Current state of paladins in PvP
You might find this post as being your average rant post that you usually find around the forums but I would really appreciate if somebody with more PvP experience than me can clarify a few things.
What's the point of playing Sheath of light+Reckoning paladin? Especially under 2.2k rating. What does this spec bring that a normal ret or a prot wouldn't? These past few days have been a pain for me in soloq, it's a constant struggle of sniping which hybrid paladin is afk and which one is actively playing on the 2 avoid slots I have. I'm not saying that there aren't people playing it well, it wouldn't be so trendy if there wasn't that 1 guy doing really well with it, but 99% of the paladins playing this spec are complete and utter garbage.
I've had 50+ games in the past 2 days where these hybrid clowns pulled 40-50k damage in a 5 minute arena compared to 200k+ from their partners or people from the opposing team. The last game I played before posting this was with one of these paladins who managed to do 39k damage in an arena where I used pain suppression twice. The enemy affly had 162k and rotated his cc's perfectly.
So the question is: why? Why do people play this spec? Why wouldn't you play a normal ret or a prot and put decent pressure on the opposing team while still doing EXACTLY the same utility? You can dispel/sac/hop as a normal ret as well, but you're gonna do three times the amount of damage. If you love your shield that much, why don't you play prot? You have insane burst potential + one extra silence. Anything is better than running around like a headless chicken and flaming your partner for not pulling enough damage to cover for both of you.
And it's a real pain in the *** if you're playing a disc/rdruid/rsham. These guys get queued into you more than usual since they can't get queued up with holy paladins. So if you're playing a healer expect to see these dudes more often than you would if you were playing a random dps. If you're 3 healers in a specific soloq bracket and 2 of them are holy paladins you're gonna get the black sheep 100% of the time on your team.
And before anybody says that they "heal more", in the 100+ games I've played with these types of paladins none of them managed to outheal a warriors Blood Craze. Enha's doubled their healing every single time. And I'm talking about games that were close to 2k or even above 2k rating.