I use two different healers, and usually play with both each week (they are both in the same team). A druid and a pally

They both have different qualities and drawbacks.

When looking back statistically I've won more with the pally than with the druid.

But lately my druid healer tried something different that worked out quite well. From early on he was deep resto and 11 feral for charge. But recently he respecced resto/balance(moonkin). This seemed to work supprisingly well.

We often start the fight with him standing in moonkin form over my shammys. Making both targeting harder and it a bit harder to see for enemies what is really going on. Seems many of the teams believes that the moonkin also is controlled by me, and often focuses him first. If they do, that is usually a big mistake. As long as he is in moonkin I have no problem nuking enemies at the same time as I heal him. This also gives me 5% extra crit from moonkin aura wich is quite nice.

If they start to nuke one of my shamans, he still heals very good, and tranquility also often saves the day against aoe. This means I have to play a bit more defensive, but a moonkin in restogear also gives out a punch so its quite nice for all those "allmost kill" moments, making them a certain kill instead with the help of my healer/Dps hybrid.

Anyway the big advandage of the moonkin is that he can enter moonkin again if he get focused instead of bear form. This gives me both more dps and better healing due to the crit aura.