Number of Healers in a 25M Team

Hey Everyone,

For those of you that raid 25M (specifically normal mode), how many healers do you utilize each night?

Currently, my guild (Sigil, Lightning's Blade [A] US) runs 6 healers on average. A couple fights, usually the on-farm bosses that barely require healing, we drop to 5. However, after some thought and analysis on our current progression fights (mid way through HoF), I noticed a lot of "Bloat" healing - i.e. overhealing, too much "top everyone off", etc. If the healing team were to utilize a more efficient recovery model (hots over direct heals, use dps's self healing like spirit-boind, etc.), we could potentially drop to 5 healers for the majority of the time. Then for fights that 5 just isn't cutting it, we can off-spec a 6th healer.

The primary benefit of this format is the flexibility to off-spec the 6th healer, rather than have a mandatory 6th healer. This allows the team to drop down to 6-7 healers (5 in raid, 1-2 spare) vs. 7-8 healers (6 in raid, 1-2 spare) and pick up a dps (dps are typically easier to recruit than healers, in addition to the fact that recruiting for 25M is hard enough already). Furthermore, with dual-spec, most cast hybrids have enough gear to be a support healer if needed.

Let me know what you guys do in your 25M teams!
- Stimpack / Squirrels

25N

MGV:
Boss 4: 5 heals
Boss 6: 5 heals

HoF:
Boss 1: 5 heals
Boss 2: 6 heals
Boss 3: 6 heals
Boss 4: 6 heals
Boss 5: 6 heals
Boss 6: 7 heals

ToES:
Boss 1: 6 heals (elite version)
Boss 2: 7 heals
Boss 3: 6 heals
Boss 4: 6 heals



25H

MGV:
Boss 1: 6 heals
Boss 2: 6 heals
Boss 3: 6 heals
Boss 5: 5 heals

HoF:
Boss 2: 6 heals

25m Heroic: (the class stacking works fine for normal as well just on a less intense requirement).

MGV:
Boss 1: 5-6 healers
Boss 2: 6 healers
Boss 3: 5 healers
Boss 4: 5-6 healers - Manditory at least 1 disc priest/shaman (PWS or SLT)
Boss 5: 5 healers
Boss 6: 5-6 healers - advised 2 pally healers, shaman, disc priest and druid

HoF:
Boss 1: 6 healers
Boss 2: 6 healers
Boss 3: 6 healers - advised to have at least 1 disc priest pref 2, 1 holy pally, 1-2 shamans, 1 monk, 1 druid if needed
Boss 4: 6 healers
Boss 5: 6 healers
Boss 6: 7-8 healers - advised 2 disc priests, 1-2 shamans, 1 monk, 1-2 pally's (tank healing full time) and 1-2 druids.

ToES:
Boss 1: 6 healers (elite version) - advised 1-2 disc priests, 1-2 shamans, 1-2 druids/monks, 1 pally healer on tank healing FT.
Boss 2: 7 healers - Manditory at least one monk and/or shaman (preferably 2 shamans and one monk, needed for enrage timer) 1 pally healer, 1-2 holy priests, 1-2 druids
Boss 3: 6 healers
Boss 4: 6-7 healers - advised to have 1-2 disc priests, 1-2 shamans, 1 holy pally, 1 monk or 1 druid.

Note the ones I haven't specified doesn't really matter what classes you bring to heal as cd's are not required for main strats.

This is what my guild does (and did for some of the fights we don't do anymore like MSV)

MSV:
1st(HM): 6 healers disc/holy/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
2nd(HM): 5 healers disc/druid(x2)/monk/shaman
3rd(HM): 5 healers disc/holy/monk/shaman/paladin
4th(HM): 5 healers disc/monk/shaman(x2)/paladin
5th(HM): 5 healers disc/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
6th(HM): 5 healers disc/druid/monk/shaman/paladin

HoF:
1st(n): 5 healers disc/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
2nd(hm): 5 healesr disc/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
3rd(hm): 6 healers disc/druid/monk/shaman(x2)/paladin
4th(hm): 5 healers disc/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
5th(hm): 6 healers disc(x2)/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
6th(n): 6 healers disc(x2)/druid/monk/shaman/paladin

ToES:
1st(HM):5 healers disc(x2)/monk/paladin/druid
2nd(n): 6 I think
3rd(HM): 6 healers disc(x2)/druid/monk/shaman/paladin
4th(n): 5 or 6 i think