Shadow -> Holy..... or not?

[Gahs]

Talking about shadow... the moment I'll ding 60 is comming closer and closer now (only 1/2 level left). I always intended to respec to holy when that moment arives. But.... I don't wanna be a holy Gahs! I love shadow! Gahs aint some friendly caregiving nurse!

Aye, shadow-priests aren't that great healers. So whats the point having one in a raid? Well maybe the following topic will explain a bit:
forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-priest-en&t=131624&p=1&tmp=1#post131624
Shortly: A good damage-dealer who is healing the party just a bit instead of a main healer.

As I see it now, we have one 60 priest in Bloodpact: Llyrenn of the theatre (she's holy btw). More will follow soon, including me.

So what do you guys say? should I just shut up and switch to holy? Should I stay shadow? Or should I switch to holy until we have more healers and then switch back to the dark side?

[Melator Malkavian]

People will hate me but I say do what you want...you pay the monthly fee and if your paying to play a game you should enjoy it. If they got a problem then simply say it's not in my character RP-wise

Besides, lots of shammies and druids actually enjoy being healbots and do quite fine at it...so I say stay shadow

[Eriminia Mondard]

I don't know how things change in the end-game, but at the moment I've found your healing good. Never played a priest either, so don't know how much respeccing to holy would help you. But as long as it works, by all means stay shadow, though you've begun to rp nice Gahs already

[Gahs]

Thought about it... and decided to stay shadow. Lets see if it works. I did respec though. Now I'm respecced as a raid-dps-shadowpriest. hope this works out a bit.

www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/priest/talents.html?50520013000000000000000000000005032502103501251

[riktus]

I've never had a problem healing and being a shadow priest, i've got a few good healing items which give me about and extra 80 to my healing and I've never come across any problems yet. get yourself some extra kit if you havn't got some and stay on the dark side, never did Riktus any harm.........really

[llyrenn]

I respecced disc/holy when i hit 60. then 2 weeks later went back to shadow. Mainly for pvp, i ruled as a shadow priest ... but then went disc/holy again when i got bored of the battlegrounds. I'd say it is up to you, see what works. Disc/holy is much better at maintaining mana over long fights even if healing non stop. Unfortunately in ZG for example, you need at least 4 healers non stop healing for some of the fights so a shadowpriest becomes less useful as you'll need to get another priest/resto druid to replace them. I say stay shadow for now and see how it goes.