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Imp Renew is my choice.
How does Force of Will impact Renew? Force of Will is so unpopular because it doesn't improve healing. You are right though, Spiritial Healing is uncommon in the arena. Extinct at higher ratings.
Imp Renew is three talent points for a spell you will be permanently using, probably on multiple targets and except for dispelling it can't be countered. Holy Spec on the other hand does very little. 1 point increases the healing of your Greater Heal, Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Prayer of Healing and Circle of Healing by 0.5%, for a maximum of 2.5%. Half a percent output increase for a talent point is pretty atrocious. Prayer of Mending, Renew and Shield don't crit, nobody has Circle of Healing and nobody uses Prayer of Healing. Therefore half of your "heals" don't benefit from Holy Spec. So your total output is going to increase by something less than 0.25% per point I'd say. For me that's laughably little.
Oh yeah, Prayer of Mending doesn't crit. At least it never has for me. It would be nice if it did, but it doesn't. Binding Heal doesn't benefit double from Holy Spec, unless you use Surge of Light. You get two crit chances, but every one of the two crits only improves output by 25%. Granted, Greater Heal crits are nice. But they can lead to overhealing because people are better off topped-up than half dead.
The offensive crit would be a selling point if we had more crit. As it stands I have about 7% crit from Intellect and 0% from gear. With Holy Spec I therefore get to 12% total offensive holy crit. Sadly most people at higher ratings will have just about 12% less chance to be critically hit by spells. Therefore it does nothing unless your target is wearing PvE gear, which is now unusual.
I'm not quite sure wether Holy Spec actually affects Reflective Shield. I have done no testing, but I would be surprised if it did. But even if it did, people would be "immune" to your crit chance. Maybe come Wrath we all end up with ~25% crit and Holy Spec might just be worthwhile, until then it's garbage for PvP healing. And from what I hear it's garbage for PvE too. The only place I see for it is in a holy damage levelling build. I enjoyed Holy Spec from 58 to 70, then I dropped it.
On a final note, Holy Nova does get used for its damage against Snakes. But since Rank 3 takes care of them the crit of course isn't necessary.
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