Priest vs Paladin grouphealing after patches.

[Mahtamori]

I would hate to see Paladins having an active group heal. There have to be differences between the healing classes.

That depends entirely on content design. If the few-man content (5 man in particular) is designed with a lot of raid damage the way Loken is, then you need every healing class to be a decent AOE healer. If the few man content is strictly limited in AOE damage, on the other hand, you don't need all healers to be AOE healers.

Maybe you could just redirect us to that priest topic, when i actually posted, but not everyone saw it.

Its paladin. I can overheal priest using circle (in healing meters, but that seriously only one things what matter in phaze 1-2) on malygos. And thats big deal. If are priests better aoe healers paladin should never be able to overheal it, however its really not hard.

If the AOE healer uses a heal that hits five targets for one fifth of your single target heal, then you should be the one coming out on top simply because you will likely be healing the tank (main aggro target) which always take more than 10x the damage of anyone in the raid.

AOE healing is meant to keep a lot of people topped up (it's not your responsibility as a healer to keep 10 people alive if they stand in the fire, it's THEIR responsibility not to stand in it in the first place), it's NOT meant to be a raw healing force/source.

[tehealadin]

Loken doesn't need AoE heals. Heck on my paladin I can just stand still on normal mode, as can the group and HL spam can keep them up. On HC, we would have got owned, on HC, you need to avoid the avoidable damage. Incorrect assumption that AOE damage needs AOE heals, it doesn't, so long as the damage isn't too intense, fast and strong single target heals can heal through it.

This isn't a problem with any class, I will repeat it till I am blue in the face, it is a problem with peoples ego's.

[Bilbobubblin]

I raid as a Holy Paladin, I could easily judge Light and spam Holy Light and top the meters on most fights. But that wouldn't make me a better player (judging Light in a raid that has Prot/Retr Pallies is the go-to sign of a meter whore).

OP, your post has too much emphasis on meters. Priests are the versatile healers with a spell to match every occasion. Paladins are tank healers with high efficiency and Holy Light "bombs." Druids are excellent raid healers. Shamans are good melee healers with a few sprinkles from the other healing classes.

Every healer has a purpose. Meters are terrible comparing different classes. Even with the same class, I was once overhealed by another Holy Paladin with less gear so I checked Recount, 42% of his healing was Judgment of Light (and yes there was a Prot and Retr Pally there also judging it, GG overwriting a better debuff to pimp yourself).

The good players will prove themselves by playing well, not topping the meters. Stop focusing on the meters.

[xCyniCx]

That depends entirely on content design. If the few-man content (5 man in particular) is designed with a lot of raid damage the way Loken is, then you need every healing class to be a decent AOE healer. If the few man content is strictly limited in AOE damage, on the other hand, you don't need all healers to be AOE healers.

That's just wrong. In 5-man content there is no need to have AoE healing spells. If you can't do them without, you're a noob.
Soon after I hit 80, together with some others from my guild, we went on to clear heroic instances. We did every single hc with a Paladin healer who had the same crappy T6/Level gear as each of us. He healed Loken without any problems.

What I'm saying is:
You simply have to know what you do. This is what's mostly called "skill".
If you don't know what you do, you would suck even with Circle having no cooldown and healing for 10k each.