Quote:I call shennanigans.
Arshes is 47 feral/14 resto. His only resto talent that applies to Healing Touch is Naturalist (-0.5 secs to HT casting time).
I'm 33 resto/28 feral. I have that plus Tranquil Spirit (-10% to HT cost), Gift of Nature (+10% to all heals), and Empowered Touch (+20% to bonus healing on Healing Touch).
Given an equal amount of +heal, my HTs should be roughly 25% larger than Arshes's and cost 10% less. This should allow me to downrank a little more, and keep the MT alive for significantly longer.
The argument though I was making wasn't really that a feral can heal as well as a Resto, thats obviously not true. It's about the usefulness of a Full Resto in Treeform.
I tried out Full blown Resto Treeform on many PTR's. I came to find that I got way better healing out of a Resto/Balance spec.