Hello you guys and girls,
My name is Patrick, 22 years old and I live in The Netherlands. I’ve been in contact with Abdou about trying to be helpful to the website by telling about my experiences as a retribution and protection paladin.
I’ve been playing a Retribution Paladin since Classic, but been playing it hardcore since WotLK. For those who would like to look up my character.
My mainspec is Retribution and offspec is Protection. I’ve got Enchanting and Jewelcrafting as my professions (frikking expensive).
Since the release of Cataclysm I’ve been really busy with getting better geared like all of you. My dps gear is now full epic (all 359 average itemlevel). I would only like to get the Tier helm for the 4-set bonus. My tankspec is also getting there (357 average itemlevel). Just farming Valor Points now for the Tier chest and legs.
So far I’ve been raiding with my guild on every Thursday-Sunday-Tuesday. We got BoT down and are trying to get Halfus heroic down. We got BWD down excluding Nefarian. In TotFW we are also working on getting Al’Akir down.
Hope you guys will enjoy my upcoming help on the website here. If you have any questions, just post them below here. By the way, what topics would be useful to you personally (about your paladin off course)?
Greetz,
Patrick (DunmerNL)
A BiS list would be nice for 372/379 pieces. I haven’t been able to track one down yet, although it is my offspec and I don’t spend that much time researching it.
Oxidatíon, Malfurion
I think its Great that somebody else is taking his time to be helpfull for this website, on the other hand its really strange that somebody that didnt even down LK Heroic or have done any Heroic In Cataclysm for that matter is going to talk about His experience as an Retribution Paladin
@Mark: There are many reasons why someone may not have done any heroic bosses, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that person has nothing of value to pass on.
@Patrick: Not being hit capped, though, is something to take note of… I’m curious as to whether there’s a reason you’re only at 7.5% hit? Is there some buff I’m not aware of somewhere that gets you over cap? Also, I’m pretty sure the +10 strength socket bonuses you’ve gone for with +hit gems don’t make up for the 10 strength loss on each. Generally it’s far better to reach hit cap through reforging alone, and only go for the +20 strength or higher socket bonuses, since strength is so very desirable a stat. (Though I suppose not everyone is so obsessed with min-maxing
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I wish you GL mate but i`m afraid you have to read up more other resources before you`ll be ready to give advices to someone else.
Your mistakes in gear:
Haste is almost useless for us atm. You NEED to be hit&expertise capped. +10 socket bonus is not worth to put in it less than 40str gem.
So:
reforge haste in your helmet
change all purple gems (excluding chest) into +40str
change enchant on bracers into +50str
change enchant on boots into +65 mastery
BiS trinkets are:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/851901-Ret-Trinket-ratings-estimation-4.0.6
Good Luck.
Another things…
Tree -> Acts of Sacrifice are not giving ANY dps. Eye for an eye about 1-1,5% dps. So as long as dps is most important we need that talent.
Glyph of Exorcism is way better than Glyph of Crusader strike.
i think Str>Haste1050>Mastery is much better
i think Cri is our worst stat
Helm for 4 set bonus? Shoulders are way easier to get, these should be priority to get for 4th set bonus.
Hi guys,
Thanks for all the advice. I havent fixed the hit cap yet, cause I’ve been leveling a healing druid last few days. Just got 85 on it now. Thanks for all your comments on my pala. I will look at the reforging later.
With these comments of some, I will try and not dissappoint you guys on the posts on the website. I will just be helping Abdou out here. He will be running the site.
Greetz
Patrick
Yeh, better tell him to get forum back online. WE RE BORED! =)
Glad to see there is some life back in this blog again.
If people out there are struggling to reforge their gear I would suggest you take a look at Mr Robot Gear Optimizer.
A few Features:
* BiS gear for Pre ZG/ZA, Pre Raid, T11 Raids and T11 Heroic.
* Optimises gear based on EJ stat weighting, with option to include/exclude things like Expensive enchants, Too lazy to rep grind and more.
* Optimisation will tell you what to reforge, what gems to slot and gear enchants.
* Lists gear upgrades for item slots based on your current gear.
I ran yours through it Dunmer (you might have to Optimise it again): http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/gear/eu/khadgar/dunmernl#v1-z1
I used to play wow alot as a ret paly. My experience is that in LK strenght – hit – expertise was your main stats to focus on but from cata it is haste – mastery – expertise and then hit. Strenght is obviously a factor but playing alongside another paly with 700 less strenght than me showed me it is not so important. At the time I outgeared him and I was purely a strenght junky, expertise and hit was always capped, my mastery was also the best it could be without socketing for it but haste I was totally ignoring while the other paly had 700 less strength not hit capped, decent expertise and mastery and tons of haste. I outperformed him on single targets but not with a lot and he raped me with multiple targets. On a boss I would get for eg. 20k dps and he would get 19.5k, on multiple targets he would do 9k and I would do 5k. Not actual figures but somewhere in that vicinity. Remember I outgeared him by 700 str and he out”haste” me by about 12%, so in my opinion strength is not so important than it used to be. Obviously should you stack strength gear but I don’t believe it is neccesary to gem or enchant for it.
STR should always be our primary stat and yes any good ret pally will want to use STR gems only use other gems if you dont loose any str in a socket bonus and there are only a couple that allow that…. In BIS gear for 372 i lvl you will be way over the exp cap of 26 you can check my toon out and see how much I have reforged out and still have a excess you could change the trinkets but that would be a dps loss… BIS gear really depends on person to person and what drops you are able to get such as what heroics you guild is able to down… Haste is now our worst stat by far its always hit/exp cap then mastery, crit and last haste. There is a balance that you could do with mastery and crit and its possible to see a slight dps increase but that would require a lot of dps testing from the end user and would differ from toon to toon…
lol, I noticed that one negative comment was removed. Good luck with the website, but I’ve gotten to really like the effort Khor put into this site and to see him leave kinda ruins this site for me. It’s a shame to see him go. This comment will probably be deleted as well, so I’m out!
I love this website, learned a lot from it and I will support whoever manages it. Keep the great work.
Finding a new raiding guild in cata is total bs
haste is crap compared to mastery now before our mastery sucked ass but now that the bonus damage is good and there is no need to spam buttons to try and proc the free 3 point holy power haste is our worst stat.
@Loki I WANT KHORE BACK D:
Hey.. Need a good theoretic paladin for a idea i got but it is much work to try it out so i would like to ask a skilled theoretist… For contact ingame: Saduras from Destromath EU