Healer that can survive the longest?

[Nicola]

Holy paladins can survive the most but lacks escape tools for when it gets so much.

[eschatological]

Healers should be able to survive 1v1 vs a DPS, because, well, their job is to keep people alive. A healer that dies 1v1 isn't doing very well. Killing a healer involves coordinating burst with interrupts + CC.

Also, I agree with hpallies, because they have a lot of instant cast BS (shock, WoG, procced flash heal), they have an interrupts (hammer, rebuke), they have hard resets (bop, bubble), they have anti-snare (HoF, DP), they have CDs (wings, DF, Guardian), they have anti-interrupts (AM). Wide arsenal, imo.

[JohnBrown1917]

That isn't a case of resto shamans being strong. That's the case of hunters not being able to kill a healer by themselves. Ever.

Besides resto druids :3

[Tastyfish]

lol I would say holy in bgs and resto shaman in arena

I feel the same way.
Chaos of Bgs makes the pally very very strong when it comes to survival while healing

[JohnBrown1917]

Hpala in the only char i've reached ironman on(multiple times, and I came close several times). so from my own experiences, they are not only the healer with most survival "skills", they also one of the best survival non-tank specs.

[shise]

I'm a disc priest. In BG's i can usually handle a bunch of people, but then you have to consider the gear they have, so counting on the same gear as i have it would be like 3 dps's , no healer can really handle more unless they are some kind of dummy/bot damage dealer... they'll jsut cc the hell out of you and auto shot kill you, even if you are a paladin or a shamy.

For my own experience, paladin would be a good one, but if there's a priest fighting him he's fucked because of dispells and MB could force him to spend cd's.
Same goes for a shamy, they might never run oom, but there's a point where too little mana is just too little ;p


Back to my class, we need some proper cc or interrupt really :<

[TJ]

Resto shamans or holy paladins, if holy paladins get lucky with procs they dominate.