I have a question, what stat should I reforge into for Sinestra encounter as holy? Or it doesn't matter? I thought about going full mastery since in laste phase I'll get infinite mana and 100% haste.

Can someone please tell me why the achievement "superior" has a ranged category for my paladin? I am pretty sure paladins do not use ranged weapons. There's a relic slot where the ranged weapon should be located.

And if you fill the relic slot with an epic, you'll get the "ranged weapon" part of the achievement. It's called that for the sake of uniformity, and because six of ten classes do use a ranged weapon in that slot.

This is the end of a thread that I will clearly admit is a bit trollish on the wow forums. However, I wanted to ask the question here, because Div Light spam healing has become so prevalent and its proponents are so very outspoken and numerous.

I use all my spells. And I heal my Beacon. I use Div Light certainly under heavy damage situations, but it is not my go to spell. And if I'm using it I want it on the Beacon so that the HoPo will offset the cost and the time it takes ( outside of proc ).

So, just taking a microcosm of the core difference between the two styles, I have a question that I'd rather ask here where people might actually answer it mathematically and seriously.

Assuming that your Flash costs 6K mana and your Div costs 7K mana. The basis for using Flashes is that you can get two in during the same time frame as one Div ( again outside of proc ).

12/7 = 1.7 ( mana cost )

Assuming your FoL does about 25K and your Div Light does about 30K. In the cast time of 1 div light you could do two FoL's. Therefore:

50/30 = 1.6 ( heals done ).

Again, that 1.6 times the healing done for 1.7 times the mana cost in the same time frame. And generating twice as many HoPo's in the same time frame leads to more instant mana free WoG's, which for me do about 25K non-crit. So, let's compare, ignoring the Shocks heals and cost ( because it's the same for either ).

Shock > Flash Flash > WoG. : Mana cost: 12K. Healing done: 75K

Shock > Div Light... nothing ( because you only have 2 HoPo if these were cast on Beacon. 1 if not. ): Mana cost: 7K. Healing done: 30K.

Why would you go the second route under a heavy damage spike situation???

People use Divine Light over Flash of Light because it's much better HPM and most of the time FoL's high-priced HPS is unnecessary. People avoid healing their Beacon targets because it's better HPM (and HPS) to take advantage of the 50% transfer whenever possible.

Additionally, your numbers are off. FoL costs 6,323 mana. DL costs 7,026 mana. With your haste, FoL is a 1.19 second cast and DL is a 1.98 second cast. Ballpark, according to your character stats, your DL should be hitting for 27,800, your FoL should be hitting for 18,900 and your WoG should be hitting for 16,500 raidbuffed on live. Your "comparison" between the two approaches is quite poor; in your first scenario you spend 4.6 seconds casting, and only 3.06 seconds casting in the second.

Can you clarify the question you're asking?

Thank you! It worked just like you said it would. Put an epic relic in and it counted as ranged.

hi, i'm a french user and my english is bad. i hope that you will understand.

i play ret pal. and i've some questions.

1) i've read there is a point when crit is better than mastery. which rating precisely ?
2) we need 3978 haste rating to be capped. should we get it for the 4.2 patch ?( 3978 is a huge score, we should sacrify a lot of mastery. is it a good idea ?)

Hopefully this will qualify as a reasonable question, as after reading through a lot of the posts on paladining in 4.1 and 4.2, switching from primarily prot to primarily holy, and getting all of my gear gemmed, enchanted, and reforged, I'm left with some questions.

So to avoid the inanity of asking for overall reforging strategy, I'll start with the one piece I'm unsure of.

I'm a decently geared pre-raid holy paladin; ilvl 354. I have a [Zulian Ward], and I'm not sure how to (or even if there's a reasonable benefit to) reforge it. With 4.1, I would think either "leave as is" or Crit -> Spirit. With 4.2, I'm not sure. Could someone be so kind as to offer a suggestion?

Thanks.

You should reforge the crit to Spirit, or preferably buy the ilvl 359 haste/Spirit Blacksmithing shield.

Will the Hyjal Trinket (around 400 Mastery, around 1300 Strength every 1 min) be very good for Ret Paladin? I mean will it be better than the most 372 Trinkets or are there exceptions? Thanks.

Virtually none. Those hatchlings hit like a truck. In our attempts we had fully geared tanks with two dedicated healers each and we still had some tank deaths. Eliminating crits from the mob is not going to come close to making up for losing all of the other tools tanks have to reduce incoming damage.