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While I agree that it stinks that Spiritual Healing is harder to get now, I want to disagree with your point about Spiritual Guidance.

A raid-buffed priest with healing-oriented gear can probably expect to have 350-500 spirit. This means +87 to +125 healing from the SG talent. This is more than 10% of a Renew (rank 9, 810 HP). For flash heal it is +37 to +54 after the 43% multiplier, which is 4% to 6% of a rank 7 flash (885 HP average).

So Spiritual Guidance would give you between +5% and +10% to your healing spells, depending on which spells you use. This is weaker than, but comparable to, Spiritual Healing (flat 10%). On the other hand, SG will also give you +damage from your spirit.

So again, I agree that I'd prefer SH to SG, but at least SG isn't terrible.
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If you add in the extra from crits and + healing gear to Renew and Flash Heal, you will find that Spiritual Guidance increases them by rather less than 5-10%. And 500 Spirit is an unrealistic amount to expect a buffed priest with healing gear to have. But what Spiritual Guidance does have going for it is that the longer the fight the more you benefit from it.