Need Advice - Retribution Paladin lvl 78

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I'd start here. Actually, the whole thing is worth reading. Paladins, especially Ret, don't have a single faceroll button anymore, you need to pay attention to what's going on and react based on priorities. My Ret uses a 3step toggle and that still doesn't even cover procs {AoW and DP} or AOE {Cons or AW}, which I do manually.

The best advice I can give is drop the Ret for something else. Spec him prot or holy and solo-level him through dungeons if you want and boost the rest of your team, then go back and boost a replacement. Or make him the new tank or healer for your group and spec your current tank/healer out to DPS. I don't know what your current group setup is, but ret really isn't the best option for boxing for a number of reasons these days.

Thanks Khatovar. I'm working through that thread.

I've always played protection myself, and was never interested in retribution. Since I picked up my pally with this new patch, I got a retribution off spec to see what it's like, obviously had to figure out some stuff to make it somewhat working for me. So I made myself some notes and practised a bit vs the target dummy. I'll try to share them:

- your main move is crusader strike, it generates a stack of holy power, you can have a maximum of 3 holy power
- you want an addon that tracks your amount of holy power
- you want to keep inquisition up, it's a buff that increases your damage done by 30%, if you cast inquisition, it consumes all your holy power, but the more stacks of holy power you had, the longer it lasts, you might want to track this with an addon as well
- when crusader strike is on cooldown, use judgement
- if you have 3 holy power stacks, use templar's verdict
- sometimes you get a proc called the art of war, and it makes your next exorsism cast instant, only use exorcism when this procs (you get like 2 yellow marks in your interface when this happens)
- sometimes divine purpose might proc, which makes your next move consume no holy power
- zealotry is another strong cooldown, pop it and every time you use crusader strike you'll generate 3 stacks of holy power ... in order to cast zealotry you need to have 3 holy power up, but it won't consume your holy power
- you obviously have wings, or avenging wrath
- if you have nothing to cast, you want to use consecration or holy wrath
- rebuke is your interrupt
- world of glory is your instant heal, it uses all holy power
- i run with seal of truth & kings & retribution aura

obviously this ain't a max dps guide, but more a means for myself to understand the basics of the spec
it's all centred around using holy power and what you do with it
if you don't have certain abilities at your level, just skip them

Brilliant Zenga. That's a great help, thank you.

Do you have any macros that will be useful please ?




As for addons I'm reading up on clcinfo and clcret. Anyone used those ? Also this looks interesting :

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/powerauras-classic

http://powerauras.wikispaces.com/How+to+Use