WoW Classic is back, and we’ve prepared the WoW Classic Best Healer Ranks for you. This Guide is designed to help you choose the perfect class for tackling the current content in WoW Classic Fresh. Discover the unique features, strengths, and weaknesses of each class to become an outstanding healer and get ready to conquer Azeroth!
4.9WoW Classic Fresh Healer Tier List
Healer is one of the important classes in WoW Classic. Neither dungeons nor raids go without this class. Healers are all about helping a team with their healing, barriers, and good auras. Below is a tabular form of the tier list, showing which classes do best in this particular role.
| Tier | Class |
|---|---|
| S | Priest |
| A | Paladin, Shaman |
| B | Druid |
📌 Note: WoW Classic Fresh Healer Tier List is reviewed for Phase 5.
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S-Tier
The S-Tier showcases classes with the highest HPS (healing per second) and a complete healing toolkit in WoW Classic Fresh. This tier includes Paladins and Priests, which we will examine in more detail in dedicated sections.
Priest
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| ✅ Strong AoE Healing | ⛔️ No Auras |
| ✅ Good Damage for Healer | ⛔️ Mana Depending |
| ✅ Good HPS | — |
Priests are the excellent healing class and iconic healing class in WoW Classic, competing well with Shamans and even matching or, in some cases, surpassing Paladins in healing output and target healing. While Priests don’t have as many buffs as Paladins, they have strong single-target and AoE healing abilities like Prayer of Healing, time-healing spells such as Renew, and absorb shields like Power Word: Shield. Additionally, Priests can deal decent damage for a healing class.
The Holy Priest is the most efficient specialization, featuring strong healing talents like healing-over-time Renew, Spiritual Guidance, and Spiritual Healing.
Overall, Priests are the strongest healing class in terms of raw output. If you’re choosing a class based on healing performance, this is the class for you.
A-Tier
In A Tier, we have only one class with good healing potential: the Shaman with good base healing. To find out why it ranks here instead of in S Tier, read the detailed section below.
Paladin
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| ✅ Can Restore Mana | ⛔️ Mana Depending |
| ✅ Good HPS | ⛔️ Gear dependence |
| ✅ Awesome Auras | — |
Currently in WoW Classic Fresh, Paladins are exclusive to the Alliance. They combine survivability, strong healing capabilities, raw healing output, and mana regeneration through Illumination. However, the Paladin’s greatest strength lies in its vast array of raid buffs. While one Paladin is enough for a dungeon, multiple Holy Paladins are often brought to raids.
With buffs like Improved Blessing of Might, Blessing of Kings, and Improved Blessing of Wisdom, Paladins are incredibly valuable in all types of content. Additionally, Paladins provide resistance auras, such as Fire Resistance Aura, which offer specific damage mitigation.
Compared to their Horde counterparts, the Shamans, Holy Paladins have the advantage of not relying on totems, which eliminates positioning dependency and makes their utility more flexible.
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Shaman
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| ✅ Best AoE Heal | ⛔️ Mana Depending |
| ✅ Good Aura Totems | ⛔️ Meele Healer |
| — | ⛔️ Positionin depending |
In contrast to the Paladin, the Shaman is exclusive to the Horde. This class boasts the best AoE healing ability in the game: Chain Heal, a powerful skill that heals multiple targets, prioritizing those with the lowest health.
Shamans are close-range healers who rely heavily on their totems, which must be placed within range of their teammates. As a result, Shamans often find themselves in the thick of the fight, which isn’t ideal for a support role. Their biggest drawback is the lack of strong mana regeneration abilities like the Paladin’s. This limitation is why Shamans are ranked in A Tier instead of S Tier.
To compensate, Shamans invest points in the Restoration tree for totems like Mana Tide Totem and Enhancing Totems. They also have useful totems that provide resistance or immunity to certain crowd control effects, such as Fire Resistance Totem and Tremor Totem. However, these totems are less versatile than Paladin auras, as they only work within a specific area around the totem.
B-Tier
Just like in A Tier, B Tier also features only one class: the Druid. Druids have the lowest healing output compared to other healing classes.
Druid
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| ✅ Good utilities | ⛔️ Low HPS |
| ✅ Combat resurrection | — |
Since Druids cannot achieve high HPS, they are brought into dungeons and raids not so much for their healing but for their utility and support skills. Faerie Fire is an invaluable ability that can be used against any target. They also have Rebirth, a combat resurrection that can compensate for player mistakes, and Remove Curse, which allows them to dispel curses.
One of the Druid’s most significant features is Innervate, which boosts resource regeneration for your casters. However, all these abilities combined still fall short of making Druids as valuable as other healing classes. As a result, most raid teams typically include only one Druid.
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4.9With WoW Classic Fresh, the choice of your healer class is more important than ever. We hope this guide has provided valuable insights into the unique strengths and weaknesses of each class, helping you make an informed decision. Whether you’re aiming to support your team in dungeons, dominate in raids, or simply master the art of healing, the right choice will set you on the path to success.
