WoW - Best Healer Class [PvE]

Jokester said:
My first character was a paladin, really enjoyed (didn't know any difference at the time :p ), but raid healing (and buffing) was soul destroying.
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Amen, fellow former brother of the light.

And I was playing a paladin back in the days of 40 man raids, with 5 minute single target buffs. Before buff mods. God it was awful. But then playing a Retadin back then was awesome. I was the second person on my server to get a legendary, and the PvP Paladin back then with reckoning was good. With Sulfuras it was godly. Could easily one shot people with reckoning bombs.

Of the two, I'd definitely pick priest. Although I've sadly been forced to spec Discipline in order to play Arena's, I still enjoy my Priest. Longing for the day Blizzard fix Shadow!
 
Paladins Mana is an endless pit but priests heal more. i would go for paladin as they tend to be more fun in pve than priests and are still a good healer class.
 
Paladins are rubbish now that mana isnt an issue for any healing class, Priest definately.

But then again thats for raiding, no idea about what they are like outside of a 25 man :P
 
For early pve, Paladins are more in demand than Priests, but Priests definately have a place in MH/BT. I left my last raiding guild because they really only had space for one holy priest in SSC/TK, but multiple Shaman and Pallies. As has been said, more than one priest doesn't bring a lot to a raid, unless you have one CoH and one imp Spi.
 
Damonic said:
Thinking of rolling eaither a Priest or a Paladin for healing only.

I have a Shaman and have had a 70 Druid in the past so no need to put them into the list of options (besides there more PvP for Druid and Shammy is more Chain Heal spam).

Can someone give me some good arguments? This is usually a hot topic lately with no real outcome on which one is best.
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Shaman is probably best raid healer in the game at the moment, chain heal is absolutely disgusting! 4 rolling lifeblooms is awesome as well.
 
Priest 100%, most versatile healer out of all imo. Priests will always be top of the wanted list in 5mans so they'll never miss an instance. Speaking of instances, they will make your lvling so easy as you'll never fall short of a group!

Priest is by far the hardest character to lvl in my experience. I did do 0->40 holy tho, I didn't know any better. :( Only class im yet to lvl is a warlock.. no ta. :p
 
KNiVES said:
A rogue with two blinkstrikes? Why are you gimping yourself?
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Because nub rogues think the Blinkstrike graphic looks HAWT so duel weilding them will make you LEET

mulpsmebeauty said:
Shammies are better raid healers (Chain Heal > all) and Pallies are better single target healers. As said above, Priests are jack of all trades, master of none. Stacking Pallies gives cumulative benefits with blessings, stacking Priests gives no such benefits.
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Now I'm put off rolling a Priest. I have a Shaman atm but I plan to go Elemental with that, but yeah I agree Chain Heal is needed in raids.

I don't really want a jack of all trade. I want a healer that will be needed all the time and be heavily relied on in the group. I'm thinking of rolling the Paladin again now.

mulpsmebeauty said:
However, patch 2.4 sees significant changes to mana regen (your int benefits your spirit-based regen) which is going to help Priests immensely and may well put them right up there with the best again.
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Now I'm thinking of waiting until 2.4 to see what happens.

Vixen said:
I left my last raiding guild because they really only had space for one holy priest in SSC/TK, but multiple Shaman and Pallies.
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That gives me the impression that the guild just spammed heals without a great deal of organisation (I am reading inbetween lines here). I mean Shamans spam Chain Heal, Pallys spam there Flash of Light.

Lord-Jaffa said:
4 rolling lifeblooms is awesome as well.
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There Druids, not Shamans :) I thought it was 3 Lifeblooms? (Have not played my druid since last summer so I may have forgot).
 
Damonic said:
I don't really want a jack of all trade. I want a healer that will be needed all the time and be heavily relied on in the group. I'm thinking of rolling the Paladin again now.
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From what I can tell, Pally healing is mostly 'press your flash of light button as fast as possible on your assigned target'. In big burst situations they will use bigger heals. A Priest always has to make decisions based on efficiency and they have a lot more choices - is the target going to take a big hit soon or can I top them up with a hot? Do I need to flash heal, or can I afford the 2.5 seconds for a bigger, more efficient heal? Melee group taking lots of predictable damage? Circle of Healing + Chain heal = win.

I don't know how familiar you are with T5 and T6 content, but most encounters involve extensive raid damage, and that needs group healers. It is my impression that Pallies can afford to be more reactive than Priests - they can spam little heals forever. A Priest can be at least as powerful, it just takes more care to ensure you cast the best heal at the right time.

Going through Mount Hyjal and Black Temple at the moment I can tell you the first thing I look at is which Priests we have signed up for the raid, rather than which Pallies.

Check out the thread on the Elitist Jerks forum (blocked at work so I can't link), which tells you about the upcoming changes to mana regen in 2.4. It really is a massively significant boost.
 
This man speaketh the truth.

Honestly no one here will make up your mind for you. The best i've seen it put so far is, Priest and Pally will get you the same results. The difference is the style of play. Paladins i found are quite monotonous, but good at what they do. Priests require more judgement, but are good at what they do.

You can still heal 5 mans as a paladin, and you can still heal raids as a priest. It comes down to you as a player, not the class that you play.
 
I play a Holy Priest with the ability to use Circle of Healing. As a result of this, no one can ever catch me on the healing meters.
I can do various roles all at the same time and as a result of this It makes me feel more important to the raid group than say a Shaman or a druid.
In my eyes, as has been mentioned here already there is so much more to a Holy priest than there is to the other healing classes.

I'd definately recommend one.
 
holy priest deffinatly... but damonic... a horde holy priest :p

their far above the rest as regards to healing, shielding one healing another, then healing the shielded, AoE heals, HoT's - they have everything... that and shadow priests are sick for leveling, esp if you team up with a lock :d watch things drop before they get to you!
 
Evangelion said:
Priest for pve; paladin for pvp.
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You got that the wrong way around. Priests are very strong in all arena brackets, while paladins are only useful in 5v5- and even at that priests are better there as well.

Priest for sure. Paladins are boring as hell. After the next patch paladins's will also be worthless in PvE as spirit is getting buffed giving more mana regen for spirit using classes giving paladins no healing advantage in any area over a priest.
 
Ive played a priest for well over 100 days played time now, spread over 2-3 years, so i know the class fairly well. Having played him through all pre-tbc content and into a current end game level so i know the class fairly well. Like has already been said the priest is a fairly diverse class, with a mass of healing spells at its disposal. Its a fairly fun class to play, although can take a while to get used to. Leveling as holy/disc if you so choose isn't really that hard neither. They're also fairly easy to level up through the primal mooncloth tailoring set, and also the whitemend set. Each of which shouldn't be so expensive anymore as the prices on the ah drop. Those sets as well as some blues from 70 dungeons should leave you ready for kara.

As has already been stated, another bonus of the priest is that theyre strong in pvp/arena/pve/solo(as shadow).

PS Heal rank 3 and 4 are your friends
 
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