Comments on: How Much DPS for Ret Paladins in 5-Mans?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:03:30 +0000

I started playing wow about 4 months ago.

Currently I have an Ilvl 393 PVE gear. Most of my gear I bought from the Valor point guy with the exception of my shoulders and chest which I dropped from DS.

I can get about 20 – 27 k dps on a training dummy.

For reforging I always make sure I reforge my hast to CAP my hit at 8, expertise 26, and the rest i usually try to reforge to mastery and crit.

Strength is key I buy all Strength gems. The more strength the better.

The buffs I use are Seal or Truth and Might.

My rotation can change depending on how many holy powers I have saved up but top priority to least are:

Inq (always making sure this is up)
Zea (requires 3 holy power)
TV (which requires 1 holy power)
CS (which generates 1 holy poer)
HoW (which requires 1 holy power)
Exo (when lit up it’s an instant cast)
judge

AOE:
HW
Cons

This works best for me, be aware exo and con use tons of mana.

By: Elured

Elured — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:11:18 +0000

the Addon Clcret WILL improve you damage, believe me and btw it improves your movement and reflexes in movement boss fights. I often found myself beating even druids on dmg that are almost full 378 with my 364

By: stonedcow

stonedcow — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:06:37 +0000

Anyone using clcret Haddon?

By: Genzea

Genzea — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:19:13 +0000

Ok so I’m opening myself up for all kinds of negative comments… I am fairly new to the game but I have done considerable reading and I am still left only doing 7k dps on average. My gear score is 351 and I have read of on reforging, gems, enchants, spell rotation & redid my talent tree. I’m tired of friends making excuses for me and thinking about turning my pally into a 85 bank toon. I would welcome any “helpful” suggestions about getting my dps up. I have asked in trade and the one person that was willing to help had no idea what to suggest especially since my gear was better than his. I have to be missing something huge and I’m sure I will feel like an idiot.

Someone please help!
Gen

By: Methaclese

Methaclese — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:30:03 +0000

hey guys – i’d like to echo the question asked a couple of times on this thread already, which is best to use out of the pvp weapon with crit and resi and the tol barad sword? also, i’m sure i should be doing more dps than i am. when i see people put up numbers over 20k on here it utterly confuzles me. here’s me armoury page;
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/argent-dawn/methaclese/simple
i tend to average 15k on raid boss fights, obviously less when there’s lots of movement required, and on basic stand and spank fights can, OCCASIONALLY, get upto 18k.
here’s a breakdown of my rotation for boss fights (wall of text incoming);
my FCFS goes inquisition- templar’s verdict- hammer of wrath- crusader strike- exorcism- judgement- holy wrath- consecration.
my basic tactic is to use crusader strike (with my first “use” trinket), then judgement, then wait for CS again, then holy wrath, then a final CS before popping inquisition. if at any point exorcism pops that replaces whichever filler is up next between CS’s. after inquisition goes up i pop avenging wrath and guardian of ancient kings where i use hammer of wrath, then any 3 abilities that become available (sticking to the FCFS) before waiting for the last second of CD on hammer of wrath then going around 2 more times before AV runs out. if i can, i try to leave 3 holy power available after the second use of HoW so that i can pop zealotry straight away. once zealotry is up i spend all 3 holy power refreshing inquisition (no matter how much time is left on it) then ONLY use crusader strike and templar’s verdict untill zealotry runs out, then it’s back to basic rotation (CS – judgement – CS – HW – CS – TV/inquisition, using exorcism when it pops to replace filler between CS’s) until avenging wrath come off CD.
i’m pretty sure i’m doing something wrong because another ret paladin in my raid, with no epic gear, tends to only average 500-1k less dps than me :/
many thanks for the awesome site khor, and thanks in advance to anyone who’s able to offer some advice.

By: Lokisan

Lokisan — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:43:42 +0000

@threnalin

Dude get rid of that PvP gear unless you’re doing PvP. That is killing your DPS. Your iLvl means nothing for PvE if you have that much PvP equiped. Run a few heroics and get some drops then use you JP to gear up. Hope that helps 🙂

By: Xav

Xav — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:25:09 +0000

Nice, It has been a while since I visited your page and I’m glad to just find this. Well done Khor.

Keep the good work.

By: Siphillion

Siphillion — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:53:52 +0000

hi guys,

first of all thx khor for the effort you are putting into your page, i really appreciate it 😉
now to my question.

before 4.0.6 i used to use avenging wrath and zealotry separatly.
now i pop gotak, build up 3 hp and then pop my makro (avenging wrath, zealotry, impatience of youth, inquisition) most of the time i use some golemblood potion aswell for 20 sec my dps explodes doing 40k+. from your experience do u reckon to bind them into one macro nowadays or split it like before?

i do about 14-15k dps in 5man. sfk i do more obviously, like those undead making my exo. crit everytime 😉

By: Threnalin

Threnalin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:43:43 +0000

Guys! I decided to write because i have a big big problem… I started to play 4 months ago, i have 349 i level and vicious gladiator’s greatsword, some part of Bloodthirsty Gladiator’s Scaled, and Bloodied pyrium and my DPS is about 6-7,5k :O sbdy help me because its really anoying:(

By: tealke

tealke — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:44:51 +0000

I would like to know what are good keybinds to use for your dps rotation