From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
I can see where you're coming from...we won't care as much about spirit when we have comfortable amounts of regen. However, at the end of Cata I played a disc/holy priest and stacked intellect with no regards to spirit at all. I enjoyed the extra spellpower but for the most part it was for the bigger mana pool size. With the mana pool cap, I wonder if it will end up making that much of a difference. You could potentially stack either intellect or spirit and either have bigger heals or the ability to basically spam whatever you wanted all you wanted with no repercussion.
I guess we'll have to wait until later in the expansion to see for sure.
I like healing the way it is now. It works well.
The only thing that I don't quite grasp are paladins and their way of healing in this expansion.
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I run a Holy Pally (I never healed before MoP, was always a Huntard DPS) and as a single target I feel they're great, but when compared to all the other classes and their AoE I feel really inferior. I'm not sure if that's a new situation or what but it makes healing during raids kinda irritating as besides EF blanketing, I can't do a whole lot without running out of mana.
I've never played a healer until now. I was always a Tank or OS - DPS. I am already at 29 with a new MS Resto Druid. I never run outta mana, and with Heallium addon enabled, I can heal, rezz, or cure poison just at the click of a button. My little night elf just chills 10 feet back and tosses a Rejuv and Swiftmend. I heal the whole group throwing two or three casts. Kinda nice to have the easy job for a change. No more MDPS or Tanking for awhile... really digging this Resto stuff.