Mythic+ Healer Rankings: A Tier List for Dragonflight (Patch 10.2.6. / Season 4)

This tier list is NOT FINAL; it will change and will be updated as often as necessary prior and during Mythic+. There are often moments of tier set and class tuning, as well as talent changes and secondary stat scaling that will impact the placement of the specs.

I am Petko, a competitive Mythic+ player, known to be pushing the boundaries of High Mythic+ with several World first and Europe first rankings among past seasons on multiple classes. I have worked hard on preparing for Season 4 of Dragonflight, spending numerous hours per day examining each and every class and spec in a dungeon environment on PTR. This Tier list will continue to be updated as much as it requires over the course of Dragonflight and it will also focus on what the "meta" will look like as it stabilizes. Along the way, this Tier list will also be supported by various professional Mythic+ players with high credibility in the community, theorycrafters across all specializations, and my own empirical evidence.

To begin with, this Tier list will exclusively focus on the third Season of Mythic+ in Dragonflight. There will be no Warcraft Logs rankings added nor simulation data for the majority of the classes and specs. As a result, this Tier list will be solely based on empirical evidence of the current state of the classes' performance in Mythic+ from my own point of view and the point of view of the group of players testing those classes who are among the best representatives of the class in the community. Moreover, this Tier list will take into consideration every impactful class change and tier set tuning before and after the start of the season.

It is important to note that opinions might vary and that is completely okay, but remember to be respectful when providing feedback as the sole purpose of this tier list is to help the WoW community with their choice of main or alt each season.

This tier list is entirely based on healer performance in Mythic+. The factors that are considered are HPS and DPS output, external cooldowns, utility, durability, and mobility.

Below, you can find the full rankings for Healers slots in Season 4 of Dragonflight Mythic+. We encourage you to further read and understand why some classes are placed lower or higher than expected, with several factors taken into consideration.

1. Restoration Druid (S-Tier)
2. Holy Priest (S-Tier)
3. Mistweaver Monk (A+Tier)
4. Discipline Priest (A-Tier)
5. Preservation Evoker (B-Tier)
6. Holy Paladin (C-Tier)
7. Restoration Shaman (C-Tier)

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Season 4 update: Restoration Druid received a 5% healing nerf to all of their abilities going forward to Season 4. Moreover, they will keep their tier-set (from Season 3) rolling into the next season unchanged. Restoration Druids are in a strong position with their impressive healing capabilities and competitive damage output. They have always been renowned for their exceptional utility and remarkable resilience, which will continue to be their strengths in Season 4. Overall, the S-tier is well deserved as they will remain one of the strongest choices for a Healer.

No significant disadvantages of the specialization are to be reported; the final stages of tunning will show the end-placing for Restoration Druid.

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Mark of the Wild	Increasing the Versatility of your raid/party by 3%.
Core	Entangling Roots	Single-target root effect.
Core	Ironbark	Short-external damage-reduction cooldown.
Optional	Nature's Vigil	Extra off-healing.
Optional	Innervate	Allowing 1 friendly healer to cast spells without spending mana for 8 sec.
Optional	Stampeding Roar	Increasing the movement speed to all raid members by 60% for 8 sec.
Optional	Remove Corruption	Removes all Curse and Poison effects from a friendly target.
Optional	Soothe	Dispelling all Enrage Effects from an enemy target.
Optional	Hibernate	Single-target crowd-control effects against beasts and dragonkins. It also works on Incorporeal.
Optional	Incapacitating Roar / Mighty Bash	You have the choice between AoE disturb effect or a single-target stun.
Optional	Typhoon	Aoe knockback.
Optional	Mass Entanglement / Ursol's Vortex	You have the choice between AoE root effect or AoE wind-of-vortex, pulling all the mobs to one location.

Season 4 update: Holy Priest received no changes in Season 4, as well as, keeping their tier-set unchanged. Following the most recent rework of Holy Priest in Patch 10.2.6, their performance has significantly improved, both in Healing and Damage perspective. Overall, the specialization feels great and has the potential, regardless of the key level or group composition, to flourish into the next season. In our opinion, one of the diamonds in the mud, watch out for this spec!

