Quote Originally Posted by 'Otlecs',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115234#post1 15234
wasting mana by not letting consecrate tick?
I've never given it a moment's thought to be honest. It ticks away quite happily while it's on cooldown

I just kind of accept that I'm going to have some downtime after every pull, which doesn't work out too bad given that I'm usually waiting for overland mobs to respawn anyway.

You've obviously made up your mind here, but if I were two boxing now with an eye on going further later on, I'd probably go with two mages for the point-blank AoE power. Healing just isn't an issue until you start hitting instances / doing Outland group quests in any case.
Hmm, well no, I haven't completely made up my mind, I just assumed healing was better than no healing. I did aoe grind back in the days before they nerfed aoe damage, and I did it solo & it worked out pretty well, so maybe I should consider this, darn indecisiveness!