dualboxing healers -- calling all pros XD

[BIGBADPRIME]

I have 2 priests i am going to play, but i am wondering the idea of dual boxing a priest for heals, it would seem nice to have the best of both worlds 2 trees of badass healing.

Or would i simply be better off with my pally as a holy and my priest as disc.

My main focus would be battleground healing and raids 2nd

(who know even 5 man areana might be fun, hehe)


Well what do you guys think of the idea and whats the best combo, thanks

[Mokoi]

2 resto druids > 2 priests.

priest heals don't really stack that well, the bubble can only be placed once, the armor bonuses and other great benefits from priests only can be applied once, so they are not a great choice, but 2 resto druids stack very well and offer an insane amount of healing, especially in BGs. 2 different keys for instant heals and on the move healing is pro.

[BIGBADPRIME]

that is very good advice, i think i regret not building druids. It sounds very deadly.

On the move healing sounds so nice, where as a paladin / priest can't do much of that.




When i compare a disc priest to holy they do seem to have some synyrgy, but a holy priest can't do a good shield where as a disc can and then you got guardian spirit and a improved renew. I am not sure how well that blessed resiliance is either in the pvp scope of things for holy surviablity (but it sounds nice on paper)

A holy pally can take alot too, and bring alot.

[heyaz]

definitely need pros in this thread

[Mokoi]

Disc / Holy priests would offer some synergy, but they offer fantastic big heals (greater Heal and Pennance) which often don't need to overlap and if both cast on a single target would result in a huge overheal which you don't need.

Druid Hots can be rolled on multiple targets as required, and 2 resto druids can heal pretty much any BG force with gear, the wild regrowth is amazing and it doesn't require huge amounts of thinking and micro-managing 2 different sets of abilities. Cooldowns can be managed easily with macros (swiftmend and Nature's Swiftness) and if you BG you can tell how powerful even one resto druid is with its own hots, let alone multiple ones.

Also with druids, you could easily dual-spec moonkin / feral etc with the gear to change the dynamic (ie: druid tank and healer for AV bosses etc) A moonkiin spec could easily use the same gear as a resto, and would provide options, shadow priests in their current form are less than ideal DPS in BGs and even though I have my team at 80, I rarely use them as anything other than PvE healers.

[jimbobobb]

BG healing will be great - you can keep someone and yourself up for forever. Priest/paladin/druid whatever will probably be tons of fun. I like the priests because you have fear.


Raid healing will be a problem. If you have healed in a raid as a single person, you know that you are CONSTANTLY casting, CONSTANTLY retargetting/clique/griding, etc etc etc unless you are simply spamming heals on a tank.

I'm not sure how you would handle it, since you really would need to split your attention in two. You can't just both heal the same target, as you can in battlegrounds, and be alright. You can't just set a focus and heal that, because of the raid damage and such that permeates wotlk content. I mean if you were tank healing maybe, but priests aren't really the best tank healers. Seems like it would be extremely difficult. I know on my druid on fights like festergut and toc twins, my fingers hurt by the end. I couldn't imagine having to run two toons, and being very effective. Maybe if you played two shaman, and just went absofreaking nuts on the riptide/chain heal, and let the game do your thinking for you, but I think dual healing in raids will be fairly difficult on any encounter that actually requires you to pay attention.

bottom line is I think you'll have a blast in bgs and people will love to have you. I think you can probably make raiding work, but it's going to be very hard, and will require tons of outside the box thinking, and lots of @targettarget and @targettargettarget kinds of macros.

The great thing, however, about all of your available choices, is that you can dual spec them all dps. boxing dps in raids is much much much easier.

[BIGBADPRIME]

Hmm how would a protection specced healer ( or maybe a pure tank) , or dare i say it a ret healer with a disc priest?


I must say when the sceince is explained the dual druid team sounds sweet



WTB change class, got to role a druid team if i go to 5 boxing

[Ualaa]

I like the idea of multiple Disc priests in a battleground, because of Mass Dispel, multiple mana burns, and because they can probably put out more punishment then any other healing spec'd healer. Also an extra AoE fear per priest.

But... if they are part of a team, instead of the entirety of the team, one gets you 80% of the benefit, which means a second healer would probably add a lot more.

I would think Disc (Priest) + Resto (Druid) would be fairly nasty. You have the mitigation and prevention of the Priest, along with the large burst heals. Combined with the rolling HOTs of the druid. Wild Growth and Holy Nova are both strong AoE heals, although WG is targetable while HN is centered on the priest.

[Fomeny]

Healing in raids might work as druids, however I'd say only in 25 man effectively. 10 man is generally possible in encounters as say PDK, since they are fairly easy, but icc would sometimes be hard, as you cannot really use the full extent of your skills with two characters at once.
Why 25 man? As druids you are usually healling the raid by spreading hots. I'm fairly sure I could handle Rejuvenating the raid fairly well, since you basically have 0.5 secs to retarget/move your mouse to the next target. (0.5secs is plenty of time for me, if it's not for you I wouldn't recommend it ^^)

With Priests, raid healling should be doable aswell, but I think it would be harder since you cannot simply "cast around hots".

[genocyde]

I would second the disc priest / resto druid. Tank healer + raid heals for PvE and mitigation, dispels, hots for PvP. Together they are extremely mobile. Drive with priest for mass dispel targetting and druids are pretty fire and forget anyway.