I second this for mistweaver. MW arent limited solely to “Fistweaving” and have other options ( non fey line RM/AT raid builds, Tears/CF builds, TFT builds, celestial builds ). Anyone saying so is very ignorant or is a product of biased information/elitism.
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Warrior using bandages. It’s just one keybind. Good luck!
Just as it is difficult to cast a breath to cure “Dream Breath”.
Just like they don’t see difficulty with the Rdruid, I don’t see the prevoker.
The only one I give my respects to is those who are tops with Disc priest.
You really compared using tranq to using dream breath LOL.
I never mentioned tranquility in this comment lol.
if you want I could compare it to Rewind and this CD is much stronger.
In addition, it is not channeled
Yeah, the lack of mobility is a large point against Priest in general. And I think a lot of players on the high end would agree that lacking mobility actually makes Priest weaker than other healers like Druid and Evoker. But Holy Priest doesn’t have to worry about setting up a Flourish or Stasis. It’s a more reactive playstyle that can just bomb massive Holy Words to keep people up and smoothly transition into Apotheosis for even more burst healing, plus it has large-ish 2-3 target heals in Flash Heal and Heal thanks to Trail of Light and Binding Heal.
Holy Priest has a lot of keybind bloat. You have stuff like Power Word: Shield and Shadow Word: Death which are now important abilities you will use in certain situations so they need to be key bound. They gained Power Word: Life. You have three different abilities which mostly only see use when moving (PWS, Renew, Circle of Healing). There’s all the Priest utility to keybind. Holy has all kinds of cooldowns.
Shaman on the other hand lost several keybinds in Dragonflight, because of how the talent system ended up.
Druid definitely has many more keybinds than Evoker. My Druid comfortably fills the 48 or so keybinds I use in my default layout, without even considering my other forms (which share keys with my caster form). My Evoker on the other hand has lots of open spots on my actionbars.
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Rewind is op but it’s also a 4/3 min cooldown. Tranq is 3/2 min and can be used before damage is dealt. Rewind HAS to be used reactively and there is a short window of viability for it.
It is op, but it’s way harder to get value out of than tranq, and has a minute longer cd.
Remember that they also have guardian angel and power word: life.
They still lack a bit of dps, to be honest.
I’ve been looking at various logs, from different M+ highs and from different prevokers and Rdruids.
And I’ve noticed that even though the prevoker casts 2-3 fewer casts than the Rdruid, the Rdruid’s tranquility healed 3-4m less than the Rewind.
And as you say, that CD is reactive, but like Tranquility it is also proactive, because you should use it when your teammates have prehots and in your case you use it when the time is right and that’s it, after that you only use your healings that you have and do not cancel anything.
Also I just noticed that you heal a lot with just 1 spell (which far exceeds the other healings you use wtf)
rewind is REACTIVE. Tranq is PROACTIVE. Difference in meaning.
Less abilities doesn’t always mean easier tbh, and there are ways around the classes with many abilities ( hurt/harm macros/kerbinds, Vuhdo type addons, etc ). Evoker/MW/Disc for example. Not a ton of abilities but also not the easiest to pick up and learn. Holy priest, Holy Paly and R Sham have always have “standard” healing kits so they are easier to pick up imo but they will have somewhat more buttons, or more talents that add more buttons.
Buttons can also be macrod together, or harm/hurt macros can be made. Addons like Vuhdo remove a good portion of needed keybinds entirely. Stuff you learn eventually on any healer.
So Id honestly pick one that feels fun and go from there more than anything, because if it’s fun you will most likely put the effort into learning it better.
Excuse me, I try to translate from French.
Sometimes I get confused with the terms.
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Anyway, the best as a beginning player as a healer is to play the Hpriest.
But if you don’t care much about ease, play what most attracts your attention, luckily wow it has the system to test classes, there you can try them to your liking ^^
Okay I understand.
You’re right though, evoker does get a ton of value out of reversion for their healing. It seems simple, but when you factor in echo interactions it’s much more nuanced than it seems from the outside looking in. Evoker is big on cooldown management as well, because we do not have good base toolkit. It is essential for us to use our cooldowns right, or we have to act insanely desperately and even then will likely still fail to compensate for the misjudgment.
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Look, I’ll be honest.
I don’t hate the evoker itself or anything like that.
For me, I would leave it as a medium healer on difficulty issues… however, it is my opinion.
Until now no one (even the pros), can determine if it is easy or not.
Because it’s a new class that literally has been in the game for less than 1 year (and I’m not counting the beta because it had many changes).
And even with so few buttons, it may seem easy (and who knows it may or may not be).
It will depend on the player, but putting ourselves in the shoes of a new player or a dps that is testing a healer…
I don’t think neither the evoker nor the Rdruid are the best.
The only feasible options would be Hpriest (at least for me), because it’s somewhere in the middle being the 3/4th best healer for M+, so it’s a decent performance and it’s not that complicated (but of course, it has a little more like the other healers in its SL version).
And I understand that you have many interactions, but you are not the only ones (I don’t make you less either, just that you are like the other healers with your interactions).
I hope that in the future they give you more spells (so that you don’t depend on 1 or 2), so that you can have a better variety when playing it (because imagine if they put a huge nerf on Reversion).
Also, now that the Rdruid has dropped dps and healing (I’m not saying he’s going to 100% die either), it will give the prevoker more room to be the king this season and possibly next at least in terms of healing. and dps (I think this is the most notorious since it wasn’t touched).
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I think the whole argument is kinda silly anyway, because any healer will be easy at a low level of play, and every healer is advanced at a high level of play. Priest can pick holy or disc, druid doesn’t have to do catweaving.
I don’t think I would recommend evoker to a beginner healer personally because the range and positioning requirements are so much more extreme than the other healers, but the spells are relatively simple to balance out that complexity. The nuance of evoker can be outright ignored for a pretty long time.
The most important point I think you made was “play what most attracts your attention”. This is where you will perform best I think, regardless of difficulty.
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Not priest. They have so much bloat it’s comical.
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evoker i think 
On that I can agree with you.
At low content, no dps is needed.
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MW, and it’s not even close.