I have a 5x set og boomkins at lvl 70 at the moment.

They are way better than my warlocks pvp wise and almost as anoyinh as the warlocks to the enemy

Of course my shamans are undisputed kings pvp and pve wise.

Good things about boomkins:

1 ) Instacast on the run dots (insect swarm and moonfire)
2 ) Oneshot everyone with startfire
2 ) Green bolts cannon with 1.5 sec (GCD) wrath cast.
3 ) Two instacast hots per druid in case of need

Bad things about boomkins:

1 ) Healing is not fire and forget like a full set of shamans casting chain heal and everyone in the group is topped again after a second. You will miss that when a spining warrior comes close to you.
2 ) No totems. Grounding a tremor totems make a BIG difference in pvp.
3 ) No pets instead of totems... the instacast 30 seconds forest is not a valid pet except for the lols. This means that when your group is swarmed by melee you will miss the handy magma totem.


If you have a shamans set boomkins are way inferior and not worth it. I am leveling a full set of druids because pve wise they allow much better raid healing than shamans. A multiboxer with 5 resto druids can easyli have a full 25 man raid topped without much problems leaving a single disc/holy prienst on the MT for the extra heals... just in case that 20 hots on the tank are not enough.