Blizzard to Paladins:

[Rinnhart]

Oh, and the other GINORMUS advantage pallies have is that 3-4 of them can cover an entire raid with every concievably useful blessing.  Shaman need atleast 8 to cover an entire raid, and even then many people will be missing important totems.  Of course this could cut both ways, with the 5th and 6th pallys being told to shield hearth cause the group would rather have extra DPS or priests, but thems the breaks.  At least the 4 who are there will have an excellent shot at loot.

Four guys with around 4500 mana each buffing 40 people, assuming we have salvation, kings, light, and either Might or Wisdom on everyone, because that would be "covering an entire raid with every concievably useful blessing" = four of your healers doing literally nothing the entire raid besides buffing. If you were some kind of god, you could get it done in a minute, if you're lagging and human, half the buff's duration, or more, will be gone before you're finished blessing a full raid force.

Realistically? If you're in a paladin's party, you'll have a blessing. If you're the MT or an OT, you'll have several, if you're neither important nor in a paladin's group, you'll be lucky to have any blessing besides the 15 minute salvation, IF a paladin on your raid has it.

If your paladins are all set up with whispercast you're in luck, you'll probably be set for all the yard trash you want. But nearly every MC boss necessitates reblessing mid-fight, and if I'm busy cleansing and healing, your fricken might isn't priority.

We have 5 or 6 paladins show up, we start booting rogues. If we had 8 show up, Jekyl might not die every pull.

I just did, and I agree HPS sucks.&nbsp; <Theory craft>However, the HPM looks fantastic, especially with Blessing of Light, the talent, and a little heal gear.&nbsp; How much mana does an end game pally have?&nbsp; It seems like you could spam that for ever, for a reasonable and very steady stream of heals</Theory craft>&nbsp; Shaman may be able to heal more quickly, but run dry very fast.&nbsp; I usually spend at least half a boss fight just rubbing my hands infront of my mana totem.
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A "steady stream of heals" is inefficient. 5-second rule. Flash of Light is too weak to quickly heal anyone if they're not also blessed with light. Holy Light's a jackhammer on the manapool. Averaging around 4200 mana to a paladin in my guild (a couple guys with nice big pools, a few guys who haven't broken 4k, yet). Plate's got #$%&ty caster stats, we've got smaller, less efficient heals. I would imagine we run dry as fast as a shaman who's just healing and not burning mana on nukes.