My armory, roughly 1 month after my guild agreed I should go Ret.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...bog&n=Tehtsara

My gear is coming together quite nicely, yet in Mount Hyjal last night I struggled to stay near the top of the meters. A warrior with slightly better gear than me still stays well ahead of me. I don't "out-dps pure dps classes by roughly a factor of 2", I stay competitive and nothing more. However, I'm expecting I'll not come near the top of the meters for some time after today's patch, while warriors got buffed even more. PVP, I agree, was retarded. I was tired of seeing ret paladins even though I was one. But as seems to be the trend in WoW these days, if your class is good in PVP, expect to be punted from raids in the near future as a result of collateral damage from PVP nerfs.