[WoW] Best pvp healer for 5-box

[unit187]

I am thinking about makin' team of 4 warlocks and a healer.

My goal is pvp with this team so I want the best pvp healer and here's my thoughts:

Druid - atm I am thinking it is the best. Warlocks are very mobile - you can run non-stop and keep dotting people without stopping movements. And druid has rejuv, swiftmend, lifebloom - all those spells are instant cast. Also druid has longer and more power heals if it gets tough. After all druid can shapeshift to bear with frenzied regeneration and survive some heavy attacks. Ah ye and druid has alot of other cool features like powerful aoe heal, roots etc. Only minus I see is lack of dispel magic ability. And resurrect trouble in pve.

Priest - lots of aoe heals, shield and renew. Fear. Also can dispel magic and resurrect. Minus is that you have to stop your movements to make good enough heals (dont think prayer of healing and that insta party heal are good enough, am I mistaken?). After all it is clothie.

Paladin and shaman... uh, fast powerful heals but total lack of aoe heals. Healing wave is good but not powerful enough on 2nd, 3rd targets. No insta heals. Shaman cant dispel magic as well.

So what do you thing guys about getting druid for 5-box with warlocks? Is it worth a try?

[beyond-tec]

Paladin is an excellent PvP Healer because of the bubble.He can't be attacked while he activated it. I think this is the main reason why nearly every pvp arena team got a pally healer. Negative: He has no HOTs or AOE Heals so he's more the 2 vs 2 arena team healer.

Priest got an instant group heal (circle of healing) as the 41th talent in the holy tree. Very nice of you got a group of casters which stand close to each other. And it's instant so you can spam it. He got a powerful Group Heal, an instand shield for the party members, he can fear if someone rushes into the group or attacks the priest and he got a HOT, a flash heal and a binding heal to heal himself and the target.

Druid, very nice because of his cat form. He is invisible to the others until he switches out of this form to heal. Lots of powerful instant HOTs. He can get into bear form to prevent physical damage while the HOTs are ticking.

Never played a shaman


I'd prefer a priest because of the group heals and the dispel magic / cure desease stuff. Fought several times against them in PvP and it's quiet impossible to get him down when he spams binding heal or flashheal until his mana is out while the Renew is ticking on him. While leveling you can handle him like a caster and melt faces while you cast the shadowbolt.

just keep the group together while infight, spam renew and shields while running around and cast circle of healing everytime your whole group gets damage. fear if someone gets close.

[unit187]

Ye paladin is insanely good with right gear and trinkets. When I was playing arena with my shaman, my teammate pala had BWL twinket - Scroll of Blinding Light. With it activated he had like 1.3 sec cast heal for 7k hp
But in case of group pvp as it was said, pala isnt good choise, no HoTs or something. One counterspell and you can get smashed.

Shaman is almost the same as paladin, without bubble but with totems and earth shield. I liked solo/arena pvp as resto shaman (I was actually enhancement :P) because he is like unkillable untill he is oom. But for 5-box it wont work cause of lack of aoe heals, insta casts and HoTs.

Isnt that binding heal aka insta cast aoe heal on group consumes crapload of mana?

[beyond-tec]

Isnt that binding heal aka insta cast aoe heal on group consumes crapload of mana?

yeah - but who cares as long as you take the enemy down before you run out of mana?

if your priest dies you still got the spirit of redemption to keep the healing up and heal without getting interrupted or loosing mana before you pick the soulstone to stand up again.

you got mass dispell to get the paladin-shield away from the enemy so paladins are easy to kick down

Circle of Healing Rank 5 = 450 Mana for 499-551 Heal
if you got a 5 group that will be:
5 x ((499+551)/2)
2625 Heal Points for 450 Mana
5,8 Heal for 1 Mana

Greater Heal Rank 7 = 825 Mana for 2396 - 2784 Heal
(2396+2784)/2
2590 Heal points for 825 Mana
3,1 Heal for 1 Mana

(calculated without any +heal)

you see? If your Heal reaches the whole group it is much cheaper than a greater Heal and heals more than a greater heal and it is instant!

you got resurrection as often as you like

you got a shadowfiend to get mana back

you can drain mana with the warlocks and burn mana with the priest

you got another AOE instant Fear

you got inner fire to pump up your armor for 1580

you got prayer of mending which you can cast when the fight starts

Places a spell on the target that heals them for 800 the next time they take damage. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a raid member within 20 yards. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts until cancelled after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time.

so..

Circle of Healing Rank 5 = 450 Mana for 499-551 Heal

you got about 10K mana when you reach level 70.
you got a good mana regeneration (mp5).
you should be able to cast this spell about 25-28 times.

= 13650 heal on each char with instant casts
= 68250 heal on the whole group with instant casts.

and don't forget: calculated without any +heal!

[unit187]

nice one, thanks alot mate

looks like priest is gotta be best choice so far

P.S. draenei priest gotta be insane with fear ward and mana regen ability

[beyond-tec]

nice one, thanks alot mate

looks like priest is gotta be best choice so far

P.S. draenei priest gotta be insane with fear ward and mana regen ability

hmm.. dunno if the draenei got the desperate prayer.

I think dwarf priest got the desperate prayer (instant, costs no mana, 10 mins CD and heals yourself ~ 1700) and the fear ward.

[unit187]

dont think they have, but imo group mana regen beats desperate prayer

[Djarid]

one key pvp talent that the Shama will bring to the table is Purge

at lvl 2 this purges 2x buffs off the target... it will purge almost anything except druid shapeshift and Paladins big bubble (purges the little one right off

it can purge HOTs, Auras etc very very useful in PVP

[unit187]

one key pvp talent that the Shama will bring to the table is Purge

at lvl 2 this purges 2x buffs off the target... it will purge almost anything except druid shapeshift and Paladins big bubble (purges the little one right off

it can purge HOTs, Auras etc very very useful in PVP

auras cant be purged


HoTs and other buffs can be removed by priest's dispel magic

[Djarid]

you sure Aura's can't be purged? pretty sure I have purged Aspect of the hawk off a few hunters in my time could be mistaken as it has been a while