With the nerfs coming to Mistweavers in patch 5.1 I am wondering how we will stack up against other healers.
Currently on live we are far ahead of all other healers in 25man and slightly ahead in 10man and I believe the nerfs are targeted at bring Mistweavers back down in 25mans but it will hurt us quite a bit in 10man, putting us below/on the same level as other healers. So what you say? The main issue I have is that monks have very little raid utility compared to other healers. Life Cocoon is terrible and barely does more than PW:S and Revival serves very little use apart from clutch healing to stop random deaths.
I was thinking about rerolling from a Mistweaver to a Resto Shaman. Resto Shamans have a lot more raid utility and cooldowns though Spirit link, Ascendance, Healing Tide, Mana Tide and Stormlash Totem.
The following values are from my guild's heroic Feng kill this week. The shaman we had in the group that kill is an unplayed offspec because we didn't have a 3rd healer that night so numbers are lower from him.
Monk healing: 24,451,990
Druid healing: 17,218,687
Shaman healing: 14,941,645
If we assume an approximate 20% reduction in our healing output it would put me at 19,561,592 total healing and the druid's numbers would be likely to increase as his HoTs aren't sniped as much by Chi burst/uplift. Is there really any point in playing a mid-range output healer who has terrible raid utility/cooldowns?