Honestly, just looking at World of Logs healing done and basing your argument that paladins are good/bad is a stupid way to gauge performance. Theres a lot of variables with healing parses, including the healing comp, amount of healers, skill of your other healers, effective cooldowns & how your guild stands in fire. Going through World of Logs and looking at Rank 1 parses and trying to duplicate won't work. It would be a lot easier to get a rank one parse if the raid had zero disc priests, innervate being funneled and no cooldowns being used (Devo Aura, Barrier) and simply healing through it.
http://i.imgur.com/qJWYvBX.png
http://i.imgur.com/S4Sm9Cb.png
Something as simple as adding an extra healer and/or another disc priest can really impact healing parses and I'm not sure how many of you understand how to properly look at healing parses. There is a difference between healing done & "Effective" healing; A good healer will heal the raider with 50% HP /w a Debuff who will die without getting a direct heal then healing the raid who is at 75% with no foreseeable damage in the next 10 seconds. Sure the person who heals the raid will look much better on World of Logs/Skada, however healing that person could mean the difference in a kill or a wipe. World of Logs is a extremely effective tool, but you need to be knowledgeable when it comes to healing parses.
I will agree though, holy paladins are bit behind; Our healing is a bit behind, our utility isn't unique to our spec and we do zero damage where as almost every other healer has some form of damage (Druids have Heart of the Wild/NV, Disc have Atonement & monks Fistweaving). However simply looking at World of Logs healing done and deciding we suck is a disgusting mentality.
http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/us/...ting.tier16_25
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...uttle/advanced