Breakfast Topic: Who's healing you?
by Elizabeth Harper 
Apr 21st 2007 at 8:00AM
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?
Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Untitled Apr 24th 2007 4:50PM
For me, a mage, i still havnt quite hit 70, but for any instance.. i tend to not care who is healing.... i'd die almost instantly no matter who heals me, so it doesnt seem like a huge issue to me =)
priest Apr 21st 2007 8:59AM
In my experience, it's still priests, outside of highly organised guild runs, your average pug still prefers a priest to anything else.
kevinjammie Apr 21st 2007 9:06AM
In all the runs I've ever been in it's always the druid with the priest backing them up.
Smithra Apr 21st 2007 9:16AM
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.
Adam Apr 21st 2007 9:45AM
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.
Eric Apr 21st 2007 9:55AM
I heal myself!
Mats Apr 21st 2007 10:36AM
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.
Jon Apr 21st 2007 10:51AM
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.
blitz1988 Apr 21st 2007 11:01AM
Mostly Paladins, althought I've seen a few Shamans lately... Priests seem to love Shadow, and druids mostly take the role of a tank...
Ltw Apr 21st 2007 11:44AM
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.
seperioth Apr 21st 2007 12:29PM
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.
Riktopher Apr 21st 2007 1:03PM
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.
GuitarBurst05 Apr 21st 2007 2:15PM
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.
Lori Apr 21st 2007 2:40PM
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.
Argent Apr 21st 2007 2:44PM
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.)
Chad Apr 21st 2007 3:05PM
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.
10pound Apr 21st 2007 4:19PM
duh...paladins of course.
monkeywraith Apr 21st 2007 4:36PM
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
haust Apr 21st 2007 7:20PM
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.
haust Apr 21st 2007 7:21PM
"I /cry because I'm not 3rd in the healmeter"
erf read "I /cry because I'm 3rd in the healmeter"