Finally got a decent chance to play around with my pallies last night, after my recent internet outage while i changed ISP's.

I brought my pallies to Org and spent roughly an hour or so trying various combos on the heroic test dummy. The results were taken from my best geared ret pally - Hammertîme. He's not as well geared as Mebben's rets, and I'm using a few pvp pieces in place of pve, but close enough to make a comparison.

Each test consisted of 4 x 3 minute sessions with each setup. I was trying to minimise the RNG factor as much as possible.

Things to note:
- The results don't include any DPS from Hammer of Wrath since the target dummy never went below 30% health.
- My pally only has a 220 hit rating, which is about a 1.3% miss rate for yellow attacks on the target dummy, so DPS results will be a bit lower (263 hit rating = 100% chance to hit with yellow attacks).

Here are the results:

1. Click macro spam - result: 2.25k DPS
No surprise here - DPS on par with Mebben's results.

2. Click macro spam with /stopcasting removed - result: 2.4k DPS
This one was interesting. I had read that /stopcasting reset the swing timer, which would mean less white damage - the results seem to confirm this. I though that removing the /stopcasting might interfere with Exorcism casts (since the macro would still attempt to cast exorcism even if Art of War hadn't proc'd) however this didn't seem to be a pproblem.

3. Click macro with /stopcasting and exorcism removed - result: 2.0K DPS
This result just confirms that having exorcism in the rotation is a DPS increase, even if it means risking a cast without Art of War proc'ing.

4. Click macro with spells in different order - result no change in DPS.
Not surprising, since no matter what order the spells are in, the click macro still ends up casting the spells in a FCFS manner. Only really affects the initial cast order of spells.

5. Mebben's castsequence macro - result: 1.9K DPS
Drop in DPS for me using a straight /castsequence, but not really surprising. When you cast spells in a castsequence, the client always waits for confirmation from the server that the spell has been cast, before moving to the next spell in the sequence. If you're playing on a low latency, you wont see much of an effect. However for someone like me, playing from Australia with a latency of 350-400 ms, thats a significant gap between casts, and a resulting drop in DPS.

I'm going to continue testing over the new few days, as I think the timing on my macros can be tweaked a bit, particularly on the exorcism casts. I'll report the results back here if I manage to get an decent jump in DPS.

Hopefully this info will prove useful.

Cheers,
S.