I was thinking of aoe damage bosses do

Is the new interrupt off the gcd?

I'd assume they mean that you can only have one of the two buffs up at once. Presumably to stop Prot trying to weave them both together, so they have to make a choice between mitigation from Holy Shield, or increased threat from Inquisition (although given the changes to Holy Shield, and Prot's apparent lack of any other finisher, using Inquisition at all it looking very unattractive).

As far as Inquisition goes, it's clear they want to work it into the Ret rotation (our SnD equivalent, basically), so regardless of it's current mechanics, we can be fairly sure that the current plan is for Ret to have a ~30s buff finisher that does something to increase our damage to maintain between mashing TV, and they'll tweak the mechanics as necessary to make us use it.

One thing that I noticed looking at the full list of changes on mmo-champ is that all the Judgement/Exo/CS cooldown reductions are gone. That leaves you relying on procs to maintain a 3Inq/3TV/3TV rotation without dropping Inq, and makes weaving CS and fillers slightly more awkward as it no longer lines up neatly with the GCD.

The talent tree in general is improved over the last build, with a little more flexibility (5/3/32 gives you all the dps increases, 2/2 PoJ, Repentance, and one floater point to spend wherever you like), but still feels a little heavy on mandatory talents.

The Exo talents in particular (still) seem awkward - not only the relatively heavy 4pt investment, but the rather illogical arrangement. First you have to sink points into increasing the damage (of a spell which, if you're levelling, you can't even use in combat due to the cast time), and only then do you spend the points to make it usable. If they're going to stick with 4 points for it, Art of War should come first to make it usable, then Sanctity of Battle to make it better (combining them and replacing one with an optional utility talent would be preferable, though).

Exclusive means they can't be up at the same time. They're making prot choose between extra threat or extra survivability with their Holy Power.

I saw in a post somewhere on these forums that SoV, er... SoT as it now is called... stacks on any melee attack not just white swings.

As for Inquisition and the subject of our Holy damage post Templar's...

Example log, without using Inquisition.

Physical damage:

Melee 14.5%
Crusader Strike 13.6%
Templar's Verdict 10.3%
Manifest Anger: 1.8%

Total Physical 40.2%

Holy damage:

Seal of Truth 21.4%
Censure 11.0% (new Holy Vengeance/Blood Corruption)
Seals of Retribution 10.8% (Highly bugged. It's double proccing constantly, likely due to refreshing the Censure stack and/or Seal of Truth. I expect it to be half this strong when 4.0 hits)
Judgement 8.1%
Exorcism 3.9%
Holy Wrath 2.3%
Consecration 1.7%
Hammer of Wrath 0.7%

Total Holy 59.8%

No one knows how frequently you would have to reapply Inquisition for it to be a DPS increase, but Holy damage is going to remain a significant component of our damage. We're no Fury... yet! The removal of Divine Storm in our single target rotation means we're not going to be doing a significantly higher amount of physical damage in the current beta relative to live despite the addition of Templar's Verdict.

The specalization is out:
Increases your Strength by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.

I am glad there is a decent bonus for only wearing Plate. When you are getting ready for Cata, I think you would want to get rid of your leather armor. Note this doesn't seem to include rings/back/neck/weapon.

It should, "Swift Retribution" is the "Windfury" group buff, Judgements of the Pure is a self buff.

Even though Cons was nerfed I was still getting more damage out of it than HW per use. Obviously keeping this in mind with a static mob and my drastically reduced crit chance at 83 (I went from 26% last build to 10.67% this build; with ironically a 12% spell crit chance). If you are right you are right, but HW was doing sub 2k damage with Inquisition up and Cons was doing around 4k+ with Inq up. Maybe there is a coefficient I don't understand that would let HW scale better, but I just don't see HW being a better spent GCD than Cons on a static target.

I went back and looked at the spell description again on wowhead and realized that the 32% damage formula from mmo-champion is probably right afterall. In fact, according to wowhead, the damage formula is exactly the same in both live and beta: (8 * (0 + 0.04 * holy power + 0.04 * AP)). 8 * 0.04 gives the 32% of spell power and ap.

After scratching my head for a minute, I realized that they must, in fact, be doing the same overall damage since the duration has been increased from 8 seconds in live to 15 seconds in the beta. Thus, while the DPS of consecrate has been roughly halved (resulting in ticks that are also half the size), the damage per cast time is exactly the same as it is now.

Exo and HoW are both currently listed as 15% (AP + SP) + some constant and HW is 30% SP + constant with no AP contribution anymore. Even with the 20% boost to Exo from talents, Cons should still be our best DPCT filler by a comfortable margin, followed by Exo and HoW in a relative tie for second and HW a distant third. If this remains the same then the only difference between our single target and AoE rotations would be the use of DS instead of TV as a finisher, though, so I would imagine that more changes will come at some point to shake this priority up.

I'm pretty sure its still planned. GC was talking about it as a prot tanking cooldown in one of the feedback threads I believe. However, its a lvl 85 skill and the level cap is current 83 so nobody has had a chance to train it yet (if it has even been implemented at this point).