04-26-2006, 11:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2006, 11:28 PM by oldmandennis.)
I've never been a big fan of priests in MT groups - they don't actually DO anything by being there. Hopefully your priests should know what they are doing, and keep an eye on the tanks without actually being in their groups. Often we put the two main tanks, a shaman and a lock + 1 other in group #1.
We usually go with healing battery groups for boss fights - a mana tide shaman with 4 other healers.
15 healers is pretty optimum, I think. For just the healing part of it, 2 druids is pleanty. Druids are probably the weakest at "spot healing the raid". However, druids are the only healers who can do a lot of damage without burning mana, which is nice for easier encounters. More priests is better then more shamans, as you are starting, but I feel as you mature, shamans close some of the mana gap, and the buffs are great to spread throughout the raid, especially fire and nature resist.
Edit: sounds like you have a good idea of what you are doing :)
We usually go with healing battery groups for boss fights - a mana tide shaman with 4 other healers.
15 healers is pretty optimum, I think. For just the healing part of it, 2 druids is pleanty. Druids are probably the weakest at "spot healing the raid". However, druids are the only healers who can do a lot of damage without burning mana, which is nice for easier encounters. More priests is better then more shamans, as you are starting, but I feel as you mature, shamans close some of the mana gap, and the buffs are great to spread throughout the raid, especially fire and nature resist.
Edit: sounds like you have a good idea of what you are doing :)