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Decent Ret Paladin In Need Of Help
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Post by
Dunsinane
Are you trying to raid or PvP? Most of your gear is PvE-oriented, but you're using stamina gems and some pretty bad enchants along with a PvP-oriented spec.
AP to gloves and bracers, stats to chest, strength gems, and leveling your professions for the bonuses will all help you if you need more damage.
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336746
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Dunsinane
Any color gem can go in any color socket (except metas), you simply would lose the socket bonuses - and none of those are worth much. Bold Scarlet Rubies are your strength gem. Rigid Autumn's Glow for hit rating. There are purple and orange gems that can be used to fulfill your meta requirements.
And I can't tell you anything about your spec without knowing whether you're trying to PvE or PvP.
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Post by
Magnerz
Good work on the enchants but your thinking on gems is flawed.
A blue socket does NOT mean you have to put a blue gem in it. You can put a red or a yellow or any other colour gem in it you want. Only gem to match the socket colour if the socket bonus is good.
As a ret pallie you need 2 "blue" gems to activate your meta gem, so people usually go with
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40022
. This is a purple gem and as such will count as both a red gem and more importantly a blue gem (thus meeting you meta gem requirements).
Fill all red sockets with + Str gems
Fill 2 blue ones (with the best socket bonuses) with the gem shown above, and the rest with str gems
Yellow sockets are a bit harder and gear dependant. Gem yellow with hit until you reach the hit cap, or alternatively with str/hit combo gems (orange). When you reach hit cap revert to gemming as much as you can with Str, ignoring socket bonuses is fine, just remember to activate your meta.
Your spec is not bad but you need to take 3 points in Crusade in the ret tree, 3/6% damage is a huge increase to your overall dps.
Doh, was too slow posting (again) - use str > Ap gems any day, Str scales with kings, and the 15% talent increase
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Sokur
I actually prefer the
Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
over the other metas. The agility scales with BoK.
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Post by
dezziedc
Just for reference, here is my Ret. I don't think I have any gear that can't be bought from rep, with badges, quests, heroics or crafted. Yep, absolutely no raid gear in there yet. At the moment I have a tanking ring which I need to replace, however the strength benefit is better than any AP rings I currently have.
Check the gems and the chants as well - on my legs you will notice what the other guys are going on about with gemming pure strength - I miss the socket bonus but I would rather have more str than stam!
My AP is 3139 unbuffed and during raid I get it up around 4500 with raid buffs.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dreadmaul&n=Haina
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