Midnight Healer Rankings: Raiding Tier List (Patch 12.0.7 / Midnight)

Holy Paladin has excellent sustained healing with its regular rotation and short cooldowns, and contributes massive spot healing through the very strong Holy Light and multiple beacon spells which splash single target healing into other allies. Their utility is also still one of the best among all healers, with a toolkit that allows them to comfortably handle all kinds of different situations, i.e. their with unique abilities such as Blessing of Protection and the Divine Shield immunity, which can completely trivialize hard moments of a fight, allowing them to stand and heal, while others have to run. While their throughput was low in Season 1, they have since received multiple large healing buffs, making them one of the best healers currently.

Discipline Priest bring their powerful Power Infusion, Lenience and Power Word: Barrier abilities to raid groups, and their Evangelism healing cooldown makes ramping to maximum Atonement very fast and easy. They also benefit from having the, by far, highest healer damage capabilities out of all healers currently. Finally, they have multiple viable talent and Hero talent build options that allow them to adjust their healing style to the encounter, making them incredibly versatile as well.

Preservation Evoker brings great unique utility to a raid with Rescue, Zephyr, Time Spiral, and Spatial Paradox. While strong already, there is no downside to bringing multiple Evokers either, making it a very stackable class when their performance is high.

They are looking fantastic in Season 2 due to some small spec reworks and a very strong new Tier Set bonus, and are one of the highest raw throughput healers currently. Much of this is tied to percent-health recovery effects that do not depend on gear to be strong, such as Rewind and Golden Hour, making them particularly effective in the first few weeks of a new raid tier.

Restoration Druids have decent Mana management through Abundance, Master Shapeshifter, and Innervate. Their ramps have the unique perk of allowing them to perform good spot-healing at their peak, thanks to high critical chance Regrowth casts that crit even harder than usual with Intensity.

They also bring the strong Mark of the Wild buff and a combat resurrection, and their Mastery: Harmony makes them particularly effective when only healing a small amount of targets, i.e. when a raid mechanic only affects a few targets that require a lot of healing. Abundance was reworked for Season 2 and no longer scales with the number of active Rejuvenation effects. Combined with Verdant Infusion no longer extending your heals over time, these two nerfs significantly lower Druid's throughput potential relative to other healers.

Restoration Shaman is a specialization with unique utility that passively increases the survivability of the raid, such as Spirit Link Totem, and the potential health buffer provided by Ancestral Vigor. They can also self-resurrect with Reincarnation when things go wrong.

Their healing output suffers when the raid is spread or in heavy movement due to the limitations of Healing Rain, and the heavy usage of Chain Heal required for area healing can create Mana problems in long encounters. Despite these limitations, Shamans received significant buffs coming into Season 2, which make Riptide's healing over time much stronger, and you can now also use the new Swelling Tides talent to extend your Riptides, allowing Shaman to do decent healing on spread fights, while being one of the best on stacked encounters.

Holy Priest has both high healing potential and is quite easy to play. On top of that, Restitution is the only healer cheat death that resets on pull, making Holy Priest extremely reliable even when something goes wrong. They also have Piety for converting overhealing into effective healing when playing as Oracle, or huge raw healing potential with Halo and Surge of Light combos when playing as Archon. Their main downside is having bad Mana management capabilities, but Mana buffs in Season 2 have improved their situation.

Mistweaver Monk is a decent spot-healer with the Sheilun's Gift build, while also having the traditional Vivify build as a backup when area healing is more useful. While their throughput used to also be one of the best in Season 1, they had large nerfs before Season 2's launch, making them much weaker in throughput.

Despite their current healing weakness, they still have strong mobility and a trove of survivability tools, on top of being a melee spec that is not targeted by some mechanics. This makes them a good spec to get the Monk raid buff, without compromising the raid's healing output too much.