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what would be the best healer to get into right now? haven’t played in a little
What content? Hpriest for pvp, no clue for pve. Could go for mw too if into that.
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ah yeah, mythic+ mostly
What is your previous experience with healing? I find resto shaman to be a good beginner friendly healer.
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Rsham has micro management with totems and a lot binds and you would need figure some help/harm macros to alleviate that or use some pve healing addon. Mw are strong in pvp and fairly easy to jump on as new for healing same as hpala. Rdruid is likely hardest when it comes to figuring out forms and stuff like macros and so on, from priests both holy and disc are fairly simple. Look up power levels of these healers somewhere if that matters for you and then just decide which interests you the most I would say. Priests are very good in general on multiple content and have two healing specs as slight advantage for future continuinity with tuning changes in mind.
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rsham seems interesting, i’ve only tanked
Shaman, hands down. Very pug friendly in that it has a lot of “oops stuff happened” tools.
Holy priest is simple but not a pug pleaser.
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Well rsham has imo strongest theme but thats opinional preference. If you dont mind having a lot keybinds definitely go for shaman. On aesthetics and theme they are by far my favorite
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I’m not a healer main and don’t really play healer a whole lot, I mostly do raids and did low end M+ on my healers.
I have played Holy Pala, Holy priest, MW and out of those Holy priest is easiest from a very new healer perspective.
Now, the most fun is Holy Pala but I think it’s not doing great these last couple of seasons.
I vote Shaman.
Reason is having Bloodlust is gonna get you more invites than anything and it’s a “simple” healer in terms of “damage happened so I press button” rather than requiring game knowledge to play proactively.
There’s a lof of keybinds but those are utility, your main healing and damage buttons are 3 of each.
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I wouldnt worry too much about too many buttons for rsham, you dont HAVE to pick all the utility to start doing m+. Start with what you feel comfortable with and then add to it as you learn the basics.
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If it helps, when I eased myself into healing during Dragonflight, I found holy priest the easiest to understand - but I don’t know how much the hero talents change things up.
I do think it’s important to play whatever is the most fun for you though so with Timewalking (and thus easy alt leveling) incoming it might be worth trying a couple of other healers as well to see what you think.
whenever i tell people that i am holy priest .people start sneezing and coughing
I like it over disc, its also actually really strong right now in pvp. Its a lot of fun.
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Thats great to know
The wings theme fit it well, nothing can die when one watches over you 
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For M+, RShaman hands down. Get the addon VooDoh and you are all set.
My recomended build is this:
https://www.wowhead.com/talent-calc/shaman/restoration/totemic/DARBVUUFFEFFUBRFBRFUDBAANVRVVRUVRFQRlBDAAAEFVVUCBA
Minimum buttons. Just the 101 of what you need to get started. Once you get the hang of it, you can go to wowhead yourself and check out the cookie cutter builds.
Step 1: Get VooDoh. Since you say you havent healed before, I will breefly explain what it does.
What VooDoh does is create a party frames that you can move. And it automatically allows you to keybind spells so that when you click on the party frames it casts something to them with out having to target them. Also, it will show you who has earth shield on, and if someone has a debuff you can dispell it will also show up clearly.
Step 2: Keybinds
- You want to keybind these spells to the mouse (Left Click, Right Click, Shift + LC, Shift + RC):
Riptide, Healing Surge, Chain Heal. You main 101 should be spamming riptide on CD all the time. Then Healing Surge to heal 1 guy. Chain heal to heal more than 1 guy.
- Keybind these spells to the 1234 bars:
Surging Totem, Healing Stream. You want to cast those 2 totems on CD basically.
- Some easy to reach keybind (like R, F, T… ect…) for these spells:
Ghost Wolf. Gust of Wind. (both mobility). Dispell. Kick. Astral Shift (deff CD).
Everything else you can simply put in a bar and click on demand if you want to. But the above is the bare minimum.
Step 3: Profit.
On my recomended build there is a talent where Earth Shield no logner looses charges. Its not competitive for endgame content, but its really good for beginner builds.
Put earth shield on yourself and on the tank at the beginning of the M+ run (as well as earthliving weapon, the shield buff, ect…) and then forget about them for the rest of the run. Like DPS buffs basically.
And with that, you are ready to go. And the gameplay is easy. Its a “whackamole” of HP bars moving up and down during a dungeon. Thats IT.
If you decide on RShaman and try it out, feel free to come back and ask questions. There are a few really good RShamans in the forums.
I’d say disc priest since the rework/talent pruning, especially Oracle Disc. You’ve enough oh hekk! buttons to respond and you can fire off 3-4 Pennance in a row if you line up your Pieties properly. Oh, and your Pen can DPS AND Heal (outside attunement) at the same time!
Stronk AoE attunement healing, short cooldowns, longer attunements and beefier shields. Good for PuGs.
Disclaimer: This is the opinion of a very mid at best healer, so opinions might be bad
As others did too, I’d recommend Shaman as a beginner friendly healer. The type of healing is very straightforward. Point at people who are hurt and they will feel better. Shaman comes with a lot of useful utility that you can actually grow into. You do not need all the bells and whistles for low keys but cna gradually increase the number of buttons you use as you grow more comfortable with the class.
I would, however, also include Holy Priest in the list of specs to recommend, simply because its entire toolkit revolves around healing people. The spec definitely has its issues, but to pick up and play it feels very comfortable and easy to play until mid keys. Once you learn more about damage patterns you might consider switching to Discipline. But in general Holy has an incredibly low skill floor and is pretty easy to go forward with. Holy doesn’t bring any utility over Disc or Shadow, so the spec’s only real benefit is its healing.
As for other classes/specs:
- Holy Paladin: I’d say stay clear of Paladins. Their talents are a hot mess and I think both hero talent trees just serve to convolute the experience without improving it. Holy also doesn’t bring any noteworthy utility over Ret or Prot
- Mistweaver Monk: Very fun class, also a very capable class in terms of sheer throughput. Monks can pump. However, it is still a melee spec and you have to be comfortable with healing your group while dodging boss mechanics. Also, some mechanics that force you out of melee can get rather challenging for obvious reasons. Monks in general don’t have useful raid buffs for M+, and Mistweaver doesn’t bring any utility over BrM or WW. The only reason to bring a MW Monk is because of their throughput and damage, basically.
- Discipline Priest: Very powerful, but also a very high skill floor. You need to know when damage spikes occur in order to prepare for it. Also more dependant on your group playing well over other healers. This is mainly due to a very limited catch-up toolkit if things go badly. Can be very satisfying to play, but also very frustrating. The upside is that if you want a smooth and easy ride in low and mid keys you can always go Holy. Decent utility by bringing a lot of damage mitigation and obviously PI.
- Resto Druid: No idea. I haven’t played Resto since Legion
- PrEvoker: Probably a bad choice for a beginner healer in PUGs. Higher skill floor and a dependancy for the group to position themselves in a way that enables you to heal them with directional healing spells. Not even sure if they are any good at the moment, you rarely see them anymore.
So, TL,DR:
- Shaman if you are up to learn about using its utility and grow into the class.
- Holy Priest if you want a smooth ride in the early days and feel like you might enjoy the challenge of playing Disc at some point.
- Play Mistweaver if you like Kung Fu boxing mobs to heal friends.
- Don’t play Paladin or Evoker unless you really enjoy pain
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As a casual, trying out all healers, I do find Rsham to be the most simple to understand.
The issue is the 5 billion keybinds, but I’m slowly adjusted to that