Briefly reading through here, and just playing around a bit on wowhead, I've seen a few styles of healing builds, not trying to have them rated or anything, but I've seen full resto, resto with a subspec, and dreamstate builds. These may not be cookie cutter builds or anything, but something along those lines.
What I'm wondering is if the following assumptions I am making are correct (and if I'm wrong, why I'm incorrect, and to what degree am I incorrect).
Full Resto: This build is useful for healing when you know that's all you'll be doing. It allows you to use healing touch if you need a quick heal between cooldowns of swiftmend, but does not allow you much utility in feral or caster forms. Useful for healing, but not DPSing, off- or main-tanking, or PvP.
Resto With a Subspec: This build would allow small off-tanking ability, or some added PvP utility if subbed in feral, and would allow some extra buffs/debuffs for PvE or PvP support if subbed in balance. Would not have the extra bonuses to HT, but with how good your HoTs are you shouldn't need it a whole lot, and natures swiftness makes up for several talent points. This would take the full resto build and drop a few talents that would be situationally usefull, and pick up other talents that would be situationally useful - only instead of just healing picks up added utility.
Dreamstate: This build would allow for healing touch to become incredibly mana efficient, and allow for you to rarely go OOM. Would allow for a lot more soloing power (caster in plate) while letting you DPS should your group not need a healer at the time. Popping out of moonkin form you could still be a formidable healer, albeit not the master of HoTs that the other builds allow.
Summed up: full resto offers great healing power in either playstyle (HoTs or HT spam) but no utility, resto with a subspec will allow for extra utility/support in PvP and PvE but not use HT as effectively, and dreamstate will allow for good (but not great) healing and DPSing in PvE.
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thats more or less the gist of things, yes. the dreamstate build tends to make for a pretty good MT healer, since you can just spam a downranked HT on the tank while a tree druid keeps HoT's on him and the two of you can pretty much heal the tank thru anything.
the disadvantage of the dreamstate HT spam build is that youll likely be casting constantly, so while youll have some pretty crazy staying power for a spamming druid, youll probably be best off working in some kind of rotation where another healer steps in to take care of your target while you regen mana.
its also possible to spot heal with the HT's on the DPS and/or OT's, depending on the fight and your playstyle, but that takes a lot of practice in knowing how much you can heal with what ranks on what targets. plus a full tree build works just as well, if not better, for pure spot healing, since a tree'd rejuv on a DPS is usually more than enough to deal with any errant aoe.
the disadvantage of the dreamstate HT spam build is that youll likely be casting constantly, so while youll have some pretty crazy staying power for a spamming druid, youll probably be best off working in some kind of rotation where another healer steps in to take care of your target while you regen mana.
its also possible to spot heal with the HT's on the DPS and/or OT's, depending on the fight and your playstyle, but that takes a lot of practice in knowing how much you can heal with what ranks on what targets. plus a full tree build works just as well, if not better, for pure spot healing, since a tree'd rejuv on a DPS is usually more than enough to deal with any errant aoe.
I should note I'm not just talking about raids, but 5-mans as well (where you'll most likely only have one healer).
HT build works in 5-mans, but ToL tends to be a bit better, if only because everyone gets a nice hefty healing buff. its especially nice with say, an elemental shammy using healing stream (nice hunk of passive healing there) or an spriest with vampiric embrace.
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