What's the hardest healer to play in arena?

After Holy Priest, of course, since it’s basically a PvE spec.

I would say shaman, because to be really good at it you need to pre earthen or pre wall yourself to survive.

You have a lot of utility which are very strong but only when you use it correctly.

I think from all healer’s I’ve seen on stream only shaman felt really hard/skilled to play but also funny to watch (if you know ghostkilla).

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Holy priest is insanely easy to play in 2s btw

Hardest is probably resto druid followed by disc priest

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I actually find shaman to be quite “stress-free” because unlike most healers, nobody’s necessarily doomed if you get CC’d since you have so many forms of external healing in the forms of totems and earth shield, which continue to work and provide healing even if you’re not there hardcasting.

I feel like Mistweaver is the toughest.
It’s the easiest to play, the most straightforward, but it’s overly relient of its raw output since all the CDs are affected by dampening, cocoon can no longer be cast while stunned & nimble brew is gone.
The only trick Mistweaver had going for it was being “that healer that you just cannot interrupt”, but with the GCD on soothing mist…not true any longer.
What you’re left with is a super squishy healer with no CC while stunned that’s now super easy to interrupt.

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Well it’s true only if you play with broken team-mate like dh/dh or ww/dh etc…

But if you play something else then it will be very hard to the sham to play the game if he has no awarness cause you have no panic button like aura mastery.

actually shaman have an ability that gives them silence immunity…

The cooldown is long and it still doesn’t save you from a panic moment.

Compared shamy’s aura to paladin’s one makes no sense, one is litteraly lay on hand and the other is normal healing.

Doesn’t ascendance come with an instant big heal?

it’s a very long cooldown so you can’t really throw it.

If we take for example monks’ tea or druid’s soul of the forest+regrowth or paly’s aura which can top you insta with really low cd it’s just completely different.

It’s my own opinion here.

I would say resto druid since they have buttons for weeks to spam. I think they have like 20 different buttons to use.

Disc priest no offense, has a lower skill floor. Probs like 8-10 buttons max. Shaman kinda same.

Hardest to play is druid? with super healing over time while doing his crowd control in the meantime?

Shaman has more. https://bit.ly/34bOxpw

Hard to play, monk.

Hard to master, shaman.

(Do not burn me down please this expansion was my very first PvP experience.)

shaman or druid for making offplays.

But as shaman you have to make these plays, earthen, sheer, ground etc fail to use these properly and people die. The difference between a rsham who can heal casters and who can heal bfa self healing double melee is massive.

Prot paladin.

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Hi, that would be Resto druid. Rshamman is “mediocore” not that hard but druid deffo requires alot of skill

I would say druid, its like piano

Shamans are the hardest

Don’t @ me

I would say resto druids. Played good they have many tools to bring to the table but if badly played you die in first stun.

Probably druid or shaman and healpala cause its not busted anymore