Most if not all the new fights have consistent raid damage. Eternal Flame, essentially, grants 50seconds of healing. Eternal Flame for 30seconds, Illuminated Healing for 20seconds(EF Hot = 30secs, Illum H = 20secs. EF refreshes IH) Can you name one fight you won't take any damage in 50seconds? And obviously the time is reduced if someone gets wacked in the face and takes damage. Let's say you have 7 or 8 EF's rolling on tanks any melee, you can just do a Light of Damn to refresh their Illuminated Healing to full duration again(If really lucky to hit them, granted). Plus, even if you put EF on someone with full HP, the ticks will grant them the absorb and the beacon'd person still gets healed, albeit no absorb...that would be OP That's the idea basically. 1 more extra tick is worth it at this point IMO. But again, it's not a gospel, just my personal preference.
Let's put it another way. With only 3506 haste, which is not a lot to ask given the current stats, gives you a whole extra tick from the 30second duration Eternal Flame gives you. Now let's put that EF on another 4 people; 5 in total. That's 5 whole ticks extra from so little haste. The more EF's, the more ticks.
I haven't actually checked up about it, but I assume 5.3 :P
Hahah, unlucky. Not sure about LFR pieces but my I'm still rocking it out in heroic 2/2 upgraded T14. My fellow holy pally friend in my guild has T15 2 set bonus and 3 off set pieces and he doesn't like it. With that said, I still wup his ass on healing when neither of us have special jobs to do. I'm going Beacon swapping + Eternal Flame route and he's going Light of Dawn route. I still would use Light of Dawn in certain cases such as Rampage but with using CD's.
Yep, I have it glyped. I don't have it macroed. I indeed used to have it macroed to Flash of Light and Holy Radiance when the 4set pvp bonus was bugged and working with Eternal Flame but that's not the case anymore. Now I just cast it on someone, preferably someone on mid to high HP and then Holy Shock >Holy Light/Holy Radiance, depending on their health and the raid situation.
It seems impossible to be able to look in two places at once but you get used to it. I have a Razer Naga and normal keyboard. I have Beacon of Light under 1(Keyboard) and Holy Shock under No.1(Mouse) and Lay on Hands version 2 under 2(Keyboard. My left hand only uses 1>6 for spells and cooldowns, whereas my right hand is using No.1> No.10 for healing spells.
Who is needing the beacon? Yeah..pretty much. If I know for a fact that this guy or this tank is going to be soaking or going to be taking damage, I beacon them preemptively. If I'm in a situation where Lay on Hands is not available and somebody is very low on hp and going to die in the next few seconds, I'd beacon that person plus Holy Shock them plus pop Divine Favor and hope lady luck is with me and they get a few ticks from all my Eternal Flames any holy shock crits. If they end up dying..blame the other healers I call this little macro my Lay on Hands version 2.
#showtooltip Lay on Hands
/cast Beacon of Light
/cast Divine Favor
/cast Holy Shock
You pretty much just summed up this Tier. It's weird and awkward. But if you want to min/max and get the most out of your healing, this appears to be the route.