Quote Originally Posted by 'elo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=34929#post34929
See, this kind of thing has made me think about driving the holy tree after finishing out the prot tree. Specifically to get
Spritual Focus 5/5 - 70% chance of not losing cast time while taking damage
Healing Light 3/3 - 12% increase in the amount healed by Holy Light and Flash of Light
Illumination 5/5 - 100% on crit heal to regain 60% of base mana cost of that spell

A rank 7 FoL delivers minimum of 448 (no armor adjustment) + 12% is 500. Your surely to get even prot gear that can drive this number up some. I'm not suggesting you could do anything other than delay the inevitable but would it be worth the sacrifice of other talents for the few seconds it could buy in a no healer situation? My this thought was this would be a non starter because you'd burn mana you should otherwise be using to generate threat but oh yeah, healing generates great threat.

Anyway, something to think about.
You can't block while casting.

So you waste 1 GCD to go conc aura (losing devo, or instead of devo), then start casting a gimpy heal in your prot gear... you're going to end up taking more damage than you would have mitigated by spamming holy shield. You're better of using LoH in emergency situations.

Healing also generates .5 the threat of dps. I believe it's even less in the case of pallies.... But anyway, even with Righteous fury multiplier of 90% that's .95 the threat of dps for healing, which is still less than straight DPS. So it's not a threat boost either.