The obvious benefit of catweaving (i.e., using Feral Affinity to deal damage as a resto druid) is that you can put out substantially more damage than you can with either
守护亲和 or
平衡亲和. If a fight doesn't require much healing or your group is very good at avoiding damage, you can spend your time adding meaningful DPS to a fight instead of sitting on your thumb.
There are sacrifices to be made, however. The first is that you have to take
野性亲和 over
守护亲和 (
平衡亲和 is mostly worthless for M+).
守护亲和 gives you a 6% reduction in damage taken and
狂暴回复 which is a great tool for healing damage done to you. There are certain dungeons where I feel
守护亲和 is required like
黑心林地 (Shade of Xavius) or
英灵殿 (
赫娅). Giving up
守护亲和 can be very scary, and a lot of healers won't want to give up that security blanket. There's nothing wrong with that approach, either. If you don't feel like you'd survive without
守护亲和, I certainly wouldn't recommend giving it up.
Another sacrifice is your gearing choices. In order to unlock your full DPS potential as a healer, you'll have to wear damage-oriented legendaries. While catweaving, I'm typically wearing
猫眼石玺戒 (Feral legendary) and
女神与爱子 (Balance legendary). Neither of these will contribute a lick to my healing, and LatC will take up a tier slot so that I can't run my usual 4pc t21 and 2pc t19 that I like to heal with. I also run double DPS trinkets like
橡树之心的瘤节之根 or
终端信号道标. Trinkets are a powerful source of healing, so giving up those slots for more damage will impact your healing throughput noticeably.
Your stats are also an issue. The best resto druid healing secondaries are haste and mastery, but the best DPS secondaries are crit and versatility. When I'm going all-out on DPS, I try to wear as close to zero mastery as possible. This stat allocation lets me deal a lot of damage but also guarantees that if unexpected damage comes out mid-fight I will have a rough time handling it.
Gearing for catweaving is a spectrum of sorts -- you can keep some healing legendaries or trinkets, or keep your secondaries balanced instead of going full crit/vers. So you can choose how much you want to focus on DPS. But if you're really trying to impact a fight with your catweaving, you will be very weak as a healer.