Which healer is the most beginner friendly?

I never healed in WoW and I would like to make a dedicated healer mainly focus would be mythics=pvp>raid in that order.
Which healer do u think is the most noob friendly?

In my opinion if i have to rank on Beginner friendly ( while ignoring the best healer rank) it would be :

  1. Mistweaver monk : you have just to maintain mist and then heal
  2. Holy priest : You press 1 button on the situation that reduce a cooldown burst of the situation ( holy word )
  3. Restoration druid : maintain just healing overtime and if more heal use regrowth

And then i don’t judge Holy Paladin and Rshaman.

Holy paladin is easy on PvP, but i have no clue elsewhere
And Rshaman i don’t know enought.

I am not main healer, so that just my opinion.

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Holy Priest is pretty easy to play imo, once you’re comfortable with it you can move onto Disc which is a little harder to play as.

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Restoration shaman, I reckon. Less skills to multi-task with and big, heavy heals. Just keep up riptide and don’t panic spam to burn through mana.

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I would say Holy priest. If I were to say why I would not advice other healers :
-Holy paladin is melee, so you’re more likely exposed to danger. Also, you must deal damages to heal, which can be overwhelming.
-MW monk is kinda the same as holy paladin. But MW also has a lot of mana issues, so it can be hard to play.
-Rest druid is based on hots, so you better be good at tracking those.
-Rest shaman is op atm, but is also hard to play to some degree. It’s a good raid healer, but struggles at healing 1 target.
-Disc priest requires you to deal damages to heal. Also, disc is more a preventive healer rather than a reactive healer, which requires more knowledge (Or you depend on your mate to not screw up :p)

So yeah, I’d go with Holy priest.

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Paladin and shaman are the easiest. Holy priest too in pve.

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I’ve dabbled in them all and I’d say Resto Shaman by a long shot.

Feel overwhelmed with healing + fight mechanics? just drop a healing stream totem and ideally cast chain heals while you readjust.
RShaman feels like I can pay less attention to the raid frames that other healers.

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I’d say resto shaman or holy priest.

Resto druid is nice and pug friendly, but it’s a pro-active healer, you need to start healing before damage comes in. If you try to heal reactively on a resto druid, you’ll have a bad time.

Disc priest is strong, but depends on your party to play well too. If you need to fix their mistakes, that’ll cripple your play, and won’t be much fun.

Holy paladin is strong, almost inifinite mana, can also do some serious amounts of damage too, but it’s melee, and considerably weaker outside of CDs.

Mistweaver is very fun to play, not hard to learn, either, but the mana issues are a huge downer. Also, like holy pally, a melee healer, which exposes you to a lot more danger.

Resto shaman and holy priest are both reasonably easy to get started with, they’re not very cooldown dependent, neither is melee, and they don’t have huge mana issues either. Resto shaman also brings good utility and heroism, which is a very nice bonus.

Resto shaman isnt doing that great in pvp atm (according to supatease’s latest video)
I would go with holy priest. Feels really solid in pve and is doing pretty well in pvp atm also, Disc is also doing very well in pvp atm too so thats always an option

^^ this one i would say to learn in PVE .

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Holy priest offers pretty straight forward abilities that are not complicated to understand and it’s quite effective, it had good defense abilities too.

Holy paladin in PvP is very easy, might vote for easiest to heal with but when to use your utilities and defenses can be more advanced. But I’m not sure about PvE but since there’s not really much buttons to press to cast a heal it’s still IMO straight forward.

Shaman and druid have a lot of nuances to them in terms of utility and abilities, but I’d say shaman is the easier of the two.

Don’t go disc priest unless you really enjoy a high learning curve to master and get good at it’s very tight with mana and you can easily burn through it. The rotation is not straight forward at all and you need to do damage to help with your heals through atonement

Just a word of advice from a beginner Paladin healer: DONT use BOP spell on the tank. it removes aggro

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Why are people saying holy priest there extensively complicated to play:

Easiest Healer :
Resto Shaman is easily the most easiest healer to play
Holy Paladin is actually really simplistic once you get past the melee attack aspect

After that it starts getting tough

Medium Healers :
Mistweaver Monk, might be the next runner up, you gotta keep mist up and do crazy heals (basically a paladin without the power and still an delayed aspect to it)
Holy Priest requires quite a bit of maintenance, watching and has a buildup process.

Hard Healers:
Resto Druid requires extensive boss and fight knowledge and a lot of watching,etc
Disc Priest is just as bad if not worse with the attack aspect and fight knowledge,etc

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Thank you all for the feedback.
So far, I am leaning towards Resto Shaman, Holy Pala, Mistweaver and Holy Priest for a safe bet.
I play pretty much only melee classes so maybe Holy Pala would suit me better.
I healed a bit with Mistweaver on BFA and it was fun tbh. I heard that MW has issues this expansion with mana.

Biased but resto druid. Has been my fav healer since tbc.

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While its true that holy priest is one of the easiest healers, keep in mind it struggles in high end content (high m+/mythic raid)

That’s not to say its impossible to play at that level, plenty of people do, but be aware the difficulty will ramp up quite a lot

Mistweavers are the second hardest healing spec to play, pressing Soothing Mist and dropping healson the tank is the only easy part of the spec, and unfortunately it’s something you rarely do in M+ and never do in raids.

Mistweavers require a lot more mana management than other healing specs and need to keep track of their hots to do good output and be more efficient, on top of requiring going melee for DPSing and extra healing through Rising Mist.

It’s crystal clear you aren’t a main healer to say that they’re beginner friendly, they’re not, Holy Priests, Resto Druids and Shamans are much more because you can just heal and not worry about the rest.

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I’ll probably do heroic raid with my guild , 3s or 2s with my friend and mythic+ I only do with my friends/guild around 10-13 key.

Then you’ll be fine with a holy priest

I’m not biased or anything :laughing:

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Tbh I don’t have a priest max level and it’s one of the few classes that I never played in my life might as well go for the experience

Edit: is the dps enough to level as holy or should I turn to shadow?