Healer Tier List for Midnight (Patch 12.1)

Restoration Druids have a unique playstyle, being the only healer that has multiple Healing over Time (HoT) effects. Restoration Druids are also one of the only specializations in the game that have every single diminishing return (DR). Mighty Bash/ Rake for stuns, Cyclone for fears, Entangling Roots for roots, and Incapacitating Roar for incapacitate DR. This makes them extremely valuable to have in almost every team compositions.

Holy Paladins are always strong with how many cooldowns they have. They have received several large changes to their toolkit that makes them better than most other healers in the game. Being able to rotate cooldowns, such as Blessing of Sacrifice, Avenging Wrath and Blessing of Protection allow them to keep their team alive long enough to get a kill on an enemy. They also have incredible instant healing with Holy Shock and Eternal Flame. This makes them difficult to interrupt and lock down when standing far away from incoming crowd control.

Preservation Evokers can do it all. They can help contribute to kills with their damage and use their instant healing to keep teammates alive. They have strong damage that allows their team to stay aggressive when going in for a kill. Spells like Disintegrate and Living Flame can crit for large amounts of damage. They also have great mobility that will make it difficult for enemies to connect to you. Hover increases your movement speed and allows you to cast non-empowered spells while moving. This makes it much easier to get Sleep Walks on enemy healers.

Mistweaver Monk has become an extremely aggressive healing, thanks to Rushing Wind Kick. This spell promotes a more aggressive playstyle and can quickly overwhelm teams if they are not expecting large incoming damage. Both playstyles have a place in the meta and should be used in different situations. Against teams with ranged DPS and spammable crowd control, heal from ranged to make it difficult for teams to lock you down. Against teams with only one caster or two melee on it, you can Fistweave to keep your team on the offensive.

Discipline Priests offer great consistent damage and healing for their team. With an ability like Ultimate Penitence, Discipline Priests help contribute to every kill setup in arena when they are playing Voidweaver.On top of giving your team damage, Priests can do a large amount of damage themselves. When playing Voidweaver, abilities like Mind Blast, Void Blast, and Penance can aggressively be used on enemies to deal damage to them. In addition to how strong Discipline Priest damage is with Voidweaver, Oracle allows you to play much more passive with damage and focus on healing. This makes Discipline Priests an extremely versatile healer with an answer for more situations.

Holy Priests offer some great single-target healing and multiple ways to crowd-control enemies. They use Holy Word: Chastise and Psychic Scream to setup crowd control on enemy healers and give their team a window to land a kill. A large majority of their healing comes from instant healing, Holy Word: Serenity. This, in combination with Prayer of Mending, both help against teams that have strong burst damage. Because they lack damage reduction spells, Holy Priest healing is much weaker the longer an arena match goes on. They fall short in power compared to their second healing specialization, Discipline.

Restoration Shamans are an extremely versatile healer, bringing damage, healing, and utility for their teammates. Most of their healing is instant and comes from Riptide, Healing Stream Totem, and Earth Shield. Both of these spells allow the Shaman to heal without casting and being concerned with being interrupted. Restoration Shaman also bring utility in the forms of Grounding Totem and Tremor Totem to soak incoming crowd control. They are also prone to being targeted by teams with two melee on them and can struggle to get away when chased and can die in stuns if trinket is not available.