choosing my first healer main for wotlk

[blessolol]

Hello guys

I'm trying to pick a main for wotlk.

I haven't played wow in a long time and I have never played a healer before. I'm trying classes out on warmane servers before fresh releases and have got my hpala to level 79.

I'm thinking of maining holy paladin atm. Would you guys recommend this for a noobie healer ? never played wrath before so have no knowledge of the raids either.

[Gallten]

There is going to be alot of paladins around, but yea go for it they are strong healers and pretty straight forward to play.

[angrylol]

hpala - spams fat heals on tanks, for most time your responsibility is to keep tanks alive

rsham - adaptive healer doing good on aoe raid heals and spamming tank heals

disc - blankets PW:shield on whole raid to prevent incoming damage

rdruid - preemptive blanketing of a raid with HoT's is the majority of your job

hpriest - works as a blanketing targets who take damage with Renew and using reactive quick instant heals on players that slip trough other healers. Sort of healer that fixes players mistakes.

[magicgenja888]

Will tell you a story about my friend.

I got him into WoW and he tested all roles, tank, dps and heal. After playing for a while with all 3 roles he decided he wants to heal as it was most fun for him.

So he rolled holypala, as exactly as other people said most straight forward and easy healer. We geared the pala to 5.6 GS and started raiding ICC, RS etc.
He was flamed every single raid for poor performance, missing cds, not refreshing beacons, judges, low hps on meter and everything you could possibly get flamed for. He was so sad about this that was close to stop playing the game all together.

So we gave it one more shot and went with restodruid. Despite having same mediocre performance, he was never flamed again and noone ever said a word about his performance. He is just blanketing the raid with reju, doing Wild Growth on every CD, regrowth on tanks, some innervates and combatresses here and there and Nourish when quick heal is needed. He is LOVING it. Always in the middle of healing meter (not that its so important but that was the most thing he was flamed for which doesn't happen no more). We just healed LK25 together and he got kingslayer, that would NEVER happen if he continued play the holypala.

Even if holypala seems most straightforward I feel that the class have great and big responsibility in the raid which for example resto druid doesnt have to that large degree, or can slip away with it just doing "restodruid stuff".

I dont have any xp with rshaman or priest but as an advice to new player I would tell them to not play the easiest healer but the one with least responsibility.

[angrylol]

That's right, with hpala if you drop the ball and your rsham is potato who spam chain heals, it's a wipe pretty much.

[magicgenja888]

Yup. 99% of raidwipes it was because he messed up on holypala :)

[Skoobydoo]

So according to the comments above if you are braindead and other healers in the raid are also braindead, someone will die and people will blame the paladin. And the conclusion is roll healer no one cared about, so when everyone are braindead and there is a wipe you are not to blame...

Holy paladin is extremely straightforward healer and you need to learn few basic stuff with it and you good to go. Keep BOL/ buff on tank, track judgement debuff on the boss and refresh it when its about to fall off, spam holy light, you have few cds learn what they do and use them when there is mitigation needed.

If you think that's too much then roll resto druid and just spam hots and no one will look or care about you, so you will never get in trouble regardless of how you perform. Also that don't mean resto druid is easier to master, it just mean people have way less expectation from it.