WoW Healer Tier List: Midnight Season 2 (12.1.5)

Updated October 22, 2026 for Midnight Season 2 (Patch 12.1.5). The tiers combine the current Mythic+ rankings and change with each class tuning pass.

Holy Paladin stands out as the dominant choice among the best groups, claiming 705 of 800 healer places for an 88.1% share in the count conducted on October 22. Holy Paladin and Restoration Shaman lead the pack as premier selections due to exceptional throughput and essential seasonal utility, while other options face stiffer trade-offs. Navigating this wow healer tier list helps identify which specializations possess the required dispels, burst recovery, and damage mitigation to thrive across the dungeon rotation.

WoW Healer Tier List: Midnight Season 2 Patch 12.1.5

The tier table below as a board. Icons: Blizzard.

Of the 7 specs both rankings combined here place, they put 2 in the same tier; 1 is two or more tiers apart.

S Tier

Specializations in this tier provide strong single-target output, exceptional survivability, and indispensable utility tailored precisely for high keystones.

Holy Paladin

Holy Paladin features premier single-target burst, superior damage reduction through Devotion Aura and Aura Mastery, and strong answers to poison and bleed mechanics across multiple dungeons. The specialization trades offensive firepower for strong survivability, though its direct damage output remains lower than other options. In Season 2, the seasonal WoW Tier Sets: Midnight Season 2 Class Sets and Bonuses guarantee that Holy Light procs Infusion of Light at an increased mana cost, which Holy Paladins can offset by generating mana during downtime using Shield of the Righteous. Taking 705 spots across all eight dungeons with peak presence in Temple of Sethraliss, the spec captures 88.1% of the top runs, representing over six times an even share.

Restoration Shaman

Restoration Shaman brings steady throughput alongside a rare interrupt in Wind Shear, an area-of-effect stun from Capacitor Totem, bonus party health from Ancestral Vigor, and Poison Cleansing Totem. It excels in physical damage group compositions by providing Bloodlust and the Skyfury Mastery buff, although its overall damage contribution sits among the lowest in the healer pool. Season 2 talent designs center primarily on Totemic builds with Lively Totems boosting Chain Heal and an emphasis on baseline Healing Rain, though players who range outside the rain zone receive less benefit. Holding 77 of 800 healer slots, Restoration Shaman secures roughly an even share of the top runs while appearing across every dungeon. For players looking to skip the queue grind and push high ratings alongside these compositions, a WoW Mythic Plus Boost provides seasoned group setups to clear keystones efficiently.

A Tier

Specs in this tier demonstrate solid healing output and strong damage potential, but they require strict coordination or lack unique seasonal group buffs.

Preservation Evoker

Preservation Evoker achieves massive burst throughput and high damage output when positioning requirements are met, utilizing empower spells, double charges of Time Dilation, and the emergency recovery of Rewind. It answers seasonal requirements with a poison dispel, crowd control enhancement via Oppressing Roar, and Cauterizing Flame. Season 2 shifts power away from Merithra's Blessing into baseline spells while heavily buffing Dream Breath healing over time and allowing Fluttering Seedlings to trigger Consume Flame. Preservation Evoker is the hardest healer to learn but very rewarding once mastered and strong in all content, in the experience of some players. Despite these strengths, the spec claimed zero runs among the top keys, as group slots routinely went to the leading choices.

Mistweaver Monk

Mistweaver Monk provides high damage output and physical damage amplification through Mystic Touch, backed by group cleansing via Revival and single-target absorption from Life Cocoon. It thrives in heavy ticking or rot damage encounters, utilizing Rising Mist, Mistline, and single-target damage converted to healing. The Season 2 update nerfed Way of the Crane alongside casted heals while buffing Jadefire Teachings to shift more output into single-target combat conversion.

The hardest part about not playing Hpal or Rsham is not getting invited to groups.

— one player

Mistweaver Monk filled 11 of the top 800 places, appearing in five of the eight dungeons with its peak turnout in Den of Nalorakk.

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B Tier

These specializations can comfortably clear challenging content, but they struggle with sustained mana burn, lack poison dispels, or demand heavy setup to match the throughput of higher tiers.

Restoration Druid

Restoration Druid offers Mark of the Wild, stampeding speed increases, external damage reduction through Ironbark, and essential dispels for both curses and poisons. Its strength depends on encounter dynamics and dungeon modifiers, pairing strong crowd control tools with high healing potential in burst windows, but falling behind when ticking pressure outpaces its over-time effects. Season 2 reduced the effectiveness of Abundance, removed the healing-over-time extension attached to Swiftmend, and left its heals over time feeling weak against scaled-up player health pools. Resto Druid is tedious and hard work for the same results other healers get more easily, other players feel. The specialization registered zero top runs worldwide, losing out to the leading two specs.

Holy Priest

Holy Priest features straightforward single-target recovery, Power Word: Fortitude, Mass Dispel, and raid damage amplification via Power Infusion. It lacks an interrupt or diverse crowd control outside of Psychic Scream and Holy Word: Chastise, and low baseline durability often forces heavy investment into Versatility gear. Season 2 lowered the mana cost of Benediction, improved Enlightenment and Apotheosis, and Ultimate Serenity cleaves Holy Word: Serenity at the expense of Holy Word: Sanctify. Holy Priest is easy and pleasant to play this season, though its utility is limited, according to other players. The spec appeared just once in the world's highest keys, securing a lone place in Kings' Rest.

Discipline Priest

Discipline Priest converts single-target offensive pressure into Atonement healing, backed by two charges of Pain Suppression, Power Word: Barrier, and Power Word: Fortitude. While its single-target damage frequently doubles the offensive contribution of other healing classes, it lacks a poison dispel and struggles to recover parties during sustained, unmitigated rot damage without burning through its mana. Patch 12.1 alters Mind Blast into a more frequent cast that reliably procs Void Shield, whereas Shadow Mend replaces Flash Heal as a high-cost manual cast. Discipline Priest secured six places across four dungeons in the highest runs, with three of those clears occurring in Den of Nalorakk.

How the Tiers Compare With the Top Keys

A tier list weighs each specialization across every key level and group style, whereas elite leaderboard data reflects only the hyper-optimized setups favored by the absolute highest keys.

Preservation Evoker sits in A Tier yet failed to secure a single spot in the top 800 runs. Holy Paladin and Restoration Shaman occupy S Tier while claiming 705 and 77 places, monopolizing almost the entire leaderboard. In A Tier, Mistweaver Monk gathered 11 spots. Across B Tier, Discipline Priest earned six places, Holy Priest logged a single place, and Restoration Druid finished with zero.

Data sampled on October 22 from the 800 highest Midnight Season 2 Mythic+ runs worldwide (top 100 per dungeon, keystone levels +22 to +24, median +23) representing 800 total healer places.

Midnight Season 2 Healer Changes

Midnight Season 2 instituted substantial systemic adjustments, pairing large spikes in dungeon creature damage with increased player health pools, making raw healing output and mana conservation far more critical. Dungeons heavily prioritize poison and curse dispels, giving an immediate advantage to classes that can cleanse these debuffs naturally.

Hero talents and tier set bonuses also altered baseline spell rotations. Holy Paladin gained a self-sustaining loop through guaranteed Infusion of Light procs on Holy Light coupled with mana returns from Shield of the Righteous. Restoration Shaman kits pivoted around Totemic interactions and passive ground healing from Healing Rain. Meanwhile, specs like Restoration Druid and Mistweaver Monk sustained target nerfs to tools such as Abundance and Way of the Crane, leaving direct spot healing and maintenance healing in a more demanding state.