3.2 ret pally rotations/DPS

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Well, since they f00ked up /castrandom, I've been playing with a ret rotation I setup earlier today. So far, I'm not completely disappointed, though the obvious lack of +hit on my pallies makes it a bit depressing on the heroic boss target dummy.

Here's the rotation I came up with.

/castsequence reset=combat/5 judgement of light, crusader strike, divine storm, exorcism, crusader strike, judgement of light, crusader strike, consecration, divine storm, crusader strike, judgement of light, crusader strike, consecration

As for the DPS, sadly (/kicks self in ass) I didn't test this before 3.2 went live. Ah, well. Here's what I was seeing today on the target dummies.

80 dummy, Seal of Righteousness: 1500-1900 dps
80 dummy, Seal of Corruption: 1600-2000 dps
80 dummy, Seal of Command: 1400-1700 dps
Heroic dummy, Seal of Righteousness: 1050-1400 dps
Heroic dummy, Seal of Corruption: 1200-1350 dps
Heroic dummy, Seal of Command: 1000-1200 dps

Considering my team is in only 1-3 epics each (and Zipples is in basically tanking gear while specced ret) and that I just hit 80 on the other 4 (only finished the K3 quests in Storm Peaks, still have the rest of SP and all of Icecrown AND all the faction dailies), this isn't as bad as I was expecting.

Of note is that SoCorruption starts at about 275ish per proc with no stacks and ramps up to about 1300ish with a full stack.

Also note I'm using glyphs of Judgement and Divine Storm for the above.

Next plan is to go respec for Seal of Command and see how it does, though I suspect I'll just skip it and go back to SoR for trash/normal instances and SoCorruption for long fights.

[edit] Yep. See above additions for SoCommand. Sucks. Bad. Worst seal of the bunch in terms of raw DPS.

[edit2] Whatever you do as ret, if you're not raiding or running heroics (i.e.: you don't care about aggro), by all means put Hand of Reckoning on your bar. That spell alone adds 150-300dps depending on target level. And that's on a pally with an average ilvl of 167. Average hits of 1300ish with crits around 3k? Off the GCD? Yes, please!

I'd be interested to see if anyone else has done any brief testing on their guys.