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YesterdaysHero
All are good. There is no best, which is why people play all 5 types.
If one was best, no one would play any other one.
5? Druid, Priest, Pally, Shaman* and....?
which class do you think is best as a PvE healer?
Which class do I
think is the best? Priest. Can do a little bit of everything.
* Everyone knows Shamans aren't really a healer. Kind of an off healer.
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anywherenotes
As a tank I prefer a good healer.
I've been healed in naxx-10 by shaman (as my primary healer, with others healing the group), and it's great, so don't talk trash about shamans.
There are bad players and good players, and class for a healer doesn't seem to be an issue. When considering which class to play, you should look at the difference between playstyles, and anyway any class can be buffed or nerfed, so current standing is not at indicator for next patch or beyond.
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Squishums
Pallies IMO. Amazing mana regen, great boomy heals, glyphed they can heal the MT and the melee, and have new talents that push them to the top. CoH has been nerfed, good priests will now be harder to come by.
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windstrum
At the risk of being repetitive, no healing class is a clear-cut winner. There will be one single "best" for
you
, to suit your play style. None are more gifted than any others. The different healing play styles are:
Druid: Healing over time spells, which absorb spike damage incredibly well.
Priest: Area-of-effect heals, and a boatload of different healing spells. Can be a positive (options FTW!) or negative (overwhelming for some)
Paladin: Mostly single target heals, great insta-heals. Powerful single target healer.
Shaman: Mixture of these. HoT via Rip Tide, insta-heals via HW and LHW, and AoE-type heals via Chain Heal.
Even though I'm a shaman, my play style when it comes to healing lends more towards the Druid. I love me some HoTs. Keeping them topped up during a fight is an easy job.
But your own play style will determine which of these is easiest. I see bucketloads of priest and paladin healers on my server, many more than the other two options. It all comes down to what you find easiest/most enjoyable.
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omglaserzpewpew
In my guild's raid last night, we had 2 priests and a paladin healing. On the patchwerk fight, they started laughing on vent - apparently, they were almost exclusively with PoM + Renew and FoL + Beacon of Light the entire fight.
From personal experience, I can say that shaman are just fun to heal with. I tried healing for the first time ever, on any class, the other day and it was pretty enjoyable. Healing a 5 man as a shaman is a walk in the park.
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YesterdaysHero
5? Druid, Priest, Pally, Shaman* and....?
Disc Priest and Holy Priest. There are 2 specs.
That's not quite accurate. It's like splitting hairs further and saying mp5 heavy gear makes it a spec.
4 types of healers.
As a tank I prefer a good healer.
I've been healed in naxx-10 by shaman (as my primary healer, with others healing the group), and it's great, so don't talk trash about shamans.
Shamans that are able to heal as a MH are as rare as seeing an Ashbringer running around Org/IF. Just speaking from experience, and yes, there are exceptions to every rule.
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Jaspah
Shamans that are able to heal as a MH are as rare as seeing an Ashbringer running around Org/IF. Just speaking from experience, and yes, there are exceptions to every rule.
Uh, obviously you've never seen a competent Shaman heal before then. I'm very cabable of keeping our main tanks alive, and I've done so in Naxx 10... I've also solo healed VoA 10, but that place is a piece of cake anyway.
Healing as a Shaman is very fun... I have no trouble healing heroics or keeping a raid alive. Perhaps you should see one of us in action before opening your mouth. With this new CoH nerf I should come very close or surpass the amount of healing done in our 25-man raids by our Priest.
Shaman are excellent, capable healers, that are flexible to raid healing and main tank healing.
"Off healer"
Hahaha... #$%^ing idiots.
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Paolo
5? Druid, Priest, Pally, Shaman* and....?
Disc Priest and Holy Priest. There are 2 specs.
That's not quite accurate. It's like splitting hairs further and saying mp5 heavy gear makes it a spec.
4 types of healers.
Not splitting hairs sir. Disc & holy priests are one
class
(of course) but are two totally different
specs
. There is nearly no overlap in gear selection, playstyle is almost totally different, raid function is night and day. Hell I bet we couldn't agree on pizza toppings ffs. They are almost as different as the two dps shammy specs. Who both wear mail, by the way. And use mp5.
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windstrum
5? Druid, Priest, Pally, Shaman* and....?
Disc Priest and Holy Priest. There are 2 specs.
That's not quite accurate. It's like splitting hairs further and saying mp5 heavy gear makes it a spec.
4 types of healers.
Not splitting hairs sir. Disc & holy priests are one
class
(of course) but are two totally different
specs
. There is nearly no overlap in gear selection, playstyle is almost totally different, raid function is night and day. Hell I bet we couldn't agree on pizza toppings ffs. They are almost as different as the two dps shammy specs. Who both wear mail, by the way. And use mp5.
I agree with you about priests, but show me a single enhance shaman that gears for mp5.
Elemental don't gear mp5 either. I have zero mp5, outside of straight intellect. In a 5 minute boss fight, going hell-for-leather, I'll only burn ~30% of my mana. The only times I run out of mana is if the mob has a mana drain ability, or if the healer dies and I'm backup.
Then I use
Thunderstorm
which buys me another 15secs or so.
Post by
leonheart87
CoH has been nerfed, good priests will now be harder to come by.
No, it just means the good priests will be easier to spot.
The 'rubbish' priests pre-cooldown (ain't a nerf, shouldn't be used that much anyway) who used to be a few million healing done shorter than the CoH spamming priests, will now be known as the good priests.
All we need now is a Prayer of Healing or Holy Nova that heals outside the party, for the rare times when CoH spam was needed. When pulling 3 packs of Dark Touched Warriors and a few Naxxramas Shades for example.
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YesterdaysHero
Shamans that are able to heal as a MH are as rare as seeing an Ashbringer running around Org/IF. Just speaking from experience, and yes, there are exceptions to every rule.
Uh, obviously you've never seen a competent Shaman heal before then. I'm very cabable of keeping our main tanks alive, and I've done so in Naxx 10... I've also solo healed VoA 10, but that place is a piece of cake anyway.
Healing as a Shaman is very fun... I have no trouble healing heroics or keeping a raid alive. Perhaps you should see one of us in action before opening your mouth. With this new CoH nerf I should come very close or surpass the amount of healing done in our 25-man raids by our Priest.
Shaman are excellent, capable healers, that are flexible to raid healing and main tank healing.
"Off healer"
Hahaha... #$%^ing idiots.
Are you retarded? Do you have the reading comprehension of a goldfish? I said in my post "In my experience, I have not seen a skilled shaman healer." Then you proceed to call me a f
u
cking idiot, as well as waiting to see one of you in action before opening my mouth. You've down syndrome. Go eat a penny. Die.
Perhaps you should try absorbing and understanding what you're reading, before completely missing what's said. That, or jump feet first into a woodchipper.
5? Druid, Priest, Pally, Shaman* and....?
Disc Priest and Holy Priest. There are 2 specs.
That's not quite accurate. It's like splitting hairs further and saying mp5 heavy gear makes it a spec.
4 types of healers.
Not splitting hairs sir. Disc & holy priests are one
class
(of course) but are two totally different
specs
. There is nearly no overlap in gear selection, playstyle is almost totally different, raid function is night and day. Hell I bet we couldn't agree on pizza toppings ffs. They are almost as different as the two dps shammy specs. Who both wear mail, by the way. And use mp5.
The topic isn't which spec of healer though. It's which class. Should the OP post "Ok, I'm being a priest." then it'd be relevent to go into the whole Disc VS Holy playstyle.
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Paolo
"I sometimes wish I could hate you to death..."
This I believe.
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