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Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Guardian Spirit	Provides a "Cheat-Death" to a chosen player.
Core	Holy Word: Chastise	Single-targe disturb effect.
Core	Symbol of Hope	Replenishes Mana and helps restore defensive cooldowns.
Core	Power Infusion	You must always have Twins of the Sun Priestess talented.
Core	Power Word: Fortitude	A raid-wide 5% Stamina buff.
Core	Psychic Scream	AoE disturb effect.
Core	Mind Soothe	It reduces the range at which the target/s will attack you. Incredibly useful for trash mob skips. It can be used on multiple enemies.
Core	Mass Dispel	Incredible useful where Mass Dispelling is needed.
Optional	Vampiric Embrace	Extra off-healing.
Optional	Leap of Faith	Helps with repositioning.
Optional	Dominate Mind	Mindcontrols an enemy allowing you to simultaneously execute your rotation while having full control over them and their abilities.
Optional	Shackle Undead	Crowd-controls a undead target for 50 sec.
Optional	Purify Disease	On top of Dispel Magic you will be able to further bolster it by allowing the spell to remove 1 Disease on a friendly target.

Season 4 update: Mistweaver Monk received a 13% healing nerf to all of their abilities going forward to Season 4. Moreover, they will keep their tier-set (from Season 3) rolling into the next season unchanged. Mistweaver Monk will continue to perform well going forward to the next season. Its exceptional reactive healing capabilities can heal through any dangerous encounter with no sweat, making it one of the safest picks for healers in uncoordinated groups. To add to that, they provide a great damage profile to speed up the keys!

Still, Mistweaver Monk is the only healer that does not have any external damage-reduction cooldown to help you support your team. In addition, adding a range to several of their core spells will be a great quality-of-life update.

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Mystic Touch	5% extra Physical damage for your raid.
Core	Life Cocoon	Apply a large absorb shield to a friendly target.
Core	Revival	Removes all Magical, Poison and Disease effects on the entire party.
Core	Generous Pour	Extra damage reduction against area-of-effect damage.
Core	Close to Heart	Increased healing from all sources for all allies within 10 yards.
Core	Leg Sweep	3 sec stun effect.
Optional	Tiger's Lust	Removes all roots and snares.
Optional	Ring of Peace	It can be used to help your tank kite and as a AoE disturb effect.
Optional	Detox	Removes all Poison and Disease effects from the target.
Optional	Paralysis	Single-target disturb effect.

Season 4 update: Discipline Priest received Atonement changes as it now transfers 35% of the damage to healing (was 40%), but the healing is increased by 70% outside of raids (was 50% before) going forward to Season 4. Moreover, they will keep their tier-set (from Season 3) rolling into the next season unchanged. Discipline Priest's performance will continue to be great, following Season 4. With a high damage output and great cooldown-based healing, it becomes evident the spec will do well across all key levels. Additionally, Discipline Priest has one of the best dungeon utility toolkits for Mythic+. Overall, we believe the current version of the spec is strong enough to be considered one of the top picks for Season 4.

The biggest disadvantage of playing Discipline Priest is high mobility encounters might significantly impact your DPS/HPS profile. Having the dungeon knowledge can help you decide when and when not to greed cast Smites, but overall, it is an issue that must be presented to the readers.

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Pain Suppression	External-defensive cooldown applied to a chosen target for 40% effectiveness.
Core	Power Word: Barrier	Summons a barrier reducing the damage taken by all allies within the area with 20%.
Core	Rapture	-
Core	Power Infusion	You must always have Twins of the Sun Priestess talented.
Core	Power Word: Fortitude	A raid-wide 5% Stamina buff.
Core	Psychic Scream	AoE disturb effect.
Core	Mind Soothe	It reduces the range at which the target/s will attack you. Incredibly useful for trash mob skips. It can be used on multiple enemies.
Core	Mass Dispel	Incredible useful where Mass Dispelling is needed.
Optional	Vampiric Embrace	Extra off-healing.
Optional	Leap of Faith	Helps with repositioning.
Optional	Dominate Mind	Mindcontrols an enemy, allowing you to simultaneously execute your rotation while having full control over them and their abilities.
Optional	Shackle Undead	Crowd-controls a undead target for 50 sec.
Optional	Purify Disease	On top of Dispel Magic you will be able to further bolster it by allowing the spell to remove 1 Disease on a friendly target.

Season 4 update: Preservation Evoker received a buff to their "old-new" tier-set, from Season 1, which will be played in the next season. Preservation Evoker;s performance will be improved upon entering Season 4, with the much-improved tier-set from Season 1. To summarize, it will improve their damage output while maintaining the same overall utility package. In addition, the current ranged meta is unfavorable to Preservation Evoker, as it is much harder for them to manage their healing with a spread group compared to a stacked one due to their limited yards of healing. In addition, they can obtain once again, Nasz'uro, the Unbound Legacy, one of the most overpowered legendary options ever created, buffs your team with primary stat and speed for a short period. To conclude, they are a solid healer, regardless of the group composition but still lack the output to be placed into the "S-tier" specs.

Some of your offensive and defensive abilities are still not up to the standards of the regular 40 yards range for a Ranged Option.

