My voyage to 60 and lessons learned

[Apatheist]

I don't think fiery shield stacks with thorns(?) and warriors are much better tanks than druids.

Only thing I'd change about your comp if I were to make a trinity comp for PvE is swapping the priest for a paladin.

[Moorea]

I solved most of my "damn pet pulls random next group" using this macro:
/stopmacro [noexists][noharm][dead]
/startattack
/petattack
/castsequence reset=target/15 Immolate, null
/castsequence reset=target/15 Corruption, null
/cast Shadow Bolt

the first line stops the macro unless the lock already has a target (is assisting), otherwise /startattack /petattack will pick the next nearby target


And about pally healer: I find my pally healer great for single target heals but having nothing fast nor any group heal is an issue so I am not sure you'd really want to swap your priest for a pally when you have mages that may get aoe aggro (or locks that are doing hellfire))

[Apatheist]

And about pally healer: I find my pally healer great for single target heals but having nothing fast nor any group heal is an issue

This stops being an issue when you get decent gear. With enough +healing paladin can spam downranked flash of light literally forever. Outside of rare circumstances where everybody in the party is below 50%, paladins are actually better at spot healing groups.

I have flash of light R1 bound to the same button as my single target DPS keymap set to heal mouseover if exists otherwise target of target. That way, it just autoheals whichever character the mob is attacking or my mouseover target. It's so cheap wasted casts don't even matter.

The only real advantage priest has is the inspiration buff.

[nodoze]

This stops being an issue when you get decent gear. With enough +healing paladin can spam downranked flash of light literally forever. Outside of rare circumstances where everybody in the party is below 50%, paladins are actually better at spot healing groups.

I have flash of light R1 bound to the same button as my single target DPS keymap set to heal mouseover if exists otherwise target of target. That way, it just autoheals whichever character the mob is attacking or my mouseover target. It's so cheap wasted casts don't even matter.

The only real advantage priest has is the inspiration buff.

Paladin is especially awesome for Melee Cleave (in general great due to Seal of Light but go into turbo mode if they get a full T1 set).

... And about pally healer: I find my pally healer great for single target heals but having nothing fast nor any group heal is an issue [edit:] so I am not sure you'd really want to swap your priest for a pally when you have mages that may get aoe aggro (or locks that are doing hellfire))

With Mages and Paladin reducing their threat this should rarely be an issue if you have a proper Tank. If running Warlocks I would think Priest should be better as they will damaging themselves plus you may also have pets.