Holy priest and wotlk disc priest will forever be my favorite healing specs.
You have an ability for almost everything and it all makes sense
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I agree with this… I think the most straight forward is holy in the whack-a-mole scenario.
What content though? I’m thinking different classes may excel in different contents
Coming from someone who had never healed before, i picked up resto shaman quickly and easily.
That said, no other healers come close to the ease i had in being an effective healer, both in raid and pvp.
Try em all and see what fits.
Good luck. 
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I was going to just random 5 mans at first and branch out from there, I realize one healer is different than the next when it comes to content, but i am new to it
I have to agree that if your goal it to play to and @ max level and keep playing for an amount of time afterwards… There is no right or wrong answer to give a person other than you need to try them all.
I personally have found the new Evoker healing fun and quite simple but different then all the rest. As far as the older healers, for me the easiest is the Resto Shaman (with all the utility options set aside that you can learn as you go as they aren’t necessary right away). I like the simplicity of the Resto Shaman with a HoT, a couple AoE and a couple Direct heals. Next, I think Resto Druid is not too bad but personally I don’t like renewing Hots constantly.
To go along with the first statement though, in that each person is going to be different in their play style, I personally think Holy Priest is awful. It may have some straightforward heals but it also literally has 3-4 heals for every situation (3-4 Single target, 3-4 AoE and so on) and then several really situational heals. The amount of buttons in general and then for the same things is just overwhelming imho.
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Mistweaving Monks, they still work great with low mana and can overheal to hell at AoE and such. Even if you’re not into fistweaving.
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Yes mistweaving is fun too and high mobility. The amount of buttons can get up there too though.
AMEN unless you want to pick up that 1handed mace and shield, and join the best dressed class spec out there. Be like Uther! Be the LIGHT!
I would highly advise not to do this. I used voodoo for the last expansion and have switched back to Elvui frames and it’s infinitely better.
Blizzard now officially supports Click casting and there are small add-ons that allow you to bind key presses. The main reason being that buffs and debuffs have to be manually added to VuhDo. You’ll be in a dungeon and your party is ticking down and you won’t have any indication what the debuff is.
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Honestly preservation evoker is super simple. A handful of aoe and single target heals. A few cds that pretty much full heal the whole party. Couple defensives and a dps rotation thats 3 buttons. Also super mobile and can cast while moving. I had never healed before and picked it up as my first heal and have not regretted a day. Anyone saying resto druid isnt mentioning theres four bars worth of abilities and three different forms you have to switch between.
If you’re not doing 20s you can literally hop on any heal spec, read the buttons, copy the talents from wowhead and do 16+s without any issue at all. Esp since this week is fort, and Tyran is the one notorious for having a specific CD lineup on certain bosses in high keys.
Also very long time healer, have timed many 20s across 3 diff heal specs this season, and what Moobus said couldn’t be more accurate.
If you were doing content that required specific specs, you wouldn’t be asking this question. For your content, whichever one you find the most fun will 1000% be viable and you’ll enjoy min-maxing it the most, which will ultimately make it the best (for you).
There are a lot of keybinds but you can still be an effective healer just by doing mostly lightweaving. As you become better at it you’ll be using all those keybinds but you can learn them progressively as you play.
Agreed.
i prefer Rshaman first and Rdruid second
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If u played dps before theyre all EZ. Cuz all they do now is dps instead of heal. Then blame the dps for dying. #fistweaving
The difficulty of playing as a healer depends heavily on how skilled the rest of your group is. Thus there is no healer spec that is always easy OR always hard.
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Druid is 100% easiest just keep your hots up nothing bad can happen. Sure you can “do the most” with druid, but you can also do the least to get by and that’s how “easiest” is defined. Not by the peak difficulty, but by the skill floor.
When does a resto druid use all 3 forms? You only use cat or moonkin form. Both of them are like playing a level 5 class too button/apm wise. “Super mobile and can heal while moving” kinda like resto with 99% of its heals being instant cast lol, only druids have unlimited access to this and preservation has it on a cooldown that is annoyingly long at times.
Honestly, it depends on what your goals are. Some healers are great in 5 man groups. Some are absolutely horrible.
Try them all. Not being silly there. Try them all out. I main three healers. I can not stand the game play of other healer classes over the ones I’ve chosen.
It comes down to personal preference, how you like to play, how you are going to play and if you like the class mechanics or not.
People say this, but I don’t think this is accurate.
In my opinion it is druid as being the easiest for new players. It has a higher skill ceiling though, which is irrelevant to a new player.
Holy Priest is NOT good for new player in my opinion. Their mobility is trash, and that is one of the biggest things new players would have a hard time overcoming.