 So we are going to do SOD, PVP, healer tier list for level 40 and disclaimer this is going to be a prediction list. We don't know what runes are coming in yet. We don't know what rune changes they're going to do. So the best guess we can do is looking at the spells and talents that the healer specs are going to be getting close to 40, around 40 or between 25 and 40 if they're like unique things like innervate stuff like that. If some specs get good ranks you know 38, 40 stuff like that then they're going to be more impactful than the lower ranks. So with this information we can look at where things currently are on the tier list and try and adjust it slightly to where we think you know whether we think it's gaining power compared to everything else based on the talents and stuff they learn and the spells they get or whether we think they're going to comparatively lose some power and we're going to move it down in the tier list. So we're going to start out with disc and I think disc is still going to be S tier for just everything basically. It's probably going to lose a little bit of power on its own in world PVP but dueling I think it's still going to be strong and in premades and group PVP I think it's probably still going to be the best healer mainly due to double the spell but it's getting good ranks of shield and flash create a heal your tanky within a fire mana burn is always nice and you get a load of mana efficiency stuff from disc talents. Now the main downfall of it is the fact that you are if you want to take PI you're not going to have healing focus and you basically need healing focus to to run penance because of the pushback on it in SOD so you can't realistically going to be running PI that much unless you're going to give up the penance basically or play way more risky in the back sorry way less risky in the back so you know aren't targeted at all which is kind of a boring play style in my opinion but yeah that might be uh might be a thing so yeah disc and S tier is going to be my first ranking. Next up we've got resto druids and resto druids are picking up innovate they're getting travel form they're getting a nice rank of rejuvenate 40 they're getting tankier bear form healing touch at 38 and then the regrowth is at 36 the regrowth not as nice but the other two definitely big pickups and then the wrath at 38 is really nice as well considering they have a wrath for free rune in addition to this the talents that they are able to get things like ns reflection and swiftmen which are all going to help their burst healing which is kind of lacking at the moment and on top of that I think resto scales really really well with healing so as the phase is going to go on you know as as we're going to get higher and higher level all this nice new gear that's coming in from these raids is going to have a lot more healing on like the the level 25 stuff has way more than you know you normally would see on 25 gear and this really really benefits druid and I think druid is going to just continue to scale upwards as they they get more bonus healing and they get more efficient because of it life boom is going to start being really a problem their hearts in general are going to be really really really strong and it will get to the point where you won't be able to kill a target if it's hot it so I don't think druids are quite there yet but I think that they are justified in a tier I think they're going to be solid they have a lot of utility and make a pretty good backup healer for a priest I would say next up we've got holy pala holy pala was in c tier before they still don't get a fence sorry they still don't get defensive to spell they get at 42 which is a huge problem for them so I am hesitant in moving holy pala up that much they get a few new new things but not that much in the way of actually utility you know they'll get a little bit more healing a little bit more mana efficiency from their talents but nothing to to ride home about and they're really lacking just raw healing I think at this point they get shadow resura a bit longer bubble but this isn't going to make that much difference compared to what they normally have right now they're getting plate it's probably the biggest thing they're going to be more tanky 40 hodge which is just increased duration and then holy light at 30 which is going to be nice but I just don't think it's enough with the lack of dispel so actually bring them up but I just don't think they're going to be comparative with with rest of druids honestly they they're very close to still being c tier a lot of their runes that they currently have aren't great things like divine sack up actually magic on here so they're dispellable and yeah overall paladin's getting shafted a little bit so maybe they get some love with runes hard to say but we're not basing this tier list around that so we'll have to wait and see for that next up we have got rest of shaman and I think rest of shaman is a spec that could very well push up into s tier next uh next phase depending on if they get riptide I think if they get riptide they're going to be very very strong as long as riptide is like scaled properly basically um and isn't just healing for about two I think the riptide is going to fill a big gap in their kit and they have a lot of healing but also a lot of utility you know they have grounding coming in they have earth shock 36 they got double purge loads of healing chain heal ns decent mana um yeah reincarnation win fury term then you know the list goes on so shaman has great great utility and at the moment they're kind of restricted in their healing abilities because they have to cast quite long heals actually do any decent healing and they're not that mana efficient um but if they're able to run something like water shield next patch and just have all of this extra utility and healing you know on top of riptide if they get riptide I think they're bs tier but with all this stuff I think a tier is uh a good place for them I think they're they're around where druids are they're a different kind of healer I think they're a more offensive healer than druids druids have kind of got the the defensive utility whereas rest of shamans have got the offensive utility so I'm gonna I'm gonna put rest of shamans in in a tier with rest of druids and again makes a nice backup healer for the for the disc priest for sure and then finally we have got and this one's a bit boogie is arcane mage and I think I find this one quite hard to quite hard to rank personally uh just because you don't see that many arcane mages and you see even fewer actual good arcane mages that are really taking advantage of their whole kit you know they a lot of them they get pigeonholed and stuck into just only healing and you don't see any decent utility coming out you forget they've still got poly they've still got novus they've still got cs they still got this whole kit that mages have and and you kind of just see them almost tunnel visioning into the the healing role but they actually do have really good aoe healing so yeah it's uh it's definitely something that could potentially be on the radar or something is really really strong in bgs going forward and and I think they potentially will have the best aoe healing in the game if uh if tuned correctly and if people actually get to grips with them but I think that is the thing right people are still learning how to play the spec well in in pvp and it's just not kind of reached just full potential yet as a result of that um I'm going to put it at the moment in b tier I think these two healers are still a bit stronger than it but it definitely if people improve on it it definitely has the potential to move up and fill that more offensive sort of utility role plus sort of midfield healer role where you just really want that aoe healing uh I think it's better than paladin so paladin is like here like halfway um but yeah I'm reluctant to put paladin c tier since they are getting some nice stuff but yeah I just don't think that paladin is on the same level um as any of the other healers uh you'll notice I've actually left out holy priest holy priest is basically the same as disc priest in the way that it operates uh you'll just take more points down in the holy tree and have basically more raw healing power uh it's very awkward with 40 talent points and I think the main reason you would go for it is if they do something juicy with light well on the runes so maybe it could happen we'll wait and see but I think at the moment the disc talents are just more suited towards playing the sort of that healer healer role than the holy talents are uh due to the mana issues that the spec actually has so yeah that's why I've kind of left holy off at the moment but you could potentially see holy priests next patch uh so don't count them out so yeah that's it that's the the healer tier list not as many as the dps so look look it's a shorter video but that's my my picks and remember the runes could change everything so you know take this potentially with a pinch pinch assault this is the best info we've got right now so if you want to pick something based on this it's better than flipping a coin right looking forward to the next the next patch a couple of weeks it's gonna be good have a good one