Cataclysm Healing

[Starbuck_Jones]

With a paladin and 4 shaman team, having one dedicated healer and a second shaman ready to go to heal has never failed me yet and still proves to be very effective when the healing gets rough. 4x healing totems, 2x chain heal and now with the over powered word of glory 25k heals with a priest shield, and never running out of mana, the only thing that can kill you are mechanics you are not prepared for.

[howster]

Pre cata my druid healer never used lifebloom just in rare occations. No i have to use it all of the time for replenishment, otherwise he's mana gets drained quickly. Having no problems when i do use it, and no problems in instances healing wise. Using isboxer's repeater region give me full control over my healing spells.

[doommachine]

so holy pallys are better than druids? My plan for 10/25 boxing raids was to have a mix of shaman and druid healers....are holy pallys that much better than druids to warrant me (or anyone) mixing shaman/pally heals instead?

[Mercbeast]

so holy pallys are better than druids? My plan for 10/25 boxing raids was to have a mix of shaman and druid healers....are holy pallys that much better than druids to warrant me (or anyone) mixing shaman/pally heals instead?

Frankly, it would not shock me if in what you are trying to do, druids might not be the better choice. No class heals really well now. Paladins have OOM issues just like everyone else, what is nice about druids is, they sort of have fire and forget healing if you stack enough of them together. Throw 5 hots in a 25 man raid, and the guy you just hotted is gonna be good.

But then maybe not!

[crowdx]

Druids have a lot of mobility in their healing, unlike Pallys (unless this changed in the expanison).

[tanknspanker]

I hated the fact they nerfed the pally in healing
running in bg's with my pally dk team, light of dawn was the way to aoe heal,
from how c it, they nerfed the light of dawn by half..

the mana is lol now to, i was supposed to litterally just go to a BIG group of allys in my dk group without ANY mana issues..

its a big pitty they nerfed the pala

[doommachine]

@merc In the same post you basicaly said to use said to use druids or to not us them...i take that as it realy being anybodys guess as to what is better, especialy 6 months down the road. I just figured that even tho none are any good now due to lack of gear, that there would still be one that stood out as the favorite/best. If this was wrath i think id be fine with 6 shammies chain healing, but that got nerfed into the ground. And with my lack of experience i have no idea what to do.

[Kalros]

Well, here's my take:

I run a Holy Paladin and my team is 85 now and almost in all 333 Item level gear (some 346). I have done every Normal instance in Cataclysm and several bosses on Heroic.

Mana efficiency/regen can certainly be a problem at times. Once I hit about 83, it was bad. Really bad. But after getting several gear upgrades it is manageable. Had to adjust my Paladin's healing macro a bit for efficiency (and I'm sure somebody here can give me some pointers to make it even better), but now I can definitely last several minutes on a Heroic boss fight before going OOM. Here is my healing macro:

/target party1
/cast avenging wrath
/castsequence reset=combat holy light, holy light, holy light, holy light, word of glory
/cast holy shock

I have a separate "Oh Shit!" key for his quick heals in case the tank gets REALLY low on health. I also have a separate key set up to cast divine plea and drink a mana potion.

AoE healing, like someone earlier in the post said, just plain sucks. My Elemental Shamen can barely do any healing at all with their chain heals anymore, so I'm actually considering just having them do Healing Surge on themselves when they get low as opposed to the futility of a chain heal cycle.

But thats my take, for what its worth.

[shadewalker]

in regards to my earlier post, I have started playing around with chakra on my holy priest and i am starting to like using heal much more now. I can can keep renew rolling and heal is usually all i seem to need for my tank not to mention it uses a lot less mana. I am still working out the best way to get chakra macro'ed and how to monitor it's status on my main.

[Daeri]

/cast avenging wrath
/castsequence reset=combat holy light, holy light, holy light, holy light, word of glory
/cast holy shock

Since a very recent hotfix, holy light doesn't trigger "tower of radiance" anymore, no more HP using this spell