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[Concillian]

Buff Holy tree too much, and Priests not only doom other healing classes, but they doom shadow Priests.  Every group will demand a Priest with a Holy spec and it would become a requirement for raids.  Druids will be thrown out.  So Blizzard has a challenge - how can they make the 31 point Holy spell good enough to get without upsetting the game balance?
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My idea for holy priests was to swap the Improved healing and Master Healer talents in location. Then make Master healer be a talent that dramatically reduces casting time, but also reduces amount healed such that a 5/5 investment yields 1.5s (flash, mostly uninterruptible with talents) 2.1s (heal) and 2.6s (greater) healing amounts. But the mana efficiency will be slightly reduced.

This brings a 'transformative' type talent in the holy tree that can be used with 31 points in any other tree, but a shadow or disc build will give up the mana efficiency boost of the Imp. Healing. This also allows the mana efficiency of improved healing to be actually useful.

It allows priests to have better heal per mana than current flash heal, but not dramatically so, by enabling the use of the long time heal spells easier. It also brings larger effect of +healing as that is dependent on the initial healing time than current flash heals.

The top end holy talent would negate usage of Inner Focus. Rather than give a 0 mana heal, I propose something similar to Nature's Swiftness, a 0 time heal. Which gives some variety without overpowering, especially since people going that far in the holy tree would not generally have the full greater heal, they would take the 'cut down' greater heal.

I think those three changes would bring spice to the holy tree without imbalancing things too drastically. The 'transformative type talent is important to have on a tier where it can be reached with just 20 points to encourage diversification.