The Most Popular Healers in Mythic+

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Nah. I’m the most popular healer.

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well there’s a lot of things we might infer from the data, since the data says so little really. so its up to us to imagine its saying a lot.

  1. people dont like playing melee healers. mistweaver got a minor re-work that buffs their long range healing style, but paladins long range healing style seems kind of bad still

  2. maybe holy priest and holy paladin are too weak? since their “success” rate is low. but what is success in this graph? timing the dungeon? or merely completing it?

  3. shaman is the only healer with a long ranged interrupt + hero + the ability to dispel poisons, curses, and AoE fear, purge, and has self rez. The second most popular healer brings a brez and enrage dispel. combined with fact mistweaver is lowest, it implies crowd control is maybe not a significant reason why people bring healers, i.e. AoE stuns, slows, displacement (ring of peace) is left up to the non-healers.

  4. disc priest has the #2 success rate despite its low popularity, implying it is strong. but considering it has virtually none of what the #1 success rate healer (shaman) has, no interrupt, no hero, no self-rez, only magic+disease dispels (vs magic+poison+curse), maybe this is balanced, and maybe other healers need buffs to bring them up, or in the case of the melee-style healers, need to be given an alternative long-ranged style of gameplay added to their talent trees that is fun to use

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Woo! I’m dead center!

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Probably a coincidence, but I’ve also personally found it a lot easier to deal with ‘oh #@#%!’ moments on the top 4 than the bottom 3
 wonder if that factors in for others as well?

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I think it’s pretty funny that Disc Priest has a higher success rate than Resto Druid.

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I wish this data wasn’t available, because people are going to see it and assume that MW is entirely useless when in reality it’s able to clear essentially all content

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Played well, disc is always strong.

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Aw, poor MW’s. Most people will never realize their full potential because of charts like this.

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This my first season of M+, but my understanding is that historically Disc is pretty garbage in keys. But it got major buffs in 10.0.5 which made it a very strong M+ healer, and it’s back to having PI this expansion. Disc can hit the healing checks now, it does good damage, and while it doesn’t bring a lot of important pieces of utility, good group composition can get around that.

I have the impression that success here means timing the key.

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If there are fewer in the population of Disc priest to Resto Druids that can skew the data. 9k druid runs = overall ability to fail a lot more keys, far more often than vs 3.3k disc priests who can only get into only 1/3rd as many keys just by sheer player numbers.

So
 interesting list. But not truly fairly represented. If there were 9k druid runs and 9k disc runs and a percentile difference in success rate, then we’d be more apt to say disc is stronger.

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Where’s warrior?

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The meta isn’t ready for Resto Warrior yet.

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we have a druid army! azeroth is safe! :revolving_hearts:

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#rework hpal

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If it makes you feel any better, resto druid is now an awful and weak spec to play in PvP (better than only holy paladin and holy priest) while mistweaver is pretty good

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I dont think I’ve seen a MW at all this tier

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Same.

Oh wait, I’m the healer.

Nah, but even on my mage.

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we should be getting the raider io tier round-up shortly to see who we’ve played w/

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What is that; like, a summary of how we played?