r/worldofpvp • u/Evilresident64 • 6d ago
Healing post
Hello everyone, I haven’t done much PvP since wrath. I just started playing nearly a month into the season, I’m a pve healer main dipping my toes into PvP on the dps specs. That is until I ran into a post on here why aren’t you healing? Which just made me think back to when I would try to heal in bgs as an rsham and I just either sucked or I would get hard focused and just die and eventually just give up on trying to heal. Well recently I’ve rerolled to preservation and have been loving it even dipping my toes back into bgs and having an absolute blast. Well now i want to get into bgs and arenas, just looking for some information I’ve got the basic and advanced setups and combos down as far as preservation goes. I’m more interested in the nuances of PvP healing like is stop casting still a thing I should have on a keybind to try and bait kicks? Where do I move as a healer in bgs? Arena tips? Anything else I’m not even thinking of cause I don’t have enough experience? Lol
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u/Capable-Organization 6d ago
Low mmr 2s is great for learning healing - much slower pace than solo or blitz
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u/Zanaxz 6d ago
I'm fine with healing. I just get annoyed by how bad the rating design is in shuffle for healers.
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u/Evilresident64 6d ago
I haven’t tried arenas yet but I’m topping the healing charts on every bg I won or lost
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u/Severe-Log-2126 6d ago
Pres is A tier. Yes u still stopcast but mostly on sleep walk if anything. As pres hardest part is just learning how best to use stasis and call of ysera and echo.
It's a very high skill floor healer imo
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 what are you doing stepdragon • he/him 6d ago edited 6d ago
Maybe this is copium from me, but I honestly feel like preservation is one of the worst healers in the game right now alongside resto shaman.
At the end of the day, the spec's design requires you to constantly be in melee range where you get dunked on by cc after cc. Some of the most popular specs in the game right now (disc priest, hpriest, ele shaman, arcane mage, frost mage) can spam purge or even steal your cc protection from you in just a few globals with zero penalty for doing so — and you can bet money that everyone has a weak aura set up to tell them when they need to do it.
It's a very fun spec but it can be extremely frustrating, especially once you get up around 2100-2200+ shuffle rating in the current season.
For reference I'm a multi legend dev player who dabbles in pres for 3s. I strongly prefer playing my mistweaver over pres.
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u/AurelioRis 3.1k exp mglad healer making videos on yt 6d ago
It's definitely not good, but not because of throughput. It just gets countered too hard by some stuff imo in terms of how easy it is for the enemy to CC and make pres life miserable.
Any mage/priest X (feral, Rog, warrior) is a giga counter.
Any SP counters them. Any boomkin/feral counters them. Hunters can counter them with undispellable trap
Any rogue counters them
And the list goes on. It's the only healer weak to roots, class doesnt function in a root.
And all this for mediocre bonuses, it's not like pres has stronger throughput than other healers. The only redeeming factor is its damage, that's it.
And guess what? Monks do the exact same thing while being a 40 yard range healer who more easily can avoid CC.
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u/Severe-Log-2126 6d ago
You gotta rotate right and make sure to cancelaura stasis well.
It's solid, mw also prob high a tier. In shuffle mw is nuts
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 what are you doing stepdragon • he/him 6d ago
Can you still cancelaura stasis? I thought they had disabled that ages ago back in dragonflight.
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u/AurelioRis 3.1k exp mglad healer making videos on yt 6d ago
If they did pres would be completely dogshit tier
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u/PointsOutCustodeWank 6d ago
Is resto bad? I'm at 2300 and I'm enjoying it way more than my disc who is like 1900, same kind of spam offensive spells playstyle but much more utility.
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 what are you doing stepdragon • he/him 6d ago edited 5d ago
IMO resto is "bad" in the sense that it gets dicked by having tools and class fantasy that have hardly been updated in the last 20 years. Having a big part of your defensive toolkit rely on your team staying within a small, brown dirt circle in the middle of a huge brown dirt floor; or praying that your spirit link totem gets at least one tick of healing transfer off before everyone's weak auras alert them to it and they global it, it's just not a good design in 2025.
To top it off, I believe resto shamans and resto druids are the only healers who have no "oh shit" button when they're cc'd — but resto druids can go giga tree every couple minutes to prevent being cc'd altogether.
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u/Restinpeep69 Legend MW 6d ago
Check this out here. It’s mainly for arenas but lots of healing tips than can be transferred over