What Class to replace my Boomkin with ?

[Mac]

Make the druid your healer, make the shaman elemental.

People who say druids are more difficult to box as healers simply have no idea what they are talking about. They are by far THE EASIEST healers to box. You simply make a macro that rolls hots and does wild growth on cooldown. Tie it to your dps macro, and do heroics and raids smashing one button the entire time. No thinking involved with the healing whatsoever. Once you go tree, you never leaf!

Fixed :P

Makes me wish druid trees had seasonal foliage

Can you describe your rolling hot set up in a little more detail please?

[jimbobobb]

Fixed :P

Makes me wish druid trees had seasonal foliage

Can you describe your rolling hot set up in a little more detail please?

Basically it's just a macro that casts my hots, and I use spells like swiftmend with cooldowns as stopgaps. You'd have to play around with your own button mashing speed/etc to make them work for you, but I basically have different macros depending upon how much damage my tank is gonna be taking:

Stuff I'm trying for the first time or boxing raids, basically non stop healing:

/castsequence [ target=focus,nochanneling] reset=combat Rejuvenation,,,,,Swiftmend,,,,Lifebloom,,,, Regrowth,,,,,Lifebloom,,,,,Lifebloom,,,,Nourish,,, ,,,Nourish,,,,,,,Nourish


easy stuff:

/castsequence [target=focus,nochanneling] reset=combat Rejuvenation,,,Swiftmend,,,,Lifebloom,,,,Rejuvenat ion,,,Lifebloom,,,,,,Lifebloom,,,,

The above just keeps rejuvenation on constantly, makes sure the blooms bloom, and uses swiftmend as the stopgap to make sure it happens. This macro is very mana efficent, however if this is not spammed, it can get stuck w/out a rejuvenation for the mend, especially if you use the glyph of rapid rejuv

and this is just bound to the same button as my dps/tanking button, so I pay zero attention to what is going on in regards to healing.

Just play around with your timing and what your tank needs in the way of healing - all you have to do is keep rejuvenation, maybe some lifeblooms on your tank in a lot of situations. If gear is still a problem maybe you need to keep regrowth and throw a few nourishes in there. In heroics now I actually just hot the tank before bosses, and otherwise chain cast starfire and wildgrowth on cooldown. (I have wg bound to my scroll down button, and my healing/dps/tank stuff to scroll up - so I just scroll my mouse up and down while I do stuff and this ensures wg is cast on cooldown)

Druids are just great 'set it and forget it' healers. And when you're playing 5 characters, one less thing you have to pay attention to is nice.