It used to be shaman in SL - since it had a lot of oh crap buttons. What is currently the recommended pugging healer?
Pugging m+ as a healer isn’t recommended to begin with
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Stop discouraging him, we already have a severe healer shortage as is.
To answer OP’s question, easiest healer to learn by far is holy priest.
As for what’s the current best healer for M+? Disc Priest, Resto Druid, or Holy Paladins.
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Anything but shaman this season honestly, probably not evoker either since so many augies will be around.
We’ve done pretty when we had our Disc priest. I think she may have changed to Holy for S3, I’ll have to ask.
Nobody is discouraging him from healing. What we are saying is don’t pug. Organised grouping vs pugging is comparable to a nice roast dinner vs 2 day old McDonald’s.
So, I have some friends to play with but we still have to pug 1 - 2 DPS. in SL shaman was strong for pugging but I’m not sure now - I have played all of the healers in the past. Someone recommended against Shaman - which I was heavily considering.
Nah shammie is fine for healing. Without trying to sound cringe id recommend checking out a guildie of mines channel onlysham. Resto shammie currently doing 22’s and he offers really good guides.
I do it because I’m a glutton for punishment. I pug my way all the way to KSH because I hate myself.
To answer OP’s question you should always play the class you like the most. I despise meta chasers. Somethin about em is slimy.
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Pugging perception will be low even if they’re not bad, thank the tier list makers
This, and you can get an invite pretty easily as any healer until fairly high keys (past 20).
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Ive been subbed to onlysham for a while actually.
Second this.
As a resto sham I haven’t felt any issues to the 15/16 range yet.
Druid and disc are pretty good in keys, tho druid has some problems in raid atm (might be fixed by the tier) so you might want to wait if you plan to do both.
If youre running with a dps or tank you know its much better then a full pug. Just having one person you can coordinate cooldowns with makes life a lot easier.
All classes and specializations are fine in terms of pugging. Unless you are aiming to do ridiculously high keys, your class doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is how well you play it.
In my experience going back all the way to Legion, if inviting people based on classes … groups tend to do worse. Group composition is a different thing at which point classes can play a role, but in terms of healers/tanks? If you can play it well, you’ll adapt to how the group plays. All healers are capable of both spot healing and some form of either damage mitigation or healing over time, and different tanks have different ways of mitigating damage taken. So there’s no “one best” thing for pugging, it is all various degrees of morons pushing buttons (and hopefully playing the game with keyboard and mouse rather than just or the other).
Why blame them? People choose too willingly live in the pug world when finding an organized group is easy to do with so many avenues to find one.
Not always that simple, I have an organized group but still have to pug some weeks because schedules don’t line up.
Play what makes you happy. But if you’re looking for a tier list, Disc Priest, Holy Paladin and Preservation Evoker are all at the top currently. If you want a lot of oh sh- buttons, I’d go with the paladin.
Shaman, even though it is struggling a bit right now, it has a good M+ kit. It has interrupt, poison cleansing totem, hex, purge, lust, tremor totem, earthbind, windrush. Its mastery helps recover from failure moments. It has a way to deal with most affixes.
I would say if you like Shaman, then play Resto Shaman. It is also a straight forward healer. You dont have to spec into cloudburst, even though it is powerful, it still relies on Ramping it, and knowing when to expect damage. You can opt for healing stream to do, steady smart healing.
Until you are pushing 20ish keys, dont focus on DPSing. If you can toss a flame shock around or a chain lightning here and there. But just focus on being good at mechanics and affixes. Once you start pushing 20+ is when the min/maxing starts to be more prevalent. You may get a little resistance for not playing Meta, but Resto Shaman is still very functional as a healer.
Myself? I have been enjoying my Resto Druid. Its weakness is not much Burst Healing, but I like the playstyle.