I’m terrible with classes with large rotations, and holy looks like a lot of spells to manage.
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When people say Holy Priest is the easiest they are usually referring to how they have a fairly versatile toolkit and can adapt a little better to different healing situations than other healers. The caveat of having a versatile kit is you generally have more CDs to manage.
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Holy Priest is basically a damage mitigation spec.
It basically requires that you know the fights really well and drop your HOTS before the damage starts. It can be really complicated to master.
Probably ok for questing though.
Priest is my favorite class but for healing I play Discipline.
There is no real rotation to healing. It is reacting to the situation with the right tool. Holy has a lot of tools to be able to handle just about every situation. I really enjoyed Holy for a while and you just use what you need. Yes there are some ho-hum things you can do but that doesn’t really count as a rotation if you’re coasting.
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Holy’s damage spells are cool, as well.
Wait what? No…Disc priest is a damage mitigation spec. Holy is a straight up throughput healing spec.
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It’s the “easiest,” but it’s also the most outclassed.
That spec perpetually lives in Discipline’s shadow and has no discernible niche among all healers.
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Things must have changed, in the past holy had massive output. On a meter in group setting they would get sniped and absorbed cutting down their healing but look out when they were all alone. That’s too bad they got neutered.
Holy does a lot of raw HPS, but raw HPS gets you nowhere when healing is all about knowing when to heal, when not to heal, when to DPS, and when to use your utility and CDs.
Holy doesn’t really excel in any of those departments and isn’t good enough as a pure healer to justify not bringing anything else to the table.
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Glad I’m not the only one confused by people saying Holy Priest is the easiest healing spec… I have never been able to get a hang of how that spec works in all my years, and I play all the healing specs… Holy Priest is the ONLY one I can’t play… I literally have a 100% fatality rate a Holy Priest…
Holy Priest really isn’t the easiest healing class anymore. People spouting that stuff are going on outdated preconceptions.
I think these days RDruid is the easiest. Least amount of prediction, most HPS on the move, most forgiving of mistakes or unknown mechanics.
Holy is “easy” because it’s straight forward and reactive. This means when someone takes damage, you push a healing spell and fix them.
Other healers that are considered more difficult generally rely on knowing the fights and anticipating incoming damage.
Discipline Priests and Resto Druids for example need to spend globals preparing for damage that hasn’t even occurred yet and it can be hard to recover reactively.
Shaman and Paladin have a very diverse toolkit that newer healers probably won’t take advantage of, because they’re too busy learning the healing role.
None of the healers are bad, but if someone is anxious about learning the healing role, a Holy Priest is probably the best place to start.
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Haha… funny… Disc yes… Resto Druid… you’re a funny one there… Resto doesn’t need to know the fights at all… it excess at both reactionary and preemptive healing…
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As someone who has healed on multiple classes since Vanilla, I honestly find HPriests harder than both RDruid AND RShaman right now. They are just so much weaker and spammier. Less good on the move tools. Worse speed boosts (Ghost wolf and kitty are > feathers and shielding yourself when poop hits the fan). Survivability in the toilet.
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As someone who plays all healers I will say resto shaman is by far the easiest. You got your big heal, litttle heal, instant heal with a dot, AOE heal, and your AOE heal that acts as a buffer (rain) and just sprinkle in some totems.
Not saying its the best healer by far, but DEFINITELY the easiest.
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That’s all learning to play stuff not a class issue.
It is a class issue though.
Holy’s HPS isn’t high enough to justify bringing it over healer specs like Discipline and Holy Paladins or Resto Druids, which also do competitive healing but offer your group much more than just raw healing.
Holy offers healing. That’s it. Disc offers extremely high burst healing, damage reductions, and competitive damage. Resto Druids offer consistent proactive healing, competitive damage, and some of the best utility out there. Holy Paladins offer high healing, extremely high DPS, and the single best defensive raid cooldown in the entire game in Devotion Aura.
I was thinking about getting back into healing and was looking into druid healing. I really want to play priest but just looking it over druid seemed like the way to go. So I’ve been struggling with the details of playing a druid on top of the healing part.
Do yourself a huge favor and download healbot. This allows you to have 9+ heals bound to just your left middle and right click.
This consolidation of buttons frees you up to use your normal keybinds on dps abilities and other cooldowns. Once you get the hang of it your healing skill will raise exponentially.
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Yeah, I don’t understand it either.
Disc is the one with all the damage mitigation spells and passives.
You think it would be obvious