After much consideration, I'm respeccing to Aura Mastery

[Kevin]

Oh... I figured RF would make it fairly difficult for a tank.

I thought about the Salv bonus mainly for Hodir. After looking at the parse from the hodir fight, it blew my mind to see that Mel spiked to 20+k dps. I would have figured that would put his threat pretty high.

All in all, I don't know if 10 man holy can pull it off, especially as an off spec, but after reading and researching the build, there is just some really nice things that it adds. I'm not going to respec it before tonight, but if we do a Naxx this weekend that I'm able to get into, I'm going to spec it to try it out in there, or maybe if I heal an ULd run or something. I'm finding more and more things I like in holy the more I research it. Not enough to make me run for the hills to be a full time healer, but the more I research, the more I REALLY like the place that Holy Paladins are in right now. I just need to get more comfortable with the spec.

I've needed innervates and mana tides a few times still and I'm pretty good with plea, wings, trinkets, etc. Though admittedly the only reason I'm still holy/ret is that I haven't felt like respecing as the extra crit isn't that helpful for regen right now anyway. Of course most of those times I was with off spec healers and carrying about 50% of the effective healing load (and keep in mind that the non healers do about 5-10% of the effective healing on most fights and the 3 healers tend to only need to do 90-95% so 50% when there are 3 healers is a huge amount).

I also hate losing PoJ. :) But yeah I've been thinking about going the holy prot build for awhile now, I was thinking about it before 3.2 :) I'm just lazy and when I have done more effective healing than Tori a couple of times I've never felt I needed much more help on that (and note that I still tend to slow my healing down when when Tori is around because I like to let the HoTs do their thing so my FoL usage goes up and my HL usage goes down which mean throughput drops). :)


As to RF, yeah it's not a problem except you may not want to judge right on the pull. I've pulled aggro doing that with out RF up before because I like my speed boost so I judge early.:)

Of course I think I could get to 8K FoL crits raid buffed if I did change spec and I'll need some of the other tricks for hard modes anyway I think I also hate refresh SS, that would be the biggest reason for me to change honestly the longer duration. :)