Yep the mel-
Uhh then that’s resto dru-
No. You’re gonna have to pick which of those criteria are most important to you.
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Resto Paladin. Not a lot of buttons as far as I can tell. But, I’ve never played them Post-Cataclysm.
Oh yeah, for sure. I mainly asked that question to list out my major deciders for a healer. It helped focus me towards a select few.
Druid has worked out a decent bit. The base kit for healing is decently small, so I can learn new tools on top of it well enough. I haven’t hit max to try real content, so I don’t have a good impression of if it gets really rough.
I tried my priest again, was pretty rough. I’m bad at Disc, and Holy just doesn’t feel good to me. I like my monk, not sure about healing with it yet.
My shammy sits around waiting for me.
The new changes to Crackling Jade Lightning are a lot of fun. I’ve spent this week running around in +2s on my ilevel 593 Monk and it’s such a cool ability now. Every 30 seconds you can unleash a lightning storm that heals the group to full. I think Mistweaver Monk is in a great place with this change, and it definitely feels like a stronger healer than my Resto Shaman when I was at a similar ilevel.
priest/shaman
other ones i think may require you to be in melee range for dps reasons like Paladin/Monk/maybe evoker?
and yes dps is pretty much mandatory even as a healer. give or take how good your group is. bad groups likely won’t have much time to dps if you got to constantly heal them with little down time.
When players often say “hahaha you’re not a shaman”. Just pick shaman at this point. It’s something like 75% of all healers now (assuming based on trends of previous weeks)
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I’m sorry to report that holy paladins have tons of buttons, some of which seem counter-intuitive to the builder/spender playstyle that healing paladins need. If you play Lightsmith hero spec, it adds even more buttons.
I think the MDI will change the sentiment about Resto Shaman. The tops groups are bringing Resto Druid and Disc Priest, so that’ll probably trickle down into keys.
Starting to put in some time on my MW Monk, but I’m a bit confused. Do we not take Soothing Mist altogether now?
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Well, stop that. Don’t play something that adds more buttons.
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not sure what content you are running.
seems odd that you don’t want to either be a caster or be in melee range. seems to cut out pretty much all your options 
i end up wondering what you don’t like about casters. is it actual cast time of spells?
if so, the you will dislike pretty much all healers except, from what I understand, hpally. but they are going to be in melee range.
rdruid is mostly instant casts, or very quick casts. but you are sort of doing a lot of that.
resto shaman heals like a caster, but it also has plenty of quick/instant spells.
the set up for healing in disc priest is pretty much all instant casts, but then you are literally playing a caster since they heal by DPSing.
ranged mistweaver monk might be an inbetween for you. instant casts, plus channeled casts rather than a specific 1-2 second hard cast. they aren’t in melee range, although there is a (better?) melee healing option.
then i suppose that there is preservation evoker. a lot of their casts are not target specific. but the positioning requirements, especially in dungeons, are pretty unforgiving.
so still not sure.
maybe if you already play ret pally or ww monk, play their healer version. at least they will feel somewhat familiar. anything else is going to be a caster.
Healing is about speed and your u.i…all healers are essentially casters. You need to be good at swapping targets insanely fast…keeping hots up as all healers have plays off their hots…you need to be able to be good at literally everything. If you don’t like casting healing is just gonna be rough. There is no version of healing where you just spam a dps rotation to win…you have to be able to manage 6 different targets minimum and also be responsible for things like dispells and you kinda have to know all the fights like even more than the tank. It’s the hardest thing to do in the game and like I said if you don’t like casters you’re gonna be in deep water pretty quickly. If you like to melee I would recommend fist weaving. It’s still movement and target swapping heavy but if you can be fast you’ll be fine. Youll hate just about everything else…
My first max level character was a Holy Priest and by the end it was an easy familiar rotation of “these spells on auto pilot then these spells for Hail Mary’s”
I’m not a skilled player by any stretch but was able to feel good doing dungeons which I also put off till max level. Not any of that m+ stuff though
MW monk can be specced as a ranged casting healer, however it’s not as efficient as first weaving.
I do like the play style though.