How to beat me in PvP

[Concillian]

The most annoying part of fighting a paladin as a disc/holy priest is that you can't rely on Shadow Word: Pain (or Devouring Plague if you're Undead) to do anything for you.  So even if you reduce your incoming damage to very little by dispelling and mana burn like mad, it still takes a long while to kill a paladin. 
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Well, you can play a game with the paladin. Rank 1 SW:P costs far less than a cleanse (pally cleanse cost increased too). So you play "guess the rank of SW:P I'm using". Usually they'll dispel Rank1 SW:P for a while. Once they wise up and stop dispelling something that does like 50 damage over 18 seconds, you come back with a top Rank :), when he dispels that, you switch back to rank 1.

Keeps him casting, so that BoW is the only way he's regenning mana, and keeps you well ahead in the mana race. I generally only mana burn during a fear. Too easy for him to stun during one otherwise. If he's smart he will use the seal that procs stuns against a priest.

But fighting a pally one on one is a colossal waste of time in any BG, as is a non-shadow priest / non-shadow priest fight. I would only engage in them when the other priest was so incredibly well geared (compared to my blues and greens) that it was surely an advantage to tie him up 1 on 1 for the 6-10 minutes it would take to kill me.