WoW: Dragonflight Best healer

It is predicted that the best healer in WoW: Dragonflight is the Holy Priest, as he received numerous new talents and abilities.

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and therefore, you can enjoy its content with other players across the globe.

The game allows you to create and control a character to explore the fictional Warcraft landscape, fight horrific foes, complete quests, and interact with non-player characters.

Although WoW was released in 2004, it has remained a hit in the 18 years since its release. Since its launch, it has received 8 major expansions, each of which introduces new content to the game.

The ninth expansion, Dragonflight, is set to launch on 28 November 2022. Many WoW players have wondered what class the best healer in the new expansion will be.

Healers in WoW: Dragonflight

A healer is a type of character class in video games. If a game includes a health game mechanic and numerous classes, it means that generally one of the classes is designed around the restoration of allies’ health.

This technique is called healing, and its main purpose is to delay or to prevent the team’s defeat in a battle.

In addition to healing, healer classes are sometimes associated with buffs that can assist their team members in other ways. Furthermore, healers can use nukes to contribute to the offence when healing is unnecessary.

If you are interested in playing a healer in Dragonflight, it is worth noting that it is your responsibility to heal your allies during difficult battles.

WoW: Dragonflight Best healer

Dragonflight is the ninth expansion pack for WoW, and it comes after the Shadowlands expansion. Similarly to previous expansions, Dragonflight alters the tiers of character classes by adding or removing skills, talents, and abilities.

This principle has left many players wondering which class will be the best healer in Dragonflight. Keep in mind that the healer tier list is purely based on prediction, as there has not been enough data collected in the Dragonflight Beta phase.

With regard to the tier list, F-tier characters are considered below average and therefore, it will be difficult to keep their allies alive during a fight. S-tier classes, on the other hand, are considered the best in WoW.

The predicted tier list for healers in Dragonflight is:

S-tier	A-tier	B-tier	F-tier
Holy Priest	Discipline Priest Restoration Druid	Holy Paladin Restoration Shaman	Mistweaver Monk

As you can see in the table, Holy Priests are currently the sole placeholders in the S-tier. This means that they surpass all other classes in the healing category solidly.

Holy Priest is a masterful single-target triage healer. Whether it is primarily focused on healing players that have dangerous debuffs or healing the tank, the class excels at blasting healing onto 1 target at a time while leveraging talents to cleave this output onto other allies.

Even in a battle when the entire team is taking equal damage, the Holy Priest can easily identify and heal the most vulnerable players.

Although they are mainly focused on single-target healing, there are potential area-of-effect oriented builds to pursue if required. This allows the Holy Priest to be versatile when the situation demands it.

Holy Priest talent tree builds for Raids Dragonflight

Although this information is based on prediction, you can take the risk and create your Holy Priest’s build so that you are ready for content once the expansion releases. The table below lists some of the talents that you should invest in for the Raid build:

Build	Talents
Raid build	Renew Dispel Magic Shadowfiend Prayer of Mending Improved Flash Heal Improved Purify Focused Mending Holy Nova Protective Light Angelic Feather Leap of Faith Rhapsody Spell Warding Mass Dispel Power Infusion Improved mass Dispel Twins of the Sun Priestess Unwavering Will Twist of Fate Binding Heals Divine Star Light’s Inspiration Surge of Light Power Word: Life

Holy Priest talent tree build for Mythic + in Dragonflight

It is worth noting that you cannot use the same build for Raids for Mythic +. The talents you should use when you participate in Mythic + are:

Priest tree	Holy tree
Renew Shadowfiend Prayer of Mending Improved Flash Heal Shadow Word: Death Holy Nova Protective Light Angelic Feather Death and Madness Spell Warding Rhapsody Leap of Faith Mass Dispel Power Infusion Inspiration Void Shield Unwavering Will Twist of Fate Throes of Pain Binding Heals Divine Star Mindgames Surge of Light Power Word: Life	Holy Word: Serenity Prayer of Healing Guardian Spirit Holy Word: Chastise Holy Word: Sanctify Guardian Angel Censure Burning Vehemence Benediction or Holy Mending Renewed Faith Empyreal Blaze Trial of Light Enlightenment Everlasting Light Symbol of Hope Crisis Management Prismatic Echoes Pontifex Apotheosis Desperate Times Lightweaver

How to play Holy Priest

The focal point of playing a Holy Priest is maximising their new talent, Lightweaver, to provide rapid healing to allies. Holy Words enable you to heal individuals with Holy Word: Serenity, but you can heal clusters of players with Holy Words: Sanctify.

Although your main focus is  healing, you can also deal damage to enemies with Holy Word: Chastise.