Originally Posted by Moshne
I suppose I simply disagree with you, you are using three group options here to justify the first. Yes, the aura works fine with casters, however, it does not work fine in a tank group. If you put the Sanctity Aura in the tank group, you are affecting one other person at best, the current tank. None of the healers in that group, or whoever ends up in the group with them will be directly affected by it.
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Sanctity Aura isn't the point of bringing a ret paladin-- even a BM hunter provides a better group buff. It's an afterthought to an extra blessing and guaranteed Judgment uptime. I think this is the crux of the argument that you are missing. Most classes only bring group-wide benefits (warrior shouts, totems, lotp) but a ret paladin's best contributions are both automatically raid-wide. To be quite frank, the paladin's personal DPS is more or less irrelevant; the raid-wide DPS implications of properly forming your groups are far more important, and an extra rogue or a feral druid is a better fit for a 5th member of melee group than a ret paladin is (5% crit trounces 2% damage). Should you stick a ret paladin in your hunter group over a feral druid? Absolutely not. If your raid insists on bringing a ret paladin in a raid that doesn't have room for them anywhere but the caster group? There's no way that paladin displaces anyone but a hunter from a physical DPS group, even the tank group.
Originally Posted by Thelliand
Raid Composition Question That Does Not Belong Here
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Give your best players the enhancement shaman. If they are both comparable, Arms benefits less from the AP bonus granted by the shaman than Fury does.