Shaman Totems vs Paladin Blessings

[oldmandennis]

It take BoL to make a Paladin a more efficient healer than a Shaman. And BoL is not always going to be there.

Ok, so if they buffed Pallys so that even without BoL, they were still acceptable healers, they would be overpowered with it. Or remove BOL altogeather, and tell one more pally (all indications are that in general there is no shortage of them) to sit at home or reroll, because that is one less blessing that is needed.

If you read what I said as a follow up, it's that the buff gets knocked off. There is very little room for debuffs on a mob when you have the following going up: Curse of Shadow, Curse of Elements, Curse of Recklessness, Sunder, Thunderfury procs (2 debuffs). There's 8 debuffs that will be up constantly.

Well 6 actually.

Some of the other 8 slots take, VE, MF, Rend, Shadow Weaving, Faerie Fire, and random debuffs from procs and the like.

Rend? MF (are you saying mindflay here?)? JoW is from all accounts very powerful, certanly it was a part of the decision to give the horde pallys. Cut some of the crap and tell people to unequip procing weapons if you need to. Or tell one of your pallys to whack away, it shouldn't be too hard to convince them to do it, especially if they are sucky for lack of BoL.