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Best healer for PvP

Answer two questions. We rank the classes with our own scores and tiers and show why. Race picks follow the faction switch at the top.

What will you do most?

Which role?

Our picks for you

Recommendation

Ranked by our PvP tier for each class's best healer spec, then by our PvP score. PvE desirability (0–5): spec performance, role scarcity, raid utility, and supply — fewer players of a class means more groups want you. PvP (0–5): community PvP tiers plus CC, escapes and self-healing. Equal weight. These are our own scores from those inputs, not a published ranking.

No healer spec: Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Mage, Warlock.

  1. Priest Discipline

    Our tier S

    Our picks: PvE Holy · PvP Discipline · Leveling Shadow

    Alliance race: HumanHorde race: Undead

    PvP: Power Word: Shield before the hit, Penance on the move, Fear Ward, Psychic Scream, dispels.

    Pre-shield, Penance on the move, Fear Ward, Martyrdom. Wand leveling got slower on 24 Sep.

    Recommendation

  2. Our PvP pick is Enhancement; as a PvP healer: Restoration.

    Our picks: PvE Restoration · PvP Enhancement · Leveling Enhancement

    Alliance race: DwarfHorde race: Orc

    Heals with Chain Heal, Mana Tide (row 4), Nature's Swiftness, Purification and the Riptide capstone (requires Healing Way 3/3).

    Recommendation

  3. Druid Restoration

    Our tier A

    Our picks: PvE Feral Combat · PvP Restoration · Leveling Feral Combat

    Alliance race: Night ElfHorde race: Tauren

    PvP: Restoration: heal over time and keep moving, Nature's Swiftness, Natural Shapeshifter out of roots.

    HoT-and-run, Nature's Swiftness, Swiftmend, Wild Growth, Natural Shapeshifter for cheap form-hopping out of roots. Best mobile healer in a battleground.

    Recommendation
  1. Paladin Holy Our tier AOur PvP pick is Retribution. Strong single-target and tank healing, Blessings (1 hour), mana efficiency; Light's Vigil adds a little group healing.