Arena healer that compliments 4 moonkins

[Owltoid]

With the next season I'm going to try and take arena a little more serious. I doubt I'm ever a highly ranked team, but I would like to break 1500 if possible. I'm realizing that 5 moonkins just won't cut it and I'll likely need an independent healer.

Shaman teams like to use pallys from what I gather. However, as a druid team, which healer should I use? My initial reaction is to get a resto shaman for the tremor totem and bloodlust. A priest is also attractive for their mass dispell on the treants being frozen by mages, though I'll have very limited fear protection.

[asonimie]

resto shaman all the way I'd say. Good luck and keep us posted!!

[Multibocks]

New changes on the PTR has your knockback dazing opponents for 6 secs. That is crazy OP sounding, but you dont have the totem advantages that a 4 shaman group does, so I guess its a wash.

[David]

New changes on the PTR has your knockback dazing opponents for 6 secs. That is crazy OP sounding, but you dont have the totem advantages that a 4 shaman group does, so I guess its a wash.

I doubt that it will reach the final patch. Seems kinda OP.

[Owltoid]

I doubt that it will reach the final patch. Seems kinda OP.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this goes live. Moonkins are pretty weak right now and this would be a big step to helping their PvP.

[Stealthy]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this goes live. Moonkins are pretty weak right now and this would be a big step to helping their PvP.

Just my 2c worth...

I haven't done arena with my Moonkins, but from my PvP experience in BG's, I feel they just don't have the burst to cut it in arena. Our dots are too easily healed through, and our one decent nuke has a cast time thats too long for pvp. So you're basically reduced to dots + wrath spam with an occasional typhoon as an interrupt. In the close combat situation of arenas, its going to be hard.

Where we really excel is in a support role, back from the front line, where you have time to get your nukes off, drop targetted hurricanes, and even the occasional heal to a team mate.

Cheers,
S.