rapid fire i would step down to steady x2 and then bleed off arcanes with chimera used on cooldown.

when my aimed shots proc.. i generally toss them in after the 2 arcanes and before the chimera. so as long as im not using steady while aimed is proc'd i wont be wasting any potential stacks. if im in the middle of my rotation ill just toss it in after which ever steady im casting.

Thank you for all your helpful tip. With haste being such a big stat now, would going duel weilding be more benifitial. Taking into concideration that there isnt a weapon that has str/stam as its primary stats.

Is it worth going inot mastery at all for a holy paladin ? Atm my stat order is int > spirit > haster > crit and none in mastery? should i change at all this has been bugging me for awhile.

I know in the original post it was said that the chatioc skyflare diamond was the best meta at 80, but recently I have put Thundering Skyflare Diamond - Item - World of Warcraft Thundering Skyflare diamond into my meta socket. I noticed a 400 dps increase (mind you this was against the heroic training dummy). This meta gem net me more dps then the csd, is this a good alternative or not?

Hm, you could very easily set up something like that with power auras.

Cant help with pitbull though, sorry.

Combat will be all about swords, maces, fist weapons, axes, and being engaged toe-to-toe with your enemies. A Combat rogue will be able to survive longer without needing to rely on Stealth and evasion mechanics.

now im REALLY confused your talking daggers and when CATA comes out there talking ....

Combat will be all about swords, maces, fist weapons, axes, and being engaged toe-to-toe with your enemies. A Combat rogue will be able to survive longer without needing to rely on Stealth and evasion mechanics.

with mongoose added????

I see the restoration shaman Mastery bonus, as most of the posters here, the best thing -- or worst thing, depending on the hp% of the target. While Blizzard developers could have given us a flat increase in healing or shielding targets, they decided to give us a dynamic bonus, one that would help in times of need but that would totally fade out if the raid overgears the encounter. Because of this I would not even try to get a "ratio" between Mastery and the benefits of other stats, like crit and haste.
It is impossible to do a math model that could take into consideration the tank damage, all incoming heals and the Personal Decision of the shaman healer. ( impossible = not within the grasp of someone that doesn't work on the math models of the ITER fusion reactor .. ). And since it's not possible to model all the incoming damage, heals and shields on a tank or raid, I don't think it's even worth the effort to try. The sum of all the variables that have to be "converted" to a constant in order to make a model viable would simply take the model over the acceptable limits of error and won't deliver accurate data.
What I would see possible is obtaining a relation between the benefits of mastery rating and those of crit and haste rating, based on the target's given hp%. The resulting graph should give mastery a large margin when healing a target at 1hp ( starting up from decimate effect ) and no benefits for healing someone at 90%+ hp. The relation between mastery and crit/haste should be interpreted by the amount of predicted damage in a raid and adequate reforging could be done depending on each fight's characteristics in order to maximize healing. Even if we know what to expect from a boss encounter, there are too many variables in the game that limit the precision of the guess we make when deciding to go the mastery way or the crit/haste way for a given fight.

I would like to make an additional comment, slightly off-topic, but an argument in favor of Mastery rating as the main stat for restoration shamans. Here goes:

If we are to analyze the bonus of mastery for the other 4 healer classes I think that the conclusion is clear : shamans "almost" win at overall utility of the mastery bonus and are clear winners when it comes to landing that huge GHW on a 10k hp tank.
Druid - Symbiosis is only better than Deep Healing if the target is above 50% hp, but when the target's are above 50% it's not critical to heal them and cheap, mana efficient heals can be used, thus crit and haste might be more helpful.
Discipline Priest - Shield Discipline benefits just a part of the spell arsenal, but the mastery bonus does not end up in overhealing and this is why the Discipline Priests are probably the winners of the "my mastery bonus is better" contest.
Holy Priest - Echo of Light heals for 10% of the direct heal over 6seconds - it's the same as the druid bonus, but slightly worse, since the target will probably get to 100% and the bonus healing is just wasted. In relation to a shaman this bonus is only better if the target is above 50% hp, a situation that makes the priests HoT more susceptible to overhealing.
Holy Paladin - Illuminate Healing - the bonus was probably put in place as a shield in order to limit the obscene amounts of overhealing the paladins did in WoTLK. This bonus will probably not save the tank if it's a close call, but the shield will prove very useful for normal situations where the tank is taking steady damage. The effective damage absorbed is similar to the bonus healing a shaman would get if the target is at around 60% hp.
Considering that all healers have a heavy spell - that costs about 30% base mana and has a base healing of around 7500-8000 I could conclude that in a progression raid, when raids are not on "farm status", the situations when the healers have to bring a tank or another raid member up from near death will be countless and the Mastery Bonus of the shamans will shine far more than that of the other classes ( that's while considering all healers have similar gear + skill, and that's the case in progression oriented guilds)

ahh /nod

i have a question. current theory is that we would reach expertise cap and hit cap before reforging the rest to haste right? i have seen some rogues, or rather quite a number of rogues are actually not hit capped, but they give an almost equal dps to me who is hit capped. though their dps isn't as high as mine, i'd probably say it was due to gears, but could it be that reforging to mastery gives a better result compared to hit cap?

I have got everything under control and love the changes with the ret spec, i was doing 16.5k in raid, but one thing that i have not saw a answer to is would the Ashen Band of Endless Might now be better than the Ashen Band of Endless Vengeance, i mean the AGI still gives us crit right? and should i keep my relentless meta over a caotic? I have saw a few people ask these questions, but never with a good response, so some good feed back would be greatly appreciated.