Heals: Priest or Pali?

If I plan on rolling a character specifically for healing, which would be
the preferred class? I would want to top the healing charts in raids and pvp.

How is priest survivability? Are things like PW:shield and Psychic Scream and renew enough to keep me alive in pvp?

If a paladin is really kickass can he beat priests in healing?

I would want the best healing possible and I am not considering a shaman or a druid so count those 2 classes out.

I'm also curious, are tanks in greater demand than healers in the end game? Or is it about equal?

Paladin pre-BT. Priest post BT (CoH ftw).

Gear obviously plays a major factor.

Nothing like spamming FOL if you plan on doing 5s and 10s.

Seriously? Priests are by far better healers. I hate being grouped up with healadins. I always end up dying.

Seriously? Priests are by far better healers. I hate being grouped up with healadins. I always end up dying.

Stop grouping with noob healadins then.

haven't gotten to BT lvl yet, so i'm kinda ignorant...but isn't CoH poopy? the co-efficient isn't good, or so i heard. what makes CoH shine?

Roll a Shaman and just spam chain heal.

CoH is OP at end game for 10/25mans.

priests are more fun IMO, pallys are super effecient tho.

priests are better pvp healers too i think

Priests have way more options in both PvP/raiding.

Rho can explain this far better than I considering I don't play right now :X

But from what I understand paladins are good healers but are completely deficient in the area of group heals which is quite important later on. However paladins are still included for buffing obviously.

So both are needed but it seems priests will always win healing meters by a significant margin.

Hrmmm... It sounds like priests are better all around, but paladins are maybe better for 5 and 10 mans? So priests are better in the bigger raids because of AOE, but Pali's are more efficient so they are better for smaller raids?

5-10 mans = Pali > Priest

25 mans = Priest > Pali

Something like this?

I have a priest .. i'd rather have a paladin for healing.. but for shadow priesting i stick it out

Paladin is the best single target healer in the game. If you want to be a MT/OT healer and cleansebot roll paladin.

I have one of each and I... honestly don't have a strong preference either way.

Now I wish my druid or shaman were 70 because I think either of them would be more fun. I really really want to try having natures swiftness.

the good thing about pally healing is you can bind FoL to your mouse wheel and use the free hand to jerk off.

Paladins are better single-target healers.

Priests are more versatile in PvP (Paladins are pretty weak in smaller brackets, comparatively).

Both are good in 5s, both are useful for raiding, and both have a DPS offspec that you can raid with.

Paladins can also go prot.

I'd go with Priest, if it were me.

I have both and I prefer the priest for healing but pals can be clutch in certain situations.

I always found my priest better in 5 mans because after I got prayer of mending I had to drink 2 times during most instances, and that was only after buffing, and the priest was able to save a team when things when bad easier then a paly trying to healing everyone in the team.

Not having to worry about mana would be neat :(

I love my druid

Seriously? Priests are by far better healers. I hate being grouped up with healadins. I always end up dying.

LOL