I'm totally up in the air on this one. After flying around to the various rep vendors, I picked up a lot of rep gear, traded my ashen verdict ring among a few other things... I haven't socketed or enchanted yet, however, my DPS actually went down to around 2500 - this is with about 1k SP and 16k mana.

The interesting part is that I ran a few heroics and found it much easier than straight rets. Rets are quicker, however keeping people healed and topped off was now easier than ever.

So the real question is if they get their SP up, what kind of dps are they capable of doing.