I wouldn’t call it complicated anymore, but it’s the only spec that still retains snapshotting and then there’s the energy management. It can be punishing.
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Complicated/Punishing =/= High apm
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Impaired, maybe. Inept? Not necessarily. They may be absolutely capable within the confines of the criteria they have presented. Things like lining up cooldowns (which came up earlier in the thread) is a matter of awareness, WoW isn’t Guitar Hero. = P
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Don’t listen to people telling you to play healer, as resto shaman I’ve over 30+ key binds that are used regular.
If you want an easy to use caster, pick boomy, if you want an easy melee, pick ret pally.
Take a look at the razor tatarus, you can set the stick up for movement, then have your rotation etc all on one hand, it’s a bit weird to start with but i’ve seen others do it.
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I mean, if you can use 24 (+ 6ish for mousewheel + shift modifier) keybinds on the mouse and maybe bind a couple of keys on the keyboard that you can still use with your left hand without too much hassle you can fit a lot of keys. I’d say that would be enough to play Holy Paladin or Disc Priest.
They do need to enjoy actually playing a healer (and that specific spec), but I wouldn’t say it’s impossible to do for “low ability count” specs like HPal 
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druid guardian
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Show me where you’ve played a healer in any semi competitive area?
Last week with explosives you have to kill 3 explosives, dispel a party member, purge a mob, and oh, heal the party. Just like a dps, there are most certainly times when you spam buttons.
Shame you can’t follow your own advice.
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I meant for low keys and LFR/Normal raid content specifically, since OP asked for those things before
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Well he also talks about keybinds, of which a shaman has a bazillion compared to some others.
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For low keys, you only need to press interrupt, 2 healing spells, and blood lust. As a dps, he will be measured by his damage, and that’s not good imo, when his hand doesn’t work well.
I’m not denying, that healer gets difficult for higher content, but in lower content, it’s less Button Spam than any other role with highlight on spamming buttons vs pressing the correct key every 5-10 sec
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By that standard an arcane mage just has to press arcane blast and arcane barrage.
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No, because you will be doing 50% of the damage of your tank that way, and slow the group down. In low keys, healer dps isn’t required, so you don’t have to spam any buttons
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But its ok to suggest that he does 50% of the healing of a tank with your 
suggestion?
I love your consistency.
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Are you trying to be funny, Onimaru? Healers are expected to DPS as well as healing, which definitely is not compatible with OPs desire for a low APM function with low amount of keybinds.
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Yes, because in a low key, it simply doesn’t matter. If he just interrupts, and does low APM supportive, but thoughtful abilities, he’ll be fine, whereas as a dps, he needs to spam his dps rotation
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So if its a low key why does it matter if he does less damage than the tank headbutting arcane blast?
You can’t even see the how crap your logic is.
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night fae assassination with deeper strategem and poison bomb is classic low apm assa
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Because everyone watches details for damage, and nobody does for healing in low keys. You think way too short. Sorry but I don’t really care about your healer ego, I’m gonna end it here with this topic
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I give in, you’re just dragging everyone down to your level and beating us with experience.
Your advice is garbage, I’ll leave the OP to either go with you, the lone voice or everyone else in the thread, that to a man disagree with you.
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No, Dejarous is correct. The blamestorming will always point towards the healer when something goes wrong. And specifically in low keys people will mess up (or simply ignore) mechanics because you can just heal through them, creating extra stress for the healer and ultimately blaming the healer if they’re not carrying them through their own incompetence.
So yes, especially in low keys you need to play at your best because it’s in low keys where you will get those monkey groups that play with one finger up their nose and only half a brain.
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