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Blessing of the Bronze	-
Core	Tail Swipe	AoE disturb effect that knocks up enemies.
Core	Wing Buffet	AoE knockback effect.
Core	Expunge	Removing all Poison effects from an ally.
Core	Rewind	Rewinds 33% of damage taken in the last 5 sec by all allies.
Core	Time Dilation	It causes 50% of damage your ally takes to be instead dealt over 8 sec.
Optional	Sleep Walk	Single-target crowd-control effect that forces the enemy to move towards you.
Optional	Source of Magic	Can be further bolstered by Potent Mana
Optional	Oppressing Roar	Increasing the duration of all crowd-control effects on the affected enemies by 50%. You can further talent into Overawe, removing 1 Enrage effect from each enemy (AoE Enrage Removal).
Optional	Terror of the Skies	After using Breath of Eons, you will stun all enemies by 3 sec affected by your breath.
Optional	Zephyr	Area-of-effect damage reduction (party only).
Optional	Cauterizing Flame	Bleed removal
Optional	Rescue	You can further bolster it with Twin Guardian talent for extra durability.

Season 4 update: Holy Paladin received a buff to their "old-new" tier-set, from Season 2, which will be played in the next season. Holy Paladin will unfortunately be, for the first time in a long time one of the worst pick-ups for the next season. Purely numerical (output), they have one of the worst healing/damage across all Healers. However, if you disregard that, their utility package is one of the best in Mythic+. Additionally, it is worth mentioning that Holy Paladin has one of the best mob controls from a healer perspective, the ability to combat-resurrect, and is the only healer with immunity.

The main downside of Holy Paladin is that their healing and damage output is lackluster, which creates an opening for other healing specializations to be utilized. Boosting their healing and damage capabilities will place them much higher on our tier list.

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Devotion Aura	Permanent 3% group/raid-wide damage reduction aura.
Core	Retribution Aura	In case you already have Devotion Aura from another Paladin, you can choose the Retribution Aura to help your party/raid do more Damage and Healing.
Core	Hammer of Justice	A powerful single-target 6 sec stun effect.
Core	Lay on Hands	Heals a member of your party/raid to full health.
Core	Intercession	Combat-resurrection
Optional	Blessing of Sacrifice	Helps a single member of your raid in a critical situation. This can be further improved by talenting Sacrifice of the Just.
Optional	Blessing of Protection	Physical immunity, which can help you with some boss encounters.
Optional	Blessing of Freedom	Immunity to movement impairing effects.
Optional	Repentance / Blinding Light	You have the option between single-target crowd-control effect or a powerful mass AoE stop.
Optional	Cleanse Toxins	Removes all Poison and Disease effects from the target.
Optional	Turn Evil	Be able to fear any Undead, Aberration or Demon, which is an additional form of crowd control.

Season 4 update: Restoration Shaman received a buff to their "old-new" tier-set, from Season 1, which will be played in the next season, but for the price of a 5% nerf to all of their healing done. Restoration Shaman still lack important details (output, unique utility) behind the rest of the healing specs. Their tier-set is primarily focused on healing, making it more suitable in Raiding than in Mythic+. While they have an excellent utility package, it is nowhere as dominant as the rest of the healing specializations, perhaps a further adjustment on behalf of that area can help them.

Functionality	Spells	Notes
Core	Bloodlust	-
Core	Earth Elemental	A powerful elemental summon that helps you survive.
Core	Spirit Link Totem	Reduces damage taken to your party/raid within 10 yards of the totem by 10% and every 1 their health is redistributed evenly.
Optional	Ancestral Vigor	Allows for some of your core abilities to temporary increase your health by 10% for 10 sec.
Optional	Earthen Wall Totem	Have a choice between a protective totem or a totem that allows you to reincarnate upon death and provides a temporary 10% increased health.
Optional	Mana Tide Totem	Increases Mana Regeneration to the whole party for a short period of time.
Optional	Wind Rush Totem / Earthgrab Totem	A choice between on-demand extra movement speed or AoE root effect similar to Mass Entanglement.
Optional	Ancestral Guidance	Provides extra off-healing to your party.
Optional	Capacitor Totem	3 sec AoE stun.
Optional	Hex	Single-target crowd-control ability.
Optional	Cleanse Spirit	Removes all Curse effects from a friendly target.
Optional	Purge	Removing 1 beneficial Magic effect from an enemy.
Optional	Thunderstorm	AoE disturb effect that can either knock away or knock up ( Thundershock).
Optional	Poison Cleansing Totem	Removes all poison effects on a nearby party member each 1.5 sec for 6 sec.
Optional	Stoneskin Totem	10% physical damage reduction