R Shaman or R Druid

[Ellay]

Which do you enjoy more for PvE and PvP.

I am trying out both, the Resto Druid is slightly more geared but it feels like they mesh better as a team and take less focus to perform their functions ( you can get their hot rotation down and not have to hard cast any heals) This nets better for PvP since it';s on the move and less interrupts.

The shaman brings some nice group buffs and spirit link, but I am unsure if it is worth it at this point.

[zenga]

in combination with what other classes? if its with elemental shamans you get the silence beam from the resto druids through symbiosis, which is a massive ability to score kills (if you put it on the healer/casters/ or dk/enhance)

[Ellay]

in combination with what other classes? if its with elemental shamans you get the silence beam from the resto druids through symbiosis, which is a massive ability to score kills (if you put it on the healer/casters/ or dk/enhance)

In combination with 4 dk's. I am thinking about just doing a trial run on some heroics using a Druid healer and enhance shaman with 3 dk's before I start moving around my accounts.

[Dusl]

@Ellay Please share your impressions after your trial runs. I'm brainstorming about a very similiar question and would love to hear some opinions.

I'm not experienced with Shamans but imo a gread thing for melee teams is, that the resto Druid can dps as a melee. If you drive the tank and don't need a dedicated healer all the time, just let him dps for a while.

[Ellay]

I have them both on a "dry run" sitting at a training dummy. Again about equally geared in terms of spell power and doing normal heals without popping any cooldowns. On 1-2 targets the Shaman will be slightly higher but mana is depleted greatly. Anything above that and the Resto druid heals are off the charts due to aoe heal nature of it.
Will report back when I give it a try here shortly.

[Dusl]

> Again about equally geared in terms of spell power and doing normal heals

Yes, I think even on heroic instances it doesn't really matter. Both are good and the content isn't too hard in terms of required healing. I think this is true for a boxing team, too (I'm not expirienced in boxing, is it true?).

For me, it's more about the integration into a melee team. Which one is more fun and suits more.

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Will report back when I give it a try here shortly.

Yeah, thanks!

[Ellay]

I just did Jade Serpent Temple and while the constant hots and aoe heals were nice it felt like it lacked the punch when I needed heals the most..
Going to keep testing and switching them out because it doesn't hurt.

[Khatovar]

I've got no complaints with my Resto Shaman in my melee team {PvE, of course}. Overall I have a ton of passive healing just due to the nature of my team {2*HST, 2* Holy Prism, 2*Sacred Shield, Glyphed Riptide on a randomized cast, Earth Shield}. 90% of the time she's right up in there in melee range because it just makes it easier to move out of the way of things.

She has 2 setups I can use, 1 where all she does is totems and shocks/UE between casting Riptides all over the party and 1 where she has an actual rotation with Lava Burst and Lightning Bolt spam added in. The latter is the one I've used pretty much exclusively. Glyphing Telluric Currents can help while you're gearing up if you want/can DPS while running content, but I swapped that out pretty early for Healing Wave.

Then I have mouseover regions set up so she can do {NS+}GHW, HW or Chain Heal based on mouse position on the frame. A separate button allows me to manually cast Riptide on mouseover {also tied to Rez out of combat, battle rez in combat}. Plus I still have Spirit Link/Healing Rain/Healing Tide Totem/Ascendance/Spiritwalker's Grace for really disastrous moments.

[shadewalker]

I just did Jade Serpent Temple and while the constant hots and aoe heals were nice it felt like it lacked the punch when I needed heals the most..

I haven't used a resto Druid since cata, but this was my impression also. I just felt I fell behind and couldn't keep up when I really needed lots of healing in pve content.

[zenga]

Well dks are tanks that take more dmg by default compared to the other tanks as they rely for a big part on self healing cq building up a blood shield. But when you take 2 consecutive big hits then it might indeed feel that you gonna die, definitely with a resto druid hots on you. But in fact you are probably just fine. Either way I'd say that resto druid paired with a blood dk demands way more active cd management on both toons compared to any other tank with any other healer.