best healer class/spec for CATA 5man HC

[bloodmarks]

title says it all, what class/spec is best for healing in 5man CATA (not MOP) groups, at level 85 heroics

obviously it will have at least 397 gear (justice points) and maybe even few 450 items from AH if cheap, so any healer should be able to do it

but problematic part is
- Singular is not as good for all healer classes/specs (heard monk healer CC sucks)
- some healers can cast most of their spells while moving (instants) and some have to cast most while standing so if group is moving filing up their health bars could be delayed
- some healers have ability to spend fast a lot of mana and keep group alive if something really bad/unpredictable happens (burst healing)
- i intended to (having in mind low healing needed in general with overgeared group) put only healer to loot/skin everything (free for all looting) so he will often stay a bit behind and will need to catch-up with healing when he reaches group after looting


i DID do search of forum and did read probably at least 10+ threads on this subject, and 3 classes recommended by majority are (mostly because Singular is working great with them)
- Resto Shaman
- DISC priest
- Resto druid


but it is really hard to actually find reasons why one of them is better than other so i can make informed decision or description which of healing classes have which significant advantage (obviously druids have battle-ress)

(only "class X is best" or "class Y is best" or "class X and class Y are two best ones" but no description why, what are its advantages, what are its disadvantages compared to other healing classes/specs)

so someone that tried in similar situation at least 1 (if possible more) healers would opinion would be really appreciated, if multiple people answer i can extract some comparisons

tank will be most probably prot-paladin since he has best DPS and best self-healing, maybe DK since he is second not sure

and DPS 3*hunter since they have best burst DPS/AOE burst DPS
(their DPS when doing start than stop than start than stop is high since while moving to next group they regenerate all focus and can burst again unlike casters)
and are ranged so they don't have to spend time on positioning, they also have small percent of damage as dots so they have great DPS on short living targets, also you can get any missing buffs from pets

Thanks all in advance

 

[bloodmarks]

Considering most of your bots will be almost stacked any close range AOE heal class would be the best. I would go with Resto Shaman or Resto Druid.

Thanks Phelon but you did not actually answer my main question, what is actually advantage and disadvantage of 2 classes (resto shaman/resto druid ) that you mentioned, both compared to each other and to other healing classes if possible (for this specific role healing 5man dungeons while at same time being only in group looting/skinning)

i DID do search of forum and did read probably at least 10+ threads on this subject, and 3 classes recommended by majority are (mostly because Singular is working great with them)
- Resto Shaman
- DISC priest
- Resto druid

but it is really hard to actually find reasons why one of them is better than other so i can make informed decision or description which of healing classes have which significant advantage (obviously druids have battle-ress)

(only "class X is best" or "class Y is best" or "class X and class Y are two best ones" but no description why, what are its advantages, what are its disadvantages compared to other healing classes/specs)

If you go rest druid.. there are some good healing CC's for it. I would recommend never using Singular for anything.

while I do realize there are several specialized CCs that are better than Singular
(since there is only one developer working on singular for 33 different class/spec combos and specialized routines are written by dedicated developer for only one class/spec combo)
there are some advantages to using Singular that other CCs usually don't deliver (without some i could live but difference in performance would have to be worth it)

- Singular is supported partially by HB team and when releasing new version of HB they will test/make sure that at least basic functionality of CC works

- Singular is automatically updated with HB, it cant happen that after new HB version is released after patch you have to wait few more hours for your custom CC maintainer to fix major problems since HB DEVs as part of release procedure are doing their tests using Singular

- When there is some issue with a some profile, plugin or HB itself it could be because of incompatibility with CC, most authors of different plugins or profiles and definitely HB itself will test if their product works with Singular and fix issue before release, if you at later date find problems with some other CC author may or may not be willing to make it compatible, but it will take more time to do so even if he does

- big part of specialized CCs out there have only "light version" for free (not all but significant still) and this light version does not do either movement or targeting, both are necessary when you have several bots running, one person cant realistically move, or target with 5+ bots

- with Singular you have access to code, can change it to fix some problem yourself, restart HB and solve problem/improve something, also code itself is great source for learning, most (not all) CCs come in form of some compiled dll, or loader/autoupdater of some sort

 

[bloodmarks]

almost forgot, this (related) thread seems to have most info from what i could find

https://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorbuddy-forum/124410-wow-char-set-5xbot-raf.html

 

[NavyAV89]

Considering most of your bots will be almost stacked any close range AOE heal class would be the best. I would go with Resto Shaman or Resto Druid. If you go rest druid.. there are some good healing CC's for it. I would recommend never using Singular for anything.

I have found Singular to be the best CR for healing. I have tried others but i never wipe with Singular. Cant say that for king-wow or oracle.