Yes, FoL healing in 25 mans means more reliance on the other healers - your beacon probably won’t keep a tank up on its own, But the FOL spec allows you to hit more raid members with more efficient heals and be more kredit to team more often.

If you are HL specced, you should be spamming HL on tanks all the time. this is boring as hell, and most HL paladins refuse to do it; most of them have changed to FoL set up these days on my server.

Even with me using the Relentless libram (soon getting the wrathful) the others seem not to be fond of that spec. Personally I have found fol healing very appealing and I feel very at ease when healing in 10-mans. By being able to holyshock or fol someone (not a tank) that instantly taekes like 60% of their health in damage in less than 1 sec almost makes it sure that they will survive the otherwise fatal blow in the next moment. No other healer can spam that to numerous people so fast more efficiently. Not to mention that I spend 70% of my time spamhealing the MT with ss and even on hardmodes supporting it by such amount, thus leaving me PLENTY and I mean PLENTY of time to throw a couple of heals to raid and use my other utilities (judgement and ss refresh more often than 40sec in case something very healing intensive in the fight happens and I’ll be completely occupied spamhealing for nearly 1min). I had the holy light build last year in Naxx and I found it very boring. Since then… FoL all the way!

I got 14 sockets on gear, and 8 socket bonuses what i think it’s worth to do, the total of 49 spell and 4 intellect isn’t much but as a FoL healer you need a lot of spellpower (and crit chance ofc)

Helm of the Restless Watch +9 spell (blue)
Pendant of Binding Elements +4 intellect (yellow)
Lightsworn Spaulders +5 spell (red)
Liadrin’s Tunic of Triumph +7 spell (red, blue)
Belt of the Lonely Noble +7 spell (yellow, blue, prismatic)
Corrupted Silverplate Leggings +9 spell (yellow, red, blue)
Sabatons of the Courageous +7 spell (red, blue)
Liadrin’s Gloves of Triumph +5 spell (yellow)

Socketing the red and yellow sockets with the following gems will max it instead of 1 Runed Cardinal Ruby +23 spell (red) and 1 Smooth King’s Amber +20 crit (yellow) or Brilliant King’s Amber +20 intellect (yellow) I take 1 Luminous Ametrine +12 spell and 10 intellect (orange) and 1 Potent Ametrine +12 spell and 10 crit (orange) with a benefit of 1 spellpower more.

And the blue once with Sundered Eye of Zul +10 crit and 5mp5 (green) or Royal Dreadstone +12 spell and 5mp5 (purple)

The Dragon’s Eye I not sure yet but I think I will take 2 Smooth Dragon’s Eye +32 crit (Yellow) and 1 Runed Dragon’s Eye +39 spell (red). Depends on how much crit I already have with socketing without the Dragon’s Eye

My question is, where is the hybrid factor in this and if there’s not really a hybrid build… which is the one that would suit my playstyle better?

I really use any of my heals at the disposal (which being a holy paladin… isn’t a lot) but, I do use FoL more then Holy Light. But, I also use Holy Shock more the Holy Light I think. So, I’m not sure which one of these specs or builds would really be more ideal for me.

I guess my gear is also the same type of problem where I have some intellect gems and some SP/MP5 gems. Is it possible to still do this type of hybrid thing and be able to keep up with other raiders?

I’m in a MOSTLY normal raiding guild. We have just gotten the first 4 bosses in ICC down with all previous raiding content down in the game, but I am the only holy paladin in my guild.

Helps?