Originally Posted by mdokane
While everything is down to speculation, I don't think paladins will be classified as mediocre once you see one chaining instant holy shock/holy light combos and then dancing back around a pillar. They will still be insanely unattractive targets to focus with the purpose of killing, and specced correctly (I can't access a talent calculator at work but something like 48 holy 23 ret) gives you ~16% crit to holy light (a bit less to holy shock but still significant), instant holy lights off critical holy shocks and a HoT attached to our heals for troubling ourselves speccing into ret. While you give up a lot of the bennefits of 20 in prot, namely kings and imp BoP, this could be the jumping off point for the playstyle of the sneaky armored heal-turret popping out from behind a pillar and almost instantly complete healing his team mate. If that doesn't sound scary then mediocrity or bust.
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As a Pally, Sheath of Light sounds nice, but your attack power as a Holy Pally is going to be minimal at best. However, the HoT is great, but easily dispellable.
I would much rather go with a 51/20/0 spec, for imp BoP and the stun duration reduction. However, the talent 'Divine Guardian' makes your Divine Shield protect all of your partners aswell, forcing 30% of the damage they take into your bubble of immunity. This is certainly more of a 5v5 spec though. Beacon of Light on only 2 targets would be meh, but on 5 it'd be great. This spec is also the counter to affliction locks in 5v5, due to the AoE healing and the bubble damage reduction.
I also like the Improved Devotion Aura, and how it gives 3% more healing, aswell as the Armor Bonus. It'd be argueable wheather or not to go 53/17/0 with this spec, and get imp. Concentration Aura instead.
Pally's, at the moment, seem to get higher in 5v5 than in 2v2. They can get up there with some 3v3 combos, but they seem to still be planned out as a 5v5 healer.