As some of you may know, the thing that keeps me the most occupied after work is the popular roleplaying game World of Warcraft. Given that my Ragnarok Online posts always proved to be a little popular, I’ve decided to start talking more about the game I play, and namely giving suggestions and a personal opinion about what is going on in the game and in my guild.
I am not a theorycrafter, nor do I understand the full mechanics of the gameplay. All that I understand is what specs affect me for the best, and which affect me the least. When I see players with my class, choosing the silliest gear combinations they can, just because it’s accessible to them, I feel really sad.
So all my posts go out to those out there that chose to play my class, and every now and then I’ll even give some insight about other classes, from what I learn from my guildies or friends.
First of all, to all Retris out there, even the newcomer Holy Paladins who got tired of spamming two buttons and re-specced. This is (more or less) the proper order that you should choose when picking Retribution gear:
STR/AP > HIT (only until you’re capped at 9%) > CRIT/AGI > ARMOR PENETRATION > HASTE
Yes, Haste is one of the stats that scales our DPS the least. Most of our DPS depends on our Physical Weapon Swings and our Judgements, and everything else is below that. The best thing to boost our DPS is to have a very slow weapon, and gear that stacks on STR, HIT and CRIT. Those are the ideal stats for us.
If you happen to get the Sword of Justice from heroic Halls of Stone, whatever you do, do *NOT* trade it for the Colossal Skull-Clad Cleaver from Halls of Lightning. Yes it’s epic, but you’ll see much better DPS and results with that ugly green fork I have than with these three glued-together axes. Get it only if you don’t have the Sword.
Not all epic rewards are necessarily better than their Blue counterparts. A good example of that is the Wyrmrest Accord exalted plate pants reward which lack hit and crit. They are probably awesome for a DK that relies on diseases or so, but for Retribution paladins, it’s once again a case of “take them if you don’t have better”, even my crappy Legplates of the Oculus Guardian, and I’m in a dire need of geting rid of them for something like Staggering Legplates or a random DPS plate pants from Naxx…
But that’s enough gear comparison for now. On the next chapter I’ll give my opinion about the Divine Shield nerf which a lot of people (who aren’t paladins) are happy about.