I’ve been playing exlusively prot for a couple of years and finally decided to try holy paladin. Previously I had received from the mythic vault a big two handed mace with intellect + crit & haste upon switching my loot spec, so I thought it’s time to try it out.
I was shocked to learn that two handed holy paladins not only have worse survivability (obviously for a lack of shield) but they also deal much less damage than holy palas with the shield and their rotation is super clunky because they cannot dump their HP into damage or anything on heal related.
I find this to be a terrible tuning & design flaw that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Many pala would love to play two handers for visuals & aesthetics, you keep forcing upon holy palas two handed weapons with intellect and yet you make it ABSOLUTE loss for pala to go into two handed spec.
Suggestion: give two handed paladins an analogous spell of SoTR and give us comepnsation bonus for losing shield armor, be it more dps, more healing or more utility, or perhaps better magical mitigation.
Dear Blizzard team in charge, please rethink your priorities. You have been giving disc priests more attention than prolly all other healers combined, keeping it as meta 2nd season in a raw.
In the meantime such obvious flop has been ruining both holy pala’s fantasy & play design, and yes, holy pala in general still needs buff tuning of healing values.