Pally healer not worth it in a mixed group?

[daviddoran]

I never thought of putting the heals on the same button as the dps macro. I figured it would be over used and the healer would go OOM. But I'm going to try it, hows this macro for it?

/target focustarget
/cast [help] Flash of Light;[target=targettarget,help] Flash of Light;[target=focus,help] Flash of Light

This is the macro I use:
/cast [target=focustarget,help][target=focustargettarget,help][target=focus,help] Flash of Light

I think this is pretty much what you have. I typically set my focus to the tank. This type of macro means I first heal any friendly unit my tank has targeted, second it heals whoever is being attacked by the mob my tank has targeted, and finally heals my tank. I still find this macro magical at times. For the first condition there can be some assist lag so it can take a couple spams to hit the focustarget but in general this is a pretty good setup for running a single target healer and doesn't take too much management.

I wish there was a % health conditional.

Ah, as a multiboxer I miss the days of the lowest health button. That would make all of this so trivial.

That said, I agree with the previous posters who say AoE healing with a priest can be wonderfully powerful.

I use a very similar macro on my priest, so i first heal the tanks friendly target, then the tanks target's target, then the tank itself if i have nobody selected that meets the criteria. But having that AoE Trump card makes all the difference in the world. It seems that WotLK has a lot more "gimmickyy" boss fights where there is a lot more splash damage. It's a real shame there isn't some sort of talent that makes consecration heal whoever stands on it...

I know holy pallies usually spam Flash of Light (or at least we did in TBC), but there's a glyph that turns holy light casts into a gimped AoE heal, which may work in a pinch, trouble is overhealing, it heals based off of the amount healed, so if nobody is low enough, you can't heal everyone else. But if the tank is taking consistent damage, everyone else will benefit slightly. I could see a paladin healer with 3 ele shaman dps, chain heal negates the paladins lack of aoe.