Originally Posted by
Low19
First off, unless I missed some change to WCL, it doesn't show the damage reduction from Devotion Aura and the Aura Mastery part of it. I'm not saying that if that was counted as some absorb to give it some numerical value in HPS to show and therefore compare to other healers (whose CDs have active healing components and show up on logs), it's not a 100% fair comparison. Devo Aura -> AM is a strong CD but won't show, so take that in account.
Secondly, I'd like to see your percentile in logs then if your hyperbole is that black and white. There *is* a difference between bad and good holy paladin play, but I see that you don't agree to that, but don't make it a blanket statement. Is the class dumber than it's ever been? I don't know, in TBC and Wrath (iirc?) it was spammy and dumb as well.
Sure, the AOE healing is by far the lowest of any other healer, but holy pallies are strong and fast spot healers that support tank healing with beacons, and bring utility with BoP, Sac and BoF. That's the design that Blizz chose, and yeah, it's not the most versatile or complicated healer spec, but it does the job for what it's supposed to do.
(Edit: I fully agree the mastery is a design decision that just doesn't work out in most environments, and wish it'd be changed before patch 9.0)