In high keys average HPal damage is around 460K.
Average damage from Mistweaver POST NERF, will be around 688K (860K pre nerf).
Shield of the Righteous damage by 30% is like a 3% damage buff… This is completely laughable.
Try buffing Consecrate by like 50-100% or something and Shield of the Righteous by 50-100%.
imagine if consecration did like 70% of the damage acid rain did… or like 25% of entropic rift… would be CRAZY
Orrrr holy shock cleaved up to 5 targets just like almost every healers damaging abilities do now -_-
why does ret even have Shield of Righteous no Ret Pally I know carrys a shield lol.
you’ll be surprised how many degenerates what to play sword and board ret
its one of those things for rp’ers
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Blizzard please remove SotR for Holy and give us Dragonflight’s version of Exorcism as a spender instead!
They can buff SotR to high heaven’s it doesn’t change the fact it’s a god awful ability that doesn’t suit Holy.
If you need to be slightly out of melee, their goes most of your dps, can be used out of range of the target 
, chasing or trying to dps mobs on the move is hard enough let alone trying to be on top of them and I’d argue mechanics this season/raid are strongly punishing for melee in general.
SOTR needs to go from Holy Paladin.
While I agree, currently, All healers except MW (even disc) are doing such a tiny portion of dps of overall keys that honestly, we are currently just pretending we do anything on down time.
It’s unlikely they also buff healer dps since if it starts to be relevant again many healers start complaining.
The only solution is for healers who like to dps during downtime to keep complaining as loud as they can, so we can be more annoying than the “I rolled a healer to HEAL” crowd. 
I swear this is the cycle of healing in wow
Nah just make LoD do dps.
Holy can actually pump dps in AC spec… But the heals have been rather gutted and the tier pretty much is blizz saying you will play AW + HotS. Kind of sad.
Seriously, Holy Paladin would feel and flow so much better just baking SotR into LoD.
LoD should be our dps spender that heals aswell to all those in front, it’s far more superior then SotR in every way possible especially given us extra leeway in range to dps but consistently provide small heals to those in front.
Both use 3 Holy Power, the difference LoD is completely obsolete in M+, why have such a unique spec defining ability only available to Holy Paladins just be completely useless in a PvE game mode I’d argue is now more popular then every other content.
Most healers have a consistent way to dps and off heal at the same time, I’m not saying the healing should be boosted, leave everything as is, just make LoD heal the same but literally use SotR dps and remove the burden holding the spec back.
This aswell indirectly lets Holy Paladins use 2Hs which I’d argue is a Huge Part of Holy Paladins class fantasy, heck look back at legion on our Artifact Weapon, a 2H mace with a Libram on our belt.
Well tbf, only MW and Disc are actually doing some substantial dps in comparison (Master of Harmony and Voidweaver to be precise). Most of the other specs are close to Herald Hpal in damage.
Wrong! I do! I do delves, weekly dungeons quest, tw dungeons, tw raids in port spec since is much easier (delves) and way faster queue
That’s why liquid brought 3 WM to their WFR they do so much damage 3 WM does as much damage as their gear dps.
Well, it’s looking like Oracle Disc priest is evolving to become the new meta in high keys, which has even lower Dps than both Hpal build, so for the moment, healer dps is not looking to be relevant this season again, at least until we hit ilvl cap and the ‘really high’ keys later on.
granted disc c an shield for 400% of a targets hp every 8 seconds so
I really like the idea of baking in sotr into LoD. It gives LoD more punch when, right now, it feels weak without heavy talent investment. Not to mention it gives hpal a better ability to do damage naturally as they heal and they get their 2Hs again.