Originally Posted by
theburned
aluriel and guldan? not on that list, druids were insanely strong on both those fights because of our focused healing, last phase botanist? Only fight we struggled on was augur and that was mostly due to how you just needed the DR cds in last phase. We werent anything amazing on krosus, but still perfectly fine (we ran 2 rdruids first week, no real issues there.)
You should also read up on what niche means, cause resto druids clearly does not fit as a niche healer, when we are only lacking spot healing and a raid wide DR cd.
We are mostly at the top of the pack or 2nd at most other healing styles.
Active tank healing probably the strongest healer, passive tank healing 2nd to paladins (which is their niche)
Focused healing into (2-6) predictable targets we still remain the strongest healer (which is considered to be a niche where we are unrivaled.), sustained aoe healing, highly competitive due to the nature of our hots (shaman and hpriest can arguably be better here.)
medium duration bursts 20-30 sec we are still very strong, probably only fight against discs.
Still have the best tank external aswell.
Our mobility is better or on par with mw, otherwise just crushing every other healer. This goes for getting from point a-b, when it comes to being able to heal on the move we can move during 9 out of 10 gcds. MW and new disc are the ones who come closest with 4-5/8-9 gcds.
Our survivability is really strong with bear form, guardian affinity, 1 min cd 20% DR, we dont have an ankh/immunity, but those have heavy cds, cutting edge mythic fights tend to test you a bit more than being able to immune something every 5-20 min.
While a bit irrelevant to healer discussion we are ahead or competing with paladins on healer dps, (some outliers with paladins where they just get so much from double wings, or that they have slightly easier access to dps legendaries.)
To me it looks like we are competitive at everything, if we were to also have the best throughput, we are pretty much unbeatable in every single aspect apart from spot healing, and that we lack that raid wide Damage reduction cd.