WoW: Two healers dominate in Mythic Plus dungeons, concern for shamans

Mythic Plus dungeons are also one of the best sources for players to get equipment in WoW: Dragonflight. Especially the new dungeons are still tough after several nerfs. You need strong healers to keep the group alive. And as is so often the case, from Mythic Plus 2 to Mythic Plus 20, a clear metagame has prevailed. Two healer classes in particular are favored, while the others are not considered at all, especially for higher keystones.

Looking at the stats on raider.io heal across all difficulties 29.2% Restoration Druids and to 22.3% preservation callers the dungeons of Dragonflight. Behind are lined up Holy Priest (14.6%), Holy Paladin (11%), Restoration Shaman (10.2%) and Mistwriker Monk (6.8%) a. Looking at the stats for the high keystones (20+) makes it even clearer.

Hey Disci, Mistweavers and Resto-Shamys, are you ok?

WoW: Two healers dominate in Mythic Plus dungeons, worry about shamans (2)
Source: raider.io

Because at this sight you do Discipline Priest (2.2%), Mistweaver Monks (1.8%) and Restoration Shaman (4.2%) already sorry However, Restoration Druids and Preservation Callers are even more dominant in this category. the Druid will 40.4% Played in +20+ dungeons and higher alongside the Caller than all other healers combined.

This is due to the better toolkits of the Caller and Restoration Druids. Since warlocks are no longer necessarily the best class for +20 dungeons, another class has to serve for the important battle rezz. Experience has shown that the druid has other strong control effects such as typhoon or good utility skills like Ursol’s Vortex and Inciting roarwhich are useful for various M+ affixes.

Like the Druid, Preservation Callers are super mobile and bursting with powerful utility abilities, including arguably the best healing cooldowns in the game: Rewind and time shift. In addition, the caller brings the bloodlust effect (Wrath of the Aspects). Groups without Enhancement Shaman or Arcane Mage rely on rage/heroism at high keystone levels.

Help is on the way, shamans will have to wait

At least for the fog maker come on Wednesday, 01/11/23, with the Class balance update for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.5 some buffs into play. And even the recovery druid, which is played less frequently in the raid, is helped out with the balance patch. Discipline Priests can settle for the fact that they can still switch to their Holy playstyle, and well-played Discipline Priests fare significantly better in raids than in M+ dungeons. Holy paladins, who don’t sag quite as much in M+ as the bottom three specs, are also welcome in the raid.