Hi everybody - my first post here on EJ's forum, hopefully I'll get it right
- an first of all let me say just one thing: sry for my bad ass english, it's not my native language so I hope you can look over that.
For those of you who don't want to read the sobbering stuff continue at "The actual questions"
How this topic came to be:
I played as a holy-priest for the last 2 years (starting with the EU-release of WoW) and, with a short break in between, played that char to lvl 70. For some reasons that would have nothing to do with this topic I grew sick of healing and wanted to play a class which does its dmg in close combat. So I was left with the more obvious choices: Warrior / Rogue and the less obvious ones nameingly: Feral / Schaman / Paladin. For some reasons even I don't know I didnt want to play a warrior or a rogue and even the feral druid didn't life up to my expectations and so I stoped leveling that char in its mid ages. Therefore I was left with two choices: shaman or paladin. Not having played any of these two classes before I made the tuff decision and chose the paladin, well knowing thats its raidability when it comes down to pure DPS measurement is behind that of an equally skilled and geared shaman. I made the decision anyway.
So here I'm today:
After I had to defend myself for a couple of weeks when it comes down to DPS-Sheets, and me standing and the lower end of the bottom half in the DMG-meters it finally started improving. As i play in a guild that just downed hydross 2 times and "only" got Kara/Gruul/Mag on something called farm-status (whoever made that word up should be punished :-) ), even I managed to get some decent gear together (more info on the left via armory profile). My dmg got boosted alot and now I am at the point where I could do more dmg if there wouldn't be such a thing as agro. Having played some time now with my Retadin and having an awsome amount of fun during that time I started reading a lot of topics and board discusisons about retribution specs / dps sheets / itemization and so on ... asking myself the same questions over and over again and when asking for them there were only two possible typ of answers: the not helping type and the not knowing type. So I ended up here, thanks Larsiak for the ref-link
I'm over with ... :
... justifying myself for me being a ret or if a retadin is of any use in 25 man raids. - because I know that I am and I am not interessted in the ones that are not or think that they are not 'cause they couldn't life up to any expectations they falsely made up for themselfs for what reason ever.
... the topics that state something like: Specc healing and you earn the raid spott - because I will not specc more than 5 points (at this time) in holy and and besides the fact that I dont care about healing in general anymore I am simply tired of the specc-healing-noob-roflmao "discussion" - if there ever was a discussion in a topic with words like "roflmao".
... talking about PvP simply because I don't do PvP - that you can easily see when you watch at my arena ranking or my honorable kills, nothing more to say about it.
So - having said all that stuff I hope for a reasonable discussion - you guys here are my last hope
The actual questions:
1) has anybody played a retribution paladin with 1K spelldmg ? If so what’s it like compared to the more obvious way of a retribution paladin who normaly goes for crit/str/ap?
2) What grants more agro points: 1000 points holy dmg done by SoB or 1000 points holy dmg done by SoC
3) Same as 2) with the correspoding Judgements.
4) Besides the slower agro buildup and the possibility to start swinging earlier in the fights is there any reason not to switch to from SoB to SoC after a reasonable tank agro buildup?
5) Haste rating: Does it affect the SoC proccs? – or in other words: Does SoC have a fixed ppm value or is it an actuel chance for a procc so that it would procc more frequent when you increase your swings per minute?
6) Swing times: Am I misstaken or can it be that whenever performing CS the Auto attack timer resets and you gotta wait for the next full auto attack swing? I tryed to test it and sometimes I would say yes sometimes i would say no – anybody got similar „problems“
7) Is there a swing-timer-addon that takes haste rating into account ?