Healer Tier List

The list scores the buffs and debuffs each build brings in its Trial setup, the same way as the tank tier list. Each effect earns value × weight × uptime points, and a category's points are added up.

• Value is the effect's Impact from the Buffs & Debuffs reference: Minor Berserk is 5 points for 5% more damage, Major Protection is 10 for 10% less damage taken. Effects without a damage percentage get the fixed values listed below.
• Weight is how much of that value really lands. Capped stats like Critical Damage and Penetration are worth less, since groups often hit the cap anyway.
• Uptime is how much of a trial boss fight the effect is up. Two sources of the same effect don't stack, so the effect counts as up whenever either source is.
• Overall is 60% group + 25% enemy + 15% your own kit, times the build's trial demand below.
• Major Force counts for 25% of its points. Since Update 51, Force potions give it to every damage dealer.
• Tiers:S 90+A 75+B 60+C below 60

Trial demand

The Templar and the Warden are the healers a trial wants most. The overall score keeps this share of its points:

Effect weights

Effects not listed here count in full.

Major Maim	×0.9	Only the debuffed enemy's damage, but on a boss that's most of it.
Major Berserk, Minor Berserk	×0.9	Uncapped, but adds to other damage done bonuses rather than multiplying.
Minor Brutality, Minor Courage, Powerful Assault	×0.8	Adds to a large Weapon Damage pool, and damage dealers often self-buff Major Brutality.
Major Breach, Minor Breach, Exploitation	×0.6	Penetration caps at the boss's 18,200 armor. Groups usually reach it with Crusher, Alkosh, Tremorscale and CP, so extra is wasted.
Major Force	×0.5	Critical Damage caps at 125%. Groups reach it easily with Lucent Echoes, Force, Brittle and passives.
Minor Evasion	×0.5	Only area damage, but that's much of what kills damage dealers.
Off Balance	×0.3	Only damage dealers who slot Exploiter benefit, and the boss goes immune to Off Balance for 15 seconds after each one.

Uptime rules

Fixed values

These effects have no damage percentage, so they get a judgement-call value in the same points. Healing done counts for half its percentage: it matters, but the list measures what the group gets.

Pillager's Profit	4	Every Ultimate you cast gives Ultimate to up to 11 others: more Barriers, Horns and Colossi for the whole raid.
Minor Vitality	2	6% more healing and shields received, half of Major Vitality.
Minor Toughness	3	10% Max Health for the group: survives one-shot mechanics, not every hit.
Off Balance	10	Damage dealers with the Exploiter Champion Point deal 10% more damage to an Off Balance boss.
Weakening	2	The boss deals about 3% less damage while it's Weakened: a little less healing needed, not a damage buff.
Minor Lifesteal	2	600 Health a second for each attacker: steady healing for damage dealers, not mitigation.
Major Brutality	4	20% more Spell Damage for you, which your heals and shields scale from.
Major Savagery	3	More Critical Chance, so more crit heals.
Major Mending	8	16% more healing done, worth half its percentage (see above).
Minor Mending	4	8% more healing done, worth half its percentage.
Above and Beyond	5	25% more Critical Damage and Critical Healing, with a higher cap: much bigger crit heals.
Bastion of Light	3	A heal every second while you stand in Sacred Ground, and a little Ultimate when it finds you at full Health.
Booming Voice	3	Health, Magicka and Stamina Recovery after each Ultimate: sustain for a healer who casts a lot of them.
Sphere of Influence	2	A small extra shield and recovery on each shield you give.
Veil's Forfeit	0	Its value is the longer Major Vulnerability, counted under enemy debuffs.
Tundra's Maw	0	Its value is the Major Brittle, counted under enemy debuffs.
Major Cowardice	2	430 less Weapon/Spell Damage barely moves monster damage.
Minor Cowardice	1	215 less Weapon/Spell Damage.
Major Fortitude	3	30% Health Recovery: steady healing, not mitigation.
Minor Fortitude	1.5	15% Health Recovery.
Minor Intellect	1.5	15% Magicka Recovery.
Minor Endurance	1.5	15% Stamina Recovery.
Major Heroism	4	3 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds: more Colossus, Horn and Barrier casts.
Minor Heroism	1.5	1 Ultimate every 1.5 seconds.
Major Expedition	1	Movement speed only.
Major Vitality	4	12% more healing and shields received, about a third as strong as 12% less damage.
Bright Harbinger	3.4	300 Weapon and Spell Damage for the group while Illuminate is up, valued like any other damage buff.
Share the Spoils	3	Ultimate, Magicka and Stamina for the group on Siphoning casts.
Siphoning Attacks	4	Sustain: 200 Magicka and Stamina a second (more than Minor Intellect and Endurance together) plus 1,250 Health a second while you deal damage.
Transfer	2	About 1 Ultimate a second from Transfer and Catalyst, half of Major Heroism.
Budding Seeds	2	A strong group heal over time that blooms for a burst; tanks rarely bring group healing.

What it doesn't capture

• Raw healing isn't scored. Every build runs the same Restoration Staff kit, so throughput differences come mostly from the class heals, which a group rarely runs short of.
• Dungeons aren't scored. The Dungeon setups swap in Banner Bearer, Trample and Spell Power Cure, which every class gets the same way, and the two dungeon-only healers sit apart above.
• Two healers share a trial, so in practice you pair builds whose buffs don't overlap, for example a Dragonknight with a Warden.
• Gear is swappable. The scores use each build's default sets, and the gear picker changes what you bring.