Best dual boxing healers for 25 mans

[Trospar]

I am trying to figure out what would be the best 2 healer combo to heal 25 mans. Right now I am thinking druids.

Druid/Druid - hots galore with a double fire and forget type of healing.

Priest/Priest - my favorite healer but you can only place one shield/pom on a person. Lacking the ability to target the circle of healing on the 2nd toon sucks too (unless someone figured out a way around this?)

Shaman/Shaman - chain heals would be awesome but I was reading that their healing is kind of gimped right now.

Paladin/Paladin - I don't think I would like this too much but 2 super fast heals would be super cool. Same with double beacons of light.

Priest/Druid - have the priest be the main for PoM/CoH and have the druid kind of backing the priests big heals with hots.

Is anyone doing healing for 25 mans? I'd be interested to hear how you are doing...

[Zub]

i would personaly go priest /druid.
The best of aoe with the best of hots.
Atm i feel my holy paly is a bit gimped compared to other healers, capable of very big heals, survivabilty and good tricks, but not as fast when it comes to aoe, dispels etc.
Resto Shamies i havent played since xpac, so not sure.

With the incoming cooldown on circle of Healing and Wildgrowth the Chain Heals will stand up a bit better, but to be confirmed.

[Elili]

If you are looking at priests from a standpoint of circle of healing, do note that it will have a 6 second CD in the patch. This will significantly lower their AoE healing capability.

[Zub]

If you are looking at priests from a standpoint of circle of healing, do note that it will have a 6 second CD in the patch. This will significantly lower their AoE healing capability.

ProM, glyphed Holy Nova, Prayer of healing, Circle of healing (even with 6sec cooldown) still make priest very strong aoe healers.

[Svpernova09]

Druids are hardly "fire and forget". You've gotta be aware of how many seconds are left on your hots to maximize healing and not waste a stack of LB. You've gotta be aware of your swiftmend CDs. For best results glyph Lifebloom (for extra second) and Swiftmend (Don't consume Rj/Rg on use). You can swiftmend twice on a single Rejuv using this method.

Druid healing is not OP anymore, not like people think it is that remember druids facerolling through S1-S3. You've gotta keep LBx3 + Rejuv on a tank to keep the same healing the old style LBx3 did. Druids are not a bad choice at all. But don't know that I'd run 2. The downside to druid healing is it isn't practical for us to spam big heals. Most druids don't even HAVE healing touch on their action bars. We can pump out the big heals, Regrowths and nourish on top of Rg, Rj, LB, but you're going to have insane over healing with 2.

[Owltoid]

I would absolutely go with 2 druids for 25 man raids if you're dual boxing. Why? Mobility. I'm sure there are plenty of fights where you need to be able to move around. With HoTs you can still hold your own in healing while dealing with the complication in moving due to multiboxing. If you use a healer that stands still and heals you will have more difficulty. When single boxing it's not that tough to stand still and heal while moving out of whatever danger is coming, but due to the follow lag in MB the more you can constantly move and HoT the better.

[Drizzit]

ProM

I don't think this stacks on 1 person. We had another priest in my raid one time and we both had to heal tank. Well i found out that if he used his POM then i used mine before the tank took damage then it would just "refresh" pom on tank. It doesn't give tank 2 of them . So it was a battle to keep watching to see if he had pom up, when was the last time the other priest used pom (if he just used it i can use mine, but if not his cd might be over), and watch his health.

If you go 2 priest then healing tank and off tank shouldn't be a problem. Just have all your macro on set focus. Have on focus on tank and other on off tank. I think it will be hard for you to get into raids as a healer boxer. Reason is people want there healers on there toes and focusing on what is happening. I found it hard to get into raids with my shams in BC, even though they where well geared they rather take undergeared people then me. So i think boxing healers will be even worse. I also heard that blizzard are going to make there boss battles a little more complex, which isn't good news for boxers.

[Millz]

I 5 box shamans (or warr+4 shamans for instances), but the way my accounts/characters are setout, 2 will be specced resto (my main shammy which shares the account of my warrior) and another which will heal 5 mans..

So when the time calls for it, if we're lacking healers in 25 mans i'll be rolling with 2 shamans.. probably be best for healing the MT/melee.... round robin those chain heals!

[HPB]

As someone who healed some raiding content (pre-wrath, still working on gear for wrath) I can just advise you to do two different classes. It hurts a raid to not have poison removal. Also, it is a waste to have two of the same healer class giving out the same raid buffs. Each healing class has its own strengths. Having two healers of the same class often stressed out our raids a bit.

As to the whole Circle of Healing CD update, it's a non-issue for Discipline Priests
"I was discipline before it was cool." - Myself in guild vent last week.

[Trospar]

Thanks for the replies.

On the subject of 2 priests and prayer of mending; it is on a 10 second cooldown which means you can just keep cyclying them on the tank and they shouldn't goto waste.