Mained a Disc for a good period so was already familiar with the spec. Sure, there were headless-chicken-groups and caused a few tight situations, but normally it was easy. The extra Disc-dps (sometimes I was top) provided probably helped a lot and I was also using the perk Light's Judgment. Didn't level as Holy so I'll take your word that it's a breeze in dungeons. Did you use heirlooms?
shadow is the fastest, go for the dispersion heal trait first.