easy" to heal as monk, but I have no idea if that's actually true.
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Post by
Hennix
As stated above play whats fun and you'll go a long way, only tip I can give you is read up on the healing classes. They all got different tools at their disposal :)
For my personal taste I prefer holy pala and resto shaman as my main healers cause off their abilities + orc shaman is what got me to play this game in the first place ;) (long live Thrall!) closly followed by resto druid
Tried monk healing for an total of 1h at MoP release was such an chaos that I went back to windwalker and never looked back xD
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cephadex
orc shaman is what got me to play this game in the first place ;) (long live Thrall!)
Yes =) And the far-seer hero from wc3 <3
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