Originally Posted by Xaviera
I don't see how it wouldn't be a good use. They put out medicore DPS as alliance, but provide a lot of free mana, and thus dps time, to the rest of your mana-using casters. The 3% crit buff without hassling a holy paladin to do it is nice, and a very small individual group buff. I thought it was standard now, regardless of faction, to use a ret paladin when trying to truly min/max the most out of your raid.
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Originally Posted by Clandestine
We used a ret paladin in our Brutallus kill. Here's our wws: Wow Web Stats
As you can see he didn't really do much damage (he's fairly undergeared and uses several pieces of PvP gear still I think) and obviously, as an alliance paladin, doesn't have seal of blood, but we decided the 3% raid crit and judgement of wisdom made him worth the slot. Judgement of wisdom reduces tapping time for the warlocks by a reasonable amount and I believe it also helps the shadow priest, hunter, and dps shamans. |
We're using a protection paladin to keep JoW up and tank. So for us it comes down to the 3% crit for the raid, vs crappy alliance ret dps.
When we don't have a prot pally tanking, we were having the holy pallies use a JoW judge macro between stomps. Sure Crusader Strike keeping the judgements up is very convenient, but I'm really curious if the 3% crit is worth a 1200 individual dps parse. Or is 1200 from an alliance pally considered low?
Back of the envelope calculations: given a 30k raid dps, the crit bonus adds ~3% more damage. So around 850-900 dps. Given a 1200 dps pally, we'd be looking at 1200+850 = approx 2050 dps contribution from the paladin. This is the line of thinking that got me intrigued about using a ret pally.