Nah high tyrannical keys are extremely challenging as healer, no person here on forums could heal a +20 now even with 4 people from Echo in group.
Find someone (or a group) of likeminded individuals that help each other to learn doing things right.
Aka, known as âCommunitiesâ.
If you struggle to find people, as mentioned above:
- Find communities : chill/learner
- Heal in bg 10-15 people
- Find a learnerâs guild
- Gear up via all the available events (it helps a lot to have medium lvl gear)
- Run LFR and normal raids
With these you should be able to learn the class and then you can start ramping up in M0. With the gear itâs not too much of an issue, but with lower gear youâll struggle.
One last piece of advice, if you see any toxic person before starting a group, just leave donât bother. Youâll find a group in few minutes, its not worth the pain.
Iâll give my 2 cents.
Iâd say harmless content (heroics, timewalking, LFR) is good for the beginning. Just to make sure your UI is comfortable, you see everything you need and all your keybinds, macros work properly.
Iâve never dabbled with healbot or vuhdo, I use standard blizzard frames with the BigDebuffs addon and heal with mouseover/target help/harm macros like this:
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Flash Heal; [@mouseover,harm,nodead] [harm] Smite; Flash Heal
This can reduce the amount of your keybindings significantly.
You can find lots of useful macros here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/useful-macro-templates/42937
As others mentioned, completing Proving Grounds is a good idea for practice. Maybe follower dungeons would work as well but I have no experience with that.
After that, itâs just practice. Simply get in and heal.
He is already usling Clique, so he does not really need custom macros. He can just configure riptide on 1 in clique and put flame shock on 1 on his actionbars.
Which is why i am prefering clique a lot myself too 
It is so easy to setup without the need of macros.
Also those custom macroâs work in the field, so when you have your mouse on player in the field it starts healing, while you probably want to do damage on your selected target. Clique only binds on unit frames, so you do not have that problem. Custom mouseover macroâs limit your mouse movement a lot.
Iâm late to the party but maybe have a couple new points.
I agree, low-pressure environment is key.
So you can start with the basics and keep expanding your toolkit.
If you stick to retail, the good news is, the next expansion comes soon. Learn while leveling (70-80). Low levels are often rushy but current content should be of medium difficulty which is ideal. (You could also 60-70 today, unless there is too much ketchup speeding things up.)
The second option is, quite seriously, to go Classic Era / Cataclysm.
In Era, complexity is minimal. You gradually learn spells, also mana-gement by understanding the cost of healing, the importance of resources. Other players have the same understanding of themselves. That said, finding groups might be slow as well as getting there.
(There is also Season of Discovery but nah.)
In Cataclysm you can level in dungeons from 15 using the dungeon finder. Easy at first then gradually medium. The pace is somewhere between careful Era and modern. You learn your characteristic spells at 10 (instead of 60 in Wrath). Dungeon quests are now mostly inside.
(I learned healing in Alterac Valley. Was fun.)
theres no better way to learn how to heal than horrible groups 
read a quick guide and then by just playing the game.
healing itself is rather easy but the important part on how to use what cooldowns comes only with practise
just emote, ignore them and move on. If they were half as good as they think they are they could play m0 without a healer. If i learnt one thing in WoW it is that the people who insult first are usually the worst players themself.
Thatâs why I use them, I want to be able to heal people out of unit frames.
Occasionally in the open world, mostly in epic BGs, where I want to heal someone by mouseovering them or healing through the Target of Target frame instead of fishing in 40 unit frames.
Random person needs a Life Grip, idk who it is in frames, mouseover->grip.
Can give PI to someone in the open world etc.
It is a pain to setup, true. But I hate the idea of âI couldnât save you cause I didnât have you in my unit framesâ I know it basically doesnât happen but I hate the possibility 
I used to have minimal issues with accidentally healing when I wanted to dps but then I realized I can just hold right-click and dps completely fine.
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No, the default UI mouseover cast enables it for all abilities. I donât want to accidentally fire holy fires at the wrong target because itâs mouseover, I want it to fire at my target.
Had a tank pull khajin before I had time to drink after trash.
âwhy is 60% not enough??â when we wipe to me going oom, boss was nowhere close to dead. Guy was a guardian druid and not even specced into after the wildfire, which is just a âwhat the hell manâ angle.
We went back and killed it when I had 100% mana at the start but wth man, donât pull a boss like that when the healer isnât at full mana, especially not in pugs. The warlock didnât press a single defensive, the mage pressed only his mirror image, of course itâs not enough with 60% mana.
you can learn plenty how healer spec works in leveling dungeons.
especialy in later part of leveling there is quite a lot to heal 
Agreed about HC, NM. Disagree about Mythic but then I am in a guild and have members who are always happy to help.
Another great way to learn or practice your rotations live is maybe to go into random bgâs. I often find that is a great place to learn a new class especially one you have never played before. Just donât take the bg too seriously or the players in any end game content. One has to start somewhere and trust me they were not born with the knowledge of their own class and abilities. They too had to learn.
Hey there, bro. Making the switch from DPS to healing can definitely be a challenge, but donât let those haters get you down. Learning a new role takes time and practice, and nobody becomes a master overnight.
First off, check out some guides and tutorials on healing for your class. Understanding your abilities and how to use them effectively is key. You can also try running some lower difficulty dungeons or even practice healing in battlegrounds where the pressure isnât as high.
Another option is to team up with some friends or guildmates who can support you while you learn. They can give you tips, offer encouragement, and help you navigate those tricky situations.
And hey, donât let the negativity of a few toxic players discourage you. Ignore the hate messages and death threats â those people arenât worth your time. Focus on improving your skills and enjoying the game.
You got this, bro. Keep at it, stay positive, and before you know it, youâll be a healing pro.
Sometimes I do like when this happens.
Keeps you on your toes.
Sure, but in terms of learning its probably more of an advanced lesson. If your first interaction with it is one of those groups youâd probably never heal again.
As a silly example I did a +8 on my main. The overall healing was 65k hps for the tank. 55k hps for the healer.
I did âone of thoseâ +2âs on this priest and I did far over 100k hps because there wasnât an interrupt in sight or a mechanic done well. A person genuinely new to healing wouldnât have coped.
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Thats true
As far as I know the built in mouse-over is not foolproof. My brother, who was playing Prevoker in S1 and S2, had to swap to writing a macro because the built in macro could not handle the dual nature of Living Flame. It either only worked for healing, or for damage, but both at the same time did not work.
The same thing works flawlessly with a properly written mouse-over macro, and I am sure there are a few other spells around which is in the same situation.
But that was in S1 and S2. I am not sure if Blizzard improved on it since then. In the end you can add special conditions and modifiers to your mouse-over macros, while the same does not apply for the built in mouse-over.
If you only really want a basic mouse-over then it serves its purpose, but the moment you want to add something extra to it macros overrule it.
Yeah this is why you want to use Clique, so you can bind holy shock only to unit frames for healing and otherwise it get used on your selected target (can be both enemy or friendly).
Good luck holy shocking your tank with a mouseover in the wild trying to mouse over that player character, while having your mouse close to the mobs. Living flame of the evoker is the same.
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Unfortunately people tend to straight up deny reality when you show them the receipts. In less severe cases, they make excuses. More than once I had people claim the addon got it wrong. And one DHâs excuse for using a single interrupt in an entire run was something like âso what? I stun a lotâ⌠which isnât a reason to not use interrupt in the first place, but I looked, and the majority of his stuns were on spiteful.
How high did you push as DPS? If you know the dungeons properly, you know if the fault is yours and you know where all the damage comes from