Originally Posted by Rhadamanthus

Hi Mex,

An argument implies a contradictory position, but we both agree the point you are trying to make.

You point that spamming holy lights probably gives better throughput, and that is something I fully agree with - in a fight like Patchwerk (or, for that matter, even Brutallus). (Un)Fortunately, it's not always the case where you can just stand there and spam one button and fall asleep halfway.

My point is that with intellect stacked my problems appear when I'm not able to stop spamming Holy Lights to perform simple and quick tasks such as refreshing Judgements of the Pure, Sacred Shield, ..., without fearing a dead tank.

In fights where I actually have to move and, by necessity, end up doing pretty much everything reactively during that time, crit+haste saves my day and intellect just means I'm sitting in a 75% mana pool with a dead tank/assignement (with people asking me on ventrilo "Why did the tank die?" and my answer is "I had to move.").

Considering holistically the boss encounters I've been in, instead of picking a specific fight or two, I would say crit+haste make me a better healer than having a quasi-infinite mana pool. My view is that what is important for me, as a Holy Paladin, isn't how long I can heal (realistically, I'm never out of mana when it really matters even without stacking intellect) but how much I can heal during critical moments.