I play a Pally and I'd like to say a few words on the fact that your group HOT got a minor nerf, pre release. Personally, I try never to critise other classes abilities, as its like shooting ones self in the foot. Those abilities can save you sometime when you are in the thick of things. If some 'people' whined about you getting a group HOT thats not good.
As for the Dev's listening to Paladins to nerf your spell, I doubt this, as the whole of the Pally community has been asking from Day 1 of DoD on why SOE left nerfing Silent Piety until the ever of DoD's release. The spell went from arguably over-powering to absolutely useless.
So its unlikely that SoE listened to a handful of Pallies when they wont even come to the table to talk about the change to our spell.
I (as a Paladin) have no problem with Shammy group HoT, in any form, recast time or no.
I am a Tank, Shamans are Priests. I have single target HoT, Shamans are getting group HoT.
I have a group heal and I dont expect group HoT will make it obsolete.
Pallies (IMO) are being stealth nerfed not in power, the New Slays were very nice, but in versatility, or group desireability.
Paladins, who are well geared, can serve as well as if not better than Warriors in group situations and I think that SoE are leveling the playing field in DoD and PoR. They are apparently going the route of not spending time on making something interesting for the class that wont add to group desirablility, like new discs, something they said, 2 expansions ago, they would like to do.
But listen to me harping on about my problems
I havent seen what Pallys got in PoR yet, but the little I have heard is poor
