Hey, I want to start healing and I don’t really know wich healing class is the best for beginners. If any of you people reading this could maybe try to give me tips for healing it would be great.
Thanks!
Shaman resto or paladin holy are best for beginners. They depend on reactive healing (casting healing spell AFTER damage comes in) so you don’t need to know encounters perfectly.
If you like to jump while playing WoW - pick druid. Little harder since effects of your healing spells aren’t instant so you have to cast them BEFORE damage happens.
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bs. the best healing class for beginnes are resto druids. they are super simple. all you do is spam hots to keep your team up. done.
You can trust me I have been healing with every class ever since wotlk.
Holy paladins have a high learning curve. There is a lot of action involved if you go for glimmer build which is the build to go atm.
You are constantly fighting in melee range right next to the tank to abuse your mastery and reset your holy shock cooldown.
Shaman and Priests. The big issue they have is both are hardcasters. Positioning is key else you wont really get any heal through in m+.
Druids: Spam hots run around in bear form and lolz
Monk: Cant tell since i dont play monks
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In my honest opinion, there is no “best for beginners”.
I was told to roll hunter “because… it’s best for new players”. Worst choice I ever made. I mean, I got to 60 and raided and all that(yeah talking vanilla days here), but looking back it was a a whole lot of things and traps I fell into with that “best for beginners” class.
I rerolled druid btw, which someone else told me I should NOT roll because it was a absolute nightmare to play and I would die so much and blablabla.
My point is, I should have rolled druid from the start, and not the class everyone told me would be better for me.
Anyways, I can’t help you. I just had to rant a bit about there not really being a “best for beginners” class. You need to find the spec that feels right to you.
Personally I prefer druid because I don’t like standing still. I have a thing for jumping around. And I like HoTs and DoTs. If you like that, druid might fit you.
I feel like you’re oversimplifying druids here.
If you just keep hots constantly rolling on your guys, you will run oom. Fact.
You need to know when damage is gonna come in and what to answer it with. You need to choose between hotting ppl up or using your AOE spells. Certain ntskents change your playstyle such as the one that causes lifeblood mto grant haste if on you,as it requires you to swap LB around depending on aoe or not.
Druids aren’t an impossible to learn healer, but they’re not quite as simple and press ur hots and lolz. Good druids can do much more via catweaving as well. Resto druids have a very skill threshold compared to other healers, as they can do a lot more than heal, but the way their healing works can make for some amazing plays.
Holy priests aren’t bad for a beginner. They’re somewhat reactive and have good emergency answers to sudden spikes of damage so you have fallback to use. They’re very versatile and good at healing groups and single targets.
Holy Paladins are reasonably straight forward in basic manner, but as mentioned above they can be played in a very high skill way via certain builds which really increases their throughput but asks much more of them in terms of play. On the basic level though their kit is very simple.
Resto shamans have a reasonably straight forward kit, but their healing kit is potentially quite bloated which can make them more confusing than other healers to know which spell to use when.
Disc priests are nit good for beginners due to how they work. They spend most of their time focusing enemies to heal their allies, and require good prediction of Inc damage to truly flourish. They are bad at playing reactively.
Monks are a versatile healer, they have some excellent single target healing and some good AOE healing too. Their single target healing is very simple to execute. Their AOE healing to be maximised requires monitoring of your Hots and spreading them appropriately to maximise your mana spends. So to play a monk fully there’s some stuff you need to keep an eye on. Also monks are extremely mana hungry when compared to other healers so proper conversation of your mana pool and knowing when each heal is appropriate makes them slightly less noob friendly.
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cant confirm wheen i run m+ i just spam hots where damage is incoming, no issues whatsoever.
Where dmg is incoming, yes of course. If that’s what you meant then discard my other post about druids. I interpreted it as druids simply keep ppl hotted constantly and that’s it.
Generally Priest is the class to go if you want to have more than one healing spec, while still it is suitable for beginners and experienced people.
I would recommend Holy for any player- new or seasoned, it’s an easy spec where you simply heal when players take damage, you don’t have to place heal over time spells on players as much like with other specs. The learning curve and skill to play it is not that high, compared to Discipline.
Discipline is a spec for skilled healers, and the learning curve is pretty high. I would not recommend you to test this spec as your first test in more difficult dungeons or raid environments, my suggestion is to learn the basics with Holy first so you understand how healing is.
And of course to heal competitively you must have a healing addon, which makes it much easier without having to target players, then cast a spell. With healing addons you simply mouse over a player in the addon window and click the mouse-buttons you bound spells to, and you automatically target and cast a heal spell. The two best addons for this is Healbot and Vuhdo.
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Not really.
Many people prefer clique over healbot and vuhdo for its simplicity and lightweight implementation. And then there is also grid which i am using in combination with mouseover macros.
Wrong. There is no need for an addon to perform well anymore. Blizzard fixed their healing UI.
You can use the default UI and mouseover macros.
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I’d say monk.
Just soothing mist on whoever is hurt and rest of heal cd’s become instant.
- great mobility and awesome roundhouse kicks.
I just giggle at Priest hardcaster & Holy paladin having a high learning curve … Holy priest is the easiest healer and i would highly reccomend for a beginner, it was my 2nd healer ( after druid )
Just pick one and try. Level up by healing through dungeons, get to learn the class and spells and utility.
pick one. You’ll have plenty of time to learn the basics of how it works when you join for dungeons during levelup. I’m currently leveling my first ever tank in this game. First game was difficult. Now, i can close my eyes and tank things with ease and will probably suck if i go into a raid and tank things there. But you practice and you learn.
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Yeah, you try that and see how it goes. Must be main dps.
Monks are stupidly easy to heal on, and have near enough no buttons any more lol. 1 HoT on the tank constantly, other HoT on the dps. It even jumps to the most damsged one lol. Then just vivify to heal everyone. They don’t even have a ST and AoE heal, it’s merged into one…
illiterate mage?
If you played till now as a mage I will recommend you the Priest . The classic healer class. You have to choose between two healing specs … for Holy the best races are Void elf , Gnome and Draenei … 
To you two who replied to me: Instead of trying to find/fabricate errors in what others say, try look for some at yourself. You clearly haven’t played WoW long or been serious enough when it comes to difficult content when you write something like that.
Those who have played WoW long enough would know that a healing addon is required if you want to again, play competitively. For less challenging content it is probably doable to use macros with the default UI, but it is far from optimal. Why overcomplicate things, when it can be much simpler with addons?
I’d recommend clique over vuhdo and healbot tbh.
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