With regards to playstyle, it isn't an all or nothing choice when using 4pc pvp. I still tank heal/spike dmg heal. I'm not focussed on blanketing, but it's nice to spot heal someone with EF and have the ticks preserve illuminated healing on the target for future damage.

Near as I can see, the PvP bonus giving 2 HoPo on beacon target is intended, as Tower of Radiance gives 1 HoPo on beacon with Flash without the PvP gear. Now if this will be useful in PvE content is debatable, as building extra HoPo that way would really seem impractical except for LoD spam situations, and I would imagine that HR would be a better heal if you're going for big AoE spam.

The new PvP bonus might find use in single target situations since alternating FoL and 2HoPo WoG might be useful, especially with the FoL glyph.

One of the latest patch notes suggests they're getting rid of Holy Shock working with Selfless Healer, which is a bit of a hit but perhaps understandable since we cast HS so often that it might become a mana efficient healing strategy and has potential to eclipse EF and SS, especially with the PvP bonus. We'll have to wait to see what's in store.

A lot of the things you guys are arguing about are entirely dependent on what fight you're doing. A lot of paladins and people that think they know what a paladin's current role is don't seem to realize what an insanely efficient raid-healer a paladin is in it's current iteration.

Yes, paladins are still strong tank healers, but quite honestly any other healing class can do just as well on single-tank fights. Paladin tank healing only really shines above all others on multiple-tank fights. To be quite honest I prefer not to prioritize tank healing aside from always having Beacon on the tank because your heals have much better value as a raid healer 90% of the time.

As far as the stats discussion goes, I've been using this stat priority (Int->Mastery->Spirit->Blah) for the last couple months and it works quite well for me. With trinket procs, free heals, and all the cheap/efficient heals we have access to, you should never have mana problems if you prioritize correctly and don't needlessly bomb spells in a questionable effort to rank.

Is it just me or is Blizz taking a very high interest in Holy Pally's using FoL. PvP gear, glyphs, PvP gloves, ect. Do they think that we have so much extra mana that we should be using it more often? Even getting the good PvP set on lets say a RP realm or a PvE realm makes it difficult to get good PvP'ers.

The reason we are more efficient in a raid healing role is because A) Our AOE healing is very strong, and B) We get more benefit from having Beacon on the tank if we are raid healing and not tank healing. It makes our healing much more efficient than if we're just focusing the tank(s). Obviously it varies depending on the fight. If there isn't a ton of raid damage then it's different.

Any toughts on the new T15/S13 sets for 10man pve? (I'm sorry if this is the wrong section to ask!)
I feel like the S13 set is again stronger then the T15, because the (2) daybreak bonus is not that huge since the initial heal is like 5k (with my gear). Also (4) I constantly have my holy flame on the tank, there is no need for 20% more heal if i can have 1 more HoPo, when i cast flash of light in damage spikes.

You said beacon swapping? It came to my mind during ultraboring LFR.

I tried to minimize overheal through beacon by swapping it a LOT, i mean it, like every 3-5s.
Just got time to try it on few pulls before the maintenance restart. I don't know if it is what you mean by beacon swapping but whatever, at first sigh, this seems amazingly efficient !!
Top 3 spells was like #1 EF, #2 Mastery, #Beacon (15% or even more), and i was only playing like this since minutes. Can't imagine what happens once mastered.

Is this technique common round here? I'd like to discuss about it, got plenty of question i can't try atm cause of goddamn maintenance.

Still playing with 4p pvp at the moment, so i think, this affect the efficiency of Beacon swapping. Since you can maintain a lot more EF in the raid.
Don't know if it will still be worthwhile once 5.2 is out and before getting 4p t15.

Also reforging mast > crit/haste atm, don't you think crit > mast/haste will match more to such a playstyle since beacon is not affected by mastery?

Since I missed the change until last night. . .

Light's Hammer now applies Illuminated Healing!

I would appreciate the community's opinion about the new tier set bonuses of holy paladins. My main concern isn't actually the absolut worth of them, but the relative one compared to the previous tier's set bonuses.

Let me be more precise: Even though last night I acquired the second piece of my tier15 (both of normal, 522 version) I hesitate to equip them and lose the so sweet 4-sec cd of Holy Shock. In fact I find myself been so "addicted" to this 4sec cooldown, and it seems to me that the Daybreak effects being enhanced plus the raw benefits of the extra stats given by the higher lvl of the 2 new items equipped, will hardly make up for the loss of the extra Holy Shocks that could otherwise be casted (which would have given more daybreak healing as well as extra Holy Power).

To make a long story short:

When is it recommended for us to give up on tier14's set bonus?

I have 4 pieces 517 T14 and I won't replace them before I got all heroic T15 pieces, this bonus is just that strong.