Comments on: Retribution Paladin Ice Crown Raiding: Part I

By: Khor

Khor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:25 +0000

All great tips, thanks Baylor!

By: Baylor

Baylor — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:28:17 +0000

Thanks for the post, couple of tips for all you ret pallies trying to top the charts.

1. Marrowgwar’s Bonestorm damage is easily healable, so you can still get close enough him to use CS and DS IN PASSING. Effectively you CAN dps the boss while he is Bonestorming, the trick is to stop dps before he finishes because aggro resets.

2. For Deathwhisper, Ret pallies are one of the few classes that can dps both types of adds. Therefore, SOC for mobs and switch to SOV for boss while keeping stacks up.

3. For Gunship, your priority is to stun the Seargeants because of the whirlwind. This will allow you to max dps without having to run as much. If you’re on the “away team” SOV is best to dps mage down. And again you can toggle back and forth between SOC and SOV gear providing.

By: Khor

Khor — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:17:50 +0000

Grim, are you hit capped and expertise capped?

By: Grimpally

Grimpally — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:50:06 +0000

Nice post, very informative. I am getting ready to head into ICC but something is terribly wrong with my DPS. On trash mobs of undead using SoC (in a 5 man heroic like FoS) I can eek out 4k DPS but on bosses with SoV it drops to 2.9/3k. You are getting SoV up and keeping it up 100% which is putting you into 5-6.5k DPS range?

Good detail to note on the gunship (ret on D), will save me the embarassment of flying overboard!

By: Khor

Khor — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:24:36 +0000

For Saurfang, which is the best DPS fight for us currently, since it’s the only wing open, the first time I ran it I was pushing 4500-4900 DPS. But remember, that was with mostly ilvl 226 gear.

This time around I was pushing 5500-6000 DPS with 4 gear upgrades from the previous week, and also on this most recent run, I won Citadel Enforcer’s Claymore and equipped that for the fight instead of my 232 agility polearm. It was without a Beserker enchant and gem, so my DPS could have been higher.

I died with about 33% HP on Saurfang left because of the stupid mark, and the last DPS count I saw for that fight was 5500. But previous attmepts I had seen upwards of 5900.

I wish I had an MMO report to back that up, but I didn’t have one running. So, I can’t even be sure of those numbers. This week I will definitely be keeping track.

Also, based on research…top Paladins for 10-man normal mode Saurfang are hitting 9k DPS. So, I still have quite a ways to go.

By: Xothic

Xothic — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:12:01 +0000

Been folowing your blogs for ages (refer to you as mah ret bible, lolol.), and i recently cleared icc 10 man myself. I was wondering, exactly how much dps were you doing on saurfang?

Also, gunship battle = funnest fight ever.

By: Khor

Khor — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:17:31 +0000

Haha dork. I still stand alone with that empty spot next to me. Where o’ where did my hunter pal go?

By: Topsy

Topsy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:12:31 +0000

Khor is still a noob in my book, hehe.

By: Taddeous (Kalecgos)

Taddeous (Kalecgos) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:16:10 +0000

Yea when you run don’t even target him b/c he will one shot you…the Aggro resets if you start pounding him during that whirlwind. I just target myself and run away, and once the tanks pick the boss up again you resume back to DPSing GLAD THIS HELPED!

By: Khor

Khor — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:51:01 +0000

I tried this last night and it worked very well! Thank you! I also learned that after the ‘whirlwind’, he does an aggro reset. I had a random Exorcism hit right after he stopped spinning, and he came over and one-shotted me. We still one-shotted the boss though!