Healer Spec Rankings: A Tier List for WoW Forever

This raiding tier list is NOT FINAL; it will change and will be updated regularly during World of Warcraft: Forever. Future class tuning, tier-set introductionm as well as talent changes and secondary stat scaling will impact the placement of the specs.

If you are interested in our other Raid rankings for World of Warcraft Forever, please click the links below.

When assessing the strength of each spec, we've looked at a couple of different factors:

• Healing is the most important factor in rank the Healer specs.
• Mana management and efficiency, as well as unique utility also play a major role.
• Different raid fights might favor different healing style, so depending on which encounter types are the most prevalent, the rankings will fluctuate a little, especially once new raids are released.

TBD	Holy Paladin Holy Paladin Discipline Priest Discipline Priest Holy Priest Holy Priest Restoration Shaman Restoration Shaman Restoration Druid Restoration Druid

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Greater Blessing of Might	Raid-wide melee attack power buff.
Core	Mass Salvation	Raid-wide 30% threat reduction. This is one of the most important raid buffs and is *EXCLUSIVE* with all Paladin Blessings. This means that 1 Paladin can provide Mass Salvation and Greater Blessing of Kings, for example.
Core	Greater Blessing of Kings	Raid-wide 10% increase to *ALL* of your stats.
Core	Greater Blessing of Wisdom	Raid-wide mana regeneration buff.
Core	Greater Blessing of Light	Makes Holy Light / Flash of Light heal the target with that buff for more. If you have a lot of Paladins, it's a decent fourth buff choice.
Core	Blessing of Protection	Grants immunity to all physical attacks and resets aggro. The downside is that you cannot attack or use physical abilities.
Core	Hammer of Justice	Single-target stun.
Core	Blessing of Freedom	Grants short-term immunity to movement-impairing effects.
Core	Cleanse	Dispels Poison, Disease, and magic effects.
Core	Blessing of Sacrifice	Places a Blessing on a party member, transferring damage taken per hit to the caster.
Core	Lay on Hands	Heals a friendly target for an amount equal to the Paladin's maximum health. Drains all of the Paladin's remaining Mana when used.
Core	Turn Undead	The targeted undead enemy will be compelled to flee (damage can break the effect).
Core	Fire Resistance Aura	Gives additional Fire resistance to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Core	Frost Resistance Aura	Gives additional Frost resistance to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Core	Blessing of Sacrifice	Places a Blessing on a party member, transferring damage taken per hit to the caster.
Core	Shadow Resistance Aura	Gives additional Shadow resistance to all party and raid members within 30 yards.
Core	Devotion Aura	Gives additional Armor resistance to party members within 30 yards.

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Power Infusion	Increases the target's spell damage and healing by 20% for 15 sec.
Core	Prayer of Fortitude	Increases the Stamina of the party and raid.
Core	Prayer of Shadow Protection	Power infuses all party and raid members, increasing their Shadow resistance.
Core	Prayer of Spirit	Power infuses all party and raid members, increasing their Spirit.
Core	Psychic Scream	Fears up to 5 enemies.
Core	Mind Soothe	It reduces the range (by 10 yds) at which the target will attack you.
Core	Fear Ward	Wards the friendly target against Fear.
Core	Cure Disease / Abolish Disease	Removes 1 Disease effect.
Core	Dispel Magic	Removes 2 harmful spells from an ally or 2 beneficial spells from an enemy.
Core	Mind Control	Mind controls a humanoid, which can come in handy at times.
Core	Shackle Undead	Crowd-controls an undead target for 50 sec.

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Inspiration	Your non-periodic critical heals increase your target's Armor. This is incredibly powerful for your tanks.
Core	Spirit of Redemption	Upon death, you have 15 sec to cast any spells.
Core	Prayer of Fortitude	Increases the Stamina of the party and raid.
Core	Prayer of Shadow Protection	Power infuses all party and raid members, increasing their Shadow resistance.
Core	Prayer of Spirit	Power infuses all party and raid members, increasing their Spirit.
Core	Psychic Scream	Fears up to 5 enemies.
Core	Mind Soothe	It reduces the range (by 10 yds) at which the target will attack you.
Core	Fear Ward	Wards the friendly target against Fear.
Core	Cure Disease / Abolish Disease	Removes 1 Disease effect.
Core	Dispel Magic	Removes 2 harmful spells from an ally or 2 beneficial spells from an enemy.
Core	Mind Control	Mind controls a humanoid, which can come in handy at times.
Core	Shackle Undead	Crowd-controls an undead target for 50 sec.

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Mana Tide Totem	The totem restores a large quantity of mana to party members within 30 yds every 3 sec.
Core	Stoneskin Totem	Reduces physical damage taken by all party members.
Core	Strength of Earth Totem	Increases the Strength of all party and raid members.
Core	Frost Resistance Totem	The totem increases party and raid members' Frost resistance.
Core	Fire Resistance Totem	The totem increases party and raid members' Fire resistance.
Core	Windfury Totem	The totem enhances the melee attacks of all party and raid members within 30 yds. Each main-hand hit has a 20% chance to grant the attacker 1 extra attack with additional melee attack power. This is incredibly powerful for a melee-stacked party.
Core	Grounding Totem	The totem redirects one harmful spell cast on a nearby party member to itself every 10 sec.
Core	Cure Poison	Cures 1 poison effect on the target.
Core	Cure Disease	Cures 1 disease on the target.
Core	Tremor Totem	The totem removes Fear, Charm, and Sleep effects from party members within 30 yds.
Core	Poison Cleansing Totem	The totem removes 1 Poison effect from party members within 30 yds every 5 sec.
Core	Mana Spring Totem	The totem restores mana to party members within 30 yds every 2 sec.
Core	Disease Cleansing Totem	The totem removes 1 Disease effect from party members within 30 yds every 5 sec.
Core	Purge	Purges the enemy target, removing 2 beneficial magic effects.

Utility Package

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Gift of the Wild	Increases your party and raid members' Armor, attributes, and resistances for 1 hour.
Core	Thorns	Applies a buff to a friendly target that causes Nature damage to attackers when the target is hit.
Core	Rebirth	Revives an ally during combat.
Core	Remove Curse	Dispel 1 Curse or Bane from a friendly target.
Core	Cure Poison	Removes Poison from a friendly target.
Core	Abolish Poison	Removes Poison effect from a friendly target every 2 sec for 8 sec.
Core	Innervate	Increases the target's Mana regeneration by 400% and allows 100% of the target's Mana regeneration to continue while casting. Lasts 20 sec.
Core	Faerie Fire	Decreases the target's Armor.
Core	Hibernate	Forces the enemy target to sleep for up to 20 sec (usable only on Beasts and Dragonkin).
Useful	Entangling Roots	Roots the target in place and causes Nature damage over 27 sec. Quite handy against large groups of targets (soft crowd control).

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