healing, gems, etc. for 3.0

[benseac]

Looking at last night's WWS, I really sucked last night, numbers-wise. It didn't help I died early during the Felmyst encounter and that I had some nasty lag most of the night but I some of it, I believe, is due to gem choices.

With holy light being a more useful spell (beacon of light and the glyph of holy light making it more than just a single-target healing spell), I'm sure we paladins will want to make more use of it in our casting rotation.

With that in mind, would it be more prudent to change out some pure +spell power gems for +spell power/+mp5 gems? What kind of spell haste would be a good target?

One thing I think Lyre and I should figure out is who is beaconing whom. I have a feeling she and I were overwriting each other's spells because we were casting them on Nort, untl I asked her.

[Lyre]

I have no idea how I did last night since on the computers at school webstats is blocked. (Go go school computers. :P)

If I did good last night, I tend to Beacon whichever tank seems to be taking the most damage, and then spamming holy light during trash. On boss fights, who I beacon changes depending on the situation. On felmyst I beacon myself so I don't have to stop spamming the tank to keep myself alive. On brutalis I've been helping the druids out and beaconing one of the burning people so they receive the healing the tanks are getting. On felmyst I tend to beacon people that can't bubble off an encapsulate, mainly a priest or a warrior.

On the twins, when I was healing Phewl, I was beaconing Nort so when I spammed one tank, it got two. It's also wiser to use flash of light on bosses since we still have to last about 3-4 minutes. Spell haste was always important later on in sunwell, and now with our changes we crave spell haste. ALWAYS judge to keep your 10% haste up, that helps a lot in the long run. Be sure to always use avenging wrath and Divine Illumination. Yadda yadda.

[phewl]

i wouldn't put much concern into last nights WWS, due to the incredible server lag i think everyones numbers sucked.

edit - i don't know if your gems are wrong or not, just commenting on how i wouldn't take last nights WWS as a accurate cross section of your skill.