Cata Ret Healers Back?

[remanz]

Hmmm, 8k dps on dummy. Is it heroic dummy ? or just lvl 80 dummy. With just pvp gear, that's really good. I have windfury in my group, and I cannot get that, which is the same 10% melee haste. I only get it if I pop bloodlust. But that's a whopping 30% damage increase. And in 4mins, 8k sustainable dps is really nice.


I gave up on full rets. I will swap 1 enhance shaman in for the goodies. And let's see what can a shaman do to my team.

[Zappy]

Hmmm, 8k dps on dummy. Is it heroic dummy ? or just lvl 80 dummy. With just pvp gear, that's really good. I have windfury in my group, and I cannot get that, which is the same 10% melee haste. I only get it if I pop bloodlust. But that's a whopping 30% damage increase. And in 4mins, 8k sustainable dps is really nice.


I gave up on full rets. I will swap 1 enhance shaman in for the goodies. And let's see what can a shaman do to my team.

Good question and good point. I reran 4 different tests tonight. On the 80 dummy (non-heroic), I'm not hit capped - just under 4% since I traded my ashen verdict ring in for the wisdom one. In tank spec, I was seeing between 5500 and 5800 on all my paladins (tank @ 1.5k lol). in frost, DPS jumped up from 6.1-6.3k.

Retesting on the L70 dummy so that I wouldn't have any misses is where I was seeing a sustained 8k. What's more interesting is that in blood, I see 6.5-7k dps on my palys, however frost jumps them all up to 7.6-8k, so it appears to me in both cases, that haste is a clear winner for this team.

Oh yah. I forgot another big one that I learned from playing my shockadins. Try switching from seal of righteousness to seal of truth. To give you a straight comparison, on the L70 dummy:

Seal of Righteousness and my DK spec'd frost: 5.6-5.7k
Seal of Truth and DK spec'd frost: 7.6-8k