With the buff to +healing gear, you're better off going with a healing spec and doing some damage on the side. You can always go full ret and get some damage gear.
SoC + HS is NOT a good idea. SoC is based on physical stats, HS based on caster stats. HS gets a huge buff from a 1H caster weapon, SoC you need a nice, slow 2-hander. So even for a shockadin build, this one is crap. IF you are going to try a shockadin, you want spell damage, not the physical stats of SoC, with a caster mace and a shield.
Also, you would want imp SoR over spiritual focus, and probably put 1 more point into vengeance. So IF you wanted to make that build work, I'd change it to
This in order to get the full effect of spells you will be using. I also dropped Divine Str, because unless you're ret it's fairly worthless.
There's also the [url=]40/0/21[/url] build or the
51/0/10 build which get more healing stats, but are still considered gimped now next to a
41/20/0 build since it can deal almost as much damage if it has to, but pumps out an incredible amount of healing (generally equal gear providing 1k +damage/healing could provide 1.8k healing and 800 damage if you regear for healing). It also allows you to survive much better.
Edited, Jan 6th 2008 12:18pm by skribs