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Wow, just switched to Disc healing and it's frickin great. Rarely runs out of mana, only if I am doing lots of chain pulling with no downtime, and only then the priest will drop to about 45% mana.
However, did they nerf prayer of healing? I remember that spell was pretty decent, but now it barely heals the group - you have to cast it like 4 or 5 times just to fill half a bar.
I have been leveling my 5 x paladin team and in the 40's range I don't think healing has ever been easier than with a holy paladin. Crusader strike + holy shock = 2 holy power for mostly free healing and tons of mana regen. Beacon tank and only have to look at my 3 rets as my HPally + tank get healed from each shock or word or glory. And what is not to love about 5 plate wearers with 5 consecrates and all the other cool abilities.
Pallies are not that bad at lower levels; however, when you get to level 80 and try and run with one you will shoot yourself in the foot. All of the bosses have some kind of AOE effect and it makes it all but impossible to keep up healng especially for 4 melee.
Yeah I used to heal at 80-85 on a pally in PVE 5 mans, heroics, raids and Arenas... they aren't all that great but you can heal with no mana... I haven't played the pally at 85 since 4.2