Originally Posted by Hylo
Is priest mana regeneration really THAT good now? Shadow priest is a must for every holy paladin in this fight if you want them to perform acceptably. Healing Brutallus is not exactly FoL-spam and HL eats your mana super fast. Our first kill I was in tank group giving Devotion for tanks but our 2nd kill we left tanks without the aura and I got a shadow priest. My HPS went up by 1k (240k -> 420k effective healing done).
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With the priest regen changes I rarely consider putting one of ours in a shadow priest group unless they are spamming CoH. And I disagree with your Holy Paladin assessment. Both myself and my counterpart sustain 2000+ HPS on this fight with or without a shadow priest. Any main tank healer willing to chain chug mana pots really shouldn't need a one, as intelligent cooldown managemenet (potions, trinkets, talents) should easily get you through the full six minutes. The only thing a shadow priest buys me is that I don't have to use mana pots, which are cheap enough these days anyway. As tight as DPS can be on this fight I'd rather give the extra mana to the warlocks or mages.
I find this fight to be very much like patchwerk was as a MT healer. Find a rank heal you can chain cast for 6 minutes straight with max buffs and consumable usage (for me alone it's HL 7 or 8, with a shadow priest it's 9) and then spam that on the tank until the boss dies.