I watched several streams after the lastest updates and class balancing and holy palas look bad. Mana is fine but hps feels weak compared to other healers on both eternal flame and selfless healer builds. Holy palas were one of the weakest class before updates and they only received both - buffs and nerfs. I don’t think eternal flame nerf was a right decision it needs time to put it on several targets because it is holy power limited. I think EF nerf has to be reverted or it’s duration to be increased. It is annoying one of our holy power generation (crusader strike) to not give bonus to our healing like for example daybreak proc or heal around for % of dmg or something else and its dmg is 0 so almost wasted gcd. It is almost the same to rogue combo points generation spells to not maik dmg. Aoe and single target healing are weaker. Holy radiance is extremely annoying. Compared to other classes aoe like healing rain or Efflorescence that spell feels funny and almost useless- unnecessary expensive and ineffective even with its absorb and i think it needs significant buff doesn’t matter its role is not the same like cata.
About mastery. It works to all healing spell except beacon. This is strange, isn’t it? This is much more useful than transferring heals. The other thing which can improve holy palas performance is to be buffed seal of insight healings.
So according to the current situation and what i wrote what are holy palas - not the best aoe healer, not the best single target healer and not the best tank healer and 0 dps. Every other class is the best in something- druid hots, shaman aoe and single target, disco absorb and dmg and we are mixed. Even our best raid cd - dev aura is very short. The only positive is that we have good burst cds.
And don’t understand me wrong. I don’t blame current devs - they are trying to make something good. But people who thought holy pala years ago idk and can’t see a logical explanation why they have decided to destroy that class in MOP