for me it was always resto shammy as most "noob friendly " healer
in easy content you just put healing rain and spam chain heal / stronger geals when nessesary - in easy content half of stuff will be taken care of by healing totem too.
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Just go holy pally, high damage and a brill healer.
Literally a few attacks to build holy power (like rogue combo points). Then spend on WoG, and holy shock inbetween. Flash of lights if ya need more heals inbetween. With kyrian you get divine toll which feels brilliant offensive/defensive. That’ll easily get you through 10 keys and some lower PvP stuff.
Then when you get use to it can start using bubbles/martys, timing CDs like aura mastery. BoPing tanks to remove stacks/debuffs etc.
It’s meg mega easy to get going, 1-5 keys damage rotation. Then use clique addon for mouseovers and bind main skills to mouse buttons. You only really use WoG, flash and holyshock alot. Martyr/holy/dawn are situational and barely get used in keys and PvP.
Obviously more to it if you want to push max heals, before anyone kicks off. But a nice base to start with, I played healer in BfA and put off holy. Tried it in SL and fell in love with it.
If PvP matters to you: Holy Paladin and forget about which is most newbie friendly. That’s your golden boy right there.
In more general terms…
Holy Priest is probably the archetypal “stand back and cast” healer. Lots of tools, but you can work with just a handful and integrate the others as content becomes more challenging. Don’t see a lot of them in battlegrounds however, so my suspicion is they’re not doing great in PvP.
Resto Shaman is probably most forgiving all round. It does have a lot of buttons; but you can make do with a few basics. The honour legendary is quite fun in BGs as you spam cycle Chain Heal and Chain Lightning instant casts and just generally keep the other team’s healers from getting bored. Spammable hex PvP talent and earthgrab give you big CC power, and you even have a ranged interrupt.
Resto Druid and Disc Priest are both kind of tricky because you need to anticipate damage patterns. Other healers watch and react, Druid and Disc need ramp up. Druid can kite pretty well in PvP, not entirely sure what Disc does when focussed.
Historically, I’ve seen a lot of people struggle with MW; many don’t understand its healing cleave mechanics, and the current absolute necessity to run Rising Mist and act as melee is pretty rough. Stand back and cast it is not, but it doesn’t have the panic bubble of a paladin, nor any instant casts, which can make it vulnerable, especially in PvP. It is mobile and fun however, and you get into a stop-go pattern that is quite addictive. It is certainly fun, it’s just currently not in a very happy place with regards to class balance.
Just no.
This is the correct answer.
Tbh, Maybe mistweaving uses a lot of mana, but I barely have any problems fistweaving, as usually the reason you run out of mana fast is Vivify.
There is 2 things, which is easy to play and which is easy to output with because its currently overpowered.
Holy priest is the easiest of all for sure but its pretty hard at its current state to output high with it because its not good anymore.
Seems to be changing in all honesty with Flash Concentration ? I believe the legendary is called.
What exactly is changing? Not sure what you mean, can you be more specific?
Their output, its apparently really good with a certain legendary.
Nah, dont think so
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26#metric=hps&dataset=95&class=Healers
Also have in mind this is based on high logs and healers tend to cook their logs with their co-healers. In reality when all healers are doing their job Hpriest is in its most useless state atm.
Yes i know the legendary, i main Hpriest/Shadow.
Just asked you what exactly is changing
Im not talking about raids, I am talking about m+.
Besides, who would play anything else than a h-pal in high content ?
You can get anywhere in PvE that is not Disc priest.
Discipline priests were never the same after they changed atonement from being passive for being something that needs to be active, aka you need to both dps and watch the friendly health bars
It was never bad in M+ to be honest, at least in normal keys that people mostly do. Back in BFA S4 i was popping 40k dps with 36k overall healing. Its still nice but with 0 damage.
Now if you take a Hpriest to your M+ group youre missing all the insane damooge Hpala brings and all the toolkit Rdruud + shaman bring.
Healing output was never the problem 
I mean yeah, obviously. holy Paladins need to take a heavy nerf to both damage and healing because they do way too much currently.
Also maybe give Mistweavers more impactful utility.
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If noib friendly, i would say dont touch:
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discipline priest (maintaining atonements, healing by dealing damage so you have to watch dps and healer mechanics at once, and your healing need to make preparation before damage come, so you need to know before it come)
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holy paladin (also healing while dealing dps, + it is melee healer, means even more dps mechanics to take care of, you need to feel confident switching from friendly to enemy target almost every cast.
Rest of healers shall be fine to begin with, but i would pretty much recommend holy priest to start with.
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Did you ever seen a Hpala popping 11k ST burst?
Ive seen it inside DoD first boss… Its pretty… Balanced yes.
MW monks are pretty high skill cap healers to be honest.
Not only you have mutliple combos to heal ST or AoE but you have to manage its mana which is by far the hardest thing to do in monk than any other healer.
Please… No, hpala and disc are not hard to play. Specially Hpala 
Yeah I have seen that…
I mean they don’t even -need- to do damage for their class to function properly… But to add ontop of that they have godly utility too for some reason, sac, bop, divine shield, stun, incaps, auras, aura mastery…
Imagine getting that dps as a fistweaver 
I can not find any metric where holy paladin is doing more healing. For throughput you want to take a shaman.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26#metric=hps (or go heroic, where the difference is even bigger)
I made this munk back in legion and love everything about the class but i realized in BFA S3 that blizzard doesnt care about MW. Ive seen it shining once in BFA S4 for 1 month. And guess who was the first to whine about MW being op? HPALA which was op all BFA long and still is.
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Yeah in raids they are not the strongest healing output because they have very limited AoE healing.
And in dungeons they are brought for dps, while having lack in healing too. And very cooldown dependend.