Healing in MC

[Kevin]

Just curious to see how other (horde)guilds handle their healing in MC..

How many healers?
How many from each class?
How do you assign your healers on trash/bosses?
How do you arrange the groups?

I organize our guild's healers in MC, and I think we're doing pretty well. But I do think that we often are too many healers. So I'd like to hear from others how they do it..
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This is alliance side again but when we went to a tiered team system we decided on the following and this was with Blackwing Lair in mind.

6 Warriors (2 prot, 3 DPS, 1 prot/DPS)*
6 priests (1 shadow)
4 druids (1 moonkin, 1 feral)
4 paladins
6 mages
4 warlocks
5 hunters
5 rogues

*Note that warrior spec wasn't the biggest factor, the real split is 2 full time tanks, 3 full time DPS, and 1 who depending on the fight swaps between DPS or tanking. Every warrior may need to tank and every warrior may be tagged to just do DPS, spec doesn't play that big a part in our decisions. We've had arms/fury and fury/arms warriors MT all of MC before. but generally the players who spec prot like to tank more, and those that don't like to DPS more

For trash pretty much only the 5 healing priests heal. 1 per tank, 3 FFA healing. The paladins are up there swinging at mobs and spot healing. Most of the druids are in cat form. Sometimes a druid will volunteer to heal and priests will then throw out smites and holy fires for DPS.

On bosses, it depends on the boss. If we are facing a lot of magic debuffs the druids will be main healers (like on Sulfuron) and the priests and paladins will dispell more and heal less. And yes feral and moonkin druids that bring their healing gear can heal just fine for these fights.

On bosses like Magmadar the feral druid is usually in cat form doing damage a paladin or two will be up there hitting him as well. The druid will pop out and casts heals on the rogues and stuff (as well the paladin) when you are running out of fear range. For me it seems I DPS for 2 fear cycles and heal for 1 on average with my druid.

Generally though 10 healers has proven to be enough for everything in MC. The hybrid damage and healing classes (a shadow priests the feral and moonkin spec druids, paladins designed to do damage over healing) are fantastic because you get decent DPS (we've got feral druids that are only behind the rogues on the damage charts and if you factor out the 3% crit they provide to the rogues in front of them and give that to the druid, the druid is doing more damage than the rogues). But on fights like domo where you may want more healing it's great.

In BWL on Firemaw the feral druids running out of LoS to get rid of the debuff and self heal provide a lot of extra healing for the DPS (just watch for recently bandaged and current health) so the 6 healers on the MT, and the 4 on the OT's don't even have to think about DPS and DPS that bandaged but is still not healthy can get back in faster.

But 10 people healing is often overkill on many of the fights in MC at least after you learn them. While learning the stuff and gearing up 15 is probably more like what you need. We've gone with as few as 4 priests, 3 paladins and 3 druids in some of the early runs (when we still didn't have domo on farm status) and we were successful though it was more painful. So even in learning stages when you aren't fully geared 10 healers look to be enough.

But yes I would love to hear what some of our horde raiding members see for groups.