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Interestingly enough, he's in mostly S3 gear. That's half the culprit, lack of PvE gear options. Hell, half the kara prep guides for Ret list pvp gear as the best you'll get before and all the way through kara.

His armory profile
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silver+Hand&n=Nhul

Edited, Aug 27th 2008 1:41pm by NephthysWanderer

DPS on Brutallus is entirely dependant on who takes burns. A warlock might be capable of more dps but if he takes a burn that is going to cut dps.

Not too belittle his accomplishment but against a demon fight boss which is normally easy on Melee dps (more so when you have a bubble or CoS) that only lasts six minutes it does stack the odds for him on the meters.

I was actually looking at this last night...since both weapon changes and libram changes in combat trigger global cool downs:

How do you write a macro that does all those things? (partially just my ignorance, i suspect, but I thought macros that involve GCD can't be one button clicks)

Is it worth the 4.5 second delay to equip a mace, a libram, and cast BoL if the main healer is dead?

dont know, but Outfitter does it in 1 swoop.




man, you need to finish your Aldor rep for the proc and the chant. then you need to finish enchanting for the rings and JC for a trink and Crimson Suns. then you need to either a) not waste 10 talent pts for Kings or b) gear up with less +Hit(like lose Romulos). i'd estimate you are losing at least 15% potential dps.

Thx for the advice to improve my toon. I know that I am slacking with the aldor rep I have been playing my lock most of the time now I just do some dailys, kara, and farm with this guy now. That is when we are not raiding.

The spec I have is from when I was going to pvp for some gear but I did not enjoy that much and just have never changed my spec. Just out of curiosity what is a good spec for a raiding ret pally?

I takes the length of one global cooldown, unless you are lagging very badly.

I think that because it is a macro it is all done under one and therefore treated as one GCD.

Certainly when I change gear using itemrack, I can change a whole suit say 14 items in one go using one GCD.

Also on a pally judgement macro I use I judge then cast a new seal in one GCD

I also know that on my hunter I have a pet attack, hunters mark and autoshoot on a macro and one GCD.

So I think it must work if you have it done correctly, I think that you are looking at it from each individual action and the respective GCD rather than one action comprising of a number of actions and one GCD.

Does that make sense?

I find that too many Paladins ignore holy wrath as well. What I did to MAKE myself use this spell on appropriate fights is I went to solo Stratholme as a Prot. If you do NOT use holy wrath, the dead side takes FOREVER! Pull 10-20 ghouls/skeletons and USE HOLY WRATH every time it is up! It hits EVERY undead and demon within a 20-yard radius... c'mon! USE IT!

There 's a nice marco that uses holy wrath and then bubbles immediately afterwards lol. Only way I would dare to use it in a group.

Holy Wrath is having its radius reduced and it's cast time bumped down to instant. Plus its CD is being reduced, so rejoice all! You'll actually be able to use this bad boy come Wrath :D

EDIT: oh, it also provides a 3 second stun to affected targets. Source.

Edited, Aug 29th 2008 8:03pm by Maulgak

Holy Wrath is great, but its is 685 mana which as a Ret pally is about 1/10th of your mana pool. Also only a handful of encounters where it is useful and more often than not the chance to break CC completely makes it useless. That will change in Wotlk but as of right now its like proclaiming the usefulness of Hibernate for druids.

PvE ret pally is pretty simply, the hit cap is low. Stack Crit and Str then get a nice slow swing speed weapon, have a seal/judge macro assign CS to your scroll wheel and win. There is absolutely no challenge to it at all. It is not a Spriest rotation, its not a tank job and its not healing. Like I said I am a healer who has a ret off set I have from BT/Hyjal and I came in the first time in ZA/S4 loot and pushed 1k dps with no real effort. Maxdps.com is a good gauge of what is better than what but its its a tool, not a bible take your own gameplay and gear choices into account and make the best of what you have. It is by no means the most math intensive class, or skill intensive.

PvP is where skill as opposed to gear will shine.

/shrug