Originally Posted by
philsndude
i think 5 healers is often ok if u have good DPS. the hard enrage is not always the reason to prefer 4 over 5 heal setup. currently my raid is progressing on brackenspore mythic. in the beginning we started with 5 heals whereas the big adds survived way to long since our DPS was not strong enough. that often lead to tank death. tectus is something similar i think. i didn't kill him mythic but i can imagine that u want to minimize the length of the chaotic end of this fight, so u go with 3 instead of 5 ^^ some bosses have abilities which cannot be healed and need to get avoided. in that moments it can be nice to have those abilities 1 or 2 times less than with more heal and less dps.
i think its always very individual. in an optimal environment where everybody performs really nice, less healers means faster kills, means more efficiency ^^