Highlights

  • MMOs like New World, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy 14, and World of Warcraft offer diverse options for players who enjoy playing as healers.
  • Healers play a crucial role in MMOs, as they are responsible for restoring their allies' health and providing support through buffs and debuffs.
  • Each MMO has unique features and mechanics for healers, such as flexible builds, unique abilities, synergy systems, and a wide range of healer classes to choose from.

MMOs provide a thrilling experience by allowing the players to explore the vast areas in the game looting or completing quests at their pace. However, before starting these adventures one must choose what class they are going to be for the rest of the game. Healer is one of the three classes and one of the most crucial.

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Healers are in charge of restoring all of their allies' health and this requires quick thinking as in most end-game areas the enemies and bosses can deal high damage to the whole team, so deciding who to heal first can be the deciding factor. Aside from healing, healers can also buff and debuff their allies, which becomes useful in many situations. Here are some of the best MMOs to try if aiming to play the healer class.

1 New World

Players Have A Lot Of Options With The Life Staff

New World
New World

Platform(s)
PC
Released
September 8, 2021
Developer(s)
Amazon Games
ESRB
E10+ for Everyone 10+: Alcohol Reference, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes

New World is one of the most recent additions to the MMO genre. The game brings a new fresh look to the beautifully crafted word and immersive locations. All of this makes exploring these visually pleasing areas much more rewarding. New World has a weapon, Life Staff, that is dedicated to healing players and has supportive capabilities. With the Life Staff players get ample supportive abilities that can increase damage output, buff or cleanse debuffs, and do area-wide healing.

One of the best features of New World is the flexible builds that the player can make. Players can mix the Life Staff, which is the primary source of healing, with other weapons, making a hybrid build that also deals damage. This can be useful in many situations such as when a healer is completing quests or fighting mobs solo.

2 Star Wars: The Old Republic

Offers Different Classes With Healing Functions

Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic

Platform(s)
PC
Released
December 20, 2011
Developer(s)
BioWare
Genre(s)
MMO

Star Wars: The Old Republic offers a rich experience for MMO fans as players get to experience the genre in the Star Wars world. The game introduces AI-controlled companions that aid players by engaging in combat and performing skills such as gathering resources or crafting.

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Healers in the game use the power of the Force to provide healing to their allies. The game has different classes, such as the complex to master Scoundrel/Operative, which focuses on burst AoE healing over time. The Sage/Sorcerer class focuses on healing while also providing Force Armor.

3 Elder Scrolls Online

Unique Healer Builds & Synergy System

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The Elder Scrolls Online

Platform(s)
PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , PC , macOS
Released
April 4, 2014
ESRB
M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence

Elder Scrolls Online has a different class system because, unlike other MMOs that have a predefined healer class, Elder Scrolls Online has a system where players create unique builds, making customization a key aspect. As the combat system in the game is more active all the players need to move around, even the healers, to avoid attacks and reposition themselves so that they can provide more utility to the group.

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Healers have unique abilities that allow them to perform crowd control effects or boost allies' damage like the Combat Prayer. This makes for fun and engaging combat for all healers. The game also features a synergy system where the healers can combine their abilities with those of their allies to create powerful synergies. These synergies can amplify the damage and healing the players put out.

4 Final Fantasy 14

Wide Range Of Healer Classes

Final Fantasy 14
Final Fantasy 14

Platform(s)
PC , PS3 , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S
Released
August 27, 2013
Developer(s)
Square Enix
Genre(s)
MMORPG

Final Fantasy 14 introduces a new way to play the healer with their unique classes. Every healer class is entirely different from one another in how a person plays it. The Sage and Scholar healers are great flexible healers that can provide high shielding as well as healing to the team. Scholars also have the Aetherflow mechanic, which allows them to perform even more skills, which in turn adds a layer of mana management.

Other classes in the game are White Mage, the starting class which is great for AoE healing in end-game raids, and Astrologian which focuses on providing a damage boost to all allies on top of the healing. By adding more abilities like increasing damage, cleansing debuffs, or simply providing utility, players can have a blast playing the healer class in the game.

5 World Of Warcraft

Diverse Healer Classes, Such As Holy Priest & Mistweaver Monk

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World of Warcraft

Platform(s)
PC
Released
November 23, 2004
Developer(s)
Blizzard
ESRB
T for Teen: Blood and Gore, Crude Humor, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence (online interactions not rated)

World of Warcraft has been one of the most popular MMORPGs for more than a decade. Having multiple expansions, a huge world, and endless quests makes this game stand out from the rest. Over the years World of Warcraft has included new races, sub-classes, and more but the main three classes, of course, stay the same. Every person must either play a tank, a DPS, or a healer. For those players who want to help out their team in a supportive way without dealing damage on the frontline, the healer is the best class for it.

The healer is a very vital class in this game, if not the most. This is because, in dungeons and raids, the party has no way to restore the health lost, which can result in a wipe. The healer prevents this by providing enough healing that the group can endure the dungeons plus also providing buffs to increase damage or reduce the amount taken.

World of Warcraft has a vast diversity of healer classes as players can select between Holy Priest, Restoration Druid, Mistweaver Monk, and much more. All of these classes have different talents and abilities that allow them to do AoE healing or in other cases healing over time, like the Restoration Druid.

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