Shaman Totems vs Paladin Blessings

[Lissa]

Can we at least assume equal gearing and skill? That's what lemekim is talking about. We're comparing Horde to Alliance in this discussion, not player A with Gear X to player B with Gear Y. A shaman with X amount of +healing gear will never be as mana efficient as a paladin with X amount of healing gear.

Yes and No. If you do not consider BoL (which is usually the 4th Blessing put up, so requires 4 Paladins), the Shaman's Healing Wave is more mana efficient than the Paladin's Holy Light (HL is quicker to cast, but offers less healing and costs more mana than HW). If you consider Flash of Light vs. Lesser Healing Wave, the top end FoL (FoL 6) is equal to LHW 3 (again, barring BoL) and LHW 6 is more akin to the Priest's Flash Heal than it is to FoL. What makes the Paladin more efficient is BoL, but again, in a raid situation you have to have a minimum of 4 Paladins to actually see it in use (and it's kinda rare for Avarice to see more than 3 Paladins in a raid).

A warlock who controls his aggro perfectly on Alliance does 10% more damage than a horde warlock who controls his aggro perfectly.

Again, yes and no. If you are strictly considering Blessing of Salvation against the Totem equivalent, then yes. If you consider a Warlock with Master Demonologist and an Imp out along with 8/8 Nemesis, the difference shrinks to around 5% due to the multiplicative factor of aggro reduction (only thing that breaks this rule is mage talents which are getting changed to being multiplicative in 1.12 from being additive).

Really? The tooltip says "attacks and spells".... is it broken right now? Haven't logged in with my paladin for a long time...

I took a closer look last night, it does work with spells, but, and this is the kicker about it, JoW is only going to last 10 seconds untalented and it is going to typically be knocked off very quickly (literally there was one up for 1 cast of a SB last night, since I have Bane, that's 2.5 seconds that it lasted, I could have gotten that much mana from a single tick of mana regeneration). If a Mage or Warlock is lucky, they're going to get 177 mana back in those 10 seconds (timing to get 4 spells in during the 10 seconds is difficult due to lag) if the JoW doesn't get knocked off before then.