Paladin Healing as it is now.

[Mordekhuul]

I didn't say it was 'bad' I just said situational. I'm REALLY surprised to see Val'anyr users taking this spec. Our holy paladin loves this proc because he pretty much has a free pass on the next boss hit. The reason I think guilds are using this spec is probably for divine sac with hard mode twins and hard mode anub so once again: situational. There is just more healing potential with holy/ret. Holy/prot helps more where paladins are weak: AOE heals which the 2 hardest fights in the game now basicly require.

I'd be pretty surprised if they weren't spec'ing holy/prot. Just flipping though the last few pages of the major EJ holy paladin thread, nearly every healadin I clicked was holy/prot, and the one exception's post was stating he didn't see a strong point in favor of holy/ret.

No one needs the longevity the extra percents of crit provides, not with gear. So it is just whether they think more crits will really provide much throughput, or mostly provide overhealing, and whether they are healing hard/heroic modes or not, where DS is pretty damn valuable.