My friend and I play Paladin & Druid as PvE carebears. We’d like to jump into PvP, but I think we might need to make alts because there are a lot of posts saying that resto druids are hard to play. Is this true? Should we switch to something with training wheels like DH/HPal?
Would any composition of our mains be too hard for new players? Maybe Ret/Resto or HPal/Feral? I don’t mind rerolling if we need to do so for learning purposes, but I’d rather play my main and my friend his.
i mean if you’re new to druid yeah it would be hard. if you already have a decent handle on it, just play. upside to rdruid is good ones can make your life a living heck. and they have the best cc of any healer.
Edit: didn’t see your note about hpal feral. hpal isn’t the best in 2s but its easy to play, very cooldown centric and not hard to catch on to. feral is easy to do damage with, but pretty hard to survive if you’re not smart about when you need to be in bear, and when to get out completely. i would suggest playing ret resto over feral for difficulty. as stupid as it sounds, you can climb higher with a good dps(in this case an easier dps) over having an ok dps with a good healer.
I just started playing rdruid this patch, it takes a bit to get used to but once you do it’s a lot of fun. I would suggest doing some dungeons/bgs at first to learn the rotation and how to keep people alive. Once you are comfortable with that start moving into skirms/solo shuffle. Best of luck 
EDIT: Oh and stack mastery, it makes it soooo much better
probably one of the harder healers to learn just because it has so many tools + shapeshifting is unique
hots are also unintuitive and you need to have an idea of how much they’re going to heal if you’re going to play offensive with feral affinity/go for clones
you can pve ur way pretty high as rdruid by just putting hots up @ max range, sitting bear form, and doing nothing else, but the skillcap on rdruid is super high
none of the specs in this game are hard to play just play what is fun for you.
Skillcapped wow website is a great resource to learn from if you are a new player
druid is hard right now… Not because the class is hard mechanically but because people are going to try to kill you alot. Hpal is a bit easier but feral is much harder than ret
it’s rough in the sense that as a resto druid, your heals are HoT based… and that doesn’t fair well in a burst meta.
There’s the knowledge/spacing to avoid being an easy target after putting hots on your teammate. Also the trusting your hots to do their thing, and your teammate trusting them.
If you have a big brain, good looks and enough charm to melt hearts in an instant then getting good at rdruid comes naturally.
I can chime in as this was the first season i had ever played resto druid at all. Learning from the ground up was a bit tough, but i managed to scrape out 1800 for the set which is what i wanted. Hardest part i had with it was using my CDs properly, and not overlaping defensives and major healing CDs. Learning to shift to prevent poly and hex, and charge stun into cyclone while making sure your dps is ok was a bit to figure out for the first time.
Long story short, watch a video, give it a shot. Once you spend some time on it youll enjoy it.