Battle rez : theres never enough battle resurects. At all, With druid you can choose who will be ressed, thats a big disadvantage of soulstone. And resurection position is advantage over it aswell. cant beat it.
Remove curse: Theres never enough decursers. Naked druid can do it with same situations as mage. Its not situational or gear dependant... but when you realize druids have hots, they jsut fit much better as decurser. In addition, healer druid sure have better position for decurse, cause hes watching primary all peole in the raid, hes healer. Mages are focused much more on target than scouting whats going on in the raid.
Hots: You dont need mention pvp, cause we are talkign about pve, right. So druid is must have cause of the highest rejuv rank on the target, permamently. Aswell its better than shammy on the ranged dps, cause they split much more than melee groups where the will put their focus. Chain heal wont jump far you have to deal with that.
Better mana management : im not talking about innervate. Im talkign about mana management. Why would i rename Innervate to Mana management ?
lol Anyway, downranked druid spells are strong and cost less mana, so they get oom uncomparable slower than shammy. SO your assuming was wrong and then your main reason to take druid over another class is wrong too.
Summary you have to realize,everything in raid have its place. Imho you looks like you trying to find out some new strategy, but let me tell you, vanilla is out "few" years allready. If you think you can dig out some new Eldorado you can be surprised, theres nothing.:wink: