I’m not good at upkeep healing with dots and such. I have my druid at level 70 but i just left him there. Been debating about going back to druids but i don’t know how good they’ll be in mythic keys when season 4 starts and i don’t know how to even play resto but i wanna learn it. Any tips or something ?
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Try it out on a follower dungeon or a lower level dungeon to get the hang of it and see if you like it c:
I’ve only healed a couple of times on druid and it was at lower levels, but I did like it.
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I used to be good healing with my paladin, but that got revamped and now demands melee as well which i suck at that part so i gave up and went straight to ret. but I did wanna try healling on my druid and see how I do. I’m just bad at dotting lol
Yeah I get that. If you’re not used to it or feel you’re bad at it, it’ll definitely take some practice but who knows, you might find you enjoy it 
I feel like Druid healing might actually be the hardest to achieve both amazing healing and DPS?
Dunno. I leveled one up an dropped it. Spec has way too much crap for it’s own good.
Love it in M+, hate it in raid.
You do need decent party frames set up to keep track of important hots and ignore tiny ones. A weakaura that honks at you when nobody’s Lifebloomed goes a long way, and at least being able to see who’s got Rejuv and who’s Swiftmend-able.
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Don’t druids got AoE heals now? That and if I recall many of their dot heals are instant cast. Honestly I prefer shamans for healing as well most of their heals are AoE, they can put down a totem that heals for them as well, they get a talent to make their healing rain hurt foes who enter it so it’s good to drop on the melee fighters. I haven’t healed on my druid in ages, I tried to tank in BFA and I did rather well but I always got the nasty toxic folk who’re never happy about anything so I’m solely dps on my druid now
I like healing as a Druid, but I am kind of meh at weaving in dps. I don’t like to kitty weave and switching from form to form just feels so much like a hassle. If I am not comparing it to my priest in terms of dps, I really like healing as a Druid.
Resto druid is a ramp spec, which means it requires a good amount of encounter knowledge. It’s a proactive healer with a Grove Guardian safety net.
If you’re an experienced healer who knows all the fights that you’re going to heal and play with a solid group who isn’t taking a lot of avoidable damage, it’s very strong.
If you’re new to healing and/or pug a lot, I’d suggest starting with a reactive healer like resto shaman or holy priest. Rdruid isn’t as hard to play successfully as discipline or preservation, but it’s not easy either.
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I agree with Voiron’s statement. It’s not hard per se, but it is a spec where you have to know how to build your heals up on the individual players based on what they are doing in each encounter. The Grove Guardian is a nice addition that can help you power through some panic heals if things get dicey. The downside is resto doesn’t have a lot of hard cast big topper heals if someone takes a crit hit. You have to hope you have your swiftmend or natures swiftness available to dig them outta near death fast before they get annihilated.
I like it because once you get your heals built in, you are super dymanic and can scurry around and replenish as needed. That is a helpful boon if you have ranged DPS who wander off to Narnia and you have to dash between them and the tank. In a well coordinated group this shouldn’t happen, but if you’re doing the PuG life, it happens all the time.
I’ve healed quite a bit as druid and a few other classes, and my biggest takeaway for druid is for having to do a lot of pre healing because it’s more heal over time rather than instant heal abilities. Once you learn how to prepare for harder fights, you’re good to go.
I don’t find it hard but there is a lot of upkeep.
While rdruid dps can be quite fun, its probably the most difficult out of all healing specs to successfully weave in and out and feel rewarded for your efforts.
While it is proactive, I wouldnt let that deter you from picking it up. All healers, proactive or reactive, will eventually have to learn damage patterns. I actually found this an easier playstyle since i could take my sweet time ramping up for damage.
It is not hard to play competently, takes some finesse to play at an advanced level is what id say
if you have more specific questions ill give you some tips
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Druid is very busy, but rewarding.
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It depends how high and what kind of group, organized or pug. Why, let me briefly explain.
For heroic dungeons and lower keys (mid keys later with gear) it’s actually quite easy to keep people alive if you can set up a decent raid frame to track HoTs, and swiftmend triage healing. DPS takes practice, but healer dps is a bonus in those keys.
At higher levels if your party can’t coordinate stuns and avoid mechanics you’re in for a world of hurt, as you can’t constantly heal people who mess up without going OOM.
That being said, other than Holy priest Druid is my favorite healer because once you have a comfortable setup you can alsmost space out for some content.
Resto’s fun and the treants do a lot of heavily lifting but like others have said, you need to know the encounters so you can prep for burst damage windows.
DPSing as Resto is a lot of fun if you’re good at juggling things. I find it very satisfying to DoT stuff with Sunfire/Moonfire and shift into cat-weaving.
you absolutely do not have to be in melee to heal as a holy paladin in the current patch.
I like to use holiday events like headless horseman or crown chem to try out different roles, like healer. I find they’re a safe way to sample them since the fights dont go long and you know all the mechanics. Also world bosses.
I think the healing is extremely good and fun but doing good damage as rdruid is a clunky pain with shapeshifting on the gcd, unable to dispel in cat form, optimizing adaptive swarm on 2 stacks including enemies. If rdruid did optimal damage by spamming starfire in humanform, and a few M+ cooldowns got competitive, completely passive alternatives (cenarion ward, adaptive swarm, nature’s swiftness (can macro into convoke when I run it at least)) I would main the druid.
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Like others have suggested, give it a try in follow dungeon and see how it sits! 
I felt like holy priest was the only healer I would ever jive with… fill the empty. HoTs seemed like too much upkeep and the lack of “oh crap” buttons made for an anxiety of not being able to handle it in mythic content, which is what I enjoy.
Then literally follower dungeons gave me the slow pace I needed to learn and not stress. When I felt like it was too slow, I knew I was ready to play with people hahaha.
It’s not so bad and I find it more enjoyable than I ever did priest. The rolling, ticking green numbers are just so pretty and there’s so many ways to apply them. They proc off each other and share onto one another. You can summon tree ‘babysitters’ for folks who are just eating it on ever pack, and honestly talent into quite a few buttons for when things go wrong.
It’s not for everyone, but I have plenty of output for what I enjoy. Saving the village idiots has become a favorite hobby.
Its just exhausting…. I’m enjoying holy priest and shaman more. 
Still love druids.