Shaman Totems vs Paladin Blessings

[Concillian]

Nice twisting of words there. The point is this, without BoL, a Shaman is more efficient than a Paladin at healing. If you give the two classes the same amount of mana, the Paladin will run out of mana first trying to heal as much as the Shaman without BoL.

Assuming he is holy spec-ed, doesn't this depend on the amount of crit a paladin has? I was under the impression that paladin could heal for an incredibly long time if they have the crit talent and a decent amount of crit.

I mean 20% crit becomes 20% of heals completely free... plus 1 every 2 minutes due to divine favor. Even without BoL pallies would seem to be pretty efficient healers if they play to their strengths.

BoL is powerful, but it isn't worth going with over things like BoK, BoSalv, and BoW.

I haven't raided with paladin, but looking at their skillset, I would think paladin would be best utilized like druids... as primarily single target healers. If I were leading healers, I don't think I'd be having paladin doing spot heals, since flash of light is probably not the best option for that. Shaman and priests seem to have a better skillset for that. And then any target of a pally healer would lose one of the top three and gain BoL.