Comments on: Retribution Paladin Seals

By: Minothor

Minothor — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:03:08 +0000

PVE: Seal of truth always unless 4+ mobs, when 4+ seal of righteousness with mastery stacked and divine storm procing it off as well, we are quite capable of leading aoe fights.

PVP: Truth will be the major player, as you should only ever be single targeting. That being said righteousness in’t even an option. Seal of insight seems to get highly under rated for usefulness, i am an avid arena ret pally and have to say i have won many fights do to self heals from insight. I personally get around 3k heal per hit and seeming as we spam melee abilities it stacks quite fast. It’s not always the way to go, but when your opponent is melee heavy and will be close to hit often, it’s definately note worthy. Seal of justice only for EFC’s, arena healers , and siege vehicles in appropriate battlegrounds, demo’s move at 200% so knocking them down to walk speed is very beneficial

By: pallyOU812

pallyOU812 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:54:44 +0000

I’ve never once had to switch out to Seal of Insight due to mana problems. Consecration is so low on the FCFS order, I barely use it. Judgement is enough to keep that mana flowing, and switching to another seal is a DPS loss.

By: jonas3333

jonas3333 — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:00:48 +0000

Just wanna say, While Truth is King, Seal of Insight is often an excellent way to raise mana up quickly mid-fight when Divine Plea is on CD or you’re just bottoming out on mana thanks to that blasted Concentration cost. A few seconds of Insight, and you’re ready to switch back to Truth.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:03:27 +0000

I actually use SoI more in PvE then any other seal. But SoT is definitely the way to go in dungeons and raiding though.

By: Palominebold

Palominebold — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:45:34 +0000

Don’t forget the extra 10 expertise with SOT Glyph.(clatifying above from Gyffyn)..At 85 PVE, it’s SOT all the way in my book…

By: Mourdechai

Mourdechai — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:33:01 +0000

The two seals i use most often are truth and insight.

righteousness is awful. in the event that id brings more “DPS” to the table, it is spread out and IMO single target damage dealing from a ret paladin would be much better, considering how much better at AoE other classes are. Taking out single monsters should be our job in trash packs. righteousness has no place in pve.

i can see limited use in pvp if you want to make a healer freak out, but the offshoot damage is so small that it’s hardly going to get passed most classes self healing.

By: Gryffyn

Gryffyn — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:00:24 +0000

Khor,

Long time reader blah blah.

I think you should stress that SoT glyphed will probably out weigh the others unless people are way over the expertise cap.

The added dmg or targets won’t account for much if mobs are parrying or dodging…

Keep up the good work.

By: Handera

Handera — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:15:27 +0000

I’m a battleground ret, and I use Justice for the capture-the-flag maps. Great for keeping flag carriers under control. For every other pvp situation, I usually go with Truth. For example, if I’m guarding a flag in AB, I don’t really care if a rogue sprints away…I’m not going to follow him. So no Justice needed there.

As far as Righteousness goes, I think that seal is crap in every part of the game at 85. I threw it in the junk heap with Divine Storm.:)

By: Bugs

Bugs — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:57:12 +0000

Will SoR hit CC´ed targets? Thats the main reason for why I’ve havent used it on trash yet,.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:37:59 +0000

Well before the patch SoT was best option, Ive played hybrid with massing mastery to get high proc chance for Word of Glory and keeping others alive and I had to loose target to heal others and then return to enemy healer and refresh SoT on him and it worked well.

Now with DPS boost is best to keep SoJ and annoy enemy healer and when cooldowns pop up nuke him down but it is essential to keep him close so you can cause solid dps all the time and dont give any time to help others.