The most fun healer for pvp? (poll)

[huerohueroxxx]

Ey, i'm here again, today the poll its for the pvp healers!

http://strawpoll.me/4233882

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Most fun: disc priest.
Most effective: resto druid.
Most complicated: mistweaver monk.
Most braindead: holy paladin.
Most ineffective: resto shaman.

[Romeo83x]

The problem with polls like these, is that the results will be biased based on the fact that class population isn't evenly spread and the fact that not everyone who votes has played every healer class.

[Deleted]

I don't have a huge amount of experience healing, but I always enjoyed resto druid the most. So much fun and utility.

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Druid, Druid, again Druid. Druid is made out of awesome as a healer. You have basically everything you could ever want aside from a shield and you trump other healers in many regards. Heck your CC alone can compete with several other healers combined. You can take out a melee for extended periods of times once they've blown their trinket to the point where they get so angry they start emote spamming.

[Deleted]

The part I enjoy most about being a healer is the mindgame over the kick with the dps. The enjoyment I get out of juking a kick is almost better then winning a match. Because of this I used to love healer who were more reliant on casts like paladins and shamans, which both unfortunately went into a more instant focused playing style with 6.0/6.2. I also like if you can get offensive, so priests and more lately shamans with dual lavaburst are quite fun to play, although I don't have a priest at max level.

So I personally enjoy shaman the most atm, but yeah... I don't think a poll makes much sense though.

[ellieg]

The part I enjoy most about being a healer is the mindgame over the kick with the dps. The enjoyment I get out of juking a kick is almost better then winning a match. Because of this I used to love healer who were more reliant on casts like paladins and shamans, which both unfortunately went into a more instant focused playing style with 6.0/6.2. I also like if you can get offensive, so priests and more lately shamans with dual lavaburst are quite fun to play, although I don't have a priest at max level.

So I personally enjoy shaman the most atm, but yeah... I don't think a poll makes much sense though.

I like that too. Everyone kicks differently. They might consistently kick at .5 secs or at 1.5 secs. They might have a seemingly random kick sequence. Because of playing as a healer, i can kick better as a dps.

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Yeah, the 'worst' are the guys who seemingly never kick, and you fake and fake and fake and desperately try to juke their kick and suddenly your in trouble and BAM they kick your real cast.
But I've gotten better with this; I really like to juke a lot early in the game when you have the time/HP to do it, and then later you just hardcast your first heal and they expect it to be a juke when it isn't.

[Wisk]

Wow I was surprised to see Rshaman so low. I really like having the ability to ground and shock incoming spells to outplay opponents. Just my 2 cents.

[Saladfork]

Wow I was surprised to see Rshaman so low. I really like having the ability to ground and shock incoming spells to outplay opponents. Just my 2 cents.

Shaman has always had a pretty high skill-cap (out of the healers), so it is pretty fun to play, but it is punishing at the moment. If this poll was done during any other patch, rsham would be closer to the top.

[Riistov]

It's a tie between Rdruid and Rshaman for me. I enjoy them both.

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Shaman has always had a pretty high skill-cap (out of the healers), so it is pretty fun to play, but it is punishing at the moment. If this poll was done during any other patch, rsham would be closer to the top.

Agreed. The recent shaman buffs seem to be helping a little, but I don't think the class is quite where it needs to be yet. Monks are in serious need of a buff to either mana or another defensive cooldown.

I think priests got hit too hard by the ability pruning. If some of those changes were reverted, I think you'd see a lot of people return to their priest mains.

[warlockiii]

Surprised to see pally at the bottom. It seems all of the top teams not using a druid are using a pally.

[Strear]

I've only played Hpal and monk, so ... From my point of view, monk is much more fun, mobility, that teleport thing, the statue, the channeling effect ... My hpal seems so boring in comparison, and in terms of mobility ... ahem

[theostrichsays]

I enjoy my Holy Priest the most. Hands down.
Sub 1800 mmr RBGs, Resto Shaman is also a lot of fun, because nobody touches your totems and you just rock the damn house.

[Cempa]

...I don't know if Feral counts but really enjoying the healing of the build...Keeping my team mate up while being able to burst like a king (king of the jungle!) is fun...

[Wass]

Druid for the amazing toolkit. Disc for the ruse I get of deathing (holy fireing (ew, holy fire, why could I just not get to keep SWD?)) traps/polys or fearwarding fears in clutch moments. Shaman for the same reasons with grounding and tremor.

I really like all three, haven't played the other two.

[Puxlighter]

Hpal's are pretty fun. I almost always feel like I have a cooldown for whatever comes my way.