...we’ve had trouble developing distinct niches for MP5 and Spirit and are considering collapsing those two stats in the future...Nothing about making paladins better raid healers; they don't even pretend the beacon change will help with raid healing in this Q&A, they say "dual target healer" here. So there's still really not much reason to bring 2 holy paladins to most raids.
The changes to Beacon of Light in 3.2 should make paladins an exceptional dual target healer.
We understand this is a small adjustment to Protection paladins, which is why we improved Hand of Reckoning. The 3.2 patch will be pretty good for paladin tanks overall so hopefully they will forgive us.
This leads to junk buffs and inconsistencies on which abilities can be dispelled or not. We are going to redo the entire system, though not for 3.2.
Judgment of Justice is intended to be the gap-closer for paladins.
As a tank, I've been noticing that I do use Exorcism quite a lot. Although, I'm willing to give the new cast time and Hand of Reckoning changes a chance before I cry foul. They could always just add on to a deep Prot talent cast time reduction for it.
