Midnight Alpha Healer Tier List - Best Healers Ranked in WoW Midnight

How Good are healers so far in World of Warcraft Midnight Alpha? Today, we got you a WoW Midnight Alpha healer tier list that is based primarily on design quality and playability, not pure tuning or numbers — since tuning always changes later. 

Midnight Alpha Best Healer - WoW Midnight Healers Tier List

While the announcement is for the Midnight Alpha test, the core mechanics of WoW's "Holy Trinity" (Tank, Healer, DPS) remain. The new content specifically highlights several areas where a skilled healer will make or break a group's success. The new dungeon, The Blinding Vale is the biggest reason why we need a good healer. Dungeons are structured group content with complex boss mechanics and heavy, predictable damage patterns. Next, we'll dive into the best Midnight Alpha healers. The Midnight healer rankings reflect how each healer feels to play right now, how coherent their design is, and how well their new or reworked talents fit into their core identity.

S Tier

Restoration Druid 

Resto Druid’s redesign in Midnight is the best example of “folding” done right — Blizzard condensed the bloat without gutting the identity. Abilities like Flourish folded into Tranquility, Grove Guardians proc from Wild Growth and Swiftmend, and Efflorescence folded into Lifebloom via Life Tending all streamline gameplay while amplifying output. This means the Druid can maintain strong healing-over-time coverage with less setup, more predictable power, and higher uptime on regrowth-focused bursts. The spec feels cohesive, intuitive, and visually satisfying — “antmoots” of tree summons give instant feedback and fun moments, and pruning weaker HOTs like Spring Blossoms and Cultivation removes unnecessary clutter. It plays smoother, cleaner, and rewards good timing and positioning, keeping its identity as a flexible raid healer with insane consistency. In short: no major losses, big QoL gains, massive cohesion, and giga-fun design = S-Tier.

Holy Priest

Holy Priest’s changes are strong, but not perfect. On the plus side, the pruning is excellent — no more redundant cooldowns like Lightwell, Divine Word, or answered prayers, and Renew becoming passive simplifies maintenance. The new Apotheosis/Archon build adds real flexibility and skill expression in both raid and M+ setups. However, the spec leans too heavily into passive healing (Echo of Light, Cosmic Ripple, Divine Image), which makes it feel less engaging and risks power bloat from non-interactive throughput. The Piety overheal redirect is both a blessing and a curse — it adds efficiency but could hold the spec back in tuning early in seasons. Overall, Holy Priest feels great to play, cleaner, and with meaningful talent options, but its overreliance on passive healing and the potential tuning volatility keep it from S-Tier.

A Tier

Preservation Evoker 

Preservation Evoker received the most changes — a near rework that improves flow and reduces overcomplexity. Spiritbloom folded into Reversion via the new Marithra’s Blessing apex is a smart, elegant way to keep big burst potential without empower bloat. Emerald Communion removed, Kasera made passive, and Dream Breath given more flexibility and charges all point toward a cleaner, more reactive design. The spec feels less like an “orchestra conductor” and more like a responsive healer who can adapt mid-fight. It still needs tuning and polish (especially balancing Stasis vs Dream Flight and fixing Chronowarden’s weaker side), but the direction is excellent. Preservation is now easier to pick up, faster to react with, and still maintains its unique flavor — complexity without chaos. That said, unfinished tuning and awkward talent balance keep it A-tier instead of S.

Mistweaver Monk

Mistweaver earns its A-tier spot in the Midnight Alpha Healer Tier List because while it hasn’t been dramatically reworked like other healers, it still retains a deep, skill-based identity with solid throughput and utility once mastered. The spec feels polished and fluid, benefiting from quality-of-life “folding” updates like Jadefire Stomp being rolled into Rising Sun Kick—removing unnecessary button bloat while keeping its signature effect. The new Tea of Plenty/Serenity interactions and Soothing Mist integrations offer powerful synergy but come with high cognitive load, making it the most demanding healer in terms of buff and proc tracking. Despite some underwhelming apex talents like Shaohao’s Gift and awkward tuning with Spirit Font, Mistweaver’s mobility, flexibility between Way of the Crane and Way of the Serpent styles, and versatile single-target or group sustain options make it an excellent, high-ceiling healer for skilled players. It lands in A-tier for strong healing potential and mechanical depth—but not S-tier due to complexity, reliance on tuning, and slightly clunky talent interactions.

B Tier

Holy Paladin  

Holy Paladin, on the other hand, sits in B-tier largely due to an ongoing identity crisis and mechanical inconsistency. While Beacon of the Savior and Seraphic Barrier show promise in reestablishing Paladin as a powerful spot healer with meaningful absorbs, many of its recent changes blur the line between melee and ranged gameplay. Losing Crusader Strike and gaining a 360° Light of Dawn with a short radius leaves Paladins awkwardly positioned—not quite melee, not quite ranged—hurting both their identity and practicality in raids and dungeons. The removal of Blessing of Seasons and Barrier of Faith has reduced utility without offering enough in return, and while pruning clutter was necessary, the spec currently lacks flow and damage integration. It still delivers strong targeted healing, valuable absorbs, and excellent instant-cast mobility, but compared to other healers, Holy Paladin feels unfinished and directionless in Midnight Alpha, holding it back in B-tier until its rework fully defines its playstyle and power curve.

Discipline Priest

While Discipline retains its signature atonement-damage-to-healing gameplay, it hasn’t received major reworks to solve its long-standing friction points. It’s still extremely ramp-dependent — you must perfectly time cooldowns and atonement windows to deliver meaningful throughput — but it feels clunkier compared to other healers that have had their setups streamlined (like Resto Druid and Mistweaver). Alpha tuning has made some of its burst windows strong, and barrier-based utility is still excellent, but its core loop is punishing and has little forgiveness when fights desync from your cooldowns. That said, Discipline remains solid in coordinated environments, with decent reward for high execution and strong mitigation tools, which keeps it above the “problem specs,” but its complexity and lack of smooth flow keep it from being A-tier material.

C Tier

Restoration Shaman  

Shaman, on the other hand, feels left behind. Despite having a large toolkit, much of it is aging and overly busy without delivering the throughput or utility payoff it used to. Totem management remains clunky, with several talents feeling bloated or outdated. Chain Heal and Healing Rain continue to feel undertuned, especially compared to the streamlined, “folded” healing designs seen in Druid or Paladin. Their Apex/Capstone options also don’t provide meaningful gameplay changes — just passive throughput or RNG healing procs — which makes the spec feel static rather than dynamic. The spec’s reliance on positioning and proximity-based healing (e.g., Spirit Link, Healing Rain) feels restrictive in modern raid and dungeon environments that emphasize mobility. As a result, Restoration Shaman currently feels undertuned, outdated, and lacking the synergy or fluidity needed to keep up, landing it solidly in C Tier until Blizzard gives it a more cohesive identity update.