Paladin 6.0 Transition Guide

[Oreoxd 165]

I said respectable not top tier :P

[Oreoxd 165]

Ret Damage Buff Oct. 17th, live on Tuesday

•  Paladin

  • General

    •  Crusader Strike's damage has been increased by 20%.
    •  Hammer of Wrath's damage has been increased by 20%.
    •  Judgment's damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Retribution

    •  Divine Storm's damage has been increased by 20%.
    •  Exorcism's damage has been increased by 20%.
    •  Templar's Verdict's damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Talents

    • (Retribution)  Final Verdict's damage has been increased by 20%.

[Boltt 28]

I think it's also important for people concerned with 'balance' to be aware that the more powerful classes after the patch were also tuned down, for example Fury had abilities reduced by 17%.

 

I suspect damage meters will have a smaller range between between highest and lowest dps (within a group of similar skill) but I doubt we'll be seeing the type of balance people would like for finely tuned end-raiding, the focus is level 100 for that kind of detail.

[Bitshinbetty 4]

Hurray for buffs

Edited October 19, 2014 by Bitshinbetty

[Oreoxd 165]

Hey betty what's your opinion on current secondary priority? I've been lowering the priority on haste and having no issues with my dps (the damage break down above had me at 14.9k on Mythic Immerseus w/ pure crit build)

[Bitshinbetty 4]

I was going for 40% haste (no buffs) >Crit>Mastery but I felt under powered and underwhelmed by this. Since the buffs have gone out I'm at 40% haste(no buffs)>mastery(about 80%) then crit. I have not had a lot of time to test this yet as school as been kicking my butt. I did play around on the dummy last night and saw about a 1.5K increase with this stat priority and am looking forward to testing it out in raid tomorrow night.

 

I just looked over your gemming, are you staying with crit despite the Hand of Light buffs? If so I would like to look over your logs for next week and compare them to mine.

[Oreoxd 165]

I'm going to stay with crit for a week and see how it goes.

[Oreoxd 165]

Ret Logs from tonight which is with the dps buffs http://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/3Gt8wkNZCzrBJTRj/#type=damage-done&target=377

[squeek 0]

Question: Since ret stats resemble late vanilla and early BC. should our focus be on gemming strength, as apposed to full Haste?  ie. Strength+haste gems over pure haste. Also with the comments concerning Crit, where in our thinking should crit be placed as far as enchants and gems>

thanks

[Oreoxd 165]

Right now, crit rules everything with strength. Idk how pure strength is but I imagine it's better than going straight crit