Cata Ret Healers Back?

[Mosg2]

They've been buffing Pally healing on beta. /shrug

I tried out 4x Holy Pally dmg spam and it's just... Meh.

[Noids]

I agree on the shockadin dmg. Pounding a dummy I can get close to 2.5k dps which isn't really enough for PvP in 251 gear and it lacks the burst of the rets.

I was also disappointed that my holy pally in 2.5k SP gear was hitting for less with exo than my rets were. For shockadins to be a really viable spec I think they would need to allow holy pallys to achieve 100% bonus to dmg from spell crits similar to all other offensive casters. They obviously can't increase the base or co-efficient damage or this would buff rets too much, but for a spec that is primarily casting, it would be nice to receive full benefit from crits.

This would obviously be a major buff though and considering the healing capabilities would probably be too OP.