Avarice vs. Ragnaros

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Good opportunity to mention something that I've found to be true of Avarice Alliance healing, by the way, it seems current raid leaders tend to put priests with the first parties and treat druids as backup healers.  You can see this in the party organizations, such that the first parties will all have one priest and the last parties will all have one druid.  Each of the first parties will have one warrior.

I do this more out of habit with particular healers than priest/druid thing -> I'm used to certain healers knowing the roles of the different groups. We can switch this around, though.

Could we do more damage if we dedicated some people to healing and told the others to go DPS on trash mobs?  Would druids do better in the tank healing parties?  I've heard some people say that druids can do well with tanks.

That's a healerchat type question, you guys know the situation better. I do know I often get about 4 or 5 heals just as I'm about to back off and bandage, so overhealing is happening.

Also, should we look at dividing parties up into melee and ranged?  Consider for instance, that many enemies do melee AOE damage.  If you stick a priest in a party of rogues, then the priest's Prayer of Healing should be able to help all those rogues at once.  Also, the MA's battle shout could cover all those melee characters for extra damage.[right][snapback]94143[/snapback][/right]

My goal for groups right now (For the typical situations):
1) Warriors in groups 1 to x, for x warriors.
2) A healer with each warrior.
3) Warlock for imp's +sta start at 1 and go until we run out, for the warriors.
4) Paladin aura for the warriors.
5) Another meleer to take advantage of the aura and +sta.

Everything else is up in the air. Have extra pallies compared to warriors, we can dump a pally into an all melee group for aura. Don't have enough warlocks/pallies, fill the holes with melee dps to take advantage of what the group does have.

By stacking Warriors w/ as many meleers as fit, we can also take advantage of the Battle Shout. I have definately enjoyed the marked increase in use of that skill :) But, in my eyes, making the Warrior as good as possible comes first, unless that warrior is to be considered pure DPS like other meleers.