I'm still up in the air on it. My druid healer for my alliance shammys suggested that I give it a try. He's not decked out in gear by any means and showed me some recount data from a heroic where he was seeing 4-5k dps *and* keeping the tank up. Couple that with some good gear and multiply it by 4, and it may just be interesting.

There is obviously a lot of theorycrafting at this point. After watching a few videos of some decent 4.0.1 shockadins dueling - mage, warrior, shadow priest, and you'll learn the shockadin is all about burst damage -- Holy Shock and Exorcism spam, and they never seem to run out of mana.

If I recall, i never sold my quel'delars after hitting 1800, so I should be able to change them in for the spell one, and buy the healing shield (only 70 honor points). I figured I'll reforge all my ret gear to have intellect on them to give it a try, then if it seems viable at all, I may just starting grinding for the gear on them as I don't really have that much else to do until cataclysm.

One thing that should be nice is that I can't imagine heroics would be that difficult on this team with so much survivability, and if they can pull off that much dps, I'll truely be impressed.

As far as the DK, tough to say for sure - Getting necrotic strike @ 83 for the MS debuff will be nice, plus I like the idea of having my tank level with my paladins. I can't decide between frost or unholy for my DK at this point. Unholy still seems to do some insane damage.

Time will tell if this spec will be viable or not.