Originally Posted by
dryankem
Oh Mookspal, you are an angry little priest. He's just starting out on a priest, unless he's power leveling the odds of him healing MOP raids anytime soon is pretty slim. Telling him healing is easy (which is my opinion) is not setting him up for failure, I am just letting him know there is nothing to be afraid of. Of course I can struggle with bad groups, I'm good but I can only do so much. And I also can only do as much as the class allows (which as priest is below the norm right now).
Even the start of Cata with the introduction of the triage healing was easy. Yes you're going to make mistakes, yes it can be hard but it's not like I'm pressing a million keys while sweating at my keyboard.
As I said before the only thing that matters is whether or not he likes healing. If he does and gets to the point of ready to raid hardcore then yes your advice (and rankings) mean something, until then any healer will do and none of them are hard. It might be difficult to rank, but we are far away from that point and the fact that classes change so much focusing on that is....how did you put it....embarrassing.
To me tanking is the hardest (although a lot of people say it's the easiest), I'm just not good at it and have little to no practice. DPS isn't super hard either but you must stay focus and keep your DPS up no matter what happens (movement, adds, gimmicks, etc..). So for me healing is the easiest, but I also have the most experience with it. Encounters can be hard especially when your group is under-geared or your class is a little gimped but that doesn't make healing hard. Timing and mana management come with time, as well as proper spell selection and knowing the inner workings of your class.
So reading up on your class and experience are the 2 most important things to know as a new healer, not what the current raid is like.