Originally Posted by ex-moz

Paladin healers haven't stopped playing but the fact is that unless you play very heavily to your advantage -- whether that means playing the queues/dodging or going with what is a small handful of strong team makeups, your chances at getting in the upper echelon of teams after the patch has gone down dramatically. Pointing to a #1 team and saying everything is fine means you just haven't read this thread at all or are clearly not able to grasp what is being said.

Of course every class has a chance to succeed given the right factors, it's simply that paladins currently don't have a lot of tools in the bag to bring to the table and have to resort to what I mentioned above to make it there -- which is why they are the least versatile healers in small scale arena right now. Needing something is a given, what that is is a harder problem and I don't have any hard answers -- suffice to say that playing one in general right now is an exercise in frustration unless you are particularly determined to try and get things to swing your way (not to mention the fun factor involved is pretty low). It's sad when pretty decent paladins who have settled on whatever rating they've managed to claw their way up to are re-rolling classes for next season, it's simply not fun at all -- you may enjoy it if you're a masochist I guess.