5 Man PVP - Healer Worth It?

[daviddoran]

I might try gettting fancy with heals when i get around to leveling my 5 boomkins, but for PvP, I just prefer 5x DPS. I love my shaman team because healing is so easy. I either cast LHW on each toon, on himself, or cast mass chain heal on one target, and I've seen that buy enough time for reinforcements to arrive, rather than let my allies get picked off one by one. I usually pick someone who's doing a lot of DPS, and therefore draws attention of the enemy, so popping 5 big heals on those guys really pisses off the enemy... especially if that person is a 35k hp warrior that they have been working on for a while... I also mass chain heal whenever someone tries to AoE me, and that sure pisses em off too...

My idea eventually is to try the 3 locks 2 resto druid method. Highly mobile team, just run and dot/hot. Ill probably do one Destro for aoe stun, 1 affliction for dots, and 1 Demo for a felguard, and demonic pact, which should be a nice dps boost to everyone. I like the idea of hybrid resto/balance, just use casterform.

[shaeman]

Alternatively say 1x Disc, 1x Resto (Dru), 3x Warlocks.
Priest has SW: Pain and Devouring Plague, to match the Moonfire and Insect Swarm.
You get PW: Shield and Renew as instants instead of Rejuvenation and Lifebloom as instants.
Mass Dispel, Fear Ward, Shadow Protection, Fort/Spirit to go with Mark/Thorns.

I love this idea.

Some extra buffs. Shield and renew when rejuvinating.
Wild growth to supplement holy nova for some quick aoe healing.
Prayer of mending for some healing jumps.

If only I could face getting those 3 pesky warlocks up from level 10

[Naysayer]

I love this idea.

Some extra buffs. Shield and renew when rejuvinating.
Wild growth to supplement holy nova for some quick aoe healing.
Prayer of mending for some healing jumps.

If only I could face getting those 3 pesky warlocks up from level 10

I was just going to say that. Also, sounds like it would be really easy to do, as odd as it would seem. Even though there's 3 different class they would have very similar keybinds.

They'd be fully mobile and if one healer is focused the other could keep him up.