Ret DPS advice?Follow

Your dps will tumble as you level, this is because your hit, crit and expertise will fall at a terrifying rate everytime your level increases.

All I can reccommend is the priority list for your DPS.

If you have less than 3 Holy Power:
Crusader Strike > Templars Verdict > Exorcism > Hammer of Wrath > Judgement > Holy Wrath > Consecration.
If you have 3 Holy Power, Inquisition is your top priority if it isn't up, followed by Templar's Verdict above all else. If Divine Purpose procs you should be using Inquisition if necessary, but Crusader Strike before Templar's Verdict. Generating Holy Power is key above everything except Inquisition.

Having been a former paladin with about 4 alt paladins, i will be honest on ret: as far as dps in pve hc's are concerned( or in the poster's case normals) ret is almost near useless. when mr Ghostcrawler decided to cave in to other ppl's complaints, we did get nerfed indirectly. the aoe's that rets have now are pathetic. Divine Storm hits for only 8K crit(when i was a level 80 with 264's i did 10K crits) and unless u are a prot never ever use consecration. it costs nearly 50% of your base mana, and does a dismal amount per tick. and since DS shares a cd with CS atm, DS has nearly no functional use.

If u want to exercise your right to play in an rhc in future though, make sure you go with guildies. coming from an EU server, as a ret you are more than likely to be the scapegoat for low dps if u use the lfd.

a small glimmer of hope though is that rets are still good in single targets(i.e boss fights such as Baradin Hold). for those it is simply a matter of stacking holy power, then using Zealotry , followed by Inquisition and unload Templar's Verdict onto the boss. ofc, dont forget to use the Exorcism when it procs( its free and does double damage) and ofc the feared Hammer of Wrath which can be used when you have Avenging Wrath on, though you should have the glyph of salvation in ur book unless u want to peel the mob off the tank.

as for gear, i suggest using the blue pvp sets if u have enough honor points. the justice point ones are terrible. in a full set of pvp blues gemmed up my strength was about 4050. as for trinkets burst ones are the best. if both of them proc, it is possible for u to get nearly 6000 strength for a short time.

supposedly, it was rumoured in a baradin hold run a ret pally came either 2nd or top on the dps list for argaloth.

my advice though, stick to prot for pve and use ret for pvp if u do it. the safe side is to go holy spec, but if u have no prior experience using it u dont want to experiment with it in rhc's as it is expected that a healadin in cata dungeon's is competent.

P.S: CapJack, is it just me or was it intended that the Seals of Command talent would work as it currently does, only hitting two extra targets for 7% weapon damage?

I wouldn't agree. In a longer fight we can use our cooldowns multiple times, if a fight lasts just over 5 minutes I can squeeze 3 Hammer of Wraths and 3 Zealotrys in alongside 2 Guardians. We dont have mana issues so fight length is pretty irrelevant in general.

Regardless of how unlocky I have felt my procs to be, it always balances out across a raid length fight and as such I see very little fluctuation in my own DPS. I have only 6 out of 16 possible epic items, and a weapon isnt one of them, yet I consistently pull inbetween 15 and 16k dps with almost no fluctuation.

If you are being booted from anything but hardcore progression groups for being a ret pally, then you simply arent skilled enough. Although your procs do rely on luck, so does every single other class rely on luck, either for procs or crits.

If he's getting thrown out of anything but a 10-man hardmode raid, or a 25-man progression raid that's at least 5/12 or 6/12, he's running with the wrong crowd. 10-14k on trash is plenty for 5-mans, and there's only a couple of bosses in 10-mans that (a) have critical adds and (b) adds aren't just handled by the ranged - and even then, that's so close to par that it would only matter at the very cutting edge of progression for his group.

Without seeing your gear Torrence it is hard to judge you.

Some tips for Heroics:
Pop wings with your first Inquisition, by then a good tank will have enough aggro to hold against you. Use Guardian Spirit early to get the max strength bonus during Wings.
Use Zealotry with the 3 Holy Power that you would be using for the second inquisition then go to town.
Plan your trinkets if they have a Use effect. If it is strength, use it with Wings. If it is Mastery use it with Zealotry.

Generating Holy Power is more important than anything. If you dont have 3 Holy Power and Crusader Strike is on cooldown, use it. You can generally fit two fillers between each Crusader Strike, this is when you use Exorcism and Divine Purpose procs. Use Judgement only if CS is on cooldown, Holy Power isnt full and nothing has procced.

If your gear is good and you arent reaching 10k then you are following the priority wrong. The priority is for the most part fairly forgiving, you will get the occasional GCD where you aren't hitting anything and can take the time to plan what moves are next, but if you do something like use a Templar Verdict with only two Holy Power it is a waste of so much potential damage and can really throw you off your game.