EU+US Best 19 healing class?

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Hi, the title says it all. I'm new in twinking, definitely want to play a healer. I just went through available spells for 19s and resto shaman looked really good - healing stream totem, instant heal + hot, wolf etc., but I went through some posts on this forum and everyone says DISC is the king.

Could you give me any suggestions and explain why? Thanks.
 
Disc for sure. This is due to:

1, the nature of bubbles in pvp. The ability to prevent damage before it happens eliminates a lot of threat from burst.

2, Dps. A disc will be able to output more Dps than a lot of true dps specs.

This being said. Play what interests you! I personally love resto sham (my 110 main.) and it is very viable at this bracket! I would love to see more of them as twinks!
 
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Resto shams are decent too, good utility with wind shear and earthbind totem and passive healing with healing stream totem.
healing stream is conplete garbage but the others paired with riptide and healing surge doing decent heals makes them good
 
Disc is king for some obvious reasons :

1) Absorbs via Power Word : Shield count as heal in your scoreboard => that permit you to top healing meters.

2) Power Word : Shield is an instant shield with 6 sec CD and absorb almost 1 k damage => it allow you to reposition yourself good if you are too much in melee (after a fear push for exemple) without really casting, also it can tank DoTs.

3) Priest cast time for either damage or healing spells are really short (1,50 sec smite assuming you have no haste...)

4) Penance can be used both offensively and defensively if you take the talent (I'd suggest you this one if you are playing alone)

5) Disc damage is the best compare to others healers even if Monks / Hpal / Rsham / Rdruid do great damage atm, Disc damage is even better than some DPS specs.

6) Penance can be used while moving if you take the talent, that mean you can keep someone alive while pushing back because you lose mid or whatever reason make you push back, or either keeping damage on someone while pushing for fear on opponents healers.

7) Penance while moving can be used, in order to keep healing a target who might LoS you in order to land a kill or when you have to LoS some Polys or Fear's from opponents Mages / Warlocks, or even make the opponent paly run even more in order to HOJ you, or the hunter to perfectly trap you.

8) Penance while moving can be used in order to kill a target who will LoS your cast, since it's a Channeling, it will continue to deal some damage even if the target run behind a pillar, leading sometimes by landing a kill.

9) Schism Talent is really good (in terms of damage) especially if you have alot of healers around you in the BG. It almost permit you to kill shit tons of targets and if targets aren't dead, it increase your damage on them.

10) When you use Power Word : Shield on a target, you know he is gonna absorb almost 1 k, so you can heal somebody else who dropped low aswell, that's why priest is really good at holding multi pressurised targets.

11) Power Word : Shield help you alot with fake casting, because you are most likely safe to not fake cast if you have a 1 k shield on you, you can clearly tank alot of damage while you are kick if your shield is active, i still recommand to fake cast tho.

12) The Shadow Word : Pain can keep rogues in combat everytime and you can also be like a moonkin and spread dot everywhere for doing mad damage charts.



Rsham is really good aswell for some reasons :

1) You run fast : Ghost Wolf, make you good in Arathi / Eye of the Storm, even Warsong Glutch in some extend, also you are walking like everybody if you are getting slowed while using Ghost Wolf

2) Ghost Wolf, permit you to reposition yourself after a push for a crucial shear or Warstomp. (Or either push for it.)

3) Riptide combined with Unleash Life can heal for a decent amount, they are both instant which can help you to keep healing a target while moving back slowly to a decent spot for spamming more casting heals.

4) Unleash Life increase your next heal by a significant amount, even riptide, that mean you can keep you up a bit more without fake casting.

5) The other talent that increase your 3rd healing surge is really good for intense mid fight when you have to standstill and cast. That make Rsham really good in mid fights.

6) Earthbind Totem : Absolutely best AOE slow at the moment, even if they break the totem, a 35 meter range AOE slow lasting 6 seconds atleast. It permit you to either chase or make your team fall back if you are losing a point or the control of mid. It remind me the throwing barrel from BM monk.

7) Wind Shear, with that spell you can negate significant amount of damage or CC's, you can kick Haunt that deal sick amount of damage or either the 4th stack of Arcane even some Chaos Bolt or Moonkins spells. You can also kick heals from opponents team, be careful the 30 meter range can put you in some tough situations, since you have to push in order to reach the backline healers, you will be most likely targeted by opponent team.

8) Flame Shock duration is super long, that make it annoying for rogues. The instant damage is a plus, but you can't spread it like Shadow Word : Pain since it has 6 seconds Cooldowns but it's still really good.

9) Lava Burst deal a significant amount of damage if you are trying to assist your DPS in order to land kills.

10) Unleash Life can be used in ghost wolf form without removing it.


That's my opinion, i've played both class since Late TBC as twink, they always has been really good (except cata shaman with earth shield, it was terrible, maybe an exception for FCing...)
 
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Disc is king for some obvious reasons :

1) Absorbs via Power Word : Shield count as heal in your scoreboard => that permit you to top healing meters.

2) Power Word : Shield is an instant shield with 6 sec CD and absorb almost 1 k damage => it allow you to reposition yourself good if you are too much in melee (after a fear push for exemple) without really casting, also it can tank DoTs.

3) Priest cast time for either damage or healing spells are really short (1,50 sec smite assuming you have no haste...)

4) Penance can be used both offensively and defensively if you take the talent (I'd suggest you this one if you are playing alone)

5) Disc damage is the best compare to others healers even if Monks / Hpal / Rsham / Rdruid do great damage atm, Disc damage is even better than some DPS specs.

6) Penance can be used while moving if you take the talent, that mean you can keep someone alive while pushing back because you lose mid or whatever reason make you push back, or either keeping damage on someone while pushing for fear on opponents healers.

7) Penance while moving can be used, in order to keep healing a target who might LoS you in order to land a kill or when you have to LoS some Polys or Fear's from opponents Mages / Warlocks, or even make the opponent paly run even more in order to HOJ you, or the hunter to perfectly trap you.

8) Penance while moving can be used in order to kill a target who will LoS your cast, since it's a Channeling, it will continue to deal some damage even if the target run behind a pillar, leading sometimes by landing a kill.

9) Schism Talent is really good (in terms of damage) especially if you have alot of healers around you in the BG. It almost permit you to kill shit tons of targets and if targets aren't dead, it increase your damage on them.

10) When you use Power Word : Shield on a target, you know he is gonna absorb almost 1 k, so you can heal somebody else who dropped low aswell, that's why priest is really good at holding multi pressurised targets.

11) Power Word : Shield help you alot with fake casting, because you are most likely safe to not fake cast if you have a 1 k shield on you, you can clearly tank alot of damage while you are kick if your shield is active, i still recommand to fake cast tho.

12) The Shadow Word : Pain can keep rogues in combat everytime and you can also be like a moonkin and spread dot everywhere for doing mad damage charts.



Rsham is really good aswell for some reasons :

1) You run fast : Ghost Wolf, make you good in Arathi / Eye of the Storm, even Warsong Glutch in some extend, also you are walking like everybody if you are getting slowed while using Ghost Wolf

2) Ghost Wolf, permit you to reposition yourself after a push for a crucial shear or Warstomp. (Or either push for it.)

3) Riptide combined with Unleash Life can heal for a decent amount, they are both instant which can help you to keep healing a target while moving back slowly to a decent spot for spamming more casting heals.

4) Unleash Life increase your next heal by a significant amount, even riptide, that mean you can keep you up a bit more without fake casting.

5) The other talent that increase your 3rd healing surge is really good for intense mid fight when you have to standstill and cast. That make Rsham really good in mid fights.

6) Earthbind Totem : Absolutely best AOE slow at the moment, even if they break the totem, a 35 meter range AOE slow lasting 6 seconds atleast. It permit you to either chase or make your team fall back if you are losing a point or the control of mid. It remind me the throwing barrel from BM monk.

7) Wind Shear, with that spell you can negate significant amount of damage or CC's, you can kick Haunt that deal sick amount of damage or either the 4th stack of Arcane even some Chaos Bolt or Moonkins spells. You can also kick heals from opponents team, be careful the 30 meter range can put you in some tough situations, since you have to push in order to reach the backline healers, you will be most likely targeted by opponent team.

8) Flame Shock duration is super long, that make it annoying for rogues. The instant damage is a plus, but you can't spread it like Shadow Word : Pain since it has 6 seconds Cooldowns but it's still really good.

9) Lava Burst deal a significant amount of damage if you are trying to assist your DPS in order to land kills.


That's my opinion, i've played both class since Late TBC as twink, they always has been really good (except cata shaman with earth shield, it was terrible, maybe an exception for FCing...)

Thanks a lot for this! Does it make any sense to make lvl 10 twink after the recent changes or should I stick to 19?
 
For what reason? Are they crap or too easy to play, but still OP?
Less buttons (we already have few) not op at all its just worse than 19s BC the spells, they're also generally frowned upon in the bracket due to people like dexa etc.
 
death knight!
 
in addition to ridwane's post its worth noting you can unleash life in ghost wolf and it doesnt break it
 
Thanks a lot for this! Does it make any sense to make lvl 10 twink after the recent changes or should I stick to 19?

Please play 19s, 10s is just an handicap most of time.

in addition to ridwane's post its worth noting you can unleash life in ghost wolf and it doesnt break it

I've noticed that aswell but thought it was a bug and not intended ahahaha :D

Shamans have a lot more melee mitigation than priests.

That doesn't mean shamans are better at holding melees on him compare to discs.
 

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