I'm a level 41 paladin who's been Holy speccing since I started (mostly because it took me awhile to even notice the "Protection" and "Retribution" tabs in the Talent window. Yeah, I'm a scroob). It's been working for me mostly most of the time, both solo'ing and in dungeons, but as I'm in my 40s now I've been beginning to do dungeons that are more towards the higher levels. Since I'm Holy, I've been assigned to Healing duties...
and I suck at it.
I find that my mana can never keep up.. and after casting Holy Light just a few times I'm out of mana and having to Potion up, meanwhile my partymates start dying. On more than one occasion the Prot-specced pallies and the shamans have had to pick up healing after I lost mana, then asked me what was up after the melee was over. It's embarassing for me. And Flash of Light seems utterly worthless, with a really bad %healing per %mana-and-casttime compared to Holy Light.
I've been on the look out for a while for more armor that has better +intelligence (healing bonuses wouldn't really help.. the amount I heal -per spell- is fine, it's the mana cost that kills me). I'm sure that will help significantly, but until then I have to keep sucking at being Holy specced.
But another thing is that healing is really boring, and not very stimulating. I enjoyed being a healer in Guild Wars, since healing was alot more exciting in that game compared to a Holy pally in WoW. I'm only aware of 3 pally healing spells-- one that's good, one that sucks, and one that's sometimes good and sometimes sucks. That gets repetitive. It's not very satisfying, especially when I get yelled at for running out of mana too easily.
So I was thinking of respeccing.. probably to Prot. It would definitely help my soloing. But I'm unsure.. is respeccing really the solution to my problem? Or do I just need to use better Holy strategies?