Hey there.
I’ve made a Druid, some year ago, he is 34 at the moment, and I wanted to try level him up for some healing in PvP. Of three dungeon runs I have been kicked twice! First was when tank pulled boss when I had 10% mana (after a massive pull from dps and said tank). Then one time when everything seemed to go nice, although slow as dps was not top notch, but that didn’t bother me that much. I just had two deaths, as two dps managed to get locked out of the bosses room with extra mobs they had pulled.
I admit, I am not the best healer out there, I have lot to learn, but if over half my dungeon runs will be like this I don’t see the point. Please say it gets better in Shadowlands!
Doesn’t sound like it can get any worse, so only ways up right?
Ehehehe “nervous laugh…”
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feral it is then 
I feel the weight coming off my shoulders already.
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This is one of the things you should learn if you start healing, managing your mana restoration in those 2-3 seconds the party in lfg gives you. You should have mana restoration consumables on your bar and know when to sit and drink. This generally should happen every time as soon as you get out of combat (if your mana is below 60%) and you should continue drinking until the tank drops to 50%. Always ask a mage for table. Spamming oom macro is 5 times out of 6 useless, get used to this.
Dps dies dps fault, tank dies healer’s fault. Macro a /rude emote and use it on those who tell you otherwise.
They didn’t give me one second to drink, we where in combat the whole time from a massive pull, where I had to heal a “tanking” rogue to jumping from the roof down to boss in freehold (the pirates) And they took so much damage…
I have always consumables in case I need to drink, but usually I don’t have to though, mana is hardly ever a problem.
Bad groups happen too, in SL you’ll probably have to deal with some 60s blasting through the dungeon rather than having to heal so intensely that you go oom.
A mistake. Rogues can facetank just fine by themselves… for 8 seconds at least.
No.
If tank dies it’s tank’s fault. The main reasons for a tank to die is overpulling (being cocky or clueless), not using his defensives properly, failing at mechanics or not interrupting/cc’ing.
For the OP, the best way to learn healing is watching tutorials and then practicing in dungeons.
You’ll eventually develop an immunity to DPS or Tank idiots, it just takes some time so don’t give up 
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i was leveling a druid healer takes like 20 seconds to find a group in LFG 
but if u do it as dps it can be even 20 mins …
I got kicked from one the other day - it was a low level dungeon and I literally told the tank I was picking up the intro quests… he charged in like a crazy person and blamed it on me of course 
I swiftly changed to shadow after that hahaha
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I havnt had this happen to me yet but im biased and people seem to thinm im way better than I am.
Sadly the blame game never goes away
It certainly makes my already great respect for healers, that manage to stick to their ungrateful role, even higher.
Thanks for advice and support, I will try to harden my skin and keep healing
The best way to dungeonlevel a healer is to befriend and team up with tanks. First then will every run go smoother. Got a DPS pulling ahead? Kick him. A DPS started a vote kick against you? Your tank can stop that, and you can kick the DPS out instead.
Your groups were incompetent. Sorry that they kicked you for it, but that’s unfortunately the nature of the beast these days.
I’m not sure who these raging toxic players are; I can’t guess a demographic for them, but they are common, and they will blame anyone but themselves.
Tbh, my advice is to find yourself a dungeoning/levelling community. Maybe investigate the community recruitment forums. Community groups will rarely have leavers or kickers.
Expect very long queues… like 30+ minutes per dungeon. DPS don’t get the easy ride healers and tanks do, you’ll spend a lot of time questing in the world just fill in the downtime.
Here’s a very informative manual to healing:
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Just a clarification to this. A tank death isnt always the tanks fault. Sometimes dps over pull resulting in the tanks death, and they usually get unfairly blamed. And sometimes it is the healers fault the tank dies as they could have been too focused on doing something else (ive been the healer doing this)
it’s usually not that bad. there’s a decent amount of idiots (like ppl who kick a lv30 lock because he didn’t use CR) but assuming you know how to heal, you’ll rarely have issues and most dungeons are just fast farm runs
I leveled around 3 Healers through solely Dungeons, and it just gets progressively worse with the scaling that tries to “level out” players among the 50 levels. Watch for the expansion you choose to level in, since the chance of coming across people who blame you for the crazy over-scaled damage is going to be very high.
Edit to add that it’s better in Shadowlands itself, although you will have to be fine with only four Dungeons to do.
Scaling is heavily messed up in levelling dungeons and some tanks/healers don’t realise this. I’ve had to explain a few times to people that their awesome tank/healer dps is a product of bad scaling.
If somebody dies its never their fault, its always the healers or the tanks.
Don’t give up OP you can do it! Druid healers rely on hots a lot. In my own experience the easiest class to learn healing on for me was a shaman.