I won’t lie, I’m a bad player. What healer has the fewest keybinds for PvE only?
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Probably Shaman? Maybe Paladin?
Outside of Discs and Mistweavers, most healers mechanically are pretty approachable.
its not about which is easy, it should be about which is the most fun because healing is BORING as ***************
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I’ve always felt like shaman was one of the more straight forward healers.
it’s not boring when the player wants fewest buttons.
some enjoy the relaxing playstyle.
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Any healer will have many spells, and the least is resto druid next to holy paladin. But if you want to minimize keybinds, make sure to use help/harm macros.
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your better off just playing the healer that interests you the most NOT the one that is “easiest”. people are more engaged into learning something if it interests them not because it’s “easy”.
all healers are easy imo IF your group doesn’t suck. when you got good groups you will feel good. when you got bad ones then damn you gonna work no matter what. as to which is easiest? i’d think re-active healers are, meaning healers who heal via when someone takes damage they heal. NOT like pro-active healers who heal prior to taking damage/setup heals such as disc and druids.
they are all pretty fun tbh though thus why i suggest just pick the one that interests you and learn. it’s literally more daunting thinking about it then it actually is. i mean it’s not like your gonna be pro overnight or anything hell i’ve healed in cata-mop and just picked it back up. i aint pro but idc im still learning and getting better over time.
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Resto shaman is probably the “easiest” healer since holy priests at least have to keep flash concentration up
Although I see a LOT of clickers and keyboard turners play resto druids
Fewest keybinds is probably not a good metric. Holy Paladins have very few buttons they actually want to press to heal, but they’re far from an easy healer.
Holy Priest is very straightforward and pretty forgiving, but it’s really up to you to find one you like the most…
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+1 for Holy Priest
They have some good OH NO buttons.
Totally worthy of a solid try, give it a shot OP!
Just… don’t queue as Disc if yer still learning/low level…
If I could list the times we all died 'cause of new Disc players haha…ha… Anywho…
I hope you find the fit for your play-style! 
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holy priest is very beginner friendly imo
i would not recommend disc
if holy priest doesn’t feel right, the other healers can all be played decently with a bit of practice. try them all and see which one just feels right
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It’s not just the number of spells to consider, but how they work. Do you have to be reactive or proactive? All healing up front or spread over time? And do you need to engage in melee to make the most of your spells?
I’ve always tended to laziness and prefer to drop an AoE heal over time along with topping up as needed.
You never met Tankfromhell who almost dies 8 times in 2 minutes despite your best efforts to heal as fast as humanly possible?
Really? Now I’m curious as to how other heal classes work. I wonder if they also need an addon to manage their addons.
Healing never seems boring in BGs cause the other team is already discussing killing you before the BG even starts.
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On my Druid, I heal with no healing-specific addons 
But my macro game is level 
thanks to these forums!
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I don’t have much experience with holy priests because I don’t play any of my priests that often and when I do I usually play as disc, but I feel like resto druids are a little bit less demanding than other specs.
As a resto shaman, you get a lot of important utility spells, which makes your job either easier or harder depending on how you look at it. I actually don’t like being the heroism/bloodlust guy (feels like a lot of responsibility and pressure, especially if your raid isn’t on the same page about when it should be used), but I do love helping with interrupts and purges. Also I always kinda liked how resto shaman mastery makes your heals stronger the lower the target’s health gets (which makes you well positioned to be the big hero when things get dire for your raid, but it also means that mastery is not that good if things are going well)
If number of keybinds actively being used to heal is your metric to determine “ease” of the spec, I’d say straight up Holy Priest. Resto druids don’t exactly hit you with big bursty heals to give you that sense of instant feedback and resto shamans have totems to use to be useful.
I wouldn’t recommend Holy Paladin/Discipline Priest as your first foray into healing and definitely not the 2nd if you’ve yet to master your first healing spec. They demand a very different mindset and approach to the healing role.
Disc demands the foresight to know when damage is coming so you can set up for it. Holy Paladin demands a mindset shift from ‘turret healing from 40 yards away’ to being in melee and understanding that your niche is the DPS potential you have over other healers. Ultimately, both Disc and HPal requires you to actually do DPS to heal. A mistweaver might be a decent stepping stone though.
I met him! I was on healing on this guy (not yet a gnome) back in Wrath and the tank folded so badly - me and the laser chicken spamming heals couldn’t keep him alive.
Upon inspection, our protection pally was wearing elemental shaman gear. I left the group.
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Playing mistweaver optimally in PvE requires picking Rising Mist as the level 50 talent and trying to get as much out of it as possible, which entails spending as much time in melee range as you can manage. The best mistweaver legendaries also directly heal from the damage you do (i.e., Ancient Teachings of the Monastery) or are a lot worse without Rising Mist (i.e., Tear of Morning) or require you to commit to spending certain chunks of time in melee to get the most use out of it (i.e., Sinister Teachings).
People who don’t want to do that and don’t mind sacrificing some throughput can take Upwelling and stick to healing at range instead, but it’s not ideal
Cool. I suppose if I had to, I could get by with just Clique. I used to heal with no addons at all, I would just click a name and click the spell, I had gotten decently fast at it so I didn’t know till later how much easier things could be. Now I just say into my mic “Rejuve and dispel on Tank”
LoL I wish 
I wonder if Blizz would allow that. Be hard to do that and discord at same time though.
Really? My last terrible tank was a bear, and healing the prot pally that came next was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Maybe the gear mixup was an accident, Ive been in every type of group imaginable and discovered I was wearing my SW teleport cloak. Why can’t they just make it a toy? Or let me click it from the bag?
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Imo you are far better off picking one with a play style you enjoy. Every healer has a simple enough set up to get you going and you can learn intricacies later on down the line.
I guess the first question really is do you want to be in melee to heal or ranged?
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