Wow.... some people can be great big tards. I highly doubt anyone has taken the time to actually do the math. If spec'd, glyphed, & geared correctly, a holy priest can out heal a disc priest anyday. say wat? he can reduce dmg incoming by 3%.. ooh so BA. Why reduce the dmg taken and sacrifice your overall spell power by "Mana Efficient Gear" which i will cover shortly. How does that benefit when a holy priest can hit for much more in the same ilevel gear. If your renew ticks fork 1400 as disc but ur renew hits for 2500 a tick in holy. who uses more mana? the guy who has to spend more time casting gey flash heals hoping for a crit to land or the guy that just uses a mend/renew combo and never touches any other heal? Speaking of flash heals, u will never ever get a flash heal to out heal a gh. fully glyphed, talented whatever.. u will never have it use less mana per healing and u WILL take more time to get the same amount of healing done. Circle of Healing, lightwell, spirit of redemption? WHY!? the purpose is to maximize the full potential of ur healing so NOBODY dies. Did you ever try and take spirit and see what it really does do. You will get more mana while NOT casting then you do from mp5. look at the different types of gear.. you will get more mana from spirit gear of equivelent ILevel gear then that of mp5/crit. did you also know that spirit adds to ur sp, not because of talents or spells or glyphs, but ur sp does actually improve when u add spirit. So now u say mana? I have seen countless time where i have actually out healed a druid healing tanks AND raid which priests are designed to heal tanks period. Why do u think when you go and cash in ur Tier gear the DMG/HIT RATING gear is crit/mpg/hit and healing gear says SPIRIT & SP. hello, take a hint, blizz does this bc it was designed for that purpose. If you have any questions find my character in nothing more then simple 10m naxx/heroism gear and 1 little bitty trinket from ulduar 10m. I knock out healers of much better gear then myself with better healing efficiency. Budwelser on demon soul.