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The cast time on Exorcism (sans Art of War) is still throwing off my rotation... I really need to get used to that!
You shouldn't be "casting" exorcism, there's a good loss of dps time each time you cast right there as your comment states, (sans Art of War) makes it insta-cast and it is almost always up in my experience so far.
Additionally, particularly in heroics, and I tried this for the first time today which has been suggested, to use seal of righteousness for trash and vengeance for bosses. Trash dies too quickly to gain the full benefit of the vengeance stacks. I tried both through three straight heroic farms and my dps was definitely better with SoR on trash and SoV for bosses. You'll gain dps in trash with divine storm and consecrate as per the usual anyway.
Ironically, two bosses in H-UP that disengage for a time while you fight adds lost the vengeance stack, but I continued with vengeance on them anyway. Overall my dps in heroics had been around 2.8k or more prior to 3.2, and today overall it hovered around 2.7k - not too bad I guess. Should improve on longer raid bosses. Also I had no buffs other than my own and the other dps GAINED buffs from me.
I believe I tried SoComm for a minute but got scurred and went back to SoR. Will still have to continue testing. Just remember to swap seals on bosses, I forgot a couple times mid boss lol.
IN a way, the changes "feel" a little more like we have to pay attention and I can see more of a divide from retlol's and good ret players even though its still basically a fcfs facerollish if you will.
EDIT - Just a side note -
on trash tab target is your friend, and when I see my current target getting close to the hammer of wrath mark, I start spamming it to ensure it gets off and quickly tab target to do the same on other trash. MAkes a difference, reaction time.
Sacred shield and flash HOT is a nice little bonus too.
Only time will tell on raids, since I havent gotten in since the changes, but I am holding my breath, as I can ramp up my damage on dummies, its great with SoV, but then again I can just do it for ten minutes, most stuff dies too quickly. We shall see.
Edited, Aug 7th 2009 7:17pm by spicyoctopusroll