Shaman Totems vs Paladin Blessings

[oldmandennis]

Nice twisting of words there. The point is this, without BoL, a Shaman is more efficient than a Paladin at healing.

Ok... currently you have two options for what you can do with 4 raid slots. You can bring 3 pallys, and get most of your powerful blessings covered for the whole raid, plus a few groups of auras. You bring a priest in for the 4th spot, and live with the fact that 3 of your members are not super once the fight begins. Or you take 4 pallys, and they are all solid, efficient healers.

Or Pally healing can get a buff, putting them roughly equal to shammys. Now, 3 pallys heal effectivly, and the priest is gravy. Or you bring in a forth pally for BOL, and the four of them are now over powered. Either way, the side that is already overpowered gets better.

Name one spell a Mage has that is mana efficient that doesn't have a secondary effect?

Um... unless I am missing something, the ice bolt debuff doesn't show up on bosses which are immune to it. In any event, JOW is game changing, if you are not able to keep it up, then you need better control of your raid. It sounds like GG doesn't think its too hard to keep up.