Like just, if I wanted to, I could pick a person and make them more or less immortal. What healer has the most potential raw healing?
I would say RShaman due to the way their mastery works.
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Evokers definitely don’t have the most raw healing, since they heal with fire, and fire would cook the healed. Not raw.
Priests and Paladins heal with the Light. Light generates heat. Heat could cook the healed. So they don’t have the most raw healing.
Shamans heal with water, but they also wield fire and lightning, and that mixture could heat up the water and boil the healed. So probably not the most raw.
Monks heal with mists, and mists are particles of water suspended in the air. Monks can also spit fire and stuff, so it’s kinda the same problem as Shamans to a lesser extent. Possibly not the most raw healing.
Druids heal with plant stuff. Most likely the most raw healing. Unless it’s a Druid of the Flame.
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With the way damage works i dont think any healer can just make somemone immortal, no healer can out heal one shots that become pretty common in mid to high content, youd be better off chaining damage reductions and health increases then actual healing.
But i guess in a hypothetical where the enemy could only do 99% of a players health per gcd probably a mastery stacking druid.
Get 25% or higher mastery pick all the passives hots and extension talents and then just layer and start spamming regrowth.
Each hot increases every hot on the targets healing by 25% can have up to 10 (with triple lifebloom talent) all on one target for some very heavy single target.
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Sure, but I’m talking more conceptually.
Is rdruid mastery additive per stack though, or multiplicative? 'cause if it’s multiplicative it’d have some pretty severe diminishing returns.
Druid. Oh my goodness. Sometimes I hit 400k in a dungeon and don’t even notice that I’m healing a lot. For good rdruids I think it’s even more, I saw one getting 300k in a pull in season 2 so they might be getting 300k*1.01^(39+39) by now.
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Single target total healing over an unlimited time frame, my gut would say druid or mistweaver. There might be a mana issue, but I’m not in any position to test something like this due to lacking a full roster of healers.
In 5 man content and PvP Druids have the most insane HPS in the game. In raid content where the team is stacked regularly, Evoker is probably the most broken spec in the game, possibly close with Shaman if there’s also a ton of damage to your raid. Monk has really high throughput as well in a raid setting and does really strong single target healing + free fist weaving if you go that route. Paladins played correctly in a raid setting are absolutely insane with HPS, and Holy Priest can pump serious numbers, especially if you want burst healing.
Monk has the highest single target healing.
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Restos mastey is additive and restos best healing stat because of that. It is less crazy in aoe just because of tbe limited amount of hots we have but single target it pumps massively when you layer and use any of the tick speed increase options.
It doesnt really get stacked to that point much because it does nothing for utility or damage or self survivability which are more important in keys then hypothetical heal cap. And in raids you have like 2 hots on people at a time on average.
Warlocks have the potential for the greatest amount of healing output of any class, theoretically unlimited.
Summon a soulwell and get invited to raid groups filled with people with huge HP pools.
well, it wouldn’t be rdruid or disc priest. Both of those are more preemptive healers, but struggle to catch back up whenever something goes wrong.
For most overall single target pump healing I would probably suggest holy priest or resto shaman.
Monks seem to struggle just a bit more than those two. Though I am not a fan of the current iteration of monk so that could be why I feel that way.
And I do not play evoker at all so can’t personally place where they would be in the list.
I see holy paladins struggling sometimes so unclear what’s going on there. As theoretically they should be pretty good at single target healing.
Monk would be the highest rawr constant healing on a single target
Monk puts out some beastly single target healing.
On one target, Monks take it. Which ironically mase the seedling trinket so great for them as it turns thier strong single target heals into aoe healing.
But lets go further. Who would win in a raid setting?
Disc with full raid attonements
Holy, pre-divin hym into a salv
Druid, pre-hotted raid into flourish
Monk pre ramps
Does Spirit Link count? As technically it is bringing alot of health bars up (and down).
What about Holly Pally Aura Mastery? Massive raid wide damage reduction. If you take the damage reduced by auras and add it to Holy Pally, do they become top hps?
If so, does Barrier count as healing for disc priests?
If one gaint aoe nuke comes out, hits the raid, which healer tops us off first? Holy Pally and Disc reduced the raid damage, so less damage to top up health bars compared to Holy priest and Druid that have to pump more to top off.
This is a terrible metric and you shouldn’t ever consider a healer based on how much raw healing they could do, in theory.
Mistweaver does the most throughput in specific situations, but a spec like Discipline or Preservation can do more raw healing in other specific situations. And how much healing they do depends on how much healing other healers decide they want to do.
All I’ll tell you is, don’t play HPal. That caster playstyle is an abomination and basically all of that spec’s good players either dropped HPal, wanted to quit the game altogether, or did quit the game altogether because of how bad that spec feels to play right now.
This priest can do some FAT heals sometimes
Honestly the biggest issue isn’t even the different situations with monk as much as the way they have to achieve those big numbers. A monk basically has to light their mana bar on fire to achieve significant single target healing for any length of time. Yeah, if you’re just worried about that 6 second tank buster DoT every 45 seconds, mistweaver is the best option for that. But if you need to bomb significant healing into a single target for any period of time, monk has to drain their entire mana pool to do so.
Depends on the situation and if it’s for a short term or long term.
Some specs have strong short-term damage prevention abilities.
Most specs have strong short-term burst healing cooldowns.
Some specs have strong long-term single target healing because they are not as reliant on cooldowns.
Some specs have some smart healing that gets split among injured allies, so they can do a lot of single target throughput if there’s no other injured people to split it with.
It’s amazing how fast holy Paladin rose then fell after season 2.
They went from “wow this spec feels amazing and is so good and every healer should be like holy Paladins when they were in godcomp” to “paladins are the worst they feel awful why does Blizz hate them” a few months later.