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Good lord, this topic popped up overnight like a weed.
First thing is to address the OP: The reason that your GL wants to go disc over holy is that the RNG factor involved in the Val'anyr proc makes it MOST(not only) suited to MT healing. A MT healer will always be casting on the MT, thus the proc will never go to waste. Disco is the best spec for MT healing. Now, a holy priest could use the mace, and use it very effectively, however, if the raid isn't taking a large amount of damage and the proc occurs, I'm not going to waste boatloads of mana to put up 15% of my overhealing as shields on the raid.
Now the for the tangent topic that has cropped up of "What class should get the mace OFC?"
The following is a priority check list:
(Criteria 1) The healer who deserves it the most. The one who has stuck with the guild and will stay in the guild for the foreseeable future. The one who shows up to the raids on time, all the time. The one who puts in maximum effort.
(Criteria 2) Now, if you have multiple healers that fit this bill (lucky you), then next on the list should be the best MT healer.
(Criteria 3) If you have multiple *best MT healers* (again lucky you), then it should be the one who can squeeze the most raw HPS within 15sec.
I guarantee you that most guilds will never make it to 3. If you do make it to 3, and you have a Disco priest and a paladin; smart money defers to the paladin. Does that make Disco crappy? No. Disco is the hotness. It just means, in a minmax world, paladins have a slight edge on raw HPS.