Weekly report 25-29 June 2026: Shield WP in scenarios
I am still testing Shield WP in scenarios. This week I used a shorter format and focused on the combined data.
For this report I used:
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Level 40
WP damage >= 10% of the average damage of active DPS players in the same scenario
Minimum of 4 valid scenarios
Manual removal of confirmed false positives
I use the 10% threshold because I do not want to remove games where the WP was playing shield but had low melee uptime, was kited, or could not generate RF efficiently. This filter does not prove high melee uptime; it only removes cases that look too much like Book WP or have no real melee activity.
My own data is included in the global Shield WP comparison, but I am not separating it as a personal section in this post.
Build note
I have been testing the build Demonito mentioned. Honestly, I do not like it very much.
The main issue is
Pious Restoration. It still consumes too much RF for the healing it provides. In practice, it only feels useful when I am not engaged in melee, or to cast it just before entering combat.
Once you are already fighting, RF is too important for
Sigmar’s Will /
Divine Assault, and Pious Restoration directly competes with those heals. Very often, the RF cost does not feel worth it.
Shield WP sample
These are the Shield WPs that meet the filter. Names are anonymized.
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Player SC RR Win% Heal/min Heal others/min Prot others Prot received Deaths Res Self prot %
Kpihuss 39 90 43.6 15.90k 11.83k 8.85k 21.76k 1.44 1.05 63.3%
Rxxxxx 20 90 25.0 16.49k 13.26k 8.27k 16.93k 0.55 0.65 64.7%
Sxxxxxxxx 29 83 65.5 8.45k 6.04k 22.52k 33.39k 2.14 0.24 54.9%
Rxxxxxx 5 52 40.0 8.30k 6.20k 8.58k 12.49k 1.40 0.20 52.3%
There are clearly different profiles here.
Kpihuss and Rxxxxx are the stronger healing profiles. Sxxxxxxxx looks more like a protection/absorb profile, probably using the shield prayer instead of the healing prayer.
I would not present that protection as a direct advantage. It is not free extra value. It is a tradeoff: more absorption/protection, but much less useful healing.
Combined Shield WP result
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SCs: 93
Players: 4 (of 548 WP reviewed on the weekend)
Average RR: 85.8
Winrate: 46.2%
Heal/min: 13.30k
Heal others/min: 10.03k
Protection to others: 12.97k
Protection received: 23.85k
Deaths: 1.46
Resurrections: 0.67
Damage vs average active DPS: 35.9%
Kill damage vs average active DPS: 30.0%
Self-protection over total protection: 59.0%
Compared against other healers in the same scenarios:
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Heal/min: 76.5% of other healers
Heal others/min: 65.6% of other healers
Protection to others: 106.3% of other healers
Protection received: 272.8% of other healers
Deaths: 186.0% of other healers
Resurrections: 80.0% of other healers
The protection number needs context. Protection to others being slightly above other healers does not automatically mean the spec is outperforming them. Part of that value likely comes from using the shield prayer instead of the healing prayer.
So this is better read as a profile shift:
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Less useful healing
More absorption/protection
Much higher external protection received
More deaths
I also separated the comparison by RR bracket, using 10-level ranges. Only brackets where the Shield WP sample has valid entries are shown.
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RR Shield SC Other healer entries Heal/min Heal others/min Prot others Prot received Deaths
50-59 5 31 72.6% 64.1% 81.6% 116.0% 111.3%
80-89 29 213 42.2% 33.6% 170.6% 470.7% 450.9%
90+ 59 3 69.1% 59.3% 89.5% 88.9% 113.6%
This compares the filtered Shield WP sample against Order healers from the same scenarios.
The Shield WP rows are excluded from the class averages.
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Group Entries Players Avg RR Heal/min Heal others/min Prot others Prot received Deaths Res
Shield WP sample 93 4 85.8 13.30k 10.03k 12.97k 23.85k 1.46 0.67
Book WP healers 50 30 74.6 16.52k 14.22k 14.21k 10.12k 0.84 0.80
Archmage 57 30 76.2 20.37k 18.70k 4.73k 4.23k 0.51 1.18
Rune Priest 59 36 75.3 16.47k 14.59k 21.48k 8.37k 1.14 1.08
Relative performance of the Shield WP sample:
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Compared to Heal/min Heal others/min Prot others Prot received Deaths Res
Book WP healers 80.5% 70.5% 91.3% 235.6% 174.1% 83.3%
Archmage 65.3% 53.7% 274.1% 564.3% 287.4% 56.7%
Rune Priest 80.7% 68.8% 60.4% 285.0% 128.8% 61.5%
The general tradeoff still looks questionable:
- Useful healing to others remains clearly below other healers.
- Protection to others can go up, especially with the shield prayer, but that comes at the cost of healing. It is not a good deal.
- Protection received is much higher than another healers.
- Deaths are much higher than another healers.
- A large part of total protection is still self-protection.
- Damage remains far below real DPS output.
