Healer Tier List for Dragonflight PvP (Patch 10.1.5) () (2024)

This tier list will go over which healers are the best and which are theworst for Dragonflight PvP, depending on the "meta". The meta is oftendetermined by which classes are the strongest, or which classes counter otherpopular/strong specializations. It is important to note that the meta canquickly change after nerfs/buffs, so this page will be updated frequently.

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

Holy Paladins are currently one of the best healers in Dragonflight.With their most recent rework, comes large changes to their toolkit thatmakes them better than every other healer in the game. Their biggeststrength is how many cooldowns they have. Being able to rotate cooldowns,such as Blessing of Sacrifice and Blessing of Protectionallow them to keep their team alive long enough to get a kill on anenemy.

Holy has the most consistent stun to use on an enemy, Hammer of Justice. When running the Fist of Justice talent,Hammer of Justice has a short cooldown and can be used to set up crowd controlon the enemy healer or kill target. Holy Paladins have more cooldowns,serious damage, and crowd control than any other healers. Their onedownfall is that they can fall behind when stuck in crowd control, but itis easy to recover with the strong, instant healing they have.

Preservation Evokers are the newest healing specializations inDragonflight and with them comes

Everything other healers can do, Preservation Evokers do better. Here area few reasons why they are so good:

• They have strong damage that allows their team to stay aggressive when going in fora kill.
• Great mobility that will make it difficult for enemies to connect toyou. Hover increases your movement speed and makes it so the enemy cannot slow you.
• They have many difficult cooldowns that you can use to help you recoverwhen falling behind. Cooldowns like Emerald Communion make it easyto keep your team alive.
• Mana is normally a healer's biggest weakness. Still, because Preservationuses both Mana and Essences, they can keep their team alive without using much Mana.

Because of the above reasons, Preservation Evoker is an S-Tier healergoing into the first PvP season of Dragonflight.

Restoration Shamans are an extremely versatile healer, bringing damage,healing, and utility for their teammates. Most of their healing is instant andcomes from Riptide and Earth Shield. Both of these spellsallow the Shaman to heal without casting and being concerned with beinginterrupted. Restoration Shaman also bring utility in the form of Grounding Totem to soak incoming crowd control.

In addition to strong utility, they also have multiple strong cooldownsfor when their team is in trouble. Ascendance and Spirit Link Totem are two of the strongest cooldowns in arena. Thisallows Restoration Shaman to quickly recover when enemies are using theircooldowns. Restoration Shaman downfall is that most of their healing iscasted and can struggle to recover if they start to fall behind in healing.

Holy Priests offer some great single-target healing and multiple ways toprevent crowd control on themselves. A large majority of their healingcomes from instant healing, Holy Word: Serenity. This, in combination with Prayer of Mending both help against teams that have strong burstdamage. They also have the ability to set up crowd control with Holy Word: Chastise + Psychic Scream. The combination ofstrong, instant healing and and being able to setup their own crowd controlmakes them a very desirable healer to play with and a better option toplay than Discipline Priest.

Restoration Druids have a unique playstyle, being the only healer that hasmultiple Healing over Time (HoT) effects. They offer great single-target healingand have a wide variety of spells for different situations. Abilities such as Soul of the Forest can make Restoration Druids heal for even more whentheir team is under pressure.

Barkskin makes them a hard target to swap to, and Ironbarkmakes it hard for their teammates to die when it is active. They also haveaccess to Heart of the Wild to deal additional damage to enemies ifthey choose this talent. Although their single target healing is quitegood, Restoration Druids will struggle against teams with spread damageand will run out of Mana quickly when trying to keep HoTs on multipleteammates.

Mistweaver Monks have some great healing throughput. However, that is allthat they have. Mistweavers have seen many changes going into Dragonflight. Theyhave several different defensives and strong single-target healing. Althoughthey have a good amount of healing output, they can still die in stuns whenswapped to.

Another massive weakness Mistweaver run into is their lack of utilityand damage. Although Fistweaving is an option, it has received severalnerfs throughout Dragonflight, making it weak. Normal Mistweaver has verylittle damage and no damage reduction, so the longer a match goes, theweaker they become.

Discipline Priests offer great consistent damage and healing for their team.With an ability like Dark Archangel, this gives Discipline a high spotfor any team that needs that extra damage to secure a kill.

You will often see Priests healing team compositions like RMP(Rogue/Mage/Priest) and Jungle (Feral Druid/Hunter/Priest). These teams relyheavily on setups and doing damage in a short amount of time.

On top of giving your team damage, Priests can do a large amount ofdamage themselves. Abilities like Purge the Wicked and Penance can aggressively be used on enemies to deal damage to them.In addition to damage, Priests have multiple cooldowns they can rotate. Rapture and Power Word: Barrier are strong cooldownsthat can easily keep your team alive under pressure. The combinationof both damage and healing makes Discipline Priests a force to be reckonedwith when paired with top DPS specializations.

The reason why Discipline is lower than the other Priest specialization,Holy, is because they have Mana issues and lack mobility to help theirteam with crowd-control setups.