Holy Pal vs Resto Druid?

[Rusty_Lac]

I have no idea which forum I may post this in, so please move it, if wrong


Hi, my 2 friends and I, decided to start playing Nostalrius Begins.
We wanted to be 1 tank, 1 ranged dps and a healer.

We came to the conclusion to make a warrior tank, and a hunter, and our first thought on the healer was to make a holy pal. But since we wanted to be night elves and all wanted to start in the same area, that is not possible.

So I need to know if going resto druid, is much worse than going holy pal, when doing dungeons etc. (just leveling in general - not high level raiding).

Also, please don't say: "It's what you prefer, or find most fun to play" because my friends are all new to the game, and has never played any classes before, so the preference doesn't matter atm.

Thank you in advance

Rusty

[Dessel]

I would suggest a (dwarf) priest, then just find a friendly mage to port you from IF to Teldrassil. Druid honestly has solo heal weaknesses that paladin and priest don't.

[Dementia]

Resto Druid and Holy Paladin are both good healers. Paladin can be more forgiving since it has an out of combat res. Blessings are also very nice in 5mans.

[gotmilk0112]

Not many people will take a druid healer in 5mans, unless there's a paladin or priest in the party. No normal rez is kinda bad.

Priest is all-around the "best" healer, per se. You can level as shadow and still heal just fine if needed, even in dungeons.

[DrearyYew]

Druids: Versatile, but have by miles the weakest scaling in the game respective to other healers. This won't be a problem through leveling and into MC progression, but later progression they will really fall off and become good old innervate bots. Have no real res, but have a Battle Res on a 30m CD, making them undesirable for dungeons unless a Spriest or Ret Pally is already in group. Druids are also strong in PvP, but it's for their flag carrying, not healing.

Priests: Share the spotlight with Paladins as the main healers of Vanilla. Fear Ward if Dwarf is incredibly powerful. Unlike Paladins, Priests have very versatile healing options for almost any situation. Will lead healers on shorter raid encounters. Holy Priests, while they have some good utility, are generally the weakest PvP healers, due to mana issues as well as having very few survivability options with their cloth armor.

Paladins: The sustained healers of Vanilla. While they lack the healing option pool of a Priest, they greatly make up for it in their utility through buffs, Divine Shield, Blessing of Protection, and Judgements. Unlike Priests, Paladins have very little mana problems, and in Naxx gear, will pretty much never run out of mana. Paladins are easily the best PvP healers through their extreme tankiness and utility, near infinite mana pool with extremely efficient heals, and near immunity to CC through Blessing of Sacrifice.



I know you were looking more for Leveling, but you're going to end up doing dungeons and raids or pvp at max level, so it's worth knowing how things work at that level. Generally, Druid healers are undesirable while leveling, and the difference between Paladin and Priest while leveling is negligible. Priest is better when your tank has shit gear, and Paladin is more useful when the tank is well geared since their buffs increase the DPS of the group.

[Fuhrern]

paladin +1
druid -1

druids are fucking useless, bring them for buffs

[Druzzil]

None of the above.

Shaman for the win.

Healer, check.
Buff entire party, check.
Mana Tide Totem, check.

[Spiri]

Druids: Versatile, but have by miles the weakest scaling in the game respective to other healers. This won't be a problem through leveling and into MC progression, but later progression they will really fall off and become good old innervate bots.

BEHOLD THE WEAK DRUID HEALING LATE GAME. http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/Ranki ... &realm=All

AQ stats : http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/Ranki ... &realm=All - more druids then shamans... innervate boting obviously

Also i found a good old raidstats of me healing in blw http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/Fight ... t=15182238 1.4k raw heal per second on vael... such weak heal.. so innervate bot...

Most of the druids on nostalrius cant heal... and using wrong spec, while thinking they are using the correct one(thats another story). Just be good and u can top meters with every healer in the end of the raid..... just....be...good....DAMN IT!

Can i call your advice useles now ?

[Ana]

Guy is proud of spamming aoe heals with an unlimited mana buff
Really?

[Spiri]

Guy is proud of spamming aoe heals with an unlimited mana buff
Really?

Guy says druid cant heal, another guy brings proof that they heal, while helping the discusion. What u bring to this thread ? Only cancer i can see. Shoo donk.