pvp healing

I've been 2 boxing pve for a while with a prot war and holy priest. Works great and I run through heroics easily with just about any pug I grab.

So now I'm wanting to try pvp again after playing pve exclusively since bc came out. My war and priest are mostly pve badge geared so their resilience a bit lacking but man the priest gets raped in arena. It's pretty frustrating. Is the resilience going to help a lot? The priest really doesn't do much kiting or running, he just spam heals on himself along with the occasional binding heal that gets the warrior too. And he doesn't last long at all if the other team is any good. I was thinking that priest has got to be the worst of the healing classes to box pvp.

Anyone boxed a healer in arenas have any tips? I was thinking I need to start over with a pally who wears plate and can bubble. Then again, people seem to want disc priests in arenas too so I dunno. Albeit non boxed disc priests.

Thanks for any input. I'm pretty happy just two boxing as it's much easier on the computer and easier to control although pve in heroics I've had success 3 boxing war/priest/hunter.

Respec him to disc and get about 350 resil. You'll wipe the floor with average teams, but any decent team will give your healer too many problems to micromanage while playing the warrior well at the same time. Once your healer reaches 350+ resil and you spec him disc, you'll have a lot more fun because he'll be a better tank than your warrior in pvp.