- Resto Shaman:
- Nature's Swiftness Back
- Gaining more offensive capability via damage that also increases their healing
- Gust of wind (if talented, good option if being trained)
- double elemental shield(insane synergy with honor talent unleash shield)
- THUNDERSTORM
- LIGHTNING LASSO (shaman have been lacking a reliable stun forever, makes wizard comps viable now)
- New totem, reduce physical damage or reduce lockout duration
- healing stream becomes more powerful
- earthliving back
- totem projection
- Aura mastery made into a regular talent, saves you an honor talent
- Cons:
- Gust of wind is hard to get to, have to sacrifice good talents to use it.
- No cd in stun
- Possibly easily trained/kicked
- MW:
- INSTANT VIVIFY
- Cocoon becomes INSANELY STRONG and it gives insane buff protection
- All defensive talents are obtainable (diffuse/dampen/healing elixir)
- all utility talents are obtainable (rop,short sweep,song of chiji tigers lust)
- RSK might hit hard?
- cleave healing becomes INSANE (enveloping healing bonus spreads, soothing cleave heals)
- 1 minute cd bloodlust (yulon gives 33% haste SELF CD on a 1 minute cd)
- double port baseline
- KICK BACK
- DISABLE BACK (can't root with it)
- REVIVAL IN STUNS
- chi wave back
- Cons:
- Damage is still melee only/lack of damaging abilities
- difficult decisions in spec tree on end talents
- very hard decisions via honor talents, impossible to get everything you want/need
- EVOKER
- 3 HEALING SCHOOLS OF MAGIC (basically immune to being fully locked out)
- class design feels smooth
- class is fun/cool
- very mobile
- can runcast
- bleed removal (soft assassin/feral counter?)
- cool/fun honor talents
- has multiple ways to disrupt players (kick/knock back/knock up)
- unique ability to increase the duration of outgoing cc 50%
- unique ability to priortise damage into shields (shattering throw but instant/shorter cd)
- multiple ways to immune crowd control
- powerful defensive cd's (life grip, insane heal useable while cc'd, revival on crack, stagger type cd)
- strong undispellable root that doesnt break quickly to damage
- multiple ways to deal damage, should be strong offensively
- Cons:
- Lack of immediate healing outside of a 3 minute cd
- only 1 ability can save you in a stun, might be likely to die in stuns frequently
- no real good cc
- kick is 40 second cd
- 3 schools of magic but no strong instant heals
- 25 yard range, always going to be out of position and likely cc'd to death
- DISC
- PWS rotationally strong again
- NEW TALENT HOLY WORD: LIFE INSANELY STRONG HEAL (INSTANT)
- VOID SHIFT BACK
- feather/pws speed (have both)
- POM BACK
- RENEW BACK
- FLASH HEAL BACK (shadowmend 15 second cd, but more powerful)
- VOID TENDRILS BACK!
- DOUBLE PI VIA TALENT
- FADE REMOVES ROOTS/SLOW
- MIND BLAST DOES REAL DAM
- cool shadow cov build, can make penance shadow dam/healing for it
- can lower cd of pain sup
- cons:
- shadowmend has a 15 second cd, getting kicked on holy is much more devestating
- mana may continue to be an issue for disc, because radiance
- honor talents are very mandatory, leaving you few options
- can only spec shadow cov if you skip radiance i believe, maybe possible?
- shields being super powerful might make purge very strong vs disc? also evokers can purge shields
- probably easily trained, low mobility, 1 school of magic essentially but strong defensive to survive it
- cant spec mind games if you take swap/holy word life
- HOLY PRIEST
- gains shadowmend, gives the ability to heal while locked out (desperately needed)
- res leggo baseline (please remove this from arena)
- has life swap
- holy word: life insanely big heal
- strong defensively than last expac with talents that help you while being stunned/trained
- gains shadowfiend
- fun holy fire talent, but hard to take
- cons:
- overall after the removal of tier gear the healing will be painfully low
- resonant words very difficult to get
- the new talent that was going to carry holy is a choice between miracle worker which you need
- overall just a weak copy paste of shadowlands and nothing fun gained that disc doesnt have
- Druid/Holy paladin still in the works, need to see updated trees.
- Current healer rankings.
- Rsham/mw/disc all S tier.
- holy priest/evoker D tier.