MMO-Champions has the latest Valor Point rewards up. With this list (and the datamined drops from the Encounter Journal), I've put together a few items which would be on our ""watch list", as it were.

A few things to note:
* This is for normal mode drops and VP items only.
* I have included Sinestra items, as they are slightly better than some of the i378 counterparts (both in primary stats and secondary stat distribution).
* There are currently no i378 Strength cloaks or Plate Shoulders.
* There is also only 1 piece of Spririt Cloth in the entire drop list.
* There seems to be a lack of 2 handed weapons, as only 2 are currently available.
* Because there are PTR.wowhead links, I will have to link to the item comparision instead of linking all items here, as to prevent multiple broken links later down the road.

PTR Item Comparison Tool - World of Warcraft

Some theories that have also been thrown around is that we could be seeing a return of the Sunmotes, with Living Embers being used to transmute gear into different gear for multiple sets.

One thing is clear though, and that is that Blizzard is trying to drown us with more haste rating. Even considering that only 2 of the 5 Plate Melee specs considers haste valueable, we will most likly be gearing similary to the previous tier, with mostly reforging Haste (with the occasional Hit and Expertise tweks).

It will probably be our new BiS Trinket but it'll have an impact on Engineering (CD Lockout). The stacks will be 5 (regarding to Wowhead) which leaves us at 1725 Mastery / 9.62 Mastery Points ~ +20% additional Holy Damage.

It comes to question if we will be heading to a mastery cap at which we should should aim for crit?

Haste would increase your autoattack (and related incidentals, such as SoC), but would not gain you much on the interaction side of things. Any increase it provided would be relatively small and not push you anywhere even close to what your lesser-geared friend could perform.

On any single ability you will lose time equal to half of your latency. On back-to-back ability presses, thanks to Blizzard's queuing system you can minimize this loss, but not entirely remove it. Any time you can use two or more abilities back to back you will lose this half-latency on the first ability, but the second and subsequent can be performed instantly.

In theory you can remove latency any time you chain abilities (empty GCD would be your bane) as your next ability would be at the server in advance and keyed to trigger as soon as the server admits it's available, rather than waiting for your client to admit it's available before even transmitting.

Unfortunately, with such high latency I do not believe you will ever receive this best case scenario. I believe Blizzard's UI (and likely the underlying code) limits pre-queuing to 400ms. Any (GCD-related) keypress before 400ms is not sent by the client, so cannot be there as early as it needs to be, it will only allow one at 400ms or later, which means at your good time (900ms latency) you're going to lose 50ms a keypress if you're properly hammering the next key during GCD, and at your bad latency times you're losing 500ms.

That's as much as half a second every keypress. It really is an insuperable difficulty. Even with extreme values of Haste gaining back a half second lost on the CS CD is nearly impossible, not to mention the fact you still lose on every other ability you use.

As a Ret with partial empty GCD and no solid sequence (a HoL proc could be half over before you're even aware it's available) such a high latency is unforgiving - GCD is our major resource. My best advice, odd as it may sound, would be to try a Rogue or Feral Druid until you are again physically closer to your server. As long as you do not hit 100 Energy between pressing a key and server acknowledgement, you would not lose any of your major resource. Whether the attack went off at 60 Energy or 80 Energy should not significantly matter.

It fits also to our 4p T12 Bonus so in some cases (3 HP + DP Procc, not too much wasted Inq., Refresh @ 0-5 seconds left?) we don't need to refresh Inq during Zealotry. If you would waste for example 10 seconds of Inq, you should refresh Inq during Zealotry. If you don't loose an AV you should use your CD Rotation like this (00:00 is the start of the cd sequence):

00:00 Zealotry
00:05 GoAK
(00:10) Golemblood Potion)
00:15 Avenging Wrath / Apparatus of Khaz'goroth -> Priority change to Inq > CS > TV > HoW > Exo > J > HW > Cons

At first sight I would recommend to save your DP Procc with 2HP if your Inquisition is nearly to expire for that scenario.