Originally Posted by
gnorrior
Wait wait wait. So you guys think it's balanced for holy paladins, a class with an extremely powerful mix of smart heals, absorbs, and single target heal bombs, to be able to do equivalent healing throughput as a class who only has the ability to blanket heal the raid?
You're quite literally insane.
Further, holy paladins have some of the strongest utility of all the healers, only one who could be better are rsham (and they pay heavily for their utility).
Next, let's include the damage that devotion aura prevents to the raid, now you're FAR above MW on healing meters.
How anyone could say holy paladin's aren't the strongest healer in the current tier by a huge margin blows my mind. With CD's they can >almost< keep up in raw throughput with blanket healers using our CD's (MW) while the majority of their healing is smart/absorb/single target bombs. Whether the current nerfs in 5.3 are enough or too much is hard to tell, but the increase in stats will likely mean they're more able to holy radiance spam better than before and I doubt the move from t14 4pc-> t15 heroic 4pc will be that big of a nerf.
The best part is even if your AoE healing gets nerfed, you'll still almost guaranteed be very powerful because your tank healing blows everyone else's out of the water, and every fight needs tank healers.