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Realistically raiding as 0-0-42 would be about 98% as good as anything else you can do with those points. Ignoring the stupid and almost useless things you have to take to get them, those first 42 points are fairly amazing and you get almost nothing useful with the rest of your points. I'd go so far as to say any resto druid that doesn't have those same 42 points (possibly picking nat shifter over the last 3 in focus) is very confused, not concerned with performing well for the content (you can be the judge of whether that's ok or not), or misclicked.
There's going to be a huge variety of what to do with those other points, because it frankly doesn't matter. You would have to actively try to spend them too poorly and the extent to which you use the various talents is probably worth 20 times as much weight in picking talents than slight amounts of theorycraft behind them.
Like Daedalix, I've swapped around where those points are quite a lot at different times in progression or even for different fights. Early on, I was going something like 0-19-42 pretty often because i was routinely off tanking things in kara or going DS/Resto because lifebloom was pretty weak still, my tree form aura was almost useless, and the mana regen was actually really nice. In SSC I found IS and some balance points to be amazing for leotheras demons, killing those stupid water elemental totems, and helping dps adds on vashj. In hyjal I found going to a fairly standard 8-11-42 pvp build just with tree form and 3/3 spirit kept me alive far more often than a few crit regrowths kept anyone else alive. Being able to cyclone things, nature's grasp them as you run away, feral charge things casting at you or feral charge away from things running towards you is amazing in an outdoor instance where trash obviously matters a fair amount and there's enough mobs in a wave that you can pretty easily get agro on something. Then once that got to be pretty easy and the tanks got enough gear where I wasn't getting agro as much, and threat got to be one of the leading restraints on our damage, getting brambles became the best way to spend my throw-away points.
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