Healing question

[Xixillia]

This is for your guys that run your own raids. Do you box your own healers or do you have someone else come in with you? I have a 4x resto druid team that I just dinged 90 but am feeling kind of down about wether or not it'll be viable in any raid situation.

[Sibroc]

well, I use the "healbot" addon and IsBoxers VideoFX on my mainscreen (my tank).

Thats for 5boxing dungeons, no raiding tho.

[Xixillia]

I usually drive from my healer when I run 5 mans, but that with a dk, 3 hunters and a disc priest, so healng isn't really an issue there. I'm worried about larger environments, Like lfr or flex.

[luxlunae]

I believe that Ualaa used to run a 5 man healing team for AV and things, and he had tweaks like swiftmend on round robin. You certainly don't want to step into any raid with four just 90 healers, but I'd suggest brainstorming a little the strengths of what you are bringing (won't waste more than one tank cooldown at a time, for example, a stack and forget him lifebloom rotation on tanks) and take your toons into LFR in pairs as they gear up. Getting anyone to let you four box in a normal raid is probably not a realistic goal. You might find a boxer that hates to heal that wants to do flexes though, once you've reached a 540+ ilevel.

I don't raid while boxing (although I do take five toons to ordos groups), and I think most people that do probably use disc priests or monks for good passive rotations.

[MadMilitia]

To the guys talking about 5 man content, raiding is a different animal. To give you an idea, go 5box some of the timeless isle fights like Ghost Ship or the multitude of other ground slamming elites.

You need different tactics for these kinds of encounters because there is so much movement involved. The single easiest way to approach this is to roll all ranged and play from the perspective of the tank (if you have one) or the healer (if you have no tank). This becomes exponentially harder with tank, healer, ranged and melee involved. In fact, I consider it too much of a bother.

My isboxer config became so incredibly bloated with various switches and toggles, heads up icons and what not. Just to handle these fights. Toggles like an as one toggle where all the accounts were stacked and all movement was repeated. Then other toggles to turn off follow and IWT / CTM on the fly. You basically need these sort of things to win. It gets real messy, real fast.

OP: You will want shamans to do your group healing. It actually turns out to be much less clicking involved. 4 * rain drops and chain heal spam with healing tide totems is easy stuff. Though I guess holy priests would do good too. I'd stay away from anything that sucks at spreading heals around though. That is, if you intend to heal as well.

[Kicksome]

Resto druids are good in raids. You might want to start off with 2 in LFR first to get a feel for it. In pvp, I have 4 resto druids that just heal using a wow macro. It works really well. I can box some of the celestials with them.