This chap responded to a shout for a healer this morning. Did not seem a retard, but I offered a social spot on condition he opened a forum account so I'm doing it a bit cart before horse in this case. He's interested in raiding, seems relatively green but keen. I know he's not a resto shaman, but I told him to talk to Moon re raiding to see how to apply for a spot. He says he's about 380 (or will be by the end of the week).
Have a chat to him and see what you think.
Will do thx ^^
Did a couple of heroics with him. He's very green at the moment, so would need work, but I've seen people arrive in worse shape than he has and one of those went on to be a solid healer for me in Eluo and now raids successfully in Postal. Gear is not far off being usable with a couple or three more upgrades. Healing rotation/spells used needs some work but I or some other person can talk him through that to improve what & how he heals - and to be fair, when you are under-geared and healing heroics in which every muppet is standing in the fire (except me of course!) then my healing rotation would have gone out of the window too.
Bottom line, it's your call as to what you do with him when he gets his gear up to a higher level. He's Social for the moment, the rest is in your control.