Are there no more just pure healing classes now? I’m not a fan of having to do any form of DPS if I were to heal a group/raid.
Roll holy priest and pretend your an angel who cant harm anything or anyone! Success! 
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I’ve never understood that stance.
“Oh, the party isn’t taking damage and we’re in a boss burn phase, guess I’ll browse Tiktok”.
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Dont DPS then. Increase the difficulty of what you are doing such that you spend less time AFKing and more time healing.
DONE. 
The point here is that the game is made in such a way now that a lot of healing specs require a level of DPS to generate heals.
I’m not sure when this change happened but when I used to play back in Cata, that wasn’t the case, the point now is that the answer to your question is no.
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Don’t be ridiculous… I browse these forums.
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Mmmm… which healing specs ? MW and Disc ?
You can choose from 4 more that do not.
I tried healing as a shaman, pala and monk at various points in DF and all seemed to require some level of DPS. I was looking at guides, so unless they were all wrong and I missed the point, in my experience I couldn’t find a way to just be using healing abilities in fights.
but holy priest is the healer with the highest dps… kek
holy pala get stuff from dpsing as well, and even holy priest gets a healing benefit for dpsing as well.
Evokers fire breath is a very strong heal as well
the only healer who gets nothing is resto druid and shaman afaik
Both of them are probably also the best choice if you dont want to dps at all.
For shaman throwing down healing raind will do most passive dps
resto druid, well you could throw a moonfire or sunfire here and there and just heal for moderate effect.
They are not wrong. But you did miss the point.
The guides are written by the “pros” for the “pros”. In high keys DPS of a healer can be useful. But for lower than a +12 or so? Not required. In fact, if you play keys with your RShaman that are lower than a 12 I strongly recommend a different talent build than the one mentioned in the guides.
I have proven many times that I am correct. If you want the details, I can give them to you if you want. But the TLDR of the two important changes I would do are:
- Get rid of all DPS talents (like the talent Acid Rain) and focus on healing talents.
- Get rid of all proactive healing talents (like PWave) and take reactive healing talents.
And this is because the damage profile of a +12 and above is totally different than a 11+ and below. In addition, healer DPS constitutes between 5% and 10% of overall DPS in a key (5% in the case of shaman, 10% in the case of DPriest). In low keys, the DPS provide more than enough to time the key. My 5% wont change a thing. In high keys DPS is tight. So you could argue that you do need a boost in overall DPS.
There are only 2 exceptions to this rule, which are MW and DPriest. Where Ancent Teachings and Atonement are built into the healer rotation, so as you say, they are specs that “have to” DPS to heal. But everyone else ? Its an option. Not a requirement.
Makes sense ?
Even the guides on wowhead present raid builds without that talent, so people can safely skip it if they only want to heal. It is present in m+ guides because DPS is expected there from healers as well, even if you don’t generate healing from it (and because the talent is more competitive than reducing rewind cooldown in dungeons when it comes to pathing further down the tree).
well people follow guides blindly, especially people like the op.
anyways, if even pressing 1 button is too much for dps every 30s, then i dont know
Makes sense ye. I’d never be doing that content so if I ever pop back onto my Shaman to heal, I’ll reach out to you for tips
It would be a pleasure. Just PM me or something.
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What I should have said, is that I don’t like having to do damage to be able to do healing towards a person. If there is no healing needed to be done, then sure fire away.
I just miss the old healing from back in the day.
For shaman at least you dont need to do damage to be able to heal 
It is present because 80% of the damage done into healing of a max rank fire breath on 5 target is a lot of healing. I can make a tank go back to full HP that way. And a good manteinance hot if you send it out R1.
You also want to go for LifebSpark and so you take Lifeforce Mender which buff FB again giving you more healing with LGF.
Also PresEvo might want to consider energy loop for getting mana back during down time.
You can avoid spamming LF if you hate dpsing so much but FB and Disintegrate are actually helping you heals or your mana, so i would not pass on them so easily.
Same as using Deep Breath as an extra stun.
Oh okay that is better then.
evoker only has Firebreath as such interaction (with a talent), and is a button you would press pretty much anyway to do damage, you can put it out at rank 1, for fastest charge, and leave it as an extra manteinance heal.
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