Feral is a lot of DoT and Energy and Combo Point management. It’s a lot to keep up with to play at any decent level tbh. Feral requires a lot more work to put out the same DPS as some three button classes.
Hunter’s pretty much have a simple rotation too.
Seems the word is out that arcane is the most easy rotation. Mine is like this…
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Burn phase - Time warp, Touch of the Magi, Radiant Spark, AP + PoM / Trinket - Arcane orb + Rune of Power / Arcane blast until oom - Mana Gem, Arcane Blast - Evocation.
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Conserve phase - Spam arcane blast until Missiles proc. Drop 4 stacks with barrage to conserve. Use Arcane orb + Touch of Magi to regain charges quickly and manage / pace mana until next Evocation.
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Execute phase - With Arcane cull Arcane barrage deals 130% more dmg against targets below 35% hp. Here you look to juice as many 4 stack barrages as possible with good use of Touch of the magi + arcane orb + Arcane blast + AE.
Planning for good use of CD’s ahead of time and positional requirements play a huge part of Arcane. Now this is not the most complex rotation for sure, but I very much doubt this is the easiest of all rotations to perform well.
Except this still doesn’t address the simple fact that a hunter’s pet is the cream of the crop in new player utility. It literally will keep mobs on them while auto casting all their useful stuff AND almost always keeps mobs turned away on the off chance said mob has any kind of frontal cone/line attack or some such. Heck the pet is even smart enough to dodge many of those abilities automatically beyond just taking next to no damage from them anyway.
A mage is squishy as heck and lacks the reliable ways to escape when crap hits the fan which a new player is not going to be nearly as fast or good at identifying. A mage with things hitting them pops invisibility and thanks to timing, a mob gets an attack off before leashing and bam…there goes your invis and everything still hates you.
Much more likely a new player will see their pet die and panic and run/feign before that same situation happens with them.
Point being is the pet being both an effective tool and feels awesome to get to tame literally hundred+ different things is literally new player training wheels that nothing any other class does can compare.
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Not necessarily. I started about 8 months ago. First thing I rolled was a BM because that is what my mate plays and she said it isn’t hard.
I was bored. I didn’t really get into the game until I rolled a mage.
My recommendation would be for them to try the classes in whatever order they are most attracted to. It only takes an hour to run through exiles reach. Then stick with what they enjoyed. Easy/hard doesn’t matter. None of them are that difficult.
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Yeah Frost is much easier than that
Ret core rotation is super simple and great for a new player. Theres a pretty high skill cap on using your support abilities correctly as well so theres a lot of room to get better with it too. Frost DK is even more simple assuming you’re not playing breath build, but their damage is painfully bad and their utility is also so I wouldn’t recommend it right now.
I support the Ret Paladin vote…Its a low button count rotation and super straight forward. Build and spend use CDs as needed to boost offense or defense.
Honestly, any rotation can be pretty easy if you’re not trying to do max optimal DPS. Most (all?) specs have passive talents they can pick, etc.
Classes get hard when you’re trying to do everything perfectly. But assuming that by casual, you mean your friend doesn’t want to do organized team raiding or high dungeon keys, they don’t need to aim for that and probably won’t be interested in it anyway.
That said, my vote is hunter because having a tank pet makes solo content a lot easier.
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BM has a VERY simple rotation keeping pet up/managing pets in general is the hard part especially with pathing and all that.
Ele shaman has a basic rotation as well problem is all the useful utility that yes we do use more then likely not all at once but worth keybinding.
in the end play what interests the player not what is “easy” why would you play something “easy” yet don’t enjoy lore wise/in general. simply take your time and learn the rotation as with all players do. learn at your own pace.
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The OP gave no other context other than easiest class/spec to play. I still contest that personal taste aside, there is literally no spec that can rival a BM hunter when it comes to simplicity, forgiveness for mistakes, and as a spec one can take deep into endgame with as minimal of a learning curve as possible.
Not to mention the sheer coolness of getting to customize your pet. Having a stable of what…200 now? In the end, I don’t really care all that much what they like and/or gravitate towards. BM hunter is by far the safe go to option, but a ret pally is pretty cakemode melee and prot isn’t that hard either. Frost mage would be my easymode caster of choice or elemental shaman if you want a more “safe” option you can play well enough while still having good self healing and an earth elemental to buy you an escape when needed.
Weird, no mention of one of the easiest, most faceroll classes in the game which, incidentally is the most overpowered.
Druid.
Would love for you to describe the rotation you use.
Not sure what spec you’re referring to, but I mentioned Balance in one of the first several posts in the thread.
I believe it’s arcane mage and marksmanship hunter. For DPS at least
For tanks it has to be guardian druid.
And tell him to stay away from healers xD
well i aint a pro shaman nor have any leggo’s but im not having any issues downing w.e. content im doing so far.
keep flame shocks up on multiple targets, use my maldraxxus spell, ele blast off cd, run that double lighting talent im using and if ST spend it on LB if AoE spend it on CL, use LB, rinse and repeat when stuff procs/off cd.
of course EB has a buff for elemental damage which i think buffs ES? but not too sure. AoE depends how long the mobs stay up usually not too long i just use the lighting talent, spam CL, EQ, spam CL and EQ and pop maldraxxus spell for instant dmg.
i main a mage swapped to this shaman so yea i aint no pro shaman but mained my mage for 6 years. meter wise i aint dead last but due to ilvl i aint top either so hell i figure im doing something right except the EB buff of course.
forgot to mention elementals of course. Fire elemental to buff FS and i just use Earth elemental when i need or for slightly higher dmg. run water totem for basic heals, etc…
All of them, esp. Balance yeah and Guardian. Even kitty is dumbed down to the point of being utter faceroll tbh. Easiest and strongest healer to play also. Druid are like level 70s right now.
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Honestly, OP, ask them what kind of other games they like or what kind of characters they want to play. If your friend was a big fan of the Assassin’s Creed series, then point them towards a rogue. If they like God of War, then let them check out the warrior. If they liked dying over and over again in Dead Souls and smashing their controllers, introduce them to survival hunters. 
It doesn’t matter if it’s easy or hard, every class has an “easy” spec, and if they really like it, they’ll learn to get better at it. Just make sure they choose the class that they like: that’s the only way they’re going to have fun.
While this is true, and I regularly bork myself, because I suck and can’t be bothered not to, Arcane for the casual gamer is pretty easy.
That said, I’d say beastmaster hunter all the way. With the pet and feign dead, you have to really screw it up to not be fine in casual content.
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I could never make frost mage work well. If my Paladin had portals I’d be playing him now.