Like, priests and paladins are both zealots would happily burn someone alive with holy fire should they deem it fit, paladins are just more martial where priests are more magic-y. Druids are all about “preserving balance,” so if you’re threatening said balance they’ll drop a moon on your head. Etc.
So, weird question: What healer is just the most down to earth and generally wholesome, more of a pacifist who just wants to help people for the sake of helping people? Not to further some cause or some ulterior motive. Talking mostly lore-wise.
In WoW lore, a priest that can use magic is basically a fanatic. To be able to use light magic you have to believe with your whole entire being that you’re doing good and believe in what you’re doing – and being a crazy religious person is an easy way to justify anything you do.
Paladins take that a bit further, literally becoming light and manifesting it as a solid thing.
I would think naturally the priest, but then I looked at the definition… and I’d say the druid. Benevolence is just kindness and I’d think the nature loving druid would be your best bet.
Guess it would depend on what their beliefs are. For example, Anduin for a LONG time tried to be a pacifist and only wished to heal people, regardless of faction or who they were. The dude was one of the few people who believed Garrosh could be redeemed.
Yeah, I have a feeling for the most part druids are like other druids from fantasy, where they’re nice and kind until you break the wrong tree branch or accidently step on a bug.
I’ll be honest, more than likely Shaman. The who concept of it is spiritual guidance from their ancestors and the elements, mainly the ancestors. Which I guess could be a good or bad thing, since that’s how the Orcs got manipulated into killing the Dreanei. But for the most part they seem to be concerned with balance.
Then the answer to your question is, nobody. Not one healer class / spec doesn’t have at least two offense spells that exist solely to inflict harm…and because you have deemed even holy priests, without exception, to be fanatical bigots, then you’re not going to find any one healer on Azeroth to be wholly beneficent.
In other words, because you can’t see the possibility of a pacifist in that class, you’ve pretty much eliminated the chance there’d be a benevolent healer in any class. All monks punch things, all shaman fling lightning, all druids can drop lethal starlight on your head, etc., etc…and they ALL have a reason to believe they need to.
Mistweavers have been trained to utilize their martial arts to rupture kidneys and collapse lungs with well-placed punches, and they’ll take out Mantid or Mogu soldiers in a heartbeat. They have their enemies as well.
And that’s fair. I suppose I’m being too fervent about pointing out that all healers have the potential for violence. My ardency stems from the OP’s apparent premise that priests can’t be deemed benevolent for the same reason.