Heyaa!!
I was wondering if anyone’s been playing most of the healers in m+, how would you rate them in terms of difficulty?
(Taking tuning out of discussion, let’s imagine a parallel universe where the current healers with their bis covenant would do exactly the same overall dps and would have the same hps capacity)
Holy Priest is the most difficult, by a mile. Unfortunately, only the most enlightened among us may perceive this truth.
No?
Holy priest is face roll. The group can mess up hard and you can pull through easily compared to a disc priest or holy paladin, especially if they’re venthyr. All you have to remember is to keep fc at 5 stacks.
And here I was trying to make a disc alt… I guess I’ll just move to holy for the hardcore stuff :^)
Joke aside, atm I main resto and have a hpal and a disc as alts, and for me it’d look this:
resto < disc < pally
but I’m just trying to guess since it’s a pretty big io difference between them, that’s why I was wondering
I’ve healed as resto shaman, holy paladin, holy priest and resto druid up to at least +15.
I’ve tried disc and my brain explodes at how the spec plays. Definitely the hardest out of those I’ve played, with paladin coming second. Shaman is the easiest closely followed by holy priest.
Thanks!
As I said, I’m probably feeling that disc is easier than pally because disc is at 10s and pally is at 15s, but I’ve thought it’s fair since disc is ilvl220 and pally is ilvl233.
That is with paladin as venthyr, if paladin is kyrian pally’s way easier than disc.
I’m different, I always found disc quite easy to play. Doesn’t mean I thought it was any good in keys but that wasn’t the question.
Paladin and Disc are prolly the hardest Imo.
Both require a lot of aggressive usage of CDs while still planning for specific moments where to use them, so sometimes, especially in uncoordinated group can be really tricky.
Shaman easiest 
For my personal gameplay shaman are the hardest, I never played a shaman ever seriously, so I always feel like “oh wait I could have used this, and this and this, omg i am crap at this class” and go back to something else but would love to play it at some point 
Haha yes. Shaman is a comfort pick for me 
But i also think Shaman is easier than Pala, Monk, Druid and Disc. I have no idea about holy priest. Never played it. Understood it is a top healer without any utility.
Holy is a pick i can play really comfy with.
For shaman i think it’s a mix of too many totems, effect that requires placing and a general overbloat of my key binds.
Holy priest is God on grievous weeks(like this week), at least up to and at ksm level. You basically have to slack really hard to struggle with grievous as a holy priest or your group is basically throwing by standing in every possible avoidable damage.
In pugs, or pre-made? With which affixes? Because the list will be quite different based on that.
In general, holy priest can pump huge heals, and is very easy to play. All you need to do is maintain your legendary (but omg, doing that is annoying). It’s an easy, safe pick. But mighty annoying to play, and the damage output is bad. Resto shaman is also fairly easy to play, can pump some large heals, you don’t have to maintain an annoying legendary (because all your good M+ legendaries are DPS leggos), and does nice damage, especially if Kyrian. Both of these perform well in pugs and pre-mades alike. Holy Paladin is easy to get started with, if you go Kyrian - but it’s harder to master than the other two, and Venthyr is a no-no for pugging, unless you vastly overgear the content.
When it comes to the other healers, pugs aren’t your friends then: mistweaver is melee, and that always makes healing more difficult. It’s also a healer that can pump big heals, but at the cost of huge chunks of mana. Not a great thing in pugs when you have to spot heal mistakes. Resto druid is hard to master, because you heal before damage comes in, so you need to know the patterns, and expect them. It’s kinda terrible in pugs when people take random avoidable damage 24/7. Disc priest is similar, but has even less tools than druid to top people off. Mind you, disc is pretty nice to pug with, as long as it’s not grievous week. For grievous week, you go holy.
Now, for premades, the list is different, a bit! Resto Shaman is amazing for that: still easy to play, and does good both on the healing and damage front. Holy priest is still easy to play, but falls behind shaman quite a bit, because of the legendary annoyance, and doing less damage. Holy Paladins are usually coerced into going Venthyr for premades, and playing Venthyr Holy Paladin is hard. It’s rewarding whenever Ashen is up, but otherwise its pure pain and suffering, so Venthyr Holy Paladin goes to the bottom of the list, as far as ease goes. Disc priest, however, I’d put behind shaman when it comes to premades (except on grievous weeks, when it falls down to the very bottom, and then gets buried even further), because when the party takes less random damage, disc is a whole lot easier to play, and also a whole lot more fun.
My own rankings, based on what I find easy or hard, based on my own experience (mistweaver in BfA, up to +20s; resto druid and venthyr hpal in SL S1 up to +18-19s; resto shaman in SL S2 up to +21s; disc priest in SL S2 up to +17-18s, holy priest in SL S2 up to 16-17s), from easiest to hardest in premades (where I primarily play):
Resto shaman > disc priest > holy priest > resto druid > mistweaver > hpal (venthyr).
However, this is my own experience, after having played the respective specs for quite a bit. When I started out, and was new to the respective classes, it was rather different: holy priest > mistweaver > hpal (kyrian) > shaman > resto druid > disc priest.
This guy in a run messages me about the tank “not taunting” when healing a dungeon on my druid, when what he died to was avoidable damage, lol. At least he didn’t blame me for it, that’s a start. He went from 100% to dead in 2 seconds and his reaction is that the tank isn’t taunting and he thinks he got aggro rather than thinking he took damage from something he shouldn’t have(It was an interruptable spell, his interrupt was off CD, tanks interrupt was on CD, the tank was in fact the only one interrupting).
Some (mind you, single pull) packs were hell because only the tank was interupting, pushing 15k hps and people are still dropping because the dps aren’t interrupting/stunning nor using any defensives, lol.
In this case, hardest to easiest imo:
But if we take SL as it is now + personal bias it would be:
I’ve always been a holy pala main and I don’t play other healers so I really wouldn’t know but I find the current meta of Holy Pala not too hard. It’s basically a front-line melee healer with a shield so it fits the class fantasy.
I’m currently leveling a shaman so I might try a bit of healing when it gets to a higher lvl. In BfA I did try a holy priest but found it a bit boring.
Holy priest in BFA was so bad if you didn’t have permeating glow on your azerite gear for m+. Basically went from playing the game on hardmode if you had no permeating glow on any pieces to ezmode if you had permeating glow on all 3 pieces.
Heh, I remember the same thing about the Glimmer trait for Holy Pala
Glimmer + ineffable truth